· Private foundation
Mary and Ralph Gesualdo Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
53% of Mary and Ralph Gesualdo Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Mayo Clinic, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 11 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Mary and Ralph Gesualdo Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $731k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k5 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $190k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $525k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Loyola Academy | $125,000 |
| Mayo Clinic | $125,000 |
| Lurie Children's Hospital | $100,000 |
| Evans Scholars Foundation | $100,000 |
| Clearbrook | $75,000 |
| Northern Illinois Food Bank | $25,000 |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $25,000 |
| Mercy Home | $20,000 |
| St Jude's Children Hospital | $20,000 |
| Journey's - The Road Home | $20,000 |
| Miracle Messages | $20,000 |
| Covenant House | $15,000 |
| Save The Children | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Green City Market | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $209k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against -9% for those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCLEARBROOK4× · 2020–2024 · $145k · revenue +60%
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY3× · 2020–2023 · $105k · revenue +17%- NINORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK4× · 2020–2024 · $85k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- BHBaptist Health South Florida Incone grant, 2022 · $125k · revenue -20%
- NMNorthwestern Memorial Foundationone grant, 2022 · $50k
- CHChildren's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundationone grant, 2022 · $35k · 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.
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.
To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.
The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…
To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.
To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 44 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds CLEARBROOK ↗
- Who funds Baptist Health South Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds Cristo Rey St Martin College Prep ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO'S GREEN CITY MARKET PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds PADS TO HOPE DBA-JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE MESSAGES ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Thurgood Marshall College Fund ↗
- Who funds Role Model Movement Inc (NFP) ↗
- Who funds BISSELL Pet Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BACK ON MY FEET ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds Mothers Trust Foundation ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Helen V Brach Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mary and Ralph Gesualdo Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary and Ralph Gesualdo Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
How this is measured
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