· Private foundation
IJ and Mary LaRosa Memorial 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Experience Camps | $3,900 |
| The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research | $3,550 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| William Paterson Foundation | $1,950 |
| The Foundation at NJIT | $1,950 |
| No Baby Blisters | $1,950 |
| New Jersey Chronic Fatigue Syndrom Association Inc | $1,800 |
| Center on Rural Innovation | $1,800 |
| Charity Water Global Inc | $1,450 |
| American Diabetes Association | $1,100 |
| Millhill Foundation | $1,050 |
| American Cancer Society | $900 |
| Wounded Warrior Project | $800 |
| Mephibosheth in Ghana | $750 |
| Alzeimer's Foundation of America Inc | $650 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of IJ and Mary LaRosa Memorial Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 36% of the giving stays in NJ; read by stated purpose it is 33% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
83 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH9× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue +384%
EXPERIENCE CAMPS6× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +281%- MIMEPHIBOSHETH IN GHANA A NJ NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION9× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- ASA song for Youone grant, 2024 · $2k
- FOFriends of Closter Public Libraryone grant, 2021 · $950
- UUSOone grant, 2018 · $700
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
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.
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…
Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…
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Our mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.
Dedicated to improving the quality of life of myeloma patients while working toward prevention and a cure.
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…
To marshal and focus the resources and relationships needed to cure fa by raising funds for research, promoting public awareness and aligning scientists, patients, clinicians, government agencies and pharmaceutical companies dedicated to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Alzheimers Research Association. 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.
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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
72 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 72 of the 147 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds EXPERIENCE CAMPS ↗
- Who funds THE MILLHILL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEPHIBOSHETH IN GHANA A NJ NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds OASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds EVA'S VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds Project Have Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Wood-Ridge Memorial Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION AT NJ INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds COMPASSIONATE HEARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Red Trunk Project Inc ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds MILTON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds CALVARY HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Delaware Community Foundation Inc · The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc · Schell Family Foundation · Red Wagon Calagione Family Foundation F/K/A Beer & Benevolence Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
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 IJ and Mary LaRosa Memorial Foundation Inc 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.
- Historic Lewes Farmers Market Society Inc — 81% of income from government
- Rehoboth Beach Volunteer Fire Company Inc — 64% of income from government
- Anchor House Inc — 45% of income from government
- Milton Fire Department Inc — 41% of income from government
- Center On Rural Innovation Inc — 37% of income from government
- Food Bank of Delaware Inc — 26% of income from government
- Mid Sussex Rescue Squad Inc — 20% of income from government
- Eva's Village Inc — 19% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Lewes Historical Society Inc — 4% of income from government
- Compassionate Hearts Inc — 2% of income from government
- Beebe Medical Foundation — 2% of income from government
- The National Federation of the Blind — 2% of income from government
- Berklee College of Music Inc — 1% of income from government
- Monmouth University Inc — 0% of income from government
- New Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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