· Private foundation
Dranthony R Volpe and Mrs Marlene M Volpe Charitable Trust
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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $415k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN | $200,000 |
| PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| SETON HALL PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| UNITED JEWISH APPEAL - FEDERATION | $100,000 |
| RICHARD J CARON FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| RWJ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL | $100,000 |
| THE FARM TEAM INC | $100,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE IDF | $60,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHAL | $60,000 |
| COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO BLACK CHAMBER | $50,000 |
| MOUNT SINAI MINDICH CHILD HEALTH | $50,000 |
| LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA | $50,000 |
| BRAZIL FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| LYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of your 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.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 18 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, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $888k 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
- TFTHE FARM TEAM INC2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +4% · 80% of their budget
- TRTHE RELEASE RECOVERY FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $75k · revenue +41%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC6× · 2018–2024 · $20k · revenue +89%
Funded once
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAIone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +8%- DRDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +60%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MIGDone grant, 2023 · $40k
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.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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.
The foundation is dedicated to finding a cure for parkinson's disease through an aggressively funded research agenda and ensuring the development of improved therapies for those living with parkinson's today.
Ilsi is a global, nonprofit federation dedicated to generating and advancing emerging science and groundbreaking research to ensure foods are safe, nutritious and sustainable, and that they improve planetary and human health and well-being…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The purpose and activities of dana-farber, inc. are to promote and support the exempt missions of dana-farber cancer institute and to provide investment management services.
Operating as an integral part of the nyc health + hospitals ("h+h"), formerly the new york city health and hospitals corporation. nyda will further h+h's tax-exempt charitable, scientific, and educational purposes by enhancing the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Incorporated of New York City and the most unlike its peers is Happy Valley Animals in Need. 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 43 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) — 8% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 44 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 RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FARM TEAM INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds RICHARD J CARON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds THE RELEASE RECOVERY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRAZIL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEADERS IN TRAINING INC ↗
- Who funds NAN NEWARK TECH WORLD ↗
- Who funds POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds THE DRUMTHWACKET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds DENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds HAPPY VALLEY ANIMALS IN NEED ↗
- Who funds ADA Forsyth Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds Mid-Atlantic Robotics A NJ Non-Profit Corporation ↗
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: Charities Aid Foundation America · Verizon Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Dranthony R Volpe and Mrs Marlene M Volpe Charitable Trust 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.
- Ada Forsyth Institute Inc — 38% of income from government
- Nan Newark Tech World — 19% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 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.