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Malesardi 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $145k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| THE CLARK ART INSTITUTE | $17,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $16,000 |
| ST PETER'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $16,000 |
| ST PETER'S CHURCH | $15,000 |
| FENIMORE ART MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| ELMIRA COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $14,000 |
| THE GLIMMERGLASS FESTIVAL | $11,250 |
| TROY SAVINGS BANK MUSIC HALL CORPORATION | $10,000 |
| THE LORD'S PLACE | $5,000 |
| ST LUKE'S CHURCH | $5,000 |
| DESTROYER ESCORT HISTORICAL MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| CHRIST CHURCH - EASTON | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
Bucknell University9× · 2017–2025 · $280k · revenue +45%- SPST PETER'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $169k · revenue +46%
- FAFENIMORE ART MUSEUM9× · 2017–2025 · $146k · revenue +193%
Funded once
- CCCHRIST CHURCH ST PETERS PARISHone grant, 2022 · $5k
- TITHE INNOVATEone grant, 2024 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
To foster an appreciation of the quality and diversity of life on cape ann, past and present; to further the knowledge and enjoyment of cape ann history and art; to collect and preserve significant information and artifacts; and to…
Our mission is to engage, educate and excite the community by collecting, exhibiting, and preserving works of art for the enjoyment of all. the museum of fine arts, st. petersburg, florida (mfa) is the cultural leader of our community. our…
Museum has a mission to create opportunties for everyone to experience art that broadens understanding of the past, fosters community connections to the present, and creates diverse possbilities for the future.
To present and originate high quality exhibitions with related educational programs and community outreach activities.
The Museum's mission is to encourage and promote the appreciation of fine art to people in its surrounding communities and beyond. The Museum is dedicated to fostering a deeper understanding of the arts, with particular emphasis on the…
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Degree granting college-maryland institute college of art is a private college dedicated to the education of professional artists and the further advancement of art in the community.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…
The florence griswold museum seeks to promote a greater understanding of connecticut's contribution to american art and history through public exhibitions and educational programs.
To support and to provide advice and assistance to the trustees of the hill-stead museum, a national historic landmark and public charity which preserves, displays and interprets the 1901 colonial home, property, and fine art collections…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Albany Academies Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hilton Head Heroes Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 55 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Bucknell University ↗
- Who funds ST PETER'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FENIMORE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ELMIRA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds STERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TALBOT HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DESTROYER-ESCORT HISTORICAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE ALBANY ACADEMIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE LORD'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds ALBANY INSTITUTE OF HISTORY AND ART ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds TROY SAVINGS BANK MUSIC HALL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CORPORATION OF YADDO ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH CULTURAL INNOVATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds BENEDICTINE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Bluffton Community Soup Kitchen ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Review Foundation · The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Keeler Motor Car Company Charitable Foundation · The Bender Family Foundation · The Swyer Family Foundation Inc · David & Candace Weir Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Kiwi Foundation · The McCarthy Charities Inc · Neil Jane William Estelle Golub Family Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Malesardi Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Lord's Place Inc — 12% of income from government
- Avalon Foundation Inc — 6% of income from government
- Academy Art Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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