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Joann Denapoli Charitable 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
66% of Joann Denapoli Charitable Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 11 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Joann Denapoli Charitable Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $89k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k10 grants · $21k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $68k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UMASS AMHERST | $68,000 |
| ARLINGTON BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $4,500 |
| THE JIMMY FUNDDANA-FARBER | $3,875 |
| NEW ENGLAND INNOCENSE PROJECT | $2,500 |
| SERIOUS FUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK | $1,500 |
| TOYS FOR TOTS OF MA | $1,500 |
| GIVE THE KIDS THE WORLDINC | $1,500 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN | $1,500 |
| OPERATION SMILE | $1,500 |
| STJUDE'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $1,300 |
| VARIOUS CHARITIES | $1,020 |
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, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 85% 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.
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 +57% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2021, 13 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- ABARLINGTON BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC6× · 2018–2025 · $119k · revenue +30%
- WSWinchester Scholarship Foundation3× · 2017–2020 · $71k · revenue +135%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC2× · 2017–2020 · $18k · revenue +145%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - AMHERSTone grant, 2019 · $32k
- RTRIDING TO THE TOP THERAPEUTICone grant, 2019 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $15k
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 mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
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,…
Education and Research
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Team Impact Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pet Cottage Inc. 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 34 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 77 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 VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds ARLINGTON BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Winchester Scholarship Foundation ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND INNOCENCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds Swim Winchester Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HIGHLANDER CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BOSTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHPOINT BIBLE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
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: Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · En Ka Society Inc · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · Boston Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Joann Denapoli Charitable 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Saint Francis House Inc — 18% of income from government
- New England Innocence Project — 12% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Griffin Museum of Photography Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Urban Farming Institute of Bostoninc — 4% of income from government
- Winchester Historical Society Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boston Children's Chorus Inc — 2% of income from government
- Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc — 1% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge 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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