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Frank V Sica and Colleen McMahon Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% 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
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $190k
  • $250k+2 grants · $500k
$100,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$181k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPP-CEO$250,000
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY$250,000
concern worldwide$100,000
CATHOLIC ACADEMY OF BRIDGEPORT$90,000
THE NATIONAL ITALIAN AMERICAN FOUND$25,000
FAIRFIELD COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOO$20,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY19–22, $200k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HARLEM CHILDRENS ZONE: $100k → 17%HARLEM CHILDRENS ZONE: $100k → 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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 9 repeat orgs$607k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
12

Total granted

$2.6M
$482k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-5%
+49%

Still filing today

67%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’22’23’24
HealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureOther
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

  • OS
    OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $750k
  • CF
    CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPP-CEO
    4× · 2019–2024 · $700k
  • CR
    CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $300k · revenue -5%

Funded once

  • WP
    WEST PALM GOLF COMMUNITY TRUST INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +75%
  • TM
    TURQUOISE MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +4%
  • MV
    MARTHA'S VINEYARD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -57%
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
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
2
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
3
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
4
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
5
Mitchell College

Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.

Education
6
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
8
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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9
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

—
10
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
11
St Francis College

St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.

Education
12
Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Penfield Children's Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Harlem Children's Zone Inc. 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

15 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. 15 of the 24 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $750,000 · OtherOHIO STATE UNIVERSITYCENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPP-CEO: $700,000 · OtherCENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPP-CEOWEST PALM GOLF COMMUNITY TRUST INC: $250,000 · OtherWEST PALM GOLF COMMUNITY TRUST INCCATHOLIC ACADEMY OF BRIDGEPORT INC: $214,725 · OtherCATHOLIC ACADEMY OF BRIDGEPORT INCconcern worldwide: $100,000 · Other+6 more: $131,000 · Other+6 moreCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $300,000 · HealthCANCER RESE…EB RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP INC: $30,000 · HealthEB RESEARCH…FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC: $20,000 · HealthFOUNTAIN HO…+1 more: $1,000 · HealthTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $200,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTE…Fairfield University: $120,000 · EducationFairfield …THE YARD INC: $250,000 · Arts & CultureHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesMARTHA'S VINEYARD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentSTAY-FOCUSED INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentTURQUOISE MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION (US): $50,000 · InternationalFoundations in Education Inc: $25,000 · PhilanthropyPECONIC HOCKEY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$2,145,725Health$351,000Education$320,000Arts & Culture$250,000Human Services$200,000Youth Development$60,000International$50,000Philanthropy$35,000

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

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 budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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.

Vanguard Charitable E…The Ayco Charitable F…National Philanthropi…The Chicago Community…Jewish Communal FundMorgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Frank V Sica and Colleen McMahon Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frank V Sica and Colleen McMahon Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 28%
  • Martha's Vineyard Boys & Girls Club Inc: 30% of income from government
  • The Yard Inc: 28% of income from government
  • Fairfield University: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report 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 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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