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Fusco Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Fusco Family Foundation Inc

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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$800k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$2.1MHealth$383kFood & Nutrition$271kHuman Services$165kHousing & Shelter$125kPhilanthropy$124kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kReligion$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $106k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $215k
  • $250k+1 grant · $800k
$30,999
Median grant
3
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KEY SCHOOL$800,000
HOUSTON CHILDREN CHARITY$165,000
AMERICAN ITALIAN CANCER FOUNDATION$50,000
KIDS' MEALS INC$30,999
STAR OF HOPE$25,000
SUNSHINE KIDS$25,000
HOUSTON FOOD BANK$25,000
NATIONAL MS SOCIETY$2,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $106k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%KIDS' MEALS INC: $31k → 16%KIDS' MEALS INC: $25k → 16%Kids' Meals Inc: $25k → 16%Kids' Meals Inc: $25k → 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.
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 10 repeat orgs$284k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
7

Total granted

$3.0M
$116k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+39%

Still filing today

100%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $168k 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
HealthEducationPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesPublic BenefitOther
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

  • TK
    THE KEY SCHOOL INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +19%
  • AC
    AMERICAN-ITALIAN CANCER FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $250k · revenue +186%
  • KM
    KIDS' MEALS INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $106k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • PU
    PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +39%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
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 Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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2
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
3
University of Hawaii Foundation

To unite donors' passions with the university of hawai'i's (uh) aspirations by raising philanthropic support and managing investments to benefit uh, the people of hawai'i and our future generations.

Education
4
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
5
Pano Koumantaros Cancer Research Fund Inc
Philanthropy
6
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation

The lustgarten foundation is the largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research in the world. see schedule o.the lustgarten foundation is boldly leading the way through hope and innovation, turning fear into action through education…

Human Services
7
Md Anderson Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Lsu Research Foundation
Community Improvement
9
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

The mission of the institute has remained constant since its founding in 1953. as its restated articles of incorporation state the primary purpose and objective of the howard hughes medical institute shall be the promotion of human…

Health
10
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

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11
Harold E Eisenberg Foundation

The foundation's objective is to fund breakthrough gastrointestinal (gi) cancer research, including clinical trials and studies, at the robert h. lurie comprehensive cancer center of northwestern university.additionally, another objective…

Philanthropy
12
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Sunshine Kids Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Cheniere Foundation. 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

13 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. 13 of the 19 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE KEY SCHOOL INC: $2,101,000 · EducationTHE KEY SCHOOL INC+2 more: $35,000 · EducationHOUSTON CHILDREN CHARITY: $165,000 · OtherHOUSTON CHILD…The Houston Food Bank: $165,000 · OtherThe Houston F…Individual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual gr…Individual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual gr…+3 more: $8,500 · OtherAMERICAN-ITALIAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $250,000 · HealthAMERICAN-ITAL…THE SUNSHINE KIDS FOUNDATION: $75,000 · HealthTHE SUNSHINE …The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $50,000 · HealthThe Susan G K…+1 more: $5,000 · HealthSTAR OF HOPE MISSION: $125,000 · Housing & ShelterASTROS FOUNDATION: $88,500 · PhilanthropyCheniere Foundation: $35,000 · PhilanthropyKIDS' MEALS INC: $105,999 · Human ServicesCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Public Benefit
Education$2,136,000Other$388,500Health$380,000Housing & Shelter$125,000Philanthropy$123,500Human Services$105,999Public Benefit$25,000

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 budgetTHE KEY SCHOOL INC: $2,101,000 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetAMERICAN-ITALIAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $165,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSTAR OF HOPE MISSION: $125,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetKIDS' MEALS INC: $105,999 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetASTROS FOUNDATION: $88,500 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetTHE SUNSHINE KIDS FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCheniere Foundation: $35,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetModesto Junior College Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Fusco Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fusco Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%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
    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 · 0–15%
    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.

    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 19 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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