· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN | $1,500 |
| SERIOUS FUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK | $1,500 |
| TOYS FOR TOTS OF MA | $1,500 |
| OPERATION SMILE | $1,500 |
| GIVE THE KIDS THE WORLDINC | $1,500 |
| STJUDE'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $1,300 |
| VARIOUS CHARITIES | $1,020 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +34% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
37 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. 37 of the 77 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds SERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC ↗
- Who funds THE HIGHLANDER CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Swim Winchester Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHPOINT BIBLE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Joann Denapoli Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joann Denapoli Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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