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Lillian Hirschbeck WisterRosato Family Foundation

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.

$75k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$19k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Education$69kAnimals$21kInternational$18kYouth Development$18kReligion$18kEnvironment$7k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $34k
$7,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC$19,000
SAINT JAMES SCHOOL$15,000
MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF THE SALESIAN SISTERS INC$8,000
FATHER FLANAGANS BOYS HOME$8,000
FRANCISVALE HOME FOR SMALLER ANIMALS$7,000
HEIFER INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION$5,500
PHILADELPHIA SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LANDM$3,000
DEVON HORSE SHOW AND COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION$3,000
WORLD VISION$3,000
SPCA INTERNATIONAL INC$3,000
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 (FY25–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%FATHER FLANAGANS BOYS HOME: $8k → 11%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.
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.
$204k · 8 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
2

Total granted

$204k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+63%

Still filing today

63%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
EducationAnimalsInternationalHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • MC
    MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $55k · revenue +5%
  • SJ
    SAINT JAMES SCHOOL
    4× · 2022–2025 · $48k · revenue +55%
  • HI
    HEIFER INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $17k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • BT
    Boys Town Central Florida Inc
    one grant, 2025 · $8k · revenue +22%
  • TD
    THE DEVON HORSE SHOW AND COUNTRY FAIR FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2025 · $3k · revenue +63%
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
Worldwide Vets Incorporated

Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…

Animals
2
St Marys Healthcare System for Children Inc

To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children

Health
3
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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4
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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5
The Waverly School

The waverly school is a nonsectarian, coeducational, college preparatory progressive day school that spans preschool through high school. it is fully accredited by the western association of school and colleges and the california…

Education
6
St Joseph's Hospital of Tampa Foundation Inc

St. joseph's hospitals foundation secures, manages and stewards philanthropic support to benefit the health care mission of st. joseph's hospital, st. joseph's women's hospital, st. joseph's children's hospital of tampa, st. joseph's…

Health
7
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
8
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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9
St Marys Hospital for Children Inc

St. mary's hospital for children ("smh"), the flagship of st. mary's healthcare system for children, is committed to improving the health and quality of life for children and young adults with special healthcare needs. a nationally…

Health
10
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
11
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
12
Westminster School

To educate children by engaging them actively in experiences that challenge students to solve problems as cooperative, confident, and responsible learners.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Vision Inc; the most unlike its peers is Francisvale Home for Smaller Animals. 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

8 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. 8 of the 11 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)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 · EducationMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INCSAINT JAMES SCHOOL: $48,000 · EducationSAINT JAMES SCHOOLMISSIONARY SOCIETY OF THE SALESIAN SISTERS INC: $25,500 · OtherMISSIONARY SOCIETY OF THE …BOYS TOWN: $17,500 · OtherBOYS TOWNPHILADELPHIA SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LANDM: $9,500 · OtherPHILADELPHIA SOCIETY FOR T…FRANCISVALE HOME FOR SMALLER ANIMALS: $21,500 · AnimalsFRANCISVALE HOM…SPCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $9,500 · AnimalsSPCA INTERNATIO…HEIFER INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $17,000 · InternationalHEIFER INTERN…WORLD VISION INC: $9,500 · InternationalWORLD VISION …Boys Town Central Florida Inc: $8,000 · Human ServicesTHE DEVON HORSE SHOW AND COUNTRY FAIR FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Recreation & Sports
Education$103,000Other$52,500Animals$31,000International$26,500Human Services$8,000Recreation & Sports$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT JAMES SCHOOL: $48,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRANCISVALE HOME FOR SMALLER ANIMALS: $21,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHEIFER INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $17,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSPCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $9,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $9,500 over 4y, 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 MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SAINT JAMES SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds FRANCISVALE HOME FOR SMALLER ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds HEIFER INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SPCA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
  • Who funds Boys Town Central Florida Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE DEVON HORSE SHOW AND COUNTRY FAIR FOUNDATION ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to Lillian Hirschbeck WisterRosato Family Foundation 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.

    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 11 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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