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Gibbons Scattone Family Foundation at a glance

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Gibbons Scattone Family 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.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$900k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$2.5MPhilanthropy$1.1MPublic Benefit$1.0MHealth$925kHuman Services$400kHousing & Shelter$340kFood & Nutrition$320kArts & Culture$300k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+1 grant · $900k
$900,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$900,000
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MATHEMATICS$100,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $400k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHARITY WATER: $100k → 4%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $25k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $25k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $25k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $25k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $25k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $25k → 17%THE CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY: $25k → 17%THE CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY: $25k → 17%THE CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY: $25k → 17%THE CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY: $25k → 17%THE CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY: $25k → 17%THE CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY: $25k → 17%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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.2M · 9 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
5

Total granted

$5.2M
$725k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+58%

Still filing today

89%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $900k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionPhilanthropyEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION
    5× · 2018–2022 · $1.0M · revenue +27%
  • RH
    ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION
    6× · 2018–2023 · $530k · revenue +36%
  • NM
    NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MATHEMATICS
    3× · 2023–2025 · $300k · revenue +229%

Funded once

  • FC
    FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIVING FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $450k
  • CHARITY GLOBAL INC
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue -13%
  • SB
    STONY BROOK FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +273%
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
New York Common Pantry

New york common pantry reduces hunger while promoting dignity, health and self-sufficiency.

Food & Nutrition
2
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
3
San Francisco Food Bank

To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…

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4
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
5
Edible Schoolyard New York

Edible schoolyard nyc is on a mission to make edible education accessible for every child in nyc. we believe edible education-where kids experience hands-on cooking and gardening helps kids gain the skills to contribute to a healthy and…

Education
6
Capital Area Food Bank Inc

The mission of the capital area food bank (the food bank or cafb) is to help our neighbors thrive by creating more equitable access to food and opportunity through community partnerships.

Food & Nutrition
7
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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8
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
9
The Houston Food Bank

Houston food bank's mission is to provide food for better lives. last year we provided access to 136 million nutritious meals in 18 counties in southeast texas through our 1,600 community partners which includes food pantries, soup…

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10
The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Centers Inc

To provide a safe, affordable and comprehensive program of high-quality early childhood education, parental and family support, as well as academic enrichment and recreational programs.

Human Services
11
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
12
Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services Inc

Cases' mission is to increase public safety through innovative services that reduce crime and incarceration, improve behavioral health, promote recovery and rehabilitation, and create opportunities for success in the community. we believe…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food Bank for New York City; the most unlike its peers is Charity Global 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

11 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. 11 of the 15 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)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EAST HARLEM TUTORIAL PROGRAM INC: $2,450,000 · OtherEAST HARLEM TUTORIAL PROGRAM INCMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $900,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTERFIDELITY CHARITABLE GIVING FUND: $450,000 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE GIVING FUNDCOALITION FOR HOMELESS: $340,000 · OtherCOALITION FOR HOMELESS+1 more: $25,000 · OtherTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUN…NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MATHEMATICS: $300,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL MUSEUM OF MA…ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $530,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $150,000 · Human ServicesHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $150,000 · Human ServicesCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $180,000 · Food & NutritionCITY HARVEST INC: $50,000 · Food & NutritionSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · EducationFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $90,000 · Community Improvement
Other$4,165,000Arts & Culture$1,300,000Philanthropy$530,000Human Services$400,000Food & Nutrition$230,000Education$100,000Community Improvement$90,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEAST HARLEM TUTORIAL PROGRAM INC: $2,450,000 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $530,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF MATHEMATICS: $300,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $180,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $150,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $150,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $90,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $50,000 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.

  • Who funds EAST HARLEM TUTORIAL PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MATHEMATICS ↗
  • Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT ↗
  • Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
  • Who funds STONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
  • Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 Gibbons Scattone Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Gibbons Scattone Family 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 15 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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