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Gia Maione Prima Foundation at a glance

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Gia Maione Prima 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.

$729k
Granted FY2025still arriving
42
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$90k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$2.1MEducation$465kHuman Services$147kAnimals$76kRecreation & Sports$50kPhilanthropy$29kCommunity Improvement$19kHealth$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $64k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $325k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $340k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TROMBONE SHORTY FOUNDATION$90,023
WWOZ-SCHOOL GROOVE$75,000
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN ARCHIVES & CENTER FOR AMERICAN MUSIC CORPORATION$62,500
THE NOCCA INSTITUTE$59,500
NEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC$52,500
NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ART CENTER$39,500
THE LOUISIANA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA$35,000
OCEAN COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$25,500
UPTOWN JAZZ ORCHESTRA$25,000
FIRST TEE GREATER NEW ORLEANS$20,160
ITALIAN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF CLEVELAND$20,000
JAZZ HOUSE KIDS$20,000
WARREN EASTON HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC$15,300
ACADIANA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC$15,206
SECOND LINE ARTS COLLECTIVE$15,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $110k) 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%MAX'S KANSAS CITY PROJECT INC: $3k → 16%ARMY DISTAFF FOUNDATION INC: $18k → 14%LOVE OF PEOPLE CLINIC LOPC INC: $10k → 28%MAX'S KANSAS CITY PROJECT INC: $3k → 16%ARMY DISTAFF FOUNDATION INC: $17k → 14%MAX'S KANSAS CITY PROJECT INC: $3k → 16%ARMY DISTAFF FOUDATION INC: $15k → 14%MAX'S KANSAS CITY PROJECT INC: $2k → 16%ARMY DISTAFF FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 14%MAX'S KANSAS CITY PROJECT INC: $2k → 16%ARMY DISTAFF FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 14%MAX'S KANSAS CITY PROJECT INC: $2k → 16%ARMY DISTAFF FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 14%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

NY
NJ
CA
UT
CO
MO
TN
DC
LA
GA
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.5M · 42 repeat orgs$193k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

42 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
16

Total granted

$3.5M
$98k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
0%

Still filing today

83%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k 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
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TT
    THE TROY ANDREWS FOUNDATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $372k · revenue +268%
  • OC
    OCEAN COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $353k · revenue +0%
  • CB
    COUNT BASIE THEATRE INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $319k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • SO
    SAVE OUR BRASS CULTURE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $18k
  • MT
    MORE THAN MUSIC FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
  • WE
    WARREN EASTON FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $15k
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
Lyrica Baroque

The mission of lyrica baroque is to support a diverse community of students, teachers, artists, institutions and audiences of all ages through education, collaboration and performance. lyrica baroque seeks to promote the extraordinary…

Arts & Culture
2
Musical Arts Society of New Orleans

Masno's vision is to be a primary source in establishing new orleans as a vital and vibrant center for the musical arts recognized regionally, nationally, and internationally. masno's mission is 1) to create opportunities to hear,…

Arts & Culture
3
San Francisco Jazz Organization

The san francisco jazz organization (the organization) is a recognized international leader in jazz creation, presentation, and education. the organization explores the full spectrum of jazz, from the music's origins in the african…

Arts & Culture
4
Blu Jazz Master Class Foundation

Committed to the preservation of america's treasured art form of jazz. it brings "front-row" jazz education, perfomance and mentorship opportunities to student musicians and art lovers alike through an ongoing series of special events…

Arts & Culture
5
New Orleans Friends of Music

New Orleans Friends of Music is dedicated to promoting the performance and appreciation of fine chamber music. The Organization has a responsibility to the community to bring music to the youth of the city and the cultivate the…

Arts & Culture
6
New Orleans Jazz Orchestra Inc

To celebrate jazz music, a national treasure, through live music performances and interactive education by providing a point of connection for creative, entrepreneurs, and nonprofits at the new orleans jazz market.

Arts & Culture
7
The Jazz Mentors Foundation
Arts & Culture
8
Rising Jazz Stars
Arts & Culture
9
Jazzarts Charlotte

JazzArts Charlotte's (JazzArts) mission is connecting the cultural community and developing an audience for jazz through quality education, performance and musician support. JazzArts' vision is to be a catalyst for cultural enrichment and…

Arts & Culture
10
Los Angeles Jazz Institute

Preservation and Promotion of Jazz Music through educational activities live concerts and events and maintains a large archive

Arts & Culture
11
Backbeat Foundation Inc

The Backbeat Foundation's mission is to foster support of the rich New Orleans cultural heritage through the presentation of innovative arts and music programming and community based events and projects. The Foundation provides resources…

Arts & Culture
12
Charleston Jazz

To grow and cultivate a local and global community for jazz through performance, education and outreach while celebrating and preserving Charleston's rich history in jazz.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Positive Vibrations 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

52 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. 52 of the 70 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/52
Grantees still filing
27/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE TROY ANDREWS FOUNDATION: $372,049 · Arts & CultureTHE TROY ANDREWS FOUNDATIONCOUNT BASIE THEATRE INC: $318,519 · Arts & CultureCOUNT BASIE THEATRE INCTHE LOUISIANA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $215,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LOUISIANA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRANEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE FESTIVAL AND FOUNDATION INC: $196,283 · Arts & CultureNEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE FESTIVAL AND FOUNDATION INCNEW ORLEANS CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS FOUNDATION: $162,200 · Arts & CultureNEW ORLEANS CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS FOUNDATIONJAZZ HOUSE KIDS INC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureJAZZ HOUSE KIDS INCTHE HISTORIC ITALIAN HALL FOUNDATION: $136,300 · Arts & CultureTHE HISTORIC ITALIAN HALL FOUNDATION+25 more: $658,438 · Arts & Culture+25 moreWWOZ-SCHOOL GROOVE: $276,500 · OtherWWOZ-SCHOOL GROOVEThe Louisiana Museum Foundation: $146,309 · OtherThe Louisiana Museum Fou…LOUISIANA SPCA: $86,250 · OtherLOUISIANA SPCANJARTSNET INC ATTN JAY LUSTIG: $54,000 · OtherNJARTSNET INC ATTN JAY L…FIRST TEE OF NEW ORLEANS: $50,000 · OtherFIRST TEE OF NEW ORLEANSSEND ME A FRIEND FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · OtherSEND ME A FRIEND FOUNDAT…+17 more: $123,596 · Other+17 moreOCEAN COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $352,600 · EducationOCEAN COUNTY CO…WARREN EASTON HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC DBA WARREN EASTON CHARTER SCHOOL: $98,050 · EducationWARREN EASTON H…THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $34,281 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRAT…+2 more: $5,500 · EducationTHE ARMY DISTAFF FOUNDATION INC: $84,500 · Human ServicesMaxs Kansas City Project: $15,000 · Human ServicesLOVE OF PEOPLE CLINIC LOPC INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE FIRST TEE OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS: $20,160 · Recreation & SportsPHOENIX MULTISPORT INC: $15,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,500 · HealthBRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION: $2,500 · HealthMORRISTOWN PARTNERS INC T/A MORRISTOWN PARTNERSHIP: $19,000 · Community ImprovementNORTHSHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,500 · PhilanthropyBROOKDALE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION TRUST: $2,000 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$2,208,789Other$786,655Education$490,431Human Services$109,500Recreation & Sports$20,160Health$20,000Community Improvement$19,000Philanthropy$12,500

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 budgetTHE TROY ANDREWS FOUNDATION: $372,049 over 7y, 15% of budgetOCEAN COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $352,600 over 7y, 4.1% of budgetCOUNT BASIE THEATRE INC: $318,519 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetTHE LOUISIANA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $215,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetNEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE FESTIVAL AND FOUNDATION INC: $196,283 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetNEW ORLEANS CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS FOUNDATION: $162,200 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetJAZZ HOUSE KIDS INC: $150,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetThe Louisiana Museum Foundation: $146,309 over 7y, 6.1% of budgetTHE HISTORIC ITALIAN HALL FOUNDATION: $136,300 over 3y, 24% of budgetWARREN EASTON HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC DBA WARREN EASTON CHARTER SCHOOL: $98,050 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARMY DISTAFF FOUNDATION INC: $84,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HORNS PROJECT INC: $72,997 over 6y, 29% of budgetBRUCE SPRINGSTEEN ARCHIVES AND CENTER FOR AMERICAN MUSIC CORPORATION: $65,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetNEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION: $64,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN JAZZ MUSEUM: $60,491 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetNEW ORLEANS ARTS & CULTURAL HOST COMMITTEE: $60,000 over 6y, 6.9% of budgetNJARTSNET INC ATTN JAY LUSTIG: $54,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetUptown Jazz Orchestra Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $34,281 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH ORANGE PERFORMING ARTS CENTERINC: $33,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPOSITIVE VIBRATIONS FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetSecond Line Arts Collective: $30,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetTHE STATE THEATRE REGIONAL ARTS CENTER AT NEW BRUNSWICK INC: $27,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetASCAP FOUNDATION: $26,250 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetSOULSVILLE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetASBURY PARK MUSIC FOUNDATION INC: $21,150 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetMORRISTOWN PARTNERS INC T/A MORRISTOWN PARTNERSHIP: $19,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetACADIANA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $15,206 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPHOENIX MULTISPORT INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMaxs Kansas City Project: $15,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetOTIS REDDING FOUNDATION INC: $14,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTAKE ME TO THE RIVER EDUCATION INITIATIVE: $11,500 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetCultural Curriculum Project: $11,450 over 2y, 16% of budgetNORTHSHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBLACKAMERICANA FEST: $10,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetLOVE OF PEOPLE CLINIC LOPC INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetLKS ENTERTAINMENT INC: $6,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetTHE LOUISIANA MUSIC & HERITAGE EXPERIENCE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRONNIE KOLE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetBELMAR ARTS COUNCIL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetJAZZ ARTS PROJECT INC: $3,350 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetNEW JERSEY CITY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ORLEANS ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS LTD: $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKDALE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION TRUST: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRoots of Music 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.

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 Greater New Orlea…Community Foundation …Goldring Family Found…Investors Foundation …New Jersey Natural Ga…D'Addario Foundation …Oceanfirst FoundationNew Orleans Theatre A…Frank and Lydia Berge…The Usdin-Weil Founda…The Lewis Prize Found…Ej Grassmann Trust
The Greater New Orleans FoundationLA22× affinity9 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Goldring Family Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · New Jersey Natural Gas Company Charity Inc · D'Addario Foundation Inc · Oceanfirst Foundation · New Orleans Theatre Association Inc · Frank and Lydia Bergen Foundation · The Usdin-Weil Foundation · The Lewis Prize Foundation Inc · Ej Grassmann Trust

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 Gia Maione Prima Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gia Maione Prima Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Jazz House Kids Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Jazz Arts Project Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Asbury Park Music Foundation Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Count Basie Theatre Inc: 2% of income from government
  • New Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 Gia Maione Prima Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Gia Maione Prima 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 70 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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