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Dranthony R Volpe and Mrs Marlene M Volpe Charitable Trust at a glance

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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.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
37
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$905kEducation$603kInternational$305kEmployment$233kArts & Culture$218kPhilanthropy$100kHuman Services$63kCommunity Improvement$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $415k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.2M
$25,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN$200,000
PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION$100,000
RICHARD J CARON FOUNDATION$100,000
RWJ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL$100,000
THE FARM TEAM INC$100,000
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$100,000
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL - FEDERATION$100,000
SETON HALL PREPARATORY SCHOOL$100,000
FRIENDS OF THE IDF$60,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHAL$60,000
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA$50,000
COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO BLACK CHAMBER$50,000
MOUNT SINAI MINDICH CHILD HEALTH$50,000
BRAZIL FOUNDATION$40,000
NAN NEWARK TECH WORLD$30,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ADA FORSYTH INSTITUTE: $10k → 8%RICHARD J CARON FOUNDATION: $100k → 11%HAPPY VALLEY ANIMALS IN NEED: $20k → 16%COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO BLACK CHAMBER: $50k → 11%PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%AMBER WAVES INC: $10k → 7%RELEASE RECOVERY FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTER: $10k → 14%DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $50k → 13%DENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK: $10k → 12%SAINT MATHIAS SCHOOL: $10k → 5%BCIT FOUNDATION: $40k → 7%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $100k → 8%CHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL FOU: $10k → 10%DRUMTHWACKET FOUNDATION: $30k → 11%SETON HALL PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $100k → 16%BETH'S FURRY FRIENDS FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%RELEASE RECOVERY FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%DENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK: $10k → 12%SAINT MATHIAS SCHOOL: $10k → 5%DIOCESE OF METUCHEN: $10k → 8%MID-ATLANTIC ROBOTICS: $10k → 11%NAN NEWARK TECH WORLD: $30k → 16%UNITED JEWISH APPEAL - FEDERATION: $100k → 17%DIOCESE OF METUCHEN: $10k → 8%NJ FORMER TROOPERS HERIT: $20k → 11%SETON HALL PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $100k → 16%WIZO: $40k → 17%SURVIVORS OF THE TRIANGLE: $15k → 11%ST BENEDICT'S PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $13k → 16%FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT: $30k → 17%NJ FORMER TROOPERS HERIT: $18k → 11%WIZO: $25k → 17%SURVIVORS OF THE TRIANGLE: $10k → 11%FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT: $18k → 17%THE FARM TEAM INC: $100k → 11%POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC: $18k → 17%THE FARM TEAM INC: $100k → 11%POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC: $13k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MIGD: $40k → 17%LYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $30k → 17%LYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $30k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHAL: $60k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHAL: $50k → 17%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $50k → 17%CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN: $200k → 17%BRAZIL FOUNDATION: $40k → 17%MOUNT SINAI MINDICH CHILD HEALTH: $50k → 17%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

NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
CO
KY
MD
TN
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 18 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
8

Total granted

$1.6M
$243k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+57%

Still filing today

39%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $888k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationPhilanthropyInternationalFood & NutritionEmploymentOther
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

  • TF
    THE FARM TEAM INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +4% · 80% of their budget
  • TR
    THE RELEASE RECOVERY FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $75k · revenue +41%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $20k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • DR
    DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +60%
  • ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +8%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MIGD
    one grant, 2023 · $40k
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
New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health
2
The Lieber Institute Inc

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…

Health
3
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
4
New York University

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.

Education
5
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research

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.

Health
6
International Life Sciences Institute

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…

Science & Tech
7
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
8
Public Media Nj Inc

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

Arts & Culture
9
United States Naval Institute

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.

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10
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
11
Dana-Farber Inc

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.

Unclassified
12
New York Dental Affiliates Pc

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Incorporated of New York City; 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.
04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 44 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
10/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RWJ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL: $200,000 · OtherRWJ UNIVERSITY HOSPITALSETON HALL PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $200,000 · OtherSETON HALL PREPARATORY SCHOOLLEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA: $150,000 · OtherLEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMAAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHAL: $110,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALWIZO: $65,000 · OtherCOUNTY OF SAN DIEGO BLACK CHAMBER: $50,000 · OtherMOUNT SINAI MINDICH CHILD HEALTH: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $47,500 · Other+19 more: $410,500 · Other+19 moreRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $300,000 · EducationRUTGERS UNIVERSI…ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $50,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF …NAN NEWARK TECH WORLD: $30,000 · EducationNAN NEWARK TECH …+1 more: $10,000 · EducationRICHARD J CARON FOUNDATION: $100,000 · HealthRICHARD J CA…THE RELEASE RECOVERY FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · HealthTHE RELEASE …LYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $60,000 · HealthLYMPHOMA RES…DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · HealthDIABETES RES…DENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK: $20,000 · HealthDENTAL LIFEL…UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyADA Forsyth Institute Inc: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN: $200,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FARM TEAM INC: $200,000 · Food & NutritionFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $85,000 · InternationalBRAZIL FOUNDATION: $40,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $20,400 · International
Other$1,283,000Education$390,000Health$305,000Philanthropy$210,000Arts & Culture$200,000Food & Nutrition$200,000International$145,400

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 budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN: $200,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FARM TEAM INC: $200,000 over 2y, 80% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRICHARD J CARON FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $85,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RELEASE RECOVERY FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetLYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRAZIL FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLEADERS IN TRAINING INC: $33,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetTHE DRUMTHWACKET FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPOLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNAN NEWARK TECH WORLD: $30,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $20,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK: $20,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF NEW YORK CITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMid-Atlantic Robotics A NJ Non-Profit Corporation: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetADA Forsyth Institute Inc: $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.

Charities Aid Foundat…Verizon FoundationCommunity Foundation …The Goldman Sachs Cha…Chubb Charitable Foun…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…
Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA13.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Dranthony R Volpe and Mrs Marlene M Volpe Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dranthony R Volpe and Mrs Marlene M Volpe Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 19%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 44 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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