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Fred and Patricia Salerno Private Foundation at a glance

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Fred and Patricia Salerno Private 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.

$182k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$93k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$582kHealth$110kPhilanthropy$102kReligion$83kYouth Development$35kHuman Services$26kHousing & Shelter$10kEnvironment$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $93k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Inner-City Scholarship Fund$92,800
Modern States Education Alliance Inc$30,000
Hobe Sound Community Chest$10,000
Loblolly Community Foundation$10,000
Banner Lake Club Inc$10,000
Brooklyn Community Housing and Services Inc$10,000
Xavier High School$6,000
Columbia University$5,000
The Conservation Fund$5,000
David E Retik & Christopher D Mello Charitable Fdn$1,500
Part of the Solution Inc$1,500
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 (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%Brooklyn Community Housing and Services Inc: $10k → 20%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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$518k · 5 repeat orgs$369k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
17

Total granted

$518k
$343k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+26%

Still filing today

80%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionHuman ServicesOther
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

  • MS
    Modern States Education Alliance Inc
    2× · 2022–2024 · $80k · revenue +118%
  • HS
    HOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC
    4× · 2019–2024 · $40k · revenue +57%
  • PO
    PART OF THE SOLUTION
    2× · 2022–2024 · $10k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • CC
    Cleveland Clinic Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • NP
    NY Presbyterian Fund
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • MU
    Manhattan University
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -3%
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
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
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
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
4
Manhattanville University

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

Education
5
Bronx Charter School for Excellence

Excellence community schools prepares young people in new york city and stamford to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social, emotional, and…

Education
6
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Cold Spring School Inc

Cold spring school challenges children to become self-reliant, curious and resourceful problem solvers with the academic and social skills to engage constructively and ethically in our diverse, changing world.

Education
8
Compass Charter School

Compass charter school is a safe and nurturing educational environment that honors the individuality of each learner. by engaging in a process of inquiry, our graduates will be equipped with the necessary skills to lead fulfilling personal…

Education
9
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
10
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art

See schedule ovision: the cooper union for the advancement of science and art is dedicated to peter cooper's radical commitment to diversity and his founding vision that fair access to an inspiring free education and forums for courageous…

Education
12
Choice Charter School

New york city montessori charter school is an elementary school in the south bronx neighborhood of new york that will empower its children to be critical thinkers and creative problem solvers with strong social skills so that they can…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rye Country Day School; the most unlike its peers is David E Retik and Christopher D Mello Charitable Foundation 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

18 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. 18 of the 28 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)
18/18
Grantees still filing
14/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $327,800 · OtherINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INCCleveland Clinic Foundation: $100,000 · OtherCleveland Clinic FoundationXavier High School: $61,000 · OtherXavier High SchoolNY Presbyterian Fund: $50,000 · OtherNY Presbyterian FundArch Diocese of NY (AES Memorial Foundation): $25,000 · Other+7 more: $44,500 · Other+7 moreModern States Education Alliance Inc: $80,000 · EducationModern States Educati…Manhattan University: $50,000 · EducationManhattan UniversityELECTRICAL INDUSTRY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $30,000 · EducationELECTRICAL INDUSTRY S…RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationRYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOO…+3 more: $12,000 · Education+3 moreLOBLOLLY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $60,383 · PhilanthropyLOBLOLLY COM…HOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC: $40,000 · PhilanthropyHOBE SOUND C…+1 more: $1,500 · PhilanthropyPROJECT LIFT INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BANNER LAKE CLUB INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBROOKLYN COMMUNITY HOUSING AND SERVICES: $10,000 · Human ServicesPART OF THE SOLUTION: $9,500 · Food & NutritionTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $5,000 · EnvironmentFRESH AIR FUND: $1,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$608,300Education$182,000Philanthropy$101,883Youth Development$35,000Human Services$10,000Food & Nutrition$9,500Environment$5,000Recreation & Sports$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$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $327,800 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetModern States Education Alliance Inc: $80,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetLOBLOLLY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $60,383 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetManhattan University: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetELECTRICAL INDUSTRY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $30,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetPROJECT LIFT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBROOKLYN COMMUNITY HOUSING AND SERVICES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BANNER LAKE CLUB INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPART OF THE SOLUTION: $9,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY CENTERS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANTERBURY SCHOOL INC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAVID E RETIK AND CHRISTOPHER D MELLO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLITERACY INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND: $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.

The Ayco Charitable F…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
The Ayco Charitable FoundationNY12.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Fred and Patricia Salerno Private Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fred and Patricia Salerno Private Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Banner Lake Club Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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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How do I get to Fred and Patricia Salerno Private Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Fred and Patricia Salerno Private 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 28 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $859k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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