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Generoso Pope Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$422k
Granted FY2019
24
Grants FY2019
6
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172019.

Education$1.1MArts & Culture$675kRecreation & Sports$672kPublic Benefit$314kYouth Development$26kCrime & Legal$10kScience & Tech$9kCommunity Improvement$7kOther$0
02FY2019 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k20 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $26k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $359k
$1,438
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TUCKAHOE TIGERS YOUTH FOOTBALL$199,811
FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY$98,250
WESTCHESTER ITIALIAN CULTURAL CENTE$61,000
Individual grant recipient$26,294
MERCY COLLEGE$5,548
QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY$3,750
Individual grant recipient$3,700
MARIST COLLEGE$3,125
MOUNT SACRED HEART SCHOOL INS$3,000
TUCKAHOE SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER$2,000
UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA$1,875
IONA COLLEGE$1,438
STATE OF NY MARITIME COLLEGE$1,250
BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY$1,250
BRYANT UNIVERSITY$1,250
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 8% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 16%WESTCHESTER COUNTY PBA: $10k → 9%COLUMBUS MEUCCI FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%ST JOHN BOSCO SCHOOL: $10k → 14%NYS TROPPERS PBA: $5k → 14%COLUMBUS CITIZENS FOUNDATION INC: $51k → 17%CHILDREN OF THE CITY: $26k → 20%INTERNATIONAL MUSIC ARTS: $5k → 28%UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA: $4k → 13%SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY: $4k → 9%QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $4k → 12%IONA COLLEGE: $61k → 9%COLUMBUS CITIZENS FOUNDATION INC: $8k → 17%FORDHAM UNIVERSITY: $4k → 28%MOUNT SACRED HEART SCHOOL INS: $6k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN: $15k → 12%WESTCHESTER COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%GUISEPPE GARIBALDI LODGE: $5k → 17%WHITE PLAINS COLUMBUS DAY PARADE CO: $5k → 9%MERCY COLLEGE: $6k → 28%MARIA REGINA: $64k → 9%MARIA REGINA: $25k → 9%PACE LAW SCHOOL: $5k → 9%TOWN OF GREENBURGH: $29k → 9%ORDER SONS OF ITALY IN AMERCIA: $6k → 9%COLUMBUS DAY COMMITTEE OF EASTCHEST: $68k → 9%COLUMBUS DAY COMMITTEE OF EASTCHEST: $52k → 9%CONCORDIA COLLEGE: $5k → 9%CAPTAINS LIEUTENANTS SERGEANTS ASSN: $15k → 9%YONKERS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION: $25k → 9%ENRICO FERMI EDUCATIONAL FUND OF YO: $9k → 9%SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST: $10k → 9%TUCKAHOE TIGERS YOUTH FOOTBALL: $240k → 9%WESTCHESTER ITIALIAN CULTURAL CENTE: $235k → 9%TUCKAHOE TIGERS YOUTH FOOTBALL: $200k → 9%WESTCHESTER ITIALIAN CULTURAL CENTE: $180k → 9%TUCKAHOE TIGERS YOUTH FOOTBALL: $170k → 9%VILLAGE OF TUCKAHOE: $130k → 9%WESTCHESTER ITIALIAN CULTURAL CENTE: $61k → 9%TUCKAHOE POLICE DEPT: $45k → 9%VILLAGE OF TUCKAHOE: $26k → 9%VILLAGE OF TUCKAHOE: $21k → 9%IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH: $8k → 9%TUCKAHOE POLICE BENEVOLENT ASSOCIAT: $7k → 9%TUCKAHOE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT: $5k → 9%TUCKAHOE BEAUTIFICATION ASSOCIATION: $4k → 9%DOM CECERE PLAY FOR 10 FOUNDATION: $38k → 9%TUCKAHOE YOUTH ASSOCIATION: $25k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.6M · 35 repeat orgs$315k to everyone else

35 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2019, 15 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
27

Total granted

$2.6M
$311k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+57%

Still filing today

63%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
EducationRecreation & SportsArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • Fairfield University
    3× · 2017–2019 · $850k · revenue +63%
  • IU
    IONA UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $64k · revenue +12%
  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2017–2018 · $11k · revenue +110%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $45k
  • DC
    DOM CECERE PLAY FOR 10 FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $38k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $29k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
3
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
4
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
5
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
6
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

7
St Mary's University

St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.

8
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
9
Molloy University

Molloy university, an independent catholic university, rooted in the dominican tradition of study, spirituality, service, and community, is committed to academic excellence with respect for each person. through transformative education,…

Education
10
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
11
Saint John's University

To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.

12
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Manhattanville University and the most unlike its peers is Cat Assistance Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Youth Sports Booster Organi…Animal Rescue and AdoptionLegal Aid & Immigration Ser…Independent K-8 SchoolsEducation Equity Leadership
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 62 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr19%19%20–35yr13%8%35–55yr16%61%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr19%7%20–35yr13%1%35–55yr16%82%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/36
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,724

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 66 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
25/33
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TUCKAHOE TIGERS YOUTH FOOTBALL — $609,244 · OtherTUCKAHOE TIGERS YOUTH FOOTBALLWESTCHESTER ITIALIAN CULTURAL CENTE — $475,738 · OtherWESTCHESTER ITIALIAN CULTURAL CENTEIndividual grant recipient — $176,487 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCOLUMBUS DAY COMMITTEE OF EASTCHEST — $120,000 · OtherCOLUMBUS DAY COMMITTEE OF EASTCHESTIndividual grant recipient — $88,560 · Other+32 more — $268,510 · Other+32 moreFairfield University — $850,012 · EducationFairfield UniversityIONA UNIVERSITY — $64,313 · EducationIONA UNIVERSITY+22 more — $134,281 · Education+22 moreCOLUMBUS CITIZENS FOUNDATION INC — $58,705 · Arts & CultureTUCKAHOE YOUTH ASSOCIATION — $25,000 · Recreation & SportsMercy Center Inc — $1,000 · Recreation & SportsCHILDREN OF THE CITY INC — $25,750 · Youth DevelopmentCAT ASSISTANCE INC — $200 · Animals
Other$1,738,539Education$1,048,606Arts & Culture$58,705Recreation & Sports$26,000Youth Development$25,750Animals$200

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFairfield University — $850,012 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetIONA UNIVERSITY — $64,313 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBUS CITIZENS FOUNDATION INC — $58,705 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN OF THE CITY INC — $25,750 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetTUCKAHOE YOUTH ASSOCIATION — $25,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetYONKERS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetUniversity of New Haven — $14,810 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $11,140 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESTCHESTER COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetSt John Bosco Schools — $9,544 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetThe University of Tampa Incorporated — $9,375 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY — $8,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORDIA COLLEGE — $8,207 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY UNIVERSITY — $7,548 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFordham University — $6,105 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARIST UNIVERSITY — $5,625 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED — $5,071 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFREE &ACCEPTED MASONS OF NYGRAND LODGE — $4,745 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCornell University — $4,375 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPACE UNIVERSITY — $4,313 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRYANT UNIVERSITY — $3,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY — $3,125 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY — $3,125 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT LEO UNIVERSITY INC — $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY — $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTANVILLE UNIVERSITY — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Scranton — $1,875 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLYNN UNIVERSITY INC — $1,625 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Center Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY — $625 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Fairfield University
  • Who funds IONA UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds COLUMBUS CITIZENS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds CHILDREN OF THE CITY INC
  • Who funds TUCKAHOE YOUTH ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds YONKERS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC
  • Who funds University of New Haven
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds WESTCHESTER COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION
  • Who funds St John Bosco Schools
  • Who funds The University of Tampa Incorporated
  • Who funds QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds CONCORDIA COLLEGE
  • Who funds MERCY UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds Fordham University
  • Who funds MARIST UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Verizon FoundationNJ15.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Verizon Foundation · Mutual of America Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Generoso Pope Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Northeastern University4% of income from government
  • University of New Haven1% of income from government
  • Fairfield University1% of income from government
  • Sacred Heart University Incorporated0% of income from government
  • Quinnipiac University0% of income from government
  • Saint Leo University Inc0% of income from government
  • The University of Tampa Incorporated0% of income from government
  • Lynn University Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Generoso Pope Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Generoso Pope 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 66 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2023) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2019, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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