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Italian Cultural Society

To promote and sponsor activities that factor awareness of apreciation of the italian american cutural experience

$60k
Granted FY2018
18
Grants FY2018
3
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Education$53kArts & Culture$23kReligion$12kHealth$2kHuman Services$1k
02FY2018 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 18 grants below total $45,143, the rows itemized in this filing. The $60,190 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $15,047 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$2,750
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI$4,500
Individual grant recipient$4,000
LOWELL HIGH SCHOOL$4,000
SANTA ROSA SCHOOL DISTRICT$4,000
HUNTER HIGH SCHOOL$3,000
ST CATHERINE OF SIENA$3,000
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO HIGH SCHOOL$3,000
PITTSBURG HIGH SCHOOL$3,000
CIAO PICCOLI PROGRAM$2,750
CIAO ITALIA ELEM SCH PRGM$2,143
Individual grant recipient$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
LA PICCOLA SCOULA NEI PARCO$1,500
BURLINGAME MIDDLE SCHOOL$1,500
SCOULA ITALIANA DI PORTLAND$1,500
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 58% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ST CATHERINE OF SIENA: $3k → 7%LA PICCOLA SCOULA NEI PARCO: $2k → 8%OAK RIDGE HIGH SCHOOL: $1k → 8%ITALIAN PRGM MARIN CATH HI: $1k → 8%PITTSBURG HIGH SCHOOL: $3k → 9%SANTA ROSA SCHOOL DISTRICT: $4k → 9%LA PICCOLA SCUOLA ITALIANA: $4k → 10%CIAO PICCOLI PROGRAM: $3k → 12%EAST UNION HIGH SCHOOL: $1k → 12%HUNTER HIGH SCHOOL: $3k → 8%DANTE ALIGHIERI SOCIETY OF WASHINGT: $1k → 9%BURLINGAME MIDDLE SCHOOL: $2k → 7%LA PICCOLA SCOULA NEI PARCO: $1k → 8%OAK RIDGE HIGH SCHOOL: $1k → 8%ITALIAN PRGM MARIN CATH HI: $1k → 8%SANTA ROSA SCHOOL DISTRICT: $4k → 9%LOWELL HIGH SCHOOL: $5k → 10%CIAO PICCOLI PROGRAM: $2k → 12%BEAR CREEK HIGH SCHOOL: $1k → 12%NUOVO CENTRO ITALIANO: $1k → 9%ST CATHERINE OF SIENA: $2k → 7%HUNTER HIGH SCHOOL ITALIAN PROGRAM: $2k → 9%LOWELL HIGH SCHOOL: $4k → 10%CIAO ITALIA ELEM SCH PRGM: $2k → 12%BEAR CREEK HIGH SCHOOL: $1k → 12%BURLINGAME MIDDLE SCHOOL: $2k → 7%CLARENDON ELEMENTARY SHOOL: $6k → 10%CIAO ITALIA MIDDLE SCH PRGM: $2k → 12%SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO HIGH SCHOOL: $3k → 7%FRIENDS OF SOTO: $4k → 10%ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI: $5k → 12%SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO HIGH SCHOOL: $1k → 7%FRIENDS OF SOTO: $3k → 10%ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI: $3k → 12%CLARENDON ELEMENTARY SHOOL: $2k → 10%SPAZIO ITALIANO SF: $2k → 10%SPAZIO ITALIANO SF: $1k → 10%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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$73k · 15 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
6

Total granted

$73k
$11k

Still filing today

7%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • LH
    LOWELL HIGH SCHOOL
    2× · 2017–2018 · $9k
  • SR
    SANTA ROSA SCHOOL DISTRICT
    2× · 2017–2018 · $8k
  • SF
    ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI
    2× · 2017–2018 · $8k

Funded once

  • LP
    LA PICCOLA SCUOLA ITALIANA
    2× · 2017–2018 · $4k
  • CI
    CIAO ITALIA MIDDLE SCH PRGM
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • HH
    HUNTER HIGH SCHOOL ITALIAN PROGRAM
    2× · 2017–2018 · $2k
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
04the grantee network

3 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. 3 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
3/3
Grantees still filing
3/3
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LOWELL HIGH SCHOOL: $8,500 · OtherLOWELL HIGH SCHOOLSANTA ROSA SCHOOL DISTRICT: $8,000 · OtherSANTA ROSA SCHOOL DISTRICTST FRANCIS OF ASSISI: $7,750 · OtherST FRANCIS OF ASSISIIndividual grant recipient: $7,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $7,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCIAO PICCOLI PROGRAM: $4,958 · OtherCIAO PICCOLI PROGRAMST CATHERINE OF SIENA: $4,500 · OtherSOUTH SAN FRANCISCO HIGH SCHOOL: $4,116 · OtherLA PICCOLA SCUOLA ITALIANA: $4,000 · OtherBURLINGAME MIDDLE SCHOOL: $3,500 · OtherPITTSBURG HIGH SCHOOL: $3,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $3,000 · OtherHUNTER HIGH SCHOOL: $3,000 · Other+10 more: $17,893 · Other+10 moreSCUOLA ITALIANA DI PORTLAND: $5,000 · Education
Other$86,717Education$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSCUOLA ITALIANA DI PORTLAND: $5,000 over 2y, 2.4% 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 SCUOLA ITALIANA DI PORTLAND ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Italian Cultural Society funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Italian Cultural Society. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 Italian Cultural Society?

    Find your warmest path to Italian Cultural Society 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 24 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2018, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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