· Private foundation
Florence & Paul Derosa Memorial Fund for the Arts Inc
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k5 grants · $174k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $233k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CHAPIN SCHOOL | $78,200 |
| SADDLE RIVER DAY SCHOOL | $77,200 |
| NEWARK ACADEMY | $77,200 |
| NIGHTINGALE BAMFORD SCHOOL | $43,600 |
| THE SPENCE SCHOOL | $38,600 |
| KENT PLACE SCHOOL | $38,600 |
| THE WARDLAW HARTRDIGE SCHOOL | $38,600 |
| THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 56% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +47% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.
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
- SRSADDLE RIVER DAY SCHOOL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $805k · revenue +139%
- NANEWARK ACADEMY9× · 2017–2025 · $419k · revenue +43%
- MSMORRISTOWN-BEARD SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $313k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- FBFAR BROOK SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +35%
- MKMONTCLAIR KIMBERLEY ACADEMY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +47%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…
Hillbrook provides an extraordinary educational experience that fosters a love of learning in our students and helps them to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to achieve their highest individual potential in school and in life.…
Harpeth hall is an independent, college preparatory school for girls and young women in grades five through twelve.
Concord academy is a community animated by love of learning, diverse and striving for equity, with common trust as our foundation. honoring each individual, we challenge and expand our understanding of ourselves and the world through…
Miss porter's school educates young women to become informed, bold, resourceful and ethical global citizens. we expect our graduates to shape a changing world.
The school's mission is grounded in the belief expressed by b. lord buckley that opening the eyes and awakening the mind is the essence of education. guided by that mission for almost a century, buckley has purposely focused on developing…
Windward school is a dynamic college-preparatory school that challenges each student to achieve excellence in a nurturing, inclusive community. windward teachers, parents, and administrators work together to inspire our students to be…
Learning with purpose in a diverse and nurturing community, flintridge prep students thrive in adolescence and grow as curious scholars, creative thinkers , empathetic leaders, and global citizens.
The buckley school is a dynamic, nurturing learning community committed to equity and inclusion. our innovative teachers and challenging programs inspire creativity, courage, and collaboration. by promoting a balanced development of mind,…
See schedule o.solebury school is a private independent school for students in grades 9 through 12. solebury school's mission is to create an environment of educational excellence that prepares students for success in college and beyond.…
To provide an academically exceptional education to students grade 9 through 12 in a warm, supportive, and nurturing environment.
Private educational institution in new york city that provides a quality education to girls in grades k-12.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Morristown-Beard School and the most unlike its peers is The Wardlaw-Hartridge School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 18 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 SADDLE RIVER DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NEWARK ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MORRISTOWN-BEARD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD ↗
- Who funds THE WARDLAW-HARTRIDGE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds POLY PREP COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE BERKELEY CARROLL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE SPENCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JUILLIARD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds KENT PLACE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FAR BROOK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MONTCLAIR KIMBERLEY ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
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: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Verizon Foundation · American Express Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jewish Communal Fund · Bristol-Myers Squibb 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 Florence & Paul Derosa Memorial Fund for the Arts Inc 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.
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.