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Ficalora Family Foundation at a glance

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Ficalora Family 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.

$169k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$395kFood & Nutrition$300kArts & Culture$235kHealth$151kHuman Services$51kScience & Tech$43kRecreation & Sports$13kPublic Safety & Disaster$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $135k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE NUTRITION FITNESS ED INITIATIVE$30,000
ASSOCIAZIONE CULTURALE ITALIANA DI$20,000
GAFFNEY EVENTS EDUCATIONAL TRUST$20,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
THE CHILD CENTER OF NY$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
PACE UNIVERSITY$10,000
ASSOCIAZIONE CULTURALE ITALIANA DI$10,000
PACE UNIVERSITY$10,000
Individual grant recipient$7,000
NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC$5,000
THE ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$5,000
THE ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$5,000
THE ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$5,000
PORT WASHINGTON FIRE DEPARTMENT$2,000
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 74% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Good Smartian Hospital Medical: $10k → 7%The child Center of NY: $10k → 13%Pace University: $35k → 17%Gaffney Events Education Trust: $25k → 9%Dr Samin Sharma Family Foundation: $25k → 7%THE CHILD CENTER OF NY: $10k → 13%Pace University: $25k → 17%Gaffney Events Education Trust: $25k → 9%The child Center of NY: $10k → 13%Pace University: $25k → 17%GAFFNEY EVENTS EDUCATIONAL TRUST: $20k → 9%New York Hall of Science: $25k → 13%Pace University: $25k → 17%New York Hall of Science - NYSCI: $13k → 13%PACE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 17%Tiegerman SLCD: $48k → 6%New York Hall of Science - NYSCI: $10k → 13%PACE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 17%Tiegerman SLCD: $46k → 6%New York Hall of Science - NYSCI: $10k → 13%NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $5k → 17%Tiegerman SLCD: $32k → 6%New York Hall of Science NYSCI: $10k → 13%Tiegerman SLCD: $24k → 6%Assocaizione Culturale Italiana Di: $75k → 13%Nutrition Fitness Edu Initiative: $110k → 17%Tiegerman SLCD: $19k → 6%Assocaizione Culturale Italiana Di: $68k → 13%The Nutrition fitness Education Initi Inc: $50k → 17%TIEGERMAN SLCD: $15k → 6%Associazione Culturale Italiana: $33k → 13%Nutrition Fitness Edu Initiative: $50k → 17%TIEGERMAN SLCD: $10k → 6%ASSOCIAZIONE CULTURALE ITALIANA DI: $20k → 13%The Nutrition and Fitness Education: $30k → 17%SANDS POINT PBA: $7k → 6%Assocaizione Culturale Italiana Di: $20k → 13%THE NUTRITION FITNESS ED INITIATIVE: $30k → 17%Sands Point PBA: $5k → 6%Assocaizione Culturale Italiana Di: $20k → 13%The Nutrition fitness Education Ini: $30k → 17%Sands Point PBA: $5k → 6%ASSOCIAZIONE CULTURALE ITALIANA DI: $10k → 13%La Scuola dItalia New York: $20k → 17%The child Center of NY: $10k → 13%Flushing Willets Points Corona LDC: $13k → 13%The child Center of NY: $10k → 13%The St Francis Hospital Foundation: $7k → 6%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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$912k · 13 repeat orgs$305k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
15

Total granted

$912k
$245k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+21%

Still filing today

62%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
EducationHealthArts & CulturePublic BenefitPhilanthropyPublic 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

  • PU
    PACE UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $130k · revenue +17%
  • GE
    GAFFNEY EVENTS EDUCATIONAL TRUST
    3× · 2021–2025 · $70k · revenue +40%
  • TC
    THE CHILD CENTER OF NY INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • TN
    The Nutrition fitness Education Initi Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • AC
    Associazione Culturale Italiana
    one grant, 2020 · $33k
  • TN
    The Nutrition fitness Education Ini
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
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
The New York and Presbyterian Hospital

To be a leader in the provision of world class patient care, teaching, research, and service to local, state, national, and international communities. newyork-presbyterian hospital is one of the nation's most comprehensive, integrated…

Health
2
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
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 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
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
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
7
Associated Medical Schools of New York

Amsny, the statewide consortium of medical schools in new york, works with its academic, scientific, healthcare, patient advocacy and business partners to advance medical education, biomedical research, and healthcare delivery. this unique…

Education
8
Newyork-Presbyterianqueens

To be the premier healthcare institution serving our greater community by providing excellence in clinical care and patient safety, education, clinical research, and service.

Health
9
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
10
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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11
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
12
Nyu Langone Hospitals

The board adopted mission statement is: nyu langone hospitals (the "hospital") will operate with new york university's medical schools a health system ("nyu langone health") devoted to excellence in patient care, education and research. in…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dr Samin Sharma Family 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

15 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. 15 of the 30 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)
15/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $193,010 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAssocaizione Culturale Italiana Di: $182,500 · OtherAssocaizione Culturale Italiana DiNutrition Fitness Edu Initiative: $160,000 · OtherNutrition Fitness Edu InitiativeTHE CHILD CENTER OF NY INC: $50,000 · OtherTHE CHILD CENTER OF NY INCThe Nutrition fitness Education Initi Inc: $50,000 · OtherThe Nutrition fitness Education Initi IncNew York Hall of Science - NYSCI: $42,500 · OtherAssociazione Culturale Italiana: $33,000 · OtherThe Nutrition fitness Education Ini: $30,000 · OtherTHE NUTRITION FITNESS ED INITIATIVE: $30,000 · OtherThe Nutrition and Fitness Education: $30,000 · Other+8 more: $69,300 · Other+8 morePACE UNIVERSITY: $130,000 · EducationPACE UNIVERSITYGAFFNEY EVENTS EDUCATIONAL TRUST: $70,000 · EducationGAFFNEY EVENTS EDUC…Manhasset Student Aid Association: $12,000 · EducationManhasset Student A…ASSOCIAZIONE CULTURALE ITALIANA DI NEW YORK INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK HALL OF SCIENCE: $25,000 · Arts & CultureST FRANCIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $28,000 · HealthNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $15,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,500 · HealthDR SAMIN SHARMA FAMILY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyPORT WASHINGTON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $8,000 · Public Safety & DisasterJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $1,000 · Public BenefitAMVETS NATIONAL SERVICE FOUNDATION: $500 · Public Benefit
Other$870,310Education$212,000Arts & Culture$55,000Health$45,500Philanthropy$25,000Public Safety & Disaster$8,000Public Benefit$1,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPACE UNIVERSITY: $130,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGAFFNEY EVENTS EDUCATIONAL TRUST: $70,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CHILD CENTER OF NY INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST FRANCIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $28,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK HALL OF SCIENCE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDR SAMIN SHARMA FAMILY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 53% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetManhasset Student Aid Association: $12,000 over 4y, 7.8% of budgetPORT WASHINGTON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCow Neck Peninsula Historical Society: $4,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMVETS NATIONAL SERVICE FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPolice Conference of New York Inc: $200 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.

  • Who funds PACE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds GAFFNEY EVENTS EDUCATIONAL TRUST ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILD CENTER OF NY INC ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIAZIONE CULTURALE ITALIANA DI NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK HALL OF SCIENCE ↗
  • Who funds DR SAMIN SHARMA FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Manhasset Student Aid Association ↗
  • Who funds PORT WASHINGTON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds Cow Neck Peninsula Historical Society ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds AMVETS NATIONAL SERVICE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Police Conference of New York 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
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 Ficalora Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ficalora Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 30 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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