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John and Geraldine Cusenza Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$424k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Youth Development$1.6MPhilanthropy$1.2MHealth$630kInternational$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kReligion$3kSocial Science$2kRecreation & Sports$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $7k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $417k
$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER$200,000
HOMEBOYS INDUSTRIES$116,660
THE HEART FOUNDATION$100,000
FRIENDLY HOUSE$4,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $1k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
IL
NY
MA
OH
CT
CA
DC

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.2M · 6 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +63% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
15

Total granted

$2.2M
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+19%

Still filing today

67%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthInternationalYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesOther

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

  • HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +175%
  • CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
    3× · 2017–2024 · $405k · revenue +63%
  • TH
    THE HEART FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue -11%

Funded once

  • VG
    VALLEY GIRLS & GUYS
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +19%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +36%
  • CC
    CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY
    one grant, 2019 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Altamed Health Services Corporation

To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.

Health
2
The California Medical Innovations Institute Inc

The Institute is a scientific research center dedicated to conducting basic and applied research to advance the understanding of human disease and the improvement of human health. The Institute fosters an innovative research environment…

Education
3
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
4
Mount Sinai Health System Inc

The mission of the mount sinai health system is to provide compassionate patient care with seamless coordination and to advance medicine through unrivaled education, research, and outreach in the many diverse communities we serve.

Human Services
5
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
6
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
7
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

8
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
9
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
10
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
11
Integrated Healthcare Association

Iha's mission is to bring the healthcare community together to solve industry-wide challenges that stand in the way of high-value care. as a non-profit industry association, we use objective data, our decades of expertise, and our unique…

12
Asante

Asante exists to provide quality healthcare services in a compassionate manner, valued by the communities we serve.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Heart Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

14 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES — $1,579,678 · Youth DevelopmentHOMEBOY INDUSTRIESCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,185,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONTHE HEART FOUNDATION — $200,000 · PhilanthropyTHE HEART FOUNDATIONCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $405,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI …+3 more — $15,100 · HealthCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY — $5,000 · OtherFRIENDLY HOUSE — $4,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $3,000 · OtherCONTREGATION OF ROGATIONIST FATHERS - USA DELEGATION — $2,700 · OtherTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE — $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $1,000 · Other+5 more — $1,200 · OtherSave The Children Federation Inc — $6,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $5,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $500 · InternationalTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesIgnatian Solidarity Network — $500 · EducationLOS ANGELES MISSION INC — $100 · Housing & Shelter
Youth Development$1,579,678Philanthropy$1,385,000Health$420,100Other$18,900International$11,500Human Services$1,000Education$500Housing & Shelter$100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES — $1,579,678 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,185,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $405,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HEART FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetVALLEY GIRLS & GUYS — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAIRTOSTAY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization John and Geraldine Cusenza Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 38%
  • The Home for Little Wanderers Inc38% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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