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Frank & Ruth E Caruso Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Frank & Ruth E Caruso 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.

$108k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Human Services$317kArts & Culture$289kYouth Development$242kCrime & Legal$73kHealth$62kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $84k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW YORK CENTER FOR CHILDREN$18,000
BROOKLYN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC$18,000
THE ART THERAPY PROJECT$18,000
DAY ONE$10,000
CHILDREN OF PROMISE$10,000
ARTISTIC NOISE$10,000
POSSIBILITY PROJECT$6,500
CENTER FOR ANTI-VIOLENCE EDUCATION$6,500
WILLIE MAE ROCK CAMP FOR GIRLS$6,500
A FAIR SHAKE FOR YOUTH$3,500
AMERICAN MUSIC THERAPY ASSOC$1,000
DAY ONE$50
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 (FY19–25, $215k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT: $11k → 20%GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT: $8k → 20%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $2k → 17%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $2k → 17%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $2k → 17%NEW YORK CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $20k → 17%NEW YORK CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $20k → 17%NEW YORK CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $20k → 17%NEW YORK CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $18k → 17%NEW YORK CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $18k → 17%NEW YORK CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $14k → 17%HOLLABACK: $13k → 20%HOLLABACK: $8k → 20%NEW YORK CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $13k → 17%RIGHT TO BE: $8k → 20%HOLLABACK: $8k → 20%DAY ONE: $17k → 17%DAY ONE: $13k → 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.
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$937k · 16 repeat orgs$57k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against -47% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
6

Total granted

$937k
$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
-47%

Still filing today

94%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsHealthOther
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

  • TA
    THE ART THERAPY PROJECT CORPORATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $130k · revenue +13%
  • DO
    Day One of New York Inc
    7× · 2019–2025 · $98k · revenue +48%
  • AN
    ARTISTIC NOISE INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $92k · revenue +142%

Funded once

  • BC
    BROOKLYN CONVERATORY OF MUSIC
    one grant, 2022 · $18k
  • TR
    THE RECONCILIATION CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $17k · revenue +122%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $8k
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
Brooklyn Arts Exchange Inc

Bax/brooklyn arts exchange is a multigenerational arts organization nurturing creative expression and artistic process through education, residencies, and performance at the intersection of arts and social justice.

Arts & Culture
2
Performance Space 122 Inc

See schedule operformance space new york is committed to promoting the arts (including performance, visual and all other contemporary arts), fostering artistic development (including through direct grants), advancing diversity in the field…

Arts & Culture
3
Community-Word Project Inc

Our mission is to facilitate culturally responsive, multidisciplinary art programs for students, teaching artists, and communities to develop and amplify their voices and creative skills.

Education
4
New York School of the Arts Inc

New york school of the arts, inc. is a school offering courses and specialized workshops in painting, drawing, sculpture,printmaking,art theory and other subjects.

Education
5
The Dreamyard Project Inc

The dreamyard project, inc. (dreamyard) is an arts and social justice organization dedicated to working with bronx youth, families, and schools to build pathways toward equity and opportunity.

Arts & Culture
6
Young New Yorkers Inc

Founded in 2012, young new yorkers' restorative art diversion programs allow young people to exit the criminal legal system, have their cases dismissed and sealed, and avoid a life-long criminal record. in addition, our graduate programs…

Crime & Legal
7
Bct Brooklyn Children's Theatre Inc

Brooklyn children's theatre empowers youth through musical theatre, reimagining arts education by centering the whole child and prioritizing belonging and equity.

Arts & Culture
8
The Bronx Council On the Arts Incorporated

A pioneering advocate for cultural equity, the bronx council on the arts nurtures the development of diverse artists and arts organizations and build strong cultural connections in and beyond the bronx.

Arts & Culture
9
New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture
10
En Garde Arts Inc

To produce bold theatre experiences that reach across artistic, physical and social boundries. We aim to increase empathy and open-mindedness by illuminating nuanced perspectives and unspoken truths behind the salient issues of our time.…

Arts & Culture
11
Young Audiences New York Inc

At young audiences new york (yany) we believe all children should be able to engage, explore, imagine, and create. we provide innovative and interactive performances, classroom residencies, professional development workshops, and family…

Arts & Culture
12
Mind Builders Creative Arts Inc

To inspire the growth of youth, families, and the community through quality arts and education programs. the five pillars of our mission are (1) whole-person development through arts, (2) creating a safe and loving space for creative risk…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Art Therapy Project Corporation; the most unlike its peers is The Brooklyn Queens Conservatory of Music. 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

19 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. 19 of the 23 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
12/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE NEW YORK CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $122,500 · Human ServicesTHE NEW YORK CENTER FOR CHILDRENDay One of New York Inc: $97,800 · Human ServicesDay One of New York IncRIGHT TO BE INC: $37,000 · Human ServicesRIGHT TO BE INCGROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECTINC: $19,000 · Human ServicesGROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJ…+1 more: $6,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN OF PROMISE: $97,750 · OtherCHILDREN OF PROMISETHE CENTER FOR ANTI-VIOLENCE EDUCATION INC: $73,000 · OtherTHE CENTER FOR ANTI-VIOLENCE …WILLIE MAE ROCK CAMP FOR GIRLS INC: $55,500 · OtherWILLIE MAE ROCK CAMP FOR GIRL…BROOKLYN CONVERATORY OF MUSIC: $18,000 · OtherBROOKLYN CONVERATORY OF MUSIC+2 more: $11,000 · OtherTHE ART THERAPY PROJECT CORPORATION: $130,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ART THERAPY PROJECT CORP…THE BROOKLYN QUEENS CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $56,500 · Arts & CultureTHE BROOKLYN QUEENS CONSERVA…ART CREATES US INC: $35,500 · Arts & CultureART CREATES US INCUPBEAT NYC INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureUPBEAT NYC INC+2 more: $10,000 · Arts & CultureARTISTIC NOISE INC: $91,500 · Crime & LegalARTISTIC NOISE I…THE POSSIBILITY PROJECT INC: $55,500 · Crime & LegalTHE POSSIBILITY …A Fair Shake for Youth Inc: $20,500 · Youth DevelopmentExtreme Kids and Crew Inc: $19,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE RECONCILIATION CENTER INC: $17,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN MUSIC THERAPY ASSOCIATION: $1,000 · Health
Human Services$282,300Other$255,250Arts & Culture$252,000Crime & Legal$147,000Youth Development$39,500Civil Rights$17,000Health$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE ART THERAPY PROJECT CORPORATION: $130,000 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetTHE NEW YORK CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $122,500 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetDay One of New York Inc: $97,800 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetARTISTIC NOISE INC: $91,500 over 7y, 5.7% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR ANTI-VIOLENCE EDUCATION INC: $73,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN QUEENS CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $56,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE POSSIBILITY PROJECT INC: $55,500 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetWILLIE MAE ROCK CAMP FOR GIRLS INC: $55,500 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetRIGHT TO BE INC: $37,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetART CREATES US INC: $35,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetA Fair Shake for Youth Inc: $20,500 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetUPBEAT NYC INC: $20,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetGROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECTINC: $19,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetExtreme Kids and Crew Inc: $19,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTHE RECONCILIATION CENTER INC: $17,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TIME IN CHILDRENS ARTS INITIATIVE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetGINA GIBNEY DANCE INC: $5,000 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.

The Hyde and Watson F…Pinkerton FoundationBrooklyn Community Fo…The New York Communit…Valentine Perry Snyde…Youth Improving Non-P…American Express Foun…Four Friends Foundati…New York Women's Foun…Jewish Communal FundJpmorgan Chase Founda…The Ford Foundation
The Hyde and Watson FoundationNJ23.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · Brooklyn Community Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Valentine Perry Snyder Fund Xxxxx9001 · Youth Improving Non-Profits for Children · American Express Foundation · Four Friends Foundation · New York Women's Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Ford 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 Frank & Ruth E Caruso Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frank & Ruth E Caruso Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 23 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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