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Maris S Cuneo 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.

$37k
Granted FY2023
3
Grants FY2023
3
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$22,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 7
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
2
Total assets, FY2023
$16k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Maris S Cuneo Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
Food & NutritionEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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
FY20233$37k33%
FY20224$187k25%
FY20215$120k20%
FY20207$107k71%
FY20196$90k50%
FY20183$39k0%
FY20176$94kn/a
71% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Education$281kPhilanthropy$75kFood & Nutrition$73kHuman Services$32kInternational$10kArts & Culture$10kCrime & Legal$5kRecreation & Sports$500Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of Maris S Cuneo Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Alfred University$250,00030%
Some Inc$61,16320%
Jazz Foundation of America Inc$49,00041%
Mizzentop Day School$25,50021%
The Wvi Dolphin Foundation Inc$16,00025%
Musicals at Richter Inc$10,00018%
Henrik Lundqvist Foundation Inc$10,00013%
Sparrow's Nest of the Hudson Valley$7,00011%
National Policing Institute$5,00010%
Feeding America$5,00010%
The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations$3,70020%
Fordham Preparatory School$1,5001n/a

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($230k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Maris S Cuneo Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAlfred University: $250,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSome Inc: $61,163 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJazz Foundation of America Inc: $49,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMizzentop Day School: $25,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetThe Wvi Dolphin Foundation Inc: $16,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetMusicals at Richter Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetHenrik Lundqvist Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetSparrow's Nest of the Hudson Valley: $7,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNational Policing Institute: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $3,700 over 2y, 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 11.

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.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE6.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Maris S Cuneo Foundation

How much does Maris S Cuneo Foundation give?
Maris S Cuneo Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $37,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Maris S Cuneo Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (41%), Philanthropy (11%), Food & Nutrition (11%).
Who are Maris S Cuneo Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Alfred University ($250k), Some Inc ($61k), Jazz Foundation of America Inc ($49k).
Does Maris S Cuneo Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Maris S Cuneo 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 Maris S Cuneo Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Maris S Cuneo Foundation based?
Maris S Cuneo Foundation is based in CT.

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 18 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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