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Michael and Suzanne Carusillo Charitable Foundation

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.

$310k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 73% of MICHAEL AND SUZANNE CARUSILLO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’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 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$471k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Mayo Clinic$200,000
Marist High School$50,000
Saint Nicholas Cathedral School$25,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Pine Valley Tuition Support Fund$10,000
Illinois PGA Foundation$7,100
NIU Foundation$5,000
University of North Florida Men's Golf$2,500
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 (FY17–23, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%USTA Northern: $3k → 6%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $5k → 15%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

VT
MN
IL
NY
IN
CA
KY
GA
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$738k · 7 repeat orgs$167k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +142% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
17

Total granted

$738k
$120k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+142%
+12%

Still filing today

14%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentPhilanthropyInternationalOther

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

  • MC
    Mayo Clinic
    2× · 2024–2025 · $400k
  • MH
    MARIST HIGH SCHOOL
    6× · 2017–2025 · $200k
  • SN
    St Nicholas Cathedral School
    2× · 2022–2023 · $75k

Funded once

  • PA
    President and Fellows of Middlebury College
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +12%
  • CL
    CEDAR LAKE ENCHANCEMENT ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • NY
    NEW YORK YANKEES FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue ×15

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 Neuberger Berman Foundation
Philanthropy
2
The Nfg Foundation
3
The Nicholls Biondi Foundation
Philanthropy
4
University Foundation
5
The Babinski Foundation
Animals
6
Stanbridge University Foundation
Education
7
North State Foundation
Philanthropy
8
University of South Florida Foundation Inc

University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…

Education
9
Schnitzer-Novack Foundation
Philanthropy
10
The Sudbury Foundation
11
The Ennoble Foundation
Education
12
Norton Simon Art Foundation

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of North Florida Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nib Foundation. 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

13 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. 13 of the 29 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Mayo Clinic — $400,000 · OtherMayo ClinicMARIST HIGH SCHOOL — $200,000 · OtherMARIST HIGH SCHOOLSt Nicholas Cathedral School — $75,000 · OtherSt Nicholas Cathedral SchoolGABRIEL HOUSE OF CARE — $29,850 · Other+14 more — $97,050 · Other+14 moreMAYO CLINIC — $200,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College — $50,000 · EducationBUTLER NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $5,000 · EducationSavannah College of Art and DesignInc — $3,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 · EducationCEDAR LAKE ENCHANCEMENT ASSOCIATION INC — $15,000 · EnvironmentSAVE PONTE VEDRA BEACH INC — $1,000 · EnvironmentTHESSALONICA AGRICULTURAL & INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE (THE AMERICAN FARM SCHOOL) — $15,000 · InternationalBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesUSTA Northern — $2,500 · Human ServicesTHE JIM AND TABITHA FURYK FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$801,900Health$200,000Education$60,000Environment$16,000International$15,000Human Services$7,500Philanthropy$5,000

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 budgetMAYO CLINIC — $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHESSALONICA AGRICULTURAL & INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE (THE AMERICAN FARM SCHOOL) — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCEDAR LAKE ENCHANCEMENT ASSOCIATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetNEW YORK YANKEES FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTHE JIM AND TABITHA FURYK FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBUTLER NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSavannah College of Art and DesignInc — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUSTA Northern — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA3.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Michael and Suzanne Carusillo Charitable Foundation 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
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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 29 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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