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Maris S Cuneo Foundation at a glance

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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
2
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0171% 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
02FY2023 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $32k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$16k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Mizzentopp Day School$22,000
WVI Dolphin Foundation$10,000
National Policing Institute$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%Mizzentopp Day School: $22k → 9%New York Public Library: $3k → 17%Alfred University: $150k → 19%Fordham Preparatory School: $2k → 28%So Others Might Eat: $55k → 14%Hope Love Options: $3k → 9%Fans of Putnam Park: $500 → 9%National Policing Institute: $5k → 7%Mizzentopp Day School: $4k → 9%New York Public Library: $1k → 17%Alfred University: $50k → 19%So Others Might Eat: $6k → 14%Musicals at Richter: $10k → 9%Sparrows Nest: $7k → 9%Catholic Charities of New York: $30k → 17%Alfred University: $50k → 19%National Archives: $75k → 14%Catholic Charities of New York: $2k → 17%National Archives: $35k → 14%Ireland Funds America: $10k → 17%National Archives: $25k → 14%The Met: $5k → 17%National Archives: $25k → 14%The Met: $2k → 17%National Archives: $25k → 14%The Met: $2k → 17%The Met: $2k → 17%WVI Dolphin Foundation: $10k → 17%WVI Dolphin Foundation: $6k → 17%Hendrik Lindqvist Foundation: $10k → 17%Jazz Foundation of America: $30k → 17%Jazz Foundation of America: $10k → 17%Jazz Foundation of America: $6k → 17%Jazz Foundation of America: $3k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$632k · 9 repeat orgs$42k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
7

Total granted

$632k
$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+54%

Still filing today

67%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionArts & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • AU
    ALFRED UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2019–2022 · $250k · revenue +18%
  • MD
    MIZZENTOP DAY SCHOOL
    2× · 2017–2023 · $26k · revenue +225%
  • TN
    The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations
    2× · 2017–2018 · $4k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • MA
    MUSICALS AT RICHTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +123%
  • HL
    HENRIK LUNDQVIST FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +6%
  • SN
    SPARROW'S NEST OF THE HUDSON VALLEYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +54%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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4
Npr International Operations Inc

Npr international operations, inc. ("nprio") supports the international newsgathering activities of national public radio, inc. through bureaus and offices established locally in foreign countries.

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5
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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6
America's Newspapers

Providing research, education and practical information all aimed at optimizing newspapers' business operations, deepening their community engagement and enhancing the quality of their journalism.

Employment
7
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation

Through philanthropy, empower current and future food and nutrition practitioners to optimize global health.

Health
8
Kqed Inc

See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…

Arts & Culture
9
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
10
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
11
National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

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12
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mizzentop Day School; the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. 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

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $185,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSOME INC: $61,163 · OtherSOME INCCatholic Charities of New York: $32,000 · OtherCatholic Charities of New York+6 more: $29,500 · Other+6 moreALFRED UNIVERSITY: $250,000 · EducationALFRED UNIVERSITYMIZZENTOP DAY SCHOOL: $25,500 · EducationMIZZENTOP DAY SCHOOL+1 more: $3,700 · EducationJazz Foundation of America Inc: $49,000 · PhilanthropyJazz Foundat…THE WVI DOLPHIN FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 · PhilanthropyTHE WVI DOLP…HENRIK LUNDQVIST FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyHENRIK LUNDQ…SPARROW'S NEST OF THE HUDSON VALLEY: $7,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding America: $5,000 · Food & NutritionMUSICALS AT RICHTER INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$307,663Education$279,200Philanthropy$75,000Food & Nutrition$12,000Arts & Culture$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetTHE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS): $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Maris S Cuneo Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maris S Cuneo Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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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