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Marasco & Nesselbush Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$18k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2024
13
Organizations funded FY2023
38%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$2,500
Organizations funded a year
6 to 15
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$41k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 38% of the organizations Marasco & Nesselbush Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEmploymentArts & CultureCivil RightsOther
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
FY2024still arriving10$18k20%
FY202313$20k38%
FY202214$20k57%
FY20216$9k33%
FY20207$12k29%
FY201910$14k60%
FY201813$23k54%
FY201715$15kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$40kHuman Services$30kPhilanthropy$14kYouth Development$13kHousing & Shelter$8kInternational$7kFood & Nutrition$6kReligion$4kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
MA
PA
CT
RI
CA
CO
TN

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 33 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($29k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Marasco & Nesselbush Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSojourner House Inc: $10,850 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: $10,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Northern Rhode Island: $10,350 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHigher Ground International: $8,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetBrain Injury Association of Ri Inc: $6,985 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetThe Providence Center Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNarragansett Lions Club: $5,700 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetThe Jonnycake Center Inc: $5,275 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMeals on Wheels of Ri Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetClothes to Kids Ri Inc: $3,900 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNational Multiple Sclerosis Society: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Mary's Home for Children: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Stand Down Rhode Island: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Rhode Island Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Autism Project: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAdoption Rhode Island: $2,215 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetProject Hand Up: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAldersbridge Communities (F/K/A United Methodist Elder Care): $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWoman Development Institute: $1,200 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetMcAuley Corporation: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKatie E Decubellis Memorial Fund: $799 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetThe Ararat Association Inc: $700 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Urban Arts: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGlbtq Legal Advocates & Defenders Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetComprehensive Community Action Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWomen's Fund of Rhode Island: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetComic Relief Inc Dba Comic Relief US: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCoalition for Usher Syndrome Research: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFoundation for Prader-Willi Research Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 31.

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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.

The Rhode Island Community FoundationRI40.4× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Champlin Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · The Beacon Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Harborone Foundation Rhode Island · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn

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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About Marasco & Nesselbush Charitable Foundation

How much does Marasco & Nesselbush Charitable Foundation give?
Marasco & Nesselbush Charitable Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $18,100 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Marasco & Nesselbush Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (31%), Human Services (23%), Philanthropy (10%).
Who are Marasco & Nesselbush Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Sojourner House Inc ($11k), Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc ($11k), Boys & Girls Club of Northern Rhode Island ($10k).
Does Marasco & Nesselbush Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Marasco & Nesselbush Charitable 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 Marasco & Nesselbush Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Rhode Island Community Foundation, Amica Companies Foundation, United Way of Rhode Island Inc.
Where is Marasco & Nesselbush Charitable Foundation based?
Marasco & Nesselbush Charitable Foundation is based in RI.

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 47 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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