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Melissa and John V Ceriale Family Foundation Inc

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.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$4.7MHealth$1.8MArts & Culture$402kSocial Science$68kInternational$45kEnvironment$30kHuman Services$25kFood & Nutrition$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $157k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $300k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.3M
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JOHN & MELISSA S CERIALE CORNELL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION - DONOR ADVISED FUND$1,341,345
ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE$200,000
PALM BEACH CULTURAL INNOVATION CENTER INC$50,000
THEIR STORIES FOUNDATION$50,000
METROPOLITAN OPERA ASSOCIATION INC$30,000
JAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS$21,250
ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER$13,000
THE ALLIANCE FOR EATING DISORDERS AWARENESS$12,991
THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC$10,000
PALM BEACH CIVIC ASSOCIATION$10,000
BREAKING GROUND HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION$10,000
WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY$10,000
TIDES FOUNDATION$10,000
SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS$10,000
UNITED WAY OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC$10,000
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 (FY22–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 11%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL OF NEVADA INC: $10k → 13%GOOD NEIGHBORS COMMUNITY OUTREACH AGENCY INC: $10k → 28%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.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
NY
MA
NV
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
DC
TX
FL

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.4M · 15 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
22

Total granted

$5.4M
$339k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+17%

Still filing today

87%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesInternationalEnvironmentOther

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

  • Cornell University
    3× · 2021–2023 · $975k · revenue +23%
  • MM
    MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER
    5× · 2017–2024 · $949k · revenue +59%
  • NA
    NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR EATING DISORDERS INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $68k · revenue +165%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • TB
    THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCESgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $51k · revenue +52%
  • TM
    THE METROPOLITAN OPERA
    one grant, 2021 · $25k

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
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

—
5
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
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
7
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
8
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
9
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
10
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
11
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
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 The Aspen Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Their Stories Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Classical Music EnsemblesJewish Community FederationsFood Pantries & AssistanceCommunity Arts OrganizationsUnited Way FederationsAffordable Housing Developm…Domestic Violence Crisis Se…Fallen First Responder Supp…Developmental Disabilities …At-Risk Youth MentoringProfessional Ballet Compani…Government Accountability R…Land Conservation Organizat…Public University Foundatio…Community Health Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%5%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr19%24%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr16%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%4%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%1%10–20yr19%6%20–35yr13%5%35–55yr16%83%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/38
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,722

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

37 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 48 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
26/37
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JOHN & MELISSA S CERIALE CORNELL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $2,249,000 · OtherJOHN & MELISSA S CERIALE CORNELL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONJOHN & MELISSA S CERIALE CORNELL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION - DONOR ADVISED FUND — $1,341,345 · OtherJOHN & MELISSA S CERIALE CORNELL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION - DONOR ADVISED F…ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE — $759,150 · OtherALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE+20 more — $299,000 · Other+20 moreCornell University — $975,000 · EducationCornell Universit…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $50,000 · EducationTheir Stories Foundation Inc — $50,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION — $40,000 · Education+2 more — $15,000 · EducationMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER — $949,352 · HealthMONTEFIORE MEDI…NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR EATING DISORDERS INC — $67,991 · HealthNATIONAL ALLIAN…+2 more — $11,000 · HealthMetropolitan Opera Association Inc — $105,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES — $50,930 · Arts & CulturePALM BEACH CULTURAL INNOVATION CENTER — $50,000 · Arts & CultureJAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS — $48,250 · Arts & CultureThe Society of the Four Arts Inc — $30,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATRE ASPEN — $15,000 · Arts & CultureANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER — $13,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $67,500 · Social ScienceWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY — $40,000 · InternationalFAIR GIRLS INC — $5,000 · InternationalCoreGiving Co — $25,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Palm Beach County Inc — $10,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$4,648,495Education$1,130,000Health$1,028,343Arts & Culture$327,180Social Science$67,500International$45,000Philanthropy$45,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCornell University — $975,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER — $949,352 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc — $105,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR EATING DISORDERS INC — $67,991 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $67,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES — $50,930 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPALM BEACH CULTURAL INNOVATION CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTheir Stories Foundation Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetJAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS — $48,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY — $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Society of the Four Arts Inc — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCoreGiving Co — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPalm Beach Civic Association Inc — $25,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBREAKING GROUND HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHEATRE ASPEN — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER — $13,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetASPETUCK LAND TRUST — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGOOD NEIGHBORS COMMUNITY OUTREACH AGENCY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetUnited Way of Palm Beach County Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER PALM BEACH COUNTY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRothko Chapel — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget1199 SEIU HOME CARE INDUSTRY EDUCATION F — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAIR GIRLS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMIAMI CITY BALLET INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGE SNOW SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetABILIS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 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.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

National Philanthropi…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Charities Aid Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA12.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Melissa and John V Ceriale Family Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 28%
  • Abilis Inc — 74% of income from government
  • Aspetuck Land Trust — 28% of income from government
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
  • United Way of Palm Beach County Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Melissa and John V Ceriale Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Melissa and John V Ceriale Family Foundation Inc 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.

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 48 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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