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Fusaro Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$43k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$156kEducation$112kPhilanthropy$58kHuman Services$44kReligion$14kHealth$10kYouth Development$4kArts & Culture$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$3,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOHELA$10,000
ST JOHN'S HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
Individual grant recipient$4,500
BAYSTATE SAVINGS CHARITABLE FOUNDAT$4,000
SEVEN HILLS FOUNDATION$3,500
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY$3,500
Individual grant recipient$3,500
HOLDEN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$2,500
BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CTR$1,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CTR: $1k → 16%GO KIDS INC: $500 → 7%ALTERNATIVES UNLIMITED: $5k → 11%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

VT
NH
MI
NY
MA
CT
CA
MO
DC
GA
FL
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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$239k · 8 repeat orgs$161k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
22

Total granted

$239k
$142k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-18%
+18%

Still filing today

13%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthReligionPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • GC
    GASKOV CLERGE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $70k · revenue -18%
  • SH
    SEVEN HILLS FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2025 · $56k
  • SJ
    ST JOHNS HIGH SCHOOL
    5× · 2017–2025 · $45k

Funded once

  • GC
    GASKOV CLERGY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $78k
  • Fairfield Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +34%
  • OS
    OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +87%
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
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
2
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
3
Mass General Brigham Incorporated

Patient care, teaching, research and serving the community.

Health
4
Georgian Court University

Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.

Education
5
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
6
New Hampshire Children's Health Foundation
Health
7
Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc

Our mission is to always welcome and connect young people and families to opportunities that embrace diversity, nurture growth, and inspire success.

Youth Development
8
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
9
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
10
The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College

Located in south hadley, massachusetts, mount holyoke college is a highly selective, nondenominational, residential, research liberal arts college for women that is gender-diverse and welcomes applications from female, transgender, and…

Education
11
University of Massachusetts Global

The mission of umass global is to provide students with an accessible inclusive, and transformative education based on excellence and flexibility, creating lasting value and relevance for a dynamic world.

Education
12
University of Saint Joseph

The university provides a rigorous liberal arts and professional education for a diverse student population. (see schedule o for the organization's mission.)

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Massachusetts and Rhode Island Inc; the most unlike its peers is Burr Oak 4-H Club - Michigan State. 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

12 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. 12 of the 36 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
4/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GASKOV CLERGY FOUNDATION: $78,140 · OtherGASKOV CLERGY FOUNDATIONSEVEN HILLS FOUNDATION: $55,900 · OtherSEVEN HILLS FOUNDATIONST JOHNS HIGH SCHOOL: $45,000 · OtherST JOHNS HIGH SCHOOLCATHOLIC CHARITIES: $25,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIESYMCA: $17,500 · OtherYMCAAIDVANTAGEUS DEPT EDUCATION: $13,500 · OtherUMASS AMHERST: $11,500 · Other+19 more: $53,230 · Other+19 moreGASKOV CLERGE FOUNDATION: $69,578 · ReligionGASKOV CLERGE FOUND…Fairfield University: $10,000 · EducationThe George Washington University: $4,500 · EducationOPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesBOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesGO KIDS INC: $500 · Human ServicesBay State Savings Charitable Foundation Inc: $4,000 · PhilanthropyBurr Oak 4-H Club - Michigan State: $3,500 · Youth DevelopmentDETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION INC: $2,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC: $250 · Health
Other$299,770Religion$69,578Education$14,500Human Services$6,500Philanthropy$4,000Youth Development$3,500Health$2,250

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGASKOV CLERGE FOUNDATION: $69,578 over 2y, 18% of budgetFairfield University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORWARD IN HEALTH INC: $4,500 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetThe George Washington University: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBay State Savings Charitable Foundation Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetGREEN MOUNTAIN COLLEGE: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGO KIDS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC: $250 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 GASKOV CLERGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Fairfield University ↗
  • Who funds OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds FORWARD IN HEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds The George Washington University ↗
  • Who funds Bay State Savings Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Burr Oak 4-H Club - Michigan State ↗
  • Who funds GREEN MOUNTAIN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds DETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds GO KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC ↗

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.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE5.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Fusaro Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fusaro Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 38%
  • Open Sky Community Services Inc: 48% of income from government
  • Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Fairfield University: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get 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 · 0–75%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Fusaro Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Fusaro Charitable 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 36 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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