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Desperito Foundation Inc at a glance

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Desperito Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$50k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$90kEducation$70kYouth Development$60kHealth$40kHuman Services$20kRecreation & Sports$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kAnimals$1k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$800k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW HEIGHTS YOUTH INC$20,000
WESTCHESTER SYMPHONIC WINDS INC$10,000
FRIENDS OF SOUTH FLORIDA MUSIC INC$10,000
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY - MITCHELL SCHOLARS FUND$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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–23, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%OPENGATE INC: $10k → 9%PONY POWER THERAPIES INC: $10k → 7%JOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND: $10k → 4%THE GREEN BERET PROJECT: $10k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
NY
PA
NJ
VA
MD
NC
DC
FL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Desperito Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 47% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 43%.

Desperito Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.3% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$170k · 4 repeat orgs$131k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +73% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
14

Total granted

$170k
$131k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%
+14%

Still filing today

50%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHealthPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • NH
    NEW HEIGHTS YOUTH INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +56%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    4× · 2021–2025 · $40k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF SOUTH FLORIDA MUSIC INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • HD
    HOPES DOOR INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +39%
  • PC
    PROFESSIONAL CHILDRENS SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +14%
  • GB
    GREEN BERET PROJECT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +541%
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.

1
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
2
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
7
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
10
Eagle Hill Foundation of Massachusettsinc

Eagle hill school is a coeducational boarding school that educates students with learning disabilities, including attention deficit disorder, in grades eight through twelve. eagle hill students demonstrate average to above average…

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11
New York Military Academy

The mission of New York Military Academy is to prepare them for further education and to be effective leaders and responsible citizens, to develop the cadets in mind, body, and character; to prepare them for further education and to be…

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12
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Professional Childrens School Inc; the most unlike its peers is New York Aikikai Ltd. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $40,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY - MITCHELL SCHOLARS FUND: $40,000 · OtherGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY - MITCHELL SCHOLARS FUN…HOPES DOOR INC: $10,000 · OtherHOPES DOOR INCFAITH'S PLACE AUTISM OUTREACH INC: $10,000 · OtherFAITH'S PLACE AUTISM OUTREACH INCPINE TREE CAMP-PINE TREE SOCIETY: $10,000 · OtherPINE TREE CAMP-PINE TREE SOCIETYNEW YORK AIKIKAI LTD: $10,000 · OtherNEW YORK AIKIKAI LTD+1 more: $1,000 · OtherNEW HEIGHTS YOUTH INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEW HEIGHTS YOUTH …FRIENDS OF SOUTH FLORIDA MUSIC INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF SOUTH F…PROFESSIONAL CHILDRENS SCHOOL INC: $10,000 · Arts & CulturePROFESSIONAL CHILD…GREEN BERET PROJECT INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesGREEN BERET PRO…JOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesJOHNNY MAC SOLD…PONY POWER THERAPIES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesPONY POWER THER…OPENGATE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesOPENGATE INCGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationHAVERFORD SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationSTOP SOLDIER SUICIDE INC: $10,000 · HealthFDNY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$121,000Youth Development$50,000Arts & Culture$50,000Human Services$40,000Education$20,000Health$10,000Public Safety & Disaster$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW HEIGHTS YOUTH INC: $50,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF SOUTH FLORIDA MUSIC INC: $40,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetHOPES DOOR INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPROFESSIONAL CHILDRENS SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREEN BERET PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTOP SOLDIER SUICIDE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFDNY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPONY POWER THERAPIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOPENGATE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK AIKIKAI LTD: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHAVERFORD SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA7.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Desperito Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Desperito Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 49%
  • Green Beret Project Inc: 49% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

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 18 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-PF 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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