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Mario Batali Foundation

To feed, protect, educate and empower children

$25k
Granted FY2020
1
Grants FY2020
1
Organizations funded FY2020
100%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 7
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
1

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 100% of the organizations Mario Batali Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20
Human ServicesHealth
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
FY20201$25k100%
FY20193$115k33%
FY20177$511kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Education$366kHealth$215kFood & Nutrition$40kHousing & Shelter$25kEnvironment$5k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Books for Kids Foundation$283,351228%
Eb Research Partnership Inc$125,00023%
First Book$83,00010%
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia$50,00010%
Food Bank for New York City$40,00010%
Women in Need Inc$25,00010%
National Multiple Sclerosis Society$20,0001n/a
National Multiple Sclerosis Society$20,00010%
City Green Inc$5,25811%

Where it is load-bearing

Mario Batali Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Books for Kids Foundation: $283,351 over 2y, 28% of budgetEb Research Partnership Inc: $125,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetFirst Book: $83,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFood Bank for New York City: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWomen in Need Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Multiple Sclerosis Society: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCity Green Inc: $5,258 over 1y, 0.7% 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 8.

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Find your warmest path to Mario Batali 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 Mario Batali Foundation

How much does Mario Batali Foundation give?
Mario Batali Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $25,000 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does Mario Batali Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Education (56%), Health (33%), Food & Nutrition (6%).
Who are Mario Batali Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: The Books for Kids Foundation ($283k), Eb Research Partnership Inc ($125k), First Book ($83k).
Does Mario Batali Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Mario Batali Foundation based?
Mario Batali 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 9 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2023) is on record and reports $7k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2020, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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