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Linda Sue Pfarrer Nortillo Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Linda Sue Pfarrer Nortillo Charitable 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.

$59k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$155kHealth$67kArts & Culture$58kEnvironment$48kRecreation & Sports$19kPhilanthropy$17kPublic Benefit$15kHuman Services$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REEVES-REED ARBORETUM$5,000
OAK HILL FOUNDATION$5,000
THE PINGRY SCHOOL$5,000
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY$5,000
CAMP HAPPY DAYS$5,000
THE FORTNIGHTLY CLUB OF SUMMIT$4,500
METROPOLITAN OPERA$3,250
MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM$3,000
HISTORIC COLONY HOUSE INC$2,500
IMAGINE A CENTER FOR COPING WITH LOSS$2,200
PAT CONROY LITERARY CENTER$2,000
MATHENY SCHOOL$2,000
THE GENERAL FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S CLUBS$1,500
DOORS TO FREEDOM$1,500
JUDICIAL WATCH$1,500
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 (FY17–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS: $2k → 11%THE SEEING EYE: $1k → 4%THE SEEING EYE: $500 → 4%BLUFFTON COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN: $1k → 10%BRIDGES OUTREACH INC: $1k → 10%BRIDGES OUTREACH INC: $1k → 10%BRIDGES OUTREACH INC: $1k → 10%BRIDGES OUTREACH INC: $500 → 10%BRIDGES OUTREACH INC: $500 → 10%FAMILY CHILDREN SERVICES: $500 → 10%THE WAREHOUSE NJ: $2k → 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

MT
IL
NY
MA
OR
OH
NJ
CT
CO
VA
MD
SC
DC
OK
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$369k · 45 repeat orgs$89k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

45 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
44

Total granted

$369k
$66k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+17%

Still filing today

64%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • GREENWOOD GARDENS
    6× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +47%
  • TM
    THE MATHENY SCHOOL AND HOSPITAL INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $16k · revenue +32%
  • RR
    REEVES - REED ARBORETUM
    3× · 2023–2025 · $14k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • BB
    BERNIE'S BOOK BANKgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +63%
  • VS
    VANGUARD SCHOOL OF LAKE WALES FLORIDA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +5%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $4k
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.

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Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
2
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
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
Manhattanville University

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

Education
5
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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6
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
7
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
8
Morristown-Beard School

Morristown beard school is an educational college preparatory school in grades 6 to 12 located in morristown, new jersey.

Education
9
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
10
Independent Colleges and Universities of New Jersey a Nj Nonprofit Corporation

The mission of the independent colleges and universities of new jersey, a new jersey non-profit corporation is to advance the interests of new jersey's independent, non-profit, public mission institutions of higher education by promoting…

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11
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health
12
League of Women Voters of New Jersey

Through grassroots people-powered advocacy and organizing, lwvnj trains, mobilizes, and educates advocates to have a greater voice in government and influence public policy.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Jersey Seeds Inc; the most unlike its peers is Raskels Rescue. 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

67 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. 67 of the 101 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/67
Grantees still filing
47/67
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE PINGRY SCHOOL: $88,000 · OtherTHE PINGRY SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient: $11,250 · OtherGUILD HALL OF THE HAMPTONS: $10,400 · OtherCAMP HAPPY DAYS INC: $10,000 · OtherMETROPOLITAN OPERA: $9,800 · OtherTHE VALERIE FUND: $9,000 · OtherJUNIOR TENNIS CHAMPIONS CENTER INC: $11,000 · Other+56 more: $120,200 · Other+56 moreTHE MATHENY SCHOOL AND HOSPITAL INC: $16,000 · EducationTHE MATHENY S…KENT SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationKENT SCHOOLCALDWELL UNIVERSITY INC: $8,000 · EducationCALDWELL UNIV…Fordham University: $5,000 · EducationFordham Unive…VANGUARD SCHOOL OF LAKE WALES FLORIDA INC: $5,000 · EducationVANGUARD SCHO…NEW JERSEY SEEDS INC: $3,000 · EducationNEW JERSEY SE…HETERODOX ACADEMY: $2,500 · EducationALPHA PHI FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · Education+2 more: $2,750 · EducationGREENWOOD GARDENS: $25,025 · EnvironmentGREENWOOD …REEVES - REED ARBORETUM: $13,500 · EnvironmentREEVES - R…GREATER NEWARK CONSERVANCY INC: $5,750 · EnvironmentGREATER NE…+1 more: $500 · EnvironmentTHE MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSTATEMENT ARTS INC: $6,500 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC COLONY HOUSE INC: $5,500 · Arts & CultureOAK HILL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PAT CONROY LITERARY CENTER INC: $3,500 · Arts & CultureTHE EDNA ST VINCENT MILLAY SOCIETY: $3,000 · Arts & CulturePaper Mill Playhouse: $2,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $500 · Arts & CultureOVERLOOK FOUNDATION: $22,100 · HealthIMAGINE A CENTER FOR COPING WITH LOSS: $2,200 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,000 · HealthFAMILY CONNECTIONS INC: $1,000 · HealthMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $5,000 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $4,500 · Public BenefitLeadership Institute: $4,500 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Public BenefitBRIDGES OUTREACH INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesBONNIE BRAE: $3,500 · Human ServicesCLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesTHE SEEING EYE INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesWAREHOUSE NJ: $1,500 · Human ServicesBluffton Community Soup Kitchen: $1,000 · Human ServicesFamily and Children's Services Inc: $500 · Human Services
Other$269,650Education$54,750Environment$44,775Arts & Culture$36,000Health$28,300Public Benefit$15,000Human Services$14,000

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 budgetGREENWOOD GARDENS: $25,025 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetOVERLOOK FOUNDATION: $22,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MATHENY SCHOOL AND HOSPITAL INC: $16,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetREEVES - REED ARBORETUM: $13,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetJUNIOR TENNIS CHAMPIONS CENTER INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP HAPPY DAYS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKENT SCHOOL: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VALERIE FUND: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCALDWELL UNIVERSITY INC: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSTATEMENT ARTS INC: $6,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetThe Pennington School: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER NEWARK CONSERVANCY INC: $5,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHISTORIC COLONY HOUSE INC: $5,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $5,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBERNIE'S BOOK BANK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFordham University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVANGUARD SCHOOL OF LAKE WALES FLORIDA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FORTNIGHTLY CLUB OF SUMMIT NJ: $4,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetHabitat for Humanity South Carolina: $4,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetGeneral Federation of Womens Clubs: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Institute: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGES OUTREACH INC: $4,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBONNIE BRAE: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PAT CONROY LITERARY CENTER INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF SUMMIT NJ: $3,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetNEW JERSEY SEEDS INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EDNA ST VINCENT MILLAY SOCIETY: $3,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetHETERODOX ACADEMY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALPHA PHI FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS: $2,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIMAGINE A CENTER FOR COPING WITH LOSS: $2,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPaper Mill Playhouse: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JUSTIN GIMELSTOB CHILDREN'S FUND: $2,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDOGS FOR LIFE INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEEING EYE INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDOORS TO FREEDOM: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM & TELEVISION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWAREHOUSE NJ: $1,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJVS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGRACE - GIVING AND RECEIVING ASSISTANCE FOR OUR COMMUNITY'S ESSENTIALS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPALMETTO ANIMAL LEAGUE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MARFAN FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 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 GREENWOOD GARDENS ↗
  • Who funds OVERLOOK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE MATHENY SCHOOL AND HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds REEVES - REED ARBORETUM ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR TENNIS CHAMPIONS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMP HAPPY DAYS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds KENT SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE VALERIE FUND ↗
  • Who funds CALDWELL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds STATEMENT ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds The Pennington School ↗
  • Who funds GREATER NEWARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds HISTORIC COLONY HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
  • Who funds OAK HILL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC ↗
  • Who funds BERNIE'S BOOK BANK ↗
  • Who funds Fordham University ↗
  • Who funds VANGUARD SCHOOL OF LAKE WALES FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FORTNIGHTLY CLUB OF SUMMIT NJ ↗
  • Who funds Habitat for Humanity South Carolina ↗
  • Who funds General Federation of Womens Clubs ↗
  • Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGES OUTREACH INC ↗
  • Who funds BONNIE BRAE ↗
  • Who funds THE PAT CONROY LITERARY CENTER 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 …The Hyde and Watson F…Ej Grassmann TrustInvestors Foundation …The Summit FoundationBristol-Myers Squibb …Chubb Charitable Foun…Jewish Community Foun…The Present Family Fo…Zygmunt and Audrey Wi…Gertrude L Hirsch Cha…Union Foundation
Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ30.3× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Ej Grassmann Trust · Investors Foundation Inc · The Summit Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · The Present Family Foundation Inc · Zygmunt and Audrey Wilf Foundation · Gertrude L Hirsch Charitable Trust · Union 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Linda Sue Pfarrer Nortillo Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Linda Sue Pfarrer Nortillo Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 190%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Family and Children's Services Inc: 78% of income from government
  • Bridges Outreach Inc: 25% of income from government
  • The Montclair Art Museum: 11% of income from government
  • Paper Mill Playhouse: 9% of income from government
  • Bonnie Brae: 3% of income from government
  • Caldwell University Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Booksmiles a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation: 1% of income from government
  • Reeves - Reed Arboretum: 1% of income from government
  • Sage Eldercare: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
19get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 101 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home