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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.

$239k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
29
Grants FY2025
23
Organizations funded FY2024
22%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
17 to 25
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$1.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Malesardi Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving28$238k25%
FY202423$229k22%
FY202322$206k23%
FY202219$184k16%
FY202125$210k36%
FY202020$166k15%
FY201920$160k20%
FY201817$178k12%
89% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$671kEducation$401kHealth$244kReligion$105kRecreation & Sports$34kPhilanthropy$20kHousing & Shelter$11kHuman Services$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
PA
NJ
VA
MD
AZ
SC
HI
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 35 grantees
All grantees of Malesardi Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Bucknell University$280,00090%
St Peter's Hospital Foundation Inc$169,00090%
Fenimore Art Museum$146,00090%
Elmira College$105,00090%
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute$87,50040%
Saratoga Performing Arts Center Inc$75,95090%
Talbot Hospice Foundation Inc$54,50091%
Heritage Classic Foundation$34,40080%
Destroyer-Escort Historical Museum$16,00031%
The Albany Academies Inc$15,00030%
The Lord's Place Inc$11,00020%
Albany Institute of History and Art$11,00080%
Troy Savings Bank Music Hall Corporation$10,00010%
Academy Art Museum Inc$8,75040%
Christ Church St Peters Parish$5,0001n/a
Arts Center of Coastal Carolina$3,50030%
Norton Museum of Art Inc$3,10030%
The Corporation of Yaddo$3,00030%
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation$3,00030%
Benedictine Health Foundation Inc$2,50020%
Palm Beach Cultural Innovation Center$2,5001n/a
Bluffton Community Soup Kitchen$2,00020%
The Community Hospice Foundation Inc$2,00020%
Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks$1,00010%
Capital Roots Inc$1,00010%
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Arlington Inc$1,0001n/a
Avalon Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Albany Med Health System$1,00010%
Hilton Head Heroes Inc$1,00011%
University at Albany Foundation$1,00010%
Friends of the Choir of the Cathedral of All Saints Inc$1,0001n/a
Fort Orange Garden Club Inc$1,00012%
Hospice of Kona Foundation$1,00010%
Musicians of Ma'Alwyck Inc$1,0001n/a
Maryland House and Garden Pilgrimage Inc$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($665k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Malesardi Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBucknell University: $280,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSt Peter's Hospital Foundation Inc: $169,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetFenimore Art Museum: $146,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetElmira College: $105,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSterling and Francine Clark Art Institute: $87,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSaratoga Performing Arts Center Inc: $75,950 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTalbot Hospice Foundation Inc: $54,500 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetHeritage Classic Foundation: $34,400 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDestroyer-Escort Historical Museum: $16,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetThe Albany Academies Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Lord's Place Inc: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlbany Institute of History and Art: $11,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTroy Savings Bank Music Hall Corporation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAcademy Art Museum Inc: $8,750 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetArts Center of Coastal Carolina: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNorton Museum of Art Inc: $3,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Corporation of Yaddo: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMarc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBenedictine Health Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBluffton Community Soup Kitchen: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Community Hospice Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNatural History Museum of the Adirondacks: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCapital Roots Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAvalon Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlbany Med Health System: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHilton Head Heroes Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUniversity at Albany Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFort Orange Garden Club Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetHospice of Kona Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMaryland House and Garden Pilgrimage Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 30.

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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.

Review FoundationNY26.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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How do I get to Malesardi Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Malesardi 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.

About Malesardi Family Foundation

How much does Malesardi Family Foundation give?
Malesardi Family Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $239,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Malesardi Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (38%), Education (23%), Health (14%).
Who are Malesardi Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Bucknell University ($280k), St Peter's Hospital Foundation Inc ($169k), Fenimore Art Museum ($146k).
Does Malesardi Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Malesardi Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Malesardi Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Review Foundation, The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc, Ge Aerospace Foundation.
Where is Malesardi Family Foundation based?
Malesardi Family Foundation is based in NY.

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 55 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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