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John and Geraldine Cusenza Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

John and Geraldine Cusenza Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$703k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$403k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Youth Development$1.6MPhilanthropy$1.2MHealth$630kInternational$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kReligion$3kSocial Science$2kRecreation & Sports$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k2 grants · $300k
  • $250k+1 grant · $403k
$200,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOMEBOYS INDUSTRIES$403,037
CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER$200,000
KECK SCHOOL OF MEDICINE OF USC - SPINE CENTER$100,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
OH
CT
CA
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 6 repeat orgs$138k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
17

Total granted

$2.8M
$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+19%

Still filing today

67%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthInternationalYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +175%
  • CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
    4× · 2017–2025 · $605k · 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
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.

04Its field

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.

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
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
4
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
5
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
6
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…

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7
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
8
American Academy of Neurology

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

Community Improvement
9
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…

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10
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.

Health
11
International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International
12
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

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

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc; 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 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. 14 of the 25 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $1,982,715 · Youth DevelopmentHOMEBOY INDUSTRIESCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,185,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONTHE HEART FOUNDATION: $200,000 · PhilanthropyTHE HEART FOUNDATIONCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $605,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDI…+3 more: $15,100 · HealthKECK SCHOOL OF MEDICINE OF USC - SPINE CENTER: $100,000 · OtherCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY: $5,000 · OtherFRIENDLY HOUSE: $4,000 · Other+9 more: $9,900 · 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$1,982,715Philanthropy$1,385,000Health$620,100Other$118,900International$11,500Human Services$1,000Education$500Housing & Shelter$100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $1,982,715 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,185,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $605,000 over 4y, 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
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 and Geraldine Cusenza Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John and Geraldine Cusenza Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 38%
  • The Home for Little Wanderers Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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