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Marion & Albert R Costa Charitable Trust

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.

$20k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 67% of MARION & ALBERT R COSTA CHARITABLE TRUST’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$396k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA$1,000
SISTERS - ST JOHN BAPTIST$1,000
UNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
GUIDING EYES FOR BLIND$1,000
UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE DENTISTRY$1,000
AMERICAN ONCOLOGIC HOSP$1,000
RANCH HOPE INC$1,000
ATLANTIC CARE HOSPICE$1,000
ST JOSEPH'S INDIAN SCHOOL$1,000
SOUTH JERSEY HEALTH CARE CT$1,000
CARE INC$1,000
ST MICHAELS OUR LADY OF THE BLESSED$1,000
ST FRANCIS INDIAN SCHOOL$1,000
BISHOP MCCARTHY RESIDENCE$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%GUIDING EYES FOR BLIND: $1k → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR BLIND: $1k → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR BLIND: $1k → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR BLIND: $968 → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR BLIND: $909 → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR BLIND: $908 → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR BLIND: $810 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$121k · 27 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
2

Total granted

$121k
$2k

Still filing today

22%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthInternationalEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther

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

  • COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $7k · revenue +34%
  • SO
    SICANGU OYATE HO INC DBA ST FRANCIS INDIAN SCHOOL
    7× · 2019–2025 · $7k · revenue +20%
  • GE
    GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $7k · revenue +97%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF ATLANTIC COUNTY
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF ATLANTIC CO
    one grant, 2019 · $810

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
2
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
3
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education
6
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

8
University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
9
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey and the most unlike its peers is Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 30 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BISHOP MCCARTHY RESIDENCE — $6,666 · OtherBISHOP MCCARTHY RESIDENCEASSOC FOR MULTIPLE IMPAIR — $6,666 · OtherASSOC FOR MULTIPLE IMPAIRDEBORAH HOSPITAL — $6,665 · OtherDEBORAH HOSPITALST JOSEPHS INDIAN SCHOOL — $6,665 · OtherST JOSEPHS INDIAN SCHOOLSISTERS - ST JOHN BAPTIST — $6,665 · OtherSISTERS - ST JOHN BAPTISTIndividual grant recipient — $4,697 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $3,788 · OtherSOUTHJERSEY HEALTHCARE FO — $3,788 · OtherST MICHAELS CHURCH QUEEN — $3,788 · OtherNJ FOUNDATION FOR THE BLI — $3,788 · OtherATLANTIC CTY MED CTR HOSP — $3,788 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY — $3,788 · Other+11 more — $26,024 · Other+11 moreSICANGU OYATE HO INC DBA ST FRANCIS INDIAN SCHOOL — $6,665 · EducationSICANGU OYA…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $6,665 · EducationTRUSTEES OF…Ranch Hope Inc — $6,665 · HealthRanch Hope …The American Oncologic Hospital — $6,664 · HealthThe America…COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $6,666 · InternationalGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC — $6,665 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY — $2,876 · Philanthropy
Other$86,776Education$13,330Health$13,329International$6,666Human Services$6,665Philanthropy$2,876

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $6,666 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSICANGU OYATE HO INC DBA ST FRANCIS INDIAN SCHOOL — $6,665 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC — $6,665 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $6,665 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRanch Hope Inc — $6,665 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Oncologic Hospital — $6,664 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY — $2,876 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
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 BISHOP MCCARTHY RESIDENCE
  • Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC
  • Who funds SICANGU OYATE HO INC DBA ST FRANCIS INDIAN SCHOOL
  • Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
  • Who funds Ranch Hope Inc
  • Who funds The American Oncologic Hospital
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Marion & Albert R Costa Charitable Trust 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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