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Frank and Theresa Bramanti 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.

$215k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.1MReligion$225kInternational$50kCommunity Improvement$10kHousing & Shelter$5kYouth Development$5k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $165k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
St John Paul II cath School$50,000
Angelo Catholic School$40,000
Sacred Heart Catholic School$25,000
Dominican Sisters of St Cecilia$25,000
St Anthony De Padua Catholic School$25,000
INTERNATIONAL DOMINICAN FOUNDATION$25,000
Incarnate World Academy$15,000
St Pius X Cath High School$10,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 73% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%St Anthony Padua Foundation: $20k → 11%IMMACULATE CONCEPTION SCHOOL: $5k → 15%School of The Blessed Sacrament: $15k → 17%Sacred Heart Catholic School: $25k → 13%Angelo Catholic School: $65k → 13%St Michael's Catholic School: $20k → 15%University of St Thomas: $10k → 16%Archdiocese of Military Services: $10k → 14%Dominican Sisters of St Cecilia: $45k → 14%St Anthony De Padua Catholic School: $25k → 13%INTERNATIONAL DOMINICAN FOUNDATION: $25k → 15%Sacred Heart Catholic School: $25k → 13%Angelo Catholic School: $40k → 13%St Anthony Catholic School: $45k → 15%St John Paul II cath School: $175k → 16%Archdiocese of Military Services: $10k → 14%Dominican Sisters of St Cecilia: $25k → 14%st anthony padua school: $25k → 13%INTERNATIONAL DOMINICAN FOUNDATION: $25k → 15%Sacred Heart Catholic School: $25k → 13%Angelo Catholic School: $40k → 13%St Anthony Catholic School: $25k → 15%St John Paul II cath School: $50k → 16%Archdiocese of Military Services: $10k → 14%Dominican Sisters of St Cecilia: $25k → 14%saint mary's college: $10k → 13%Sacred Heart Catholic School: $25k → 13%Angelo Catholic School: $25k → 13%St Anthony Catholic School: $25k → 15%St John Paul II cath School: $50k → 16%Dominican Sisters of St Cecilia: $25k → 14%Sacred Heart Catholic School: $15k → 13%Angelo Catholic School: $15k → 13%St Anthony Catholic School: $15k → 15%St John Paul II cath School: $50k → 16%Dominican Sisters of St Cecilia: $25k → 14%St John Paul II cath School: $50k → 16%St John Paul II cath School: $50k → 16%St John Paul II cath School: $35k → 16%Incarnate World Academy: $15k → 16%St Peter Catholic Church: $25k → 16%St Pius X Cath High School: $25k → 16%St Pius X Cath High School: $25k → 16%St Pius X Cath High School: $15k → 16%St Pius X Cath High School: $15k → 16%St Pius X Cath School: $10k → 16%St Pius X Cath High School: $10k → 16%St Pius X Cath High School: $10k → 16%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
IN
PA
AZ
TN
DC
LA
TX
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 8 repeat orgs$205k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 6 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

8
13

Total granted

$1.2M
$165k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+30%

Still filing today

25%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
EducationCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterReligionOther
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

  • SJ
    St John Paul II cath School
    7× · 2019–2025 · $460k
  • AC
    ANGELO CATHOLIC SCHOOL
    5× · 2019–2025 · $185k
  • DS
    Dominican Sisters of St Cecilia
    5× · 2020–2025 · $145k

Funded once

  • SA
    st anthony padua school
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • SP
    St Peter Catholic Church
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • SM
    St Michael's Catholic School
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
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
04the grantee network

6 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. 6 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
4/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

St John Paul II cath School: $460,000 · OtherSt John Paul II cath SchoolANGELO CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $185,000 · OtherANGELO CATHOLIC SCHOOLDominican Sisters of St Cecilia: $145,000 · OtherDominican Sisters of St CeciliaSacred Heart Catholic School: $115,000 · OtherSacred Heart Catholic SchoolST ANTHONY CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $110,000 · OtherST ANTHONY CATHOLIC SCHOOLSt Pius X Cath High School: $100,000 · OtherSt Pius X Cath High School+12 more: $200,000 · Other+12 moreINTERNATIONAL DOMINICAN FOUNDATION: $50,000 · ReligionUniversity of St Thomas: $10,000 · EducationThe Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame: $10,000 · EducationKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementSTAR OF HOPE MISSION: $5,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,315,000Religion$50,000Education$20,000Community Improvement$10,000Housing & Shelter$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST ANTHONY CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $110,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DOMINICAN FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTAR OF HOPE MISSION: $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.

  • Who funds ST ANTHONY CATHOLIC SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL DOMINICAN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
  • Who funds The Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame ↗
  • Who funds KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Frank and Theresa Bramanti Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frank and Theresa Bramanti Family 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%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Frank and Theresa Bramanti Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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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