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Joseph & Kathleen Curatolo 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.

$152k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
21
Grants FY2025
25
Organizations funded FY2024
64%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,357
Largest grant, FY2025
$12,000
Organizations funded a year
19 to 25
FY2022 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$106k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 64% of the organizations Joseph & Kathleen Curatolo Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 64% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving21$152k71%
FY202425$103k64%
FY202324$72k79%
FY202219$65kn/a
85% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Health$77kArts & Culture$67kHuman Services$55kHousing & Shelter$28kFood & Nutrition$24kPhilanthropy$24kRecreation & Sports$15kEducation$15kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Gigis Playhouse Inc$24,9004n/a
Mychals Learning Place$12,00010%
Christophers Promise$12,0001n/a
Per Scholas Inc$12,0001n/a
Heinzerling Community$11,6001n/a
Hospice Buffalo Inc$10,00010%
Miami Children's Museum Inc Fka Miami Youth Museum$10,00010%
Special Spaces Inc$7,5001n/a
Danceability Inc$7,50022%
Sleep in Heavenly Peace Inc$7,50020%
Show all 32 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($182k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Joseph & Kathleen Curatolo Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMychals Learning Place: $12,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHospice Buffalo Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMiami Children's Museum Inc Fka Miami Youth Museum: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDanceability Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetSleep in Heavenly Peace Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStitch Buffalo Inc: $6,700 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBuffalo Maritime Center Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetKaleida Health: $5,990 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Night People Inc: $5,650 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetArthritis Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWny Heroes Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIndependent Health Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe International Institute of Buffalo: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAccess Mammoth: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSafe Place for Youth Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAceing Autism Inc: $4,900 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for Exploratory and Perceptual Arts Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSkating Association for the Blind & Hand: $4,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCharlotte House Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetThe Bison Children's Scholarship Fund Inc: $3,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Buffalo Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Buffalo Adaptive Sports Inc: $2,945 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHelp a Diabetic Child Inc: $2,235 over 1y, 0.7% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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.

Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo IncNY34.9× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The John R Oishei Foundation · Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc · Buffalo Sabres Foundation · Nfada Charitable Foundation · The Frank G Raichle Foundation · First Niagara Foundation · The Western New York Foundation · James H Cummings Foundation Inc · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Paul & Helen Ellis Charitable Trust Trubee Wealth Advisors · The Saperston Family Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Joseph & Kathleen Curatolo Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Joseph & Kathleen Curatolo Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Joseph & Kathleen Curatolo Foundation Inc

How much does Joseph & Kathleen Curatolo Foundation Inc give?
Joseph & Kathleen Curatolo Foundation Inc reported 21 grants totaling $151,857 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 25 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
What does Joseph & Kathleen Curatolo Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (20%), Arts & Culture (17%), Human Services (14%).
Who are Joseph & Kathleen Curatolo Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Gigis Playhouse Inc ($25k), Mychals Learning Place ($12k), Christophers Promise ($12k).
Does Joseph & Kathleen Curatolo Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 64% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Joseph & Kathleen Curatolo Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Joseph & Kathleen Curatolo Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, The John R Oishei Foundation, Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc.
Where is Joseph & Kathleen Curatolo Foundation Inc based?
Joseph & Kathleen Curatolo Foundation Inc is based in NY.

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 69 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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