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Lawrence P Castellani Family Foundation at a glance

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Lawrence P Castellani Family Foundation

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.

$585k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.8MHealth$865kArts & Culture$573kScience & Tech$557kHuman Services$275kPublic Safety & Disaster$53kPhilanthropy$25kRecreation & Sports$21kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $52k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $73k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $460k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NCIA Foundation$200,000
Roswell Park Alliance Foundation$125,000
SAFE PLACE AND RAPE CRISIS CENTER$85,000
Florida Studio Theatres$50,000
Community Foundation of Sarasota County$25,000
Sarasota Ballet$15,000
Canisius High School$12,500
University at Buffalo Foundation$10,000
Niagara University$10,000
Colgate University$6,000
The Darien Foundation$5,000
Moffitt Cancer Center$5,000
Golfology Fore Cardiology Inc$5,000
New York Road Runners$5,000
Sarasota Performing Arts Foundation$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $232k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE GREATER CONTRIBUTION: $20k → 10%ELDER HOUSE INC: $1k → 9%NCIA Foundation: $200k → 11%NIAGARA HOSPICE: $250 → 14%Olmsted Center for Sight: $10k → 13%YWCA DARIENNORWALK: $40 → 9%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

IL
NY
MA
CT
CA
VA
MD
KS
NC
DC
GA
FL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 54% of Lawrence P Castellani Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 24% of the giving stays in FL; by stated purpose, 20%.

Lawrence P Castellani Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.9M · 38 repeat orgs$406k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

38 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
40

Total granted

$3.9M
$171k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+25%

Still filing today

66%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $235k 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
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • UA
    University at Buffalo Foundation Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $880k · revenue +27%
  • FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $391k · revenue +101%
  • Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $330k · revenue +118%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • DF
    DARIEN FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • TG
    THE GREATER CONTRIBUTION
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -71%
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
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
2
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
University of New Haven

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…

Education
5
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
7
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
11
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
12
Syracuse University

Organization's missionas a university with the capacity to attract and engage the best scholars from around the world, yet small enough to support a personalized and academically rigorous student experience, syracuse university faculty and…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New Canaan Country School Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Hackers for Hope Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

53 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. 53 of the 90 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/53
Grantees still filing
42/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University at Buffalo Foundation Inc: $880,000 · EducationUniversity at Buffalo Foundation IncCRISTO REY NETWORK: $250,000 · EducationCRISTO REY NETWORKNIAGARA UNIVERSITY: $168,400 · EducationNIAGARA UNIVERSITYCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $51,500 · Education+6 more: $79,342 · Education+6 moreNCIA: $557,000 · OtherNCIAVIA: $158,500 · OtherVIACANISIUS HIGH SCHOOL: $125,500 · OtherCANISIUS HIGH SCHOOLN A R D I N ACADEMY: $70,000 · OtherN A R D I N ACADEMYSARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $67,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherRoswell Park Cancer Institute: $48,000 · Other+45 more: $210,384 · Other+45 moreROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $325,500 · PhilanthropyROSWELL PARK …THE BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $100,400 · PhilanthropyTHE BISON CHI…ALL STAR CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · PhilanthropyALL STAR CHIL…THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC: $25,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $309 · PhilanthropyFLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC: $391,000 · Arts & CultureFLORIDA STUD…ASOLO THEATRE INC: $42,000 · Arts & CultureASOLO THEATR…+3 more: $22,000 · Arts & CultureSafe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc: $329,600 · HealthSafe Plac…HEAD STRONG PROJECT INC: $12,591 · Health+8 more: $12,046 · HealthNCIA FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesTHE GREATER CONTRIBUTION: $20,000 · Human ServicesVIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT: $10,000 · Human Services+3 more: $1,690 · Human ServicesTHE TOWN OF DARIEN FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION INC: $23,000 · Public Safety & DisasterYOUNGSTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC: $5,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Education$1,429,242Other$1,286,384Philanthropy$511,209Arts & Culture$455,000Health$354,237Human Services$231,690Public Safety & Disaster$28,000

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 budgetUniversity at Buffalo Foundation Inc: $880,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetFLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC: $391,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetSafe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc: $329,600 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $325,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCRISTO REY NETWORK: $250,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetNCIA FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 1y, 47% of budgetNIAGARA UNIVERSITY: $168,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $100,400 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $67,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetALL STAR CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $51,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetASOLO THEATRE INC: $42,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DARIEN FOUNDATION INC: $38,319 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetSKIDMORE COLLEGE: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TOWN OF DARIEN FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION INC: $23,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetTHE GREATER CONTRIBUTION: $20,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetSarasota Ballet of Florida Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEAD STRONG PROJECT INC: $12,591 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGOLFOLOGY FORE CARDIOLOGY INC: $10,300 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetVIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC: $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Hamilton College: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPREP FOR PREP: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNGSTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTCOAST BLACK THEATRE TROUPE OF FLORIDA INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMATHER HOMESTEAD FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $1,776 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetELDERHOUSE INC: $1,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ELDERS HOUSE INC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEndeavor Health Clinical Operations: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDARIEN POLICE ASSOCIATION INC: $1,250 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $1,032 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNOROTON HEIGHTS DEPOT INC: $1,028 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UMBRELLA CLUB INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEXTSTEP FITNESS INC: $761 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOOMER ESIASON FOUNDATION: $527 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $523 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSwim Across America Inc: $309 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEXPERIENCE CAMPS: $265 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.

  • Who funds University at Buffalo Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CRISTO REY NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds NCIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NIAGARA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds SARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ALL STAR CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ASOLO THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DARIEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SKIDMORE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TOWN OF DARIEN FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GREATER CONTRIBUTION ↗
  • Who funds Sarasota Ballet of Florida Inc ↗
  • Who funds HEAD STRONG PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds GOLFOLOGY FORE CARDIOLOGY INC ↗
  • Who funds VIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT ↗
  • Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Hamilton College ↗
  • Who funds PREP FOR PREP ↗
  • Who funds YOUNGSTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS INC ↗

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 …Colucci Family Founda…The Baird FoundationFoundation for Jewish…Mother Cabrini Health…Fairfield County's Co…Education Collaborati…522 Foundation IncJoseph R Takats Found…ELSIE P AND LUCIUS B …The Ralph C Wilson Jr…Gulf Coast Community …
Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo IncNY18.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · Colucci Family Foundation Inc · The Baird Foundation · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Education Collaborative of Wny Inc · 522 Foundation Inc · Joseph R Takats Foundation · ELSIE P AND LUCIUS B McCOWAN PRIVATE FOUNDATION · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lawrence P Castellani Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lawrence P Castellani Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Domus Kids Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Mather Homestead Foundation: 4% of income from government
  • All Faiths Food Bank Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Florida Studio Theatre Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 90 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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