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Ettore Richard Derosa Jr Foundation at a glance

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Ettore Richard Derosa Jr 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.

$117k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
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, FY2021 to 2025.

Health$338kEducation$194kReligion$20kRecreation & Sports$10kFood & Nutrition$10kHuman Services$10k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $122k
$12,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CURE SMA$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO$25,000
GRACE SCIENCE FOUNDATION$15,000
BLIND CHILDRENS CENTER$15,000
STEP 2$12,000
USC CARUSO CATHOLIC CENTER$10,000
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER SAN DIEGO$10,000
SONG FOR CHARLIE$10,000
JF SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC$5,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER SAN DIEGO: $10k → 11%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.
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$528k · 9 repeat orgs$44k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
5

Total granted

$528k
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+35%

Still filing today

78%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • FO
    FAMILIES OF SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY DBA CURE SMA
    5× · 2021–2025 · $115k · revenue +46%
  • S2
    STEP 2 INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $48k · revenue +39%
  • SF
    SONG FOR CHARLIE INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $45k · revenue +285%

Funded once

  • SS
    SAINT SEBASTIAN SPORTS PROJECT
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • SA
    ST ALBERT THE GREAT CATHOLIC SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $9k
  • FP
    FLINTRIDGE PREPARATORY SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +35%
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
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
2
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
3
The National Fragile X Foundation

The national fragile x foundation serves the entire fragile x community to live their best lives by providing the knowledge, resources, and tools until, and even after, more effective treatments and a cure are achieved.

Health
4
Society for Neuroscience

Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…

Health
5
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

The professional, scientific, and credentialing association for clinical and research based audiologists and speech-language pathologists. empowering and supporting speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and speech, language, and…

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6
Arc Research Institute

Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.

Health
7
The Scripps Research Institute

The scripps research institute ("tsri") performs high impact basic biomedical research, improves the human condition by fostering translation of its discoveries into useful products and engages in the highest quality graduate scientific…

Health
8
Hugo W Moser Research Institute At Kennedy Krieger Inc

The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…

Science & Tech
9
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
11
American Society of Anesthesiologists

Advancing the practice and securing the future of anesthesiology through medical education, creation and dissemination of new knowledge, improvement of patient care, and legislative and regulatory advocacy.

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12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Step 2 Inc; the most unlike its peers is Grace Science Foundation. 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

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 16 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FAMILIES OF SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY DBA CURE SMA: $115,000 · HealthFAMILIES OF SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY DBA CURE SMAGRACE SCIENCE FOUNDATION: $85,000 · HealthGRACE SCIENCE FOUNDATIONSONG FOR CHARLIE INC: $45,000 · HealthSONG FOR CHARLIE INCHYDROCEPHALUS ASSOCIATION: $40,000 · HealthHYDROCEPHALUS ASSOCIATIONUniversity of San Francisco: $125,000 · EducationUniversity of San FranciscoThe Blind Childrens Center Inc: $40,000 · EducationThe Blind Childrens Center Inc+1 more: $5,000 · EducationSTEP 2 INC: $48,000 · OtherSTEP 2 INCUSC CARUSO CATHOLIC CENTER: $20,000 · OtherUSC CARUSO CATHOLIC …CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherCATHOLIC EDUCATION F…SAINT SEBASTIAN SPORTS PROJECT: $10,000 · OtherSAINT SEBASTIAN SPOR…ST ALBERT THE GREAT CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $8,600 · OtherST ALBERT THE GREAT …+2 more: $5,000 · OtherAssistance League of Greater San Diego: $10,000 · Human ServicesJF SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC FKA FRAN JOSWICK THERAP RIDING CTR INC: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Health$285,000Education$170,000Other$101,600Human Services$10,000Recreation & Sports$5,000

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 budgetUniversity of San Francisco: $125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILIES OF SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY DBA CURE SMA: $115,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGRACE SCIENCE FOUNDATION: $85,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetSTEP 2 INC: $48,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSONG FOR CHARLIE INC: $45,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetHYDROCEPHALUS ASSOCIATION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetThe Blind Childrens Center Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAssistance League of Greater San Diego: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFLINTRIDGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJF SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC FKA FRAN JOSWICK THERAP RIDING CTR INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN10.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Ettore Richard Derosa Jr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ettore Richard Derosa Jr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 16 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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