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Michael and Suzanne Carusillo Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$631kEducation$385kRecreation & Sports$28kInternational$15kPhilanthropy$15kYouth Development$10kFood & Nutrition$5kEnvironment$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

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:

Its 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 its 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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MN
IL
NY
IN
CA
KY
GA
FL
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +142% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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
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

  • 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
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
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
—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of North Florida Foundation Inc; 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 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. 13 of the 29 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.

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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 first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Michael and Suzanne Carusillo Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michael and Suzanne Carusillo Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% 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, 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 29 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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