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Louise and Lou Paolillo Foundation Inc at a glance

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Louise and Lou Paolillo Foundation Inc

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.

$3k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$41kInternational$2kYouth Development$1kFood & Nutrition$1kCivil Rights$100Public Benefit$50
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,710
Median grant
1
States reached
$66k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNION OF THE CHARISMATIC EPISCOPAL CHURCH$2,710
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%INTERNATIONAL COMMUNION OF THE CHARISMATIC EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $2k → 6%MARYKNOLL FATHERS & BROTHERS MISSIONARY: $100 → 9%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $500 → 13%SACRED HEART FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY: $5k → 28%LIFE OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 11%THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $50 → 14%LOVE A CHILD: $1k → 11%FOOD FOR THE POOR: $1k → 13%AFRICA RELIEF AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $1k → 8%CHURCH OF THE INTERCESSOR: $2k → 6%SISTERS OF CHARITY: $8k → 28%LIFE OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 11%CONSOLATA MISSIONARIES: $200 → 8%CHURCH OF THE INTERCESSOR: $1k → 6%LIFE OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 11%CHURCH OF THE INTERECESSOR: $1k → 6%LIFE OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 11%CHURCH OF THE INTERCESSOR: $700 → 6%CHURCH OF THE INTERCESSOR: $600 → 6%INTERNATIONAL COMMUNION OF THE CHARISMATIC EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $500 → 6%INTERNATIONAL COMMUNION OF THE CHARISMATIC EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $3k → 6%BOYS SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $1k → 6%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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$27k · 3 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
13

Total granted

$27k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-5%
+12%

Still filing today

33%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalPublic BenefitOther
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

  • LO
    LIFE OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHURCHES INC
    4× · 2019–2024 · $16k
  • CO
    CHURCH OF THE INTERCESSOR
    5× · 2017–2021 · $6k
  • IC
    INTERNATIONAL COMMUNION OF THE CHARISMATIC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $5k · revenue -5%

Funded once

  • SO
    SISTERS OF CHARITY
    one grant, 2020 · $8k
  • MO
    MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • TR
    THEODORE ROOSEVELT COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -8%
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
Living His Life Abundantly International

To inform, instruct and inspire people through the media about the sacred scriptures and teachings of the roman catholic church

Religion
2
Catholic Answers Inc

Catholic answers is an apostolate dedicated to serving christ by bringing the fullness of catholic truth to the world. we help good catholics become better catholics, bring former catholics home, and lead non-catholics into the fullness of…

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3
Food for the Hungry Inc

Food for the hungry is a christian humanitarian aid and global development organization that has designed, developed and delivered solutions for more than 50 years so that children, families and communities can flourish. (continued on…

International
4
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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5
American Anglican Council

Aac's purpose is to build up and defend great commission anglican churches in north america through developing faithful leaders, equipping local churches and engaging the church and culture with gospel clarity.

Religion
6
Lifewater Inc

Lifewater international is a non-profit christian water development organization dedicated to effectively serving vulnerable children and families by partnering with underserved communities to overcome water poverty.

Environment
7
Youth for Christ International Ministries

As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.

Religion
8
Heart for Africa Inc

The organization's primary mission is to provide an opportunity for north americans to bring hope to africans in the areas of hunger, orphans, poverty, and education.

Religion
9
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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10
Christian Leaders for Africa Inc

Christian leaders from africa promotes christian theological training & education of local leaders in kenya and throughout africa. it invests in undergraduate, masters, and phd scholarships, faculty support for african professors and…

Religion
11
Biglife International Inc

Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.

Recreation & Sports
12
Aid for Starving Children

Aid For Starving Children provides assistance around the world to children and their families by providing food, shelter, clean water, financial assistance, education, and emergency relief to victims of famine, natural disasters, and war.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc; the most unlike its peers is International Communion of the Charismatic. 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 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LIFE OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHURCHES INC: $15,560 · OtherLIFE OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHURCHES INCSISTERS OF CHARITY: $7,500 · OtherSISTERS OF CHARITYCHURCH OF THE INTERCESSOR: $6,050 · OtherCHURCH OF THE INTERCESSORINTERNATIONAL COMMUNION OF THE CHARISMATIC: $5,340 · OtherINTERNATIONAL COMMUNION OF THE CHARISMATICMISSIONARIES OF CHARITY INC: $5,000 · OtherMISSIONARIES OF CHARITY INC+6 more: $2,400 · Other+6 moreAfrica Relief and Community Development: $1,000 · InternationalFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $1,000 · InternationalLOVE A CHILD INC: $1,000 · InternationalCompassion International Incorporated: $210 · InternationalTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $50 · Public Benefit
Other$41,850International$3,210Public Benefit$50

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 budgetINTERNATIONAL COMMUNION OF THE CHARISMATIC: $5,340 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetAfrica Relief and Community Development: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOVE A CHILD INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSACRED HEART FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN LIFE LEAGUE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $50 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.

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…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE7.2× affinity5 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 Louise and Lou Paolillo Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Louise and Lou Paolillo Foundation Inc. 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%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Love a Child Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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 16 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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