· Public charity
National Italian American Foundationinc
The national italian american foundation (niaf) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan educational foundation that promotes italian american culture and heritage.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $105,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $969,854 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $864,354 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $92k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LA SCUOLA D'ITALIA GUGLIELMO MARCONI | $25,000 |
| ITALIAN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF LOS ANGELES | $15,000 |
| COLLEGE LIFE ITALIA LLC DBA ROME CITY INSTITUTE | $12,000 |
| ITALIAN WELFARE LEAGUE | $10,000 |
| NEW YORK COUNCIL NAVY LEAGUE OF THE UNITED STATES DBA USS JOHN BASILONE | $10,000 |
| ARLINGTON MUSEUM OF ART | $10,000 |
| J ALEXANDER PRODUCTIONS | $10,000 |
| ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL | $7,500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE JOHN D CALANDRA INSTITUTE | $6,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
Grants abroad, by region — $541k on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 1 region, $512k to organizations and $29k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: GRANT TO PARCO ARCHEOLOGICO DI POMPEII FOR EXCAVATIONS · GRANT FOR "OPERA FOR YOUR SOUL: A SERENADE AT SUNSET" · 2024 NIAF/DE LAURENTIIS FILM PRIZES PROGRAM GRANT
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 15% of National Italian American Foundationinc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 8% of the giving stays in DC; read by stated purpose it is 4% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
Lectures and events on italian culture
To spread italian culture in united states by organizing exhibitions, shows, displays of paitntings, sculptures and other visual arts in the united states and promoting the restoration of works of art in italy in order to preserve and…
The interest of teachers of the italian language
To research, collect, and display works of italian and italian-american artists, and to promote educational programs for the appreciation of italian art and culture, thereby preserving the heritages of italian-americans for future…
To offer italian language classes and promote the italian culture in northern califorina and beyond
To preserve the history and heritage of the italian-american community
None
Celebrate italian heritage and culture among italian americans and intercultural understanding & appreciation among all ethnic groups
To plan, promote, and carry on charitable, educational, and cultural activities which will best serve the welfare of the community at large.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sons of Italy Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Arlington Museum of Art 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.
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 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 8% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
26 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CHILDHELP INC ↗
- Who funds LA SCUOLA D ITALIA-GUGLIELMO MARCONI ↗
- Who funds ITALIAN WELFARE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HISTORIC ITALIAN HALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE JOHN D CALANDRA ITALIAN AMERICAN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS CITIZENS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Arlington Museum of Art Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FRIENDS VERDERAME INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCH ASSN OF WASHINGTON DC ↗
- Who funds SONS OF ITALY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK COUNCIL NAVY LEAGUE OF THE UNITED STATES INC ↗
- Who funds MID SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Il Circolo Inc ↗
- Who funds FISHERMANS FEAST OF BOSTON INC ↗
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.
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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 National Italian American Foundationinc 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.
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.