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Molinini Family 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.

$44k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 10
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$997k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Molinini Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesReligionYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving8$44k25%
FY20247$53k0%
FY20239$53k22%
FY20226$66k0%
FY202110$59k20%
FY20209$68k0%
FY20199$48k56%
FY201810$36k20%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$234kYouth Development$69kHealth$42kInternational$40kEducation$35kHuman Services$23kFood & Nutrition$20kCommunity Improvement$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
PA
CO
MO
VA
MD
NC
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Little Lights Urban Ministries Inc$46,00071%
Samaritan's Purse$40,00070%
The Barn at Spring Brook Farm Inc$36,00072%
St Mark Catholic Church$27,0006n/a
Urban Ministries of Wake County Inc$20,00030%
Catholic Charities USA$18,0004n/a
Bishop Oconnell High School$15,0003n/a
National Capital Area Council Boy Scouts of America$15,00030%
Outer Banks Relief Foundation Inc$15,00031%
Cardinal Gibbons Memorial High School$13,0003n/a
Show all 24 grantees
All grantees of Molinini Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Little Lights Urban Ministries Inc$46,00071%
Samaritan's Purse$40,00070%
The Barn at Spring Brook Farm Inc$36,00072%
St Mark Catholic Church$27,0006n/a
Urban Ministries of Wake County Inc$20,00030%
Catholic Charities USA$18,0004n/a
Bishop Oconnell High School$15,0003n/a
National Capital Area Council Boy Scouts of America$15,00030%
Outer Banks Relief Foundation Inc$15,00031%
Cardinal Gibbons Memorial High School$13,0003n/a
Celebrate Rva$6,00022%
St James Service Club Inc$5,00014%
Project Enlightenment Foundation$5,000113%
Cary Ballet Company$4,00022%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Triangle$3,00010%
Receptions for Research the Greg Olsen Foundation$3,00010%
Outer Banks Dementia Friendly Coalition$2,00011%
Hill Country Youth Ranch$2,00010%
The Carying Place Inc$2,00010%
Rainbow Division Veterans Memorial Foundation Inc$2,00014%
Accessible Coastal Carolina Events$1,00010%
Paws With A Cause$1,00010%
Helphopelive Inc$1,00010%
Samara's Village Inc$1,00011%

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($192k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Molinini Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLittle Lights Urban Ministries Inc: $46,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $40,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Barn at Spring Brook Farm Inc: $36,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetUrban Ministries of Wake County Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNational Capital Area Council Boy Scouts of America: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOuter Banks Relief Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCelebrate Rva: $6,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetSt James Service Club Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetProject Enlightenment Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCary Ballet Company: $4,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of the Triangle: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetReceptions for Research the Greg Olsen Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOuter Banks Dementia Friendly Coalition: $2,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetHill Country Youth Ranch: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Carying Place Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRainbow Division Veterans Memorial Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetAccessible Coastal Carolina Events: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPaws With A Cause: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHelphopelive Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSamara's Village Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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.

Duke Energy FoundationNC15.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Duke Energy Foundation · Carolina Hurricanes Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Greater Washington Community Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Verizon Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc

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.

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About Molinini Family Foundation

How much does Molinini Family Foundation give?
Molinini Family Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $44,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Molinini Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (49%), Youth Development (15%), Health (9%).
Who are Molinini Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Little Lights Urban Ministries Inc ($46k), Samaritan's Purse ($40k), The Barn at Spring Brook Farm Inc ($36k).
Does Molinini Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Molinini Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Molinini Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Duke Energy Foundation, Carolina Hurricanes Foundation, Triangle Community Foundation Inc.
Where is Molinini Family Foundation based?
Molinini Family Foundation is based in NC.

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 30 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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