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Needy but Not Greedy Nancy L Amato and Robert a Amato Foundation

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.

$180k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NADABURG EDUCATION FOUNDATION$10,000
STEPPING STONE SHELTER$10,000
500 TURKEYS$10,000
CLAIRE PARKER FOUNDATION$10,000
HART PANTRY$10,000
RAISING MEN AND WOMEN LAWN CARE SERVICE$10,000
MAKS CORP$10,000
THE GARDEN HOUSE FOUNDATION$10,000
ZURIS CIRCLE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
THE MAGIC YARN PROJECT$10,000
OUR GREATER GOOD$10,000
C A S T FOR KIDS$10,000
FAMILY PROMISE OF PORTER COUNTY$10,000
MPOWRD$10,000
02The need
02

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MAKS CORP: $10k → 9%THE GARDEN HOUSE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%ZURIS CIRCLE: $10k → 11%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.

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 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
Pretty Passionate Hands Inc

Pretty Passionate Hands Inc. is a charitable organization dedicated to supporting teen parents and vulnerable youth through education, mentorship, and life-skills development. The organization provides parenting education, financial…

Community Improvement
2
Positive Direction for Youth and Families Inc

Our mission is to embrace, empower, and equip youth and families. Our goal is to Alleviate hunger and homelessness through a variety programming including an emergency food pantry, resource center, and community garden.

Religion
3
Growing Roots

Strengthening communities through building and maintaining urban farms and gardens in Southern California.

Food & Nutrition
4
Helping Hands 4 Kids

Our organization helps families and children with tangible support throughout the year. Our funds go directly to providing food, clothing, basic living needs, backpacks and other things they need to help them get through their day. Each…

Community Improvement
5
Warren Grown
6
The Food Drive Kids Inc

To Fight Childhood Hunger through engaging kids

Philanthropy
7
Kids with Kindness Inc

Do acts of kindness for the community.

8
Zoo-Nye Closet
Human Services
9
Goodness and Kidness Foundcorp

Food pantry

Youth Development
10
The Baby Pantry Inc

The Baby Pantry was founded to help mothers in need by providing them the necessities for their newborn children. After the birth of my first child, I got a taste of how it felt to face the difficult challenge of financially supporting a…

Human Services
11
My Foster Kids Foundation Inc

Provide help to Foster Kids

12
Mckinney Roots Inc

Growing and donating fresh food for those in need. Donated 5000 pounds of fruits and vegetables.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 500 Turkeys Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hart Pantry. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 18 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
1/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

STEPPING STONE SHELTER — $10,000 · OtherSTEPPING STONE SHELTERIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNIQUELY NICO INC — $10,000 · OtherUNIQUELY NICO INCC A S T FOR KIDS — $10,000 · OtherC A S T FOR KIDSNADABURG EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · OtherNADABURG EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCTHE MAGIC YARN PROJECT — $10,000 · OtherTHE MAGIC YARN PROJECTFAMILY PROMISE OF PORTER COUNTY INC — $10,000 · OtherFAMILY PROMISE OF PORTER COUNTY INCRAISING MEN LAWN CARE INC — $10,000 · OtherRAISING MEN LAWN CARE INCAZ FAITH AND FAMILIES — $10,000 · OtherAZ FAITH AND FAMILIESGARDEN HOUSE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Human ServicesGARDEN HOUSE FOUND…ZURI CIRCLE — $10,000 · Human ServicesZURI CIRCLEMAKS — $10,000 · Human ServicesMAKSTEEN ADDICTION ANONYMOUS — $10,000 · HealthTEEN ADDICTI…THE CLAIRE PARKER FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · HealthTHE CLAIRE P…HART PANTRY — $10,000 · Food & NutritionHART PANTRY500 TURKEYS INC — $10,000 · Food & Nutrition500 TURKEYS …Our Greater Good Incorporated — $10,000 · Community ImprovementROTHENBERG ROOFTOP GARDEN — $10,000 · Education
Other$90,000Human Services$30,000Health$20,000Food & Nutrition$20,000Community Improvement$10,000Education$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100kgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGARDEN HOUSE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetOur Greater Good Incorporated — $10,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetROTHENBERG ROOFTOP GARDEN — $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetZURI CIRCLE — $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTHE CLAIRE PARKER FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetHART PANTRY — $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetMAKS — $10,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetRAISING MEN LAWN CARE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budget500 TURKEYS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 13% 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.

The Robert & Nancy Amato Foundation IncFL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Robert & Nancy Amato Foundation 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 Needy but Not Greedy Nancy L Amato and Robert a Amato 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

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    Find your warmest path to Needy but Not Greedy Nancy L Amato and Robert a Amato Foundation 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 18 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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