· Private foundation
Distefano Charitable Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INGLESIA CHRISTIANA DE GLEN COVE | $6,000 |
| TRI COMMUNITY AND YOUTH AGENCY | $5,000 |
| NORTH SHORE SCHOOLS | $3,000 |
| GIFT OF LIFE | $2,000 |
| GLEN COVE CITY SCHOOLS | $1,191 |
| CARE TO KNIT INC | $1,000 |
| TRIBUTE AND HONOR FOUNDATION | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–23, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TCTRI COMMUNITY AND YOUTH AGENCY INC4× · 2021–2025 · $20k · revenue +13%
- TGTHE GIFT OF LIFE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $16k · revenue +154%
- NSNORTH SHORE SOUP KITCHEN INC4× · 2020–2023 · $8k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $20k
- SBSCHOOL BOARD OF PALM BEACH COUNTYone grant, 2021 · $15k
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCone grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue -40%
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.
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.
The mission of teen kitchen project (tkp) is to build healthier, more connected communities by engaging teens and providing nutritious food to individuals living with serious illnesses.
New york common pantry reduces hunger while promoting dignity, health and self-sufficiency.
We strive to maximize participation in, and support for, federally funded nutrition assistance programs including supplemental nutrition assistance program (snap), the school breakfast program and national school lunch program, the summer…
Serve the most vulnerable on li by convening and supporting agencies that serve them
To bring together heart and lung transplant professionals dedicated to collaboration, data sharing and peer review to enhance the quality of heart and lung transplant services.
Our mission is fourfold: to provide a reliable source of food , to support good nutrition, to offer connections to other services and to strenghten community through shared services.
Metropolitan ny coordinating council is a not-for-profit organization which serves as a primary advocate for the social welfare needs of the poor, near-poor and elderly in the metro ny area. the entity is dedicated to the alleviation of…
To end hunger in communities throughout new york city. (see schedule o)to end hunger in communities throughout new york city. we do this through food rescue and distribution, education, and other practical, innovative solutions.
To provide a safe, affordable and comprehensive program of high-quality early childhood education, parental and family support, as well as academic enrichment and recreational programs.
To pursue anti-hunger initiatives through the west side campaign against hunger (wscah) program whose mission is to alleviate hunger by ensuring that all new yorkers have access with dignity to a choice of healthy food and supportive…
Callen-lorde community health center provides sensitive, quality health care and related services to targeted to persons with low income and new york's lgbtq+ communities - in all their diversity - regardless of ability to pay.
Engage and empower our youth through multicomponent culinary interventions including food sourcing, nutrition education, and culinary experiences.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 23 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds MUTUAL CONCERNS COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds TRI COMMUNITY AND YOUTH AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds BALDWIN FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONINC ↗
- Who funds THE GIFT OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds SADIE NASH LEADERSHIP PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds NOSH Delivers Inc ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Distefano Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Distefano Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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