Pennsylvania · Private foundation
J & M Didonato Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $96k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $52,037
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 33
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations J & M Didonato Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $96k | 38% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $323k | 19% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $210k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $214k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $228k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $223k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $234k | 22% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $186k | 26% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dry Bones Ministries | $297,500 | 5 | 20% |
| Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank | $215,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Aquinas Academy | $114,500 | 7 | n/a |
| Light of Life Ministries Inc | $100,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Little Sisters of the Poor | $66,000 | 8 | 93% |
| Pregnancy Care Centers Dba Network of Life | $60,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Usta Foundation Incorporated | $51,875 | 2 | 0% |
| Genesis of Pittsburgh Inc | $40,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Jubilee Association Inc | $40,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Dawn M Gideon Foundation | $35,000 | 6 | 14% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($563k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
J & M Didonato Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
About J & M Didonato Family Foundation
- How much does J & M Didonato Family Foundation give?
- J & M Didonato Family Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $96,062 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does J & M Didonato Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (32%), Health (13%), Food & Nutrition (12%).
- Who are J & M Didonato Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Dry Bones Ministries ($298k), Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank ($215k), Aquinas Academy ($115k).
- Does J & M Didonato Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does J & M Didonato Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as J & M Didonato Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania, The Pittsburgh Foundation, Eqt Foundation.
- Where is J & M Didonato Family Foundation based?
- J & M Didonato Family Foundation is based in PA.
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