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Grano 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.

$89k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2025
14
Organizations funded FY2024
43%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 14
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$694k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 43% of the organizations Grano Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthAnimalsHuman ServicesFood & NutritionYouth 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving13$89k15%
FY202414$110k43%
FY202311$79k64%
FY202211$72k73%
FY20218$84k75%
FY20204$60k75%
FY20198$78k75%
FY20176$70kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$270kCrime & Legal$185kEducation$100kArts & Culture$21kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kInternational$10kAnimals$10kHuman Services$8kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
IL
NY
NJ
CT
RI
CA
MO
VA
MD
TN
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 35 grantees
All grantees of Grano Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Promise Project Inc$210,0008n/a
Lead Inc$155,00071%
The Lead Program Inc$25,0001n/a
Foundation for Morristown Medical Center$23,00050%
Cento Amici$22,00034%
Ronald McDonald House of New York Inc$20,00010%
Ellis Island Honors Society Inc$16,00040%
New Vernon Volunteer Fire Department$15,00031%
Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation Inc$10,00010%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$6,50030%
Partnership for Inner City Education Dba Partnership Schools$6,00010%
Feeding America$5,00010%
Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation$5,00010%
Police Athletic League Inc$5,00010%
Tomorrow's Hope Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Rutgers University Foundation$5,00010%
The 30 Day Fund Inc$5,00010%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$4,50020%
Children International$4,06520%
The Kilham Bear Center Inc$4,00011%
Shriners Hospitals for Children$3,00020%
Center for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc$2,50010%
Parkinson's Foundation Inc$2,50010%
Thistle Farms Inc$2,50010%
Horses N Heroes of Marion County Inc$2,00011%
Friends of Kemmerer Library Inc$2,00014%
Green Beret Foundation$2,00010%
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation$1,00010%
Catholic Academy of Bridgeport Inc$1,0001n/a
Save The Children Federation Inc$1,0001n/a
Gentle Giants Draft Horse Rescue Society Ltd$1,00010%
Catholic Charities of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Paterson Inc$1,00010%
All Seated in a Barn$1,00010%
Csc Repertory Ltd D/B/A Classic Stage Company$1,00010%
Greater Good Charities$50910%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($66k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Grano Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLead Inc: $155,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetFoundation for Morristown Medical Center: $23,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCento Amici: $22,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetRonald McDonald House of New York Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEllis Island Honors Society Inc: $16,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNew Vernon Volunteer Fire Department: $15,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetMarine Corps Scholarship Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPartnership for Inner City Education Dba Partnership Schools: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPolice Athletic League Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTomorrow's Hope Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRutgers University Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe 30 Day Fund Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren International: $4,065 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Kilham Bear Center Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetShriners Hospitals for Children: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetParkinson's Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThistle Farms Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHorses N Heroes of Marion County Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFriends of Kemmerer Library Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetGreen Beret Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGentle Giants Draft Horse Rescue Society Ltd: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Paterson Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAll Seated in a Barn: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCsc Repertory Ltd D/B/A Classic Stage Company: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Good Charities: $509 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 31.

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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.

Jewish Communal FundNY10.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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About Grano Family Foundation

How much does Grano Family Foundation give?
Grano Family Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $89,359 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Grano Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (41%), Crime & Legal (28%), Education (15%).
Who are Grano Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Promise Project Inc ($210k), Lead Inc ($155k), The Lead Program Inc ($25k).
Does Grano Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Grano Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Grano Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.
Where is Grano Family Foundation based?
Grano Family Foundation is based in NJ.

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 46 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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