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Marc & Ernest Pallotta Foundation Inc

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.

$8k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2024
13
Organizations funded FY2023
46%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$500
Largest grant, FY2024
$2,887
Organizations funded a year
7 to 16
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 46% of the organizations Marc & Ernest Pallotta Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 53% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
Human ServicesAnimalsHousing & ShelterHealthCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalOther
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 arriving9$8k56%
FY202313$8k46%
FY202210$9k60%
FY202114$9k64%
FY202016$12k56%
FY20197$6k57%
FY201815$9k33%
FY201714$9kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$28kInternational$14kHuman Services$9kHealth$6kHousing & Shelter$4kFood & Nutrition$2kAnimals$2kPhilanthropy$2kOther$0

Top grantees

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

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($36k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Marc & Ernest Pallotta Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPlan International USA Inc: $14,407 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAbby Kelley Foster House Inc: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJeremiah's Inn Inc: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSpencer Agricultural Association I: $1,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA Central Massachusetts Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVeterans Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Health Center of Worcesterinc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Central Massachusetts Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSecond Chance Animal Services Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Virginia Thurston Healing Garden Inc: $800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetProject New Hope Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriendly House Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorcester Animal Rescue League Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLatin American Health Alliance of Central Massachusetts Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Diocese of Worcester: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPan-Massachusetts Challenge 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 20.

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.

Greater Worcester Community Foundation IncMA26.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · Stoddard Charitable Trust · Webster Five Foundation Inc · Wyman Gordon · The Fletcher Foundation · The George I Alden Trust · Schwartz Charitable Foundation · Worcester County Food Bank Inc · Coghlin Services Fund · Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation · Woosox 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 Marc & Ernest Pallotta Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Marc & Ernest Pallotta Foundation Inc 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 Marc & Ernest Pallotta Foundation Inc

How much does Marc & Ernest Pallotta Foundation Inc give?
Marc & Ernest Pallotta Foundation Inc reported 9 grants totaling $8,387 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Marc & Ernest Pallotta Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (40%), International (21%), Human Services (13%).
Who are Marc & Ernest Pallotta Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Plan International USA Inc ($14k), Abby Kelley Foster House Inc ($2k), Jeremiah's Inn Inc ($2k).
Does Marc & Ernest Pallotta Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Marc & Ernest Pallotta Foundation Inc 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 Marc & Ernest Pallotta Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc, The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation, Stoddard Charitable Trust.
Where is Marc & Ernest Pallotta Foundation Inc based?
Marc & Ernest Pallotta Foundation Inc is based in MA.

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 58 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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