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Frank V Sica and Colleen McMahon Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$735k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2023
67%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$250,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 9
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$181k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 67% of the organizations Frank V Sica and Colleen McMahon Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’22’23
HealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEducationInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving6$735k33%
FY20233$301k67%
FY20229$1.4M56%
FY20206$415k50%
FY20197$281k86%
FY20185$110kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.1MEmployment$700kEducation$635kHealth$351kRecreation & Sports$260kHuman Services$210kYouth Development$60kCivil Rights$45kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cancer Research Institute Inc$300,00021%
The Yard Inc$250,000311%
West Palm Golf Community Trust Inc$250,00013%
Catholic Academy of Bridgeport Inc$214,7252n/a
Harlem Children's Zone Inc$200,00020%
Fairfield University$120,00020%
Turquoise Mountain Foundation (Us)$50,00015%
Martha's Vineyard Boys & Girls Club Inc$50,00011%
Read to Lead Inc$50,00021%
Eb Research Partnership Inc$30,00011%
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All grantees of Frank V Sica and Colleen McMahon Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cancer Research Institute Inc$300,00021%
The Yard Inc$250,000311%
West Palm Golf Community Trust Inc$250,00013%
Catholic Academy of Bridgeport Inc$214,7252n/a
Harlem Children's Zone Inc$200,00020%
Fairfield University$120,00020%
Turquoise Mountain Foundation (Us)$50,00015%
Martha's Vineyard Boys & Girls Club Inc$50,00011%
Read to Lead Inc$50,00021%
Eb Research Partnership Inc$30,00011%
Foundations in Education Inc$25,00010%
Trinity Catholic High School$25,0001n/a
Fountain House Inc$20,00020%
Peconic Hockey Foundation Inc$10,00011%
Stay-Focused Inc$10,00013%
Penfield Children's Center Inc$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Frank V Sica and Colleen McMahon Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCancer Research Institute Inc: $300,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetThe Yard Inc: $250,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetWest Palm Golf Community Trust Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetHarlem Children's Zone Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFairfield University: $120,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTurquoise Mountain Foundation (Us): $50,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetMartha's Vineyard Boys & Girls Club Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRead to Lead Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetEb Research Partnership Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFoundations in Education Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFountain House Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPeconic Hockey Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetStay-Focused Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetPenfield Children's Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA13.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Chicago Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Frank V Sica and Colleen McMahon Foundation

How much does Frank V Sica and Colleen McMahon Foundation give?
Frank V Sica and Colleen McMahon Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $735,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Frank V Sica and Colleen McMahon Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (31%), Employment (21%), Education (19%).
Who are Frank V Sica and Colleen McMahon Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Cancer Research Institute Inc ($300k), The Yard Inc ($250k), West Palm Golf Community Trust Inc ($250k).
Does Frank V Sica and Colleen McMahon Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Frank V Sica and Colleen McMahon Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Frank V Sica and Colleen McMahon Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, The Ayco Charitable Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is Frank V Sica and Colleen McMahon Foundation based?
Frank V Sica and Colleen McMahon Foundation is based in NJ.

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 24 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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