· Private foundation
Francesco a Mascaro Charitable Trust
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $437k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $471k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARA | $300,000 |
| BIRDSBORO MEMORIAL FUND | $158,075 |
| Individual grant recipient | $143,310 |
| Individual grant recipient | $109,428 |
| EXETER LIBRARY | $60,000 |
| MENNONITE HERITAGE CENTER | $40,000 |
| PENN MEDICINE | $40,000 |
| VISITATION BVM | $30,000 |
| METHACTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| ST ANN'S CHURCH | $25,000 |
| HOLY CROSS REGIONAL CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $23,986 |
| DEVON PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| ARC ALLIANCE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| PENN MEDICINE | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.
39 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 20 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $366k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NZNORRISTOWN ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY4× · 2019–2022 · $2.0M · revenue +141%
- LJLOUIS J MASCARO FOUNDATION INC DBA MASCARO AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM4× · 2017–2023 · $559k · revenue +192% · 100% of their budget
- JMJP MASCARO & SONS CHARITABLE TRUST2× · 2019–2024 · $365k · revenue +26% · 55% of their budget
Funded once
- SJSAINT JOHN NEUMANN SOCIETYone grant, 2018 · $200k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $120k
- MEMETHACTON EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -11% · 26% of their budget
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.
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.
All volunteer fire department provides fire and rescue services to the surrounding communities.
Fire company provides volunteer fire services to three municipalites in juniata county, pa.; it also provides rescue, safety and prevention to all of juniata county.
To prevent, fight and extinguish destructive fires in order to safeguard the borough of east petersburg, lanc. co., pa and its surrounding communities
The mission of the lancaster township fire department is to serve the community by protecting lives,property and the environment in a safe, efficient and professional manner. the fire department is responsible for extinguishing fires, fire…
Providing emergency, safety and fire services to lawrence park township pennsylvania.
To provide fire and rescue services in the borough of pottstown, montgomery county pa. the entity also has a social room that is not open to the general public.
Fire & Rescue Company
Volunteer fire fighting
Mmp&w volunteer fire and ambulance company provides fire, rescue, and ambulance service to the citizens of mercersburg and the three surrounding rural townshiops in pennsylvania. it serves all the citizens in a 157 square mile first due…
Provide emergency ambulance services
To maintain fire control protection for the residents of pennsburg boro and surronding communities
How this is measured
45 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. 45 of the 116 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 NORRISTOWN ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LOUIS J MASCARO FOUNDATION INC DBA MASCARO AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds JP MASCARO & SONS CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds PILLARS OF LIGHT AND LOVE ↗
- Who funds METHACTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ARC ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESTERN BERKS AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR THE CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds HTC TTEE BOY SCOUT TRUST FUND FBO WCC 8370000 ↗
- Who funds PHOENIXVILLE AREA POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds Colebrookdale Railroad Preservation Trust ↗
- Who funds BURGER KING FOUNDATION 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.
Open a dossier: Jp Mascaro & Sons Charitable Trust · Berks County Community Foundation Inc · Pasquale & Susan Lee Mascaro Charitable Trust · Pottstown Regional Community Foundation Fka Pottstown Area Health and Wellness · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Francesco a Mascaro Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Francesco a Mascaro Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Drew University: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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