· Private foundation
Joseph Sacco Scholarship Fund
Its FY2024 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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PALM BEACH STATE COLLEGE | $3,750 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETT | $1,875 |
| STOCKTON UNIVERSITY | $1,875 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 98% of its 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 +27% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VCVIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY4× · 2019–2022 · $19k
- AUAUBURN UNIVERSITY4× · 2019–2022 · $15k
- SJSAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY5× · 2017–2021 · $15k
Funded once
- AUARCADIA UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +23%
- GVGRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $2k
- SHSAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
Provides a higher education in general and specialized studies
To raise and manage private funds to support uci's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service.
To provide private financial support to assist the university in meeting its educational mission.
To educate undergraduate and graduate students; to promote research and instruction in multiple areas; and to contribute to the good of the larger society.
A private lutheran four-year university located in downtown minneapolis.
Clu is an institution offering undergraduate and graduate degrees in the liberal arts and sciences.
To provide post-secondary undergraduate and graduate education.
A private, independent, nonprofit institution of higher learning that is a high research activity university awarding master's and doctoral degrees within its five schools and three independent departments.
Concordia university nebraska's mission is to be an excellent academic and christ-centered community equipping men and women for lives of learning, service and leadership in the church and the world. we primarily do this by providing…
Adelphi university is dedicated to transforming students' lives through small classes, hands-on learning and innovative programs supporting academic and career success.
To serve all members by advancing expertise in the profession of research administration.
Student Services California State University, Fresno
How this is measured
4 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. 4 of the 16 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.
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: Michael & Susan Dell Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Joseph Sacco Scholarship Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joseph Sacco Scholarship Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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