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Louis Pavia and Grace Montefusco Pavia Family Foundation at a glance

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Louis Pavia and Grace Montefusco Pavia Family Foundation

Educational,scientific and charitable purposes allowed underIRS501c3 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.

$14k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Human Services$11kHealth$10kEducation$3kEnvironment$2kFood & Nutrition$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kPublic Benefit$1k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$419k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Make-a-wish Foundation$8,000
Literacy Volunteers of America - Prince William$3,000
Therapy Fund Foundation$1,500
St Jude Research Hospital$1,500
02The need
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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 (FY24–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%The Global Foundation For Children With Hearing Loss: $3k → 10%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

WA
PA
NJ
VA
AZ
KS
TN
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 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
Native Healing Llc
Animals
2
Listen and Talk

Listen and Talk teaches deaf and hard of hearing children to communicate and learn through listening and spoken language.

Education
3
Freedom Hooves Therapeutic Riding of Nw Colorado
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4
Gunter Womens Health Foundation
Health
5
Homeless Childrens Network

To provide direct mental health services, psychotherapy, and counseling to homeless families in San Francisco, CA and in particular to children of such families, to provide referral services for such families and their children to other…

Human Services
6
Feeding Hungry Children International

Provide food, shelter, and medical assistance for children around the world.

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7
Kalauokekahuli

Kalauokekahuli encourages the healthy growth of Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander families by supporting and enhancing the well-being of birthing people, parents, and their infants with holistic, multi-generational, and…

Human Services
8
My Little Horse Listener Inc
Education
9
World Health Foundation
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10
World Forgotten Children Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Health Poverty Action Usa

Health Poverty Action USA acts in solidarity with health workers, activists & communities worldwide to improve health & challenge the causes of poverty. We do this in 3 distinct ways: 1. We approach health as an issue of social justice. We…

International
12
Healing Cultures Inc
Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hunger Fight Inc; the most unlike its peers is War Horses for Veterans Inc. 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

9 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. 9 of the 12 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Make-a-wish Foundation: $8,000 · OtherMake-a-wish FoundationLiteracy Volunteers of America - PW Inc: $3,000 · OtherLiteracy Volunteers of America - PW IncHUMMINGBIRD INDIGENOUS FAMILY SERVICES: $2,500 · OtherHUMMINGBIRD INDIGENOUS FAMILY SERVICESHold On Im Coming: $2,000 · OtherHold On Im ComingSt Jude Research Hospital: $1,500 · OtherSt Jude Research HospitalWAR HORSES FOR VETERANS INC: $3,000 · HealthWAR HORSES FOR VETER…WA THERAPY FUND FOUNDATION: $1,500 · HealthWA THERAPY FUND FOUN…THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $1,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPI…GLOBAL FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN WITH HEARING LOSS: $2,500 · Human ServicesGLOBAL FO…HUNGER FIGHT INC: $2,000 · Food & NutritionBRONZE CHAPTER: $2,000 · EnvironmentYOUR GRANDMOTHERS CUPBOARD: $1,000 · Public Benefit
Other$17,000Health$5,500Human Services$2,500Food & Nutrition$2,000Environment$2,000Public Benefit$1,000

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 budgetLiteracy Volunteers of America - PW Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetWAR HORSES FOR VETERANS INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHUMMINGBIRD INDIGENOUS FAMILY SERVICES: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN WITH HEARING LOSS: $2,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHUNGER FIGHT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRONZE CHAPTER: $2,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUR GRANDMOTHERS CUPBOARD: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

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.

American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE8.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Louis Pavia and Grace Montefusco Pavia Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Louis Pavia and Grace Montefusco Pavia Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Louis Pavia and Grace Montefusco Pavia 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 12 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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