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Croatian American Charitable Foundation Inc

The Croatian American Charitable Foundation was formed by members of the Croatian American community in the New York City to provide financial support to organizations, groups and individuals in need; particular assistance is provided for removing mine fields in Croatia.

$118k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$245kEducation$115kPhilanthropy$80kInternational$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $80,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $118,381 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $38,381 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$200k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Tunnel to Towers$30,000
Boomer Esiason Foundation$10,000
Don Monti Memorial Research F$10,000
Cam Neely Foundation$10,000
Gift of Life Internaional$10,000
Companions In Courage$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Lustgarten Foundation: $20k → 6%Lustgarten Foundation: $20k → 6%Lustgarten Foundation: $20k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$410k · 5 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +112% since the first grant, against +63% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
3

Total granted

$410k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+112%
+63%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $115k · revenue +112%
  • GO
    GIFT OF LIFE INTERNATIONAL INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $85k · revenue +219%
  • CI
    COMPANIONS IN COURAGE FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +171%

Funded once

  • IM
    ISLANDS MEDICAL ASSISTANCE SOCIETY CORP OF NY
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -48%
  • PROJECT SUNSHINE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +63%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Pano Koumantaros Cancer Research Fund Inc
Philanthropy
2
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.

Health
3
James P McCarron Jr Medical Foundation Inc
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4
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

—
5
Mila's Miracle Foundation

The mission of mila's miracle foundation is to find and fund paths to a cure for batten and other life-threatening neurological disorders. families in this community have been pivotal in raising the necessary funds and awareness. together,…

Health
6
Prayers From Maria Children's Glioma Cancer Foundation

The prayers from maria foundation was established to fight a specific form of childhood brain cancer commonly referred to as "gliomas." the foundation's purpose is to find a cure for this tragic family of diseases, while also providing…

Health
7
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc

Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…

Health
8
Francis P Chiaramonte Md Family Foundation Inc
Human Services
9
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
10
Tester Construction Gives Inc

Tcgives was born in memory of kathleen k. schoemaker who lost her battle to pancreatic cancer in 2006. tcgives will raise money to promote progress in the diagnosis and treatment of pancreatic cancer in honor of kathleen. every year, more…

Health
11
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
12
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Cameron M Neely Foundation for Cancer Care Inc; the most unlike its peers is Islands Medical Assistance Society Corp of Ny. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 10 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GIFT OF LIFE INTERNATIONAL INC: $85,000 · HealthGIFT OF LIFE INTERNATIONAL INCTHE CAMERON M NEELY FOUNDATION FOR CANCER CARE INC: $70,000 · HealthTHE CAMERON M NEELY FOUNDATION FOR CANCER CARE…ISLANDS MEDICAL ASSISTANCE SOCIETY CORP OF NY: $10,000 · HealthISLANDS MEDICAL ASSISTANCE SOCIETY CORP OF NYPROJECT SUNSHINE INC: $10,000 · HealthPROJECT SUNSHINE INCBOOMER ESIASON FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthBOOMER ESIASON FOUNDATIONSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $115,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOW…COMPANIONS IN COURAGE FOUNDATION: $80,000 · PhilanthropyCOMPANIONS IN COURA…MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $60,000 · Human ServicesMARC LUSTGARTE…The Don Monti Memorial Research Foundation Inc: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,100 · Other
Health$185,000Education$115,000Philanthropy$80,000Human Services$60,000Other$15,100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $115,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGIFT OF LIFE INTERNATIONAL INC: $85,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetCOMPANIONS IN COURAGE FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 8y, 6.9% of budgetTHE CAMERON M NEELY FOUNDATION FOR CANCER CARE INC: $70,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetISLANDS MEDICAL ASSISTANCE SOCIETY CORP OF NY: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetPROJECT SUNSHINE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOOMER ESIASON FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Don Monti Memorial Research Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Croatian American Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Croatian American Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to Croatian American Charitable Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 10 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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