· Private foundation
John & Carrie Santangelo 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PITZER COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| GARY FRANKS PHILANTHROPY INC | $15,000 |
| DERBY HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $4,000 |
| ST MARY'S CHURCH | $1,250 |
| THE RECREATION CAMP | $1,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB LOWER NAUGATUCK VALLEY | $1,000 |
| HAMDEN HALL COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| THE ALLEN FAMILY FUND | $1,000 |
| DERBY-SHELTON ROTARY CLUB | $575 |
| PARKINSONS FOUNDATION | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $400 |
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 (FY24–24, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 28% of John & Carrie Santangelo Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 37% of the giving stays in CT; by stated purpose, 23%.
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 +30% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PCPitzer College6× · 2020–2025 · $115k · revenue +30%
- RCRECREATION CAMP INC6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +75%
- HHHAMDEN HALL SCHOOL INC3× · 2023–2025 · $3k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- VCVALLEY COMMUNITY RESPONSE & RECOVERY FUNDone grant, 2020 · $500
- TITEAM INCone grant, 2024 · $500 · revenue +15%
- ACA CHANCE TO SHINEone grant, 2022 · $500
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 23 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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John & Carrie Santangelo Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John & Carrie Santangelo Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Team Inc: 84% of income from government
- Yale University: 12% of income from government
How this is measured
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