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DeNicola Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEMPLE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| NORRISTOWN ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| GOD FEEDS | $5,500 |
| NORRISTOWN ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| A MEANINGFUL PURPOSE | $5,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES -GREATER LAS VEGAS | $2,265 |
| POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF PHILADELPHIA | $1,633 |
| JOINT CIVIC COMMITTEE OF ITALIAN AMERICANS | $1,500 |
| A BABYS BREATH | $1,081 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN | $1,040 |
| SHANAHAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCORPORATED | $1,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC | $1,000 |
| CH PENNSYLVANIA UNDER - 21 | $1,000 |
| SOLD OUT YOUTH MINISTRIES INC | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 16% of DeNicola Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- AMA MEANINGFUL PURPOSE INC3× · 2022–2024 · $60k · revenue +27%
- TUTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +16%
- NZNORRISTOWN ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY3× · 2022–2024 · $35k · revenue +103%
Funded once
- TRTHE ROBERT W MAXWELL MEMORIAL FOOTBALL CLUBone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +8%
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +4%- RORUNWAY OF DREAMS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -21%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
The organization is an affiliate within thomas jefferson university/jefferson health; a comprehensive professional university and tax-exempt integrated healthcare delivery system ("system"), with a tripartite mission of education, research…
We are committed to providing exceptional quality care which sustains and improves both individual and community health, with a special concern for those who are poor, vulnerable and underserved.
See Schedule OOur mission is to support Temple University and its Health Sciences Center academic programs by providing the clinical environment and service to support the highest quality teaching and training programs for health care…
The university provides a rigorous liberal arts and professional education for a diverse student population. (see schedule o for the organization's mission.)
Website: https://towerhealth.org/locations/st-christophers-hospital- children stc opco, llc (st. christopher's hospital for children) provides a full range of high-quality healthcare services to all children and youth up to age 21 who seek…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
Johns hopkins health system corporation provides centralized management of a multi-hospital healthcare system. it is a key component of johns hopkins medicine, a collaboration with the johns hopkins university school of medicine.
The mission of princeton healthcare system is to provide exceptional, compassionate care to enhance the health and wellness of our patients, their families, and our community. princeton healthcare system provides inpatient and outpatient…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Central and Northern Arizona and the most unlike its peers is Sold Out Youth Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds A MEANINGFUL PURPOSE INC ↗
- Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NORRISTOWN ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE GIVING BACK FUND ↗
- Who funds THE ROBERT W MAXWELL MEMORIAL FOOTBALL CLUB ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds God Feeds Ministry ↗
- Who funds UNITED CHARITABLE ↗
- Who funds RUNWAY OF DREAMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds Animal Welfare Association Inc ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER LAS VEGAS ↗
- Who funds JAWS YOUTH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Police Athletic League Of Philadelphia ↗
- Who funds MERCY NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans ↗
- Who funds LAUREL HOUSE ↗
- Who funds A Babys Breath ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE MONTCO PA ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SOLD OUT YOUTH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SHANAHAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CH PENNSYLVANIA UNDER - 21 ↗
- Who funds MERAKEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DAILY BREAD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · Connelly Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Td Charitable Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Wsfs Cares Foundation · The Gap Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization DeNicola Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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