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Neil & Sandra Defeo Family Foundati
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $113k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MANHATTAN COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| SARASOTA BALLET | $25,000 |
| STAMFORD HOSPITAL | $23,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| FROST SCHOOL OF MUSIC | $10,000 |
| HORIZONS AT CT STATE NORWALK | $10,000 |
| SARASOTA ORCHESTRA | $10,000 |
| SARASOTA OPERA | $10,000 |
| SPECIAL OPERATIONS FUND | $10,000 |
| CONSERVATION FOUNDATION OF GULF | $5,000 |
| ASOLO REPERTORY THEATER | $5,000 |
| TODD MARTIN DEVELOPEMENT FUND | $3,000 |
| RINGLING MUSEUM | $3,000 |
| SELBY GARDENS | $2,500 |
| MOTE MARINE LABORATORY AND AQUARIUM | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 55% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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
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.
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.
37 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MUManhattan University6× · 2017–2024 · $470k · revenue +2%
- PCPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2022 · $350k · revenue +57%
- SBSarasota Ballet of Florida Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $111k · revenue +131%
Funded once
- IUIONA UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +12%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +46%
- SHSTAMFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Sura's mission is to advance collaborative research and education and to strengthen the scientific capabilities of its members and our nation.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mote Marine Laboratory 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 39 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 — 0.0% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 53 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.
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 Manhattan University ↗
- Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Sarasota Ballet of Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds Sarasota Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Special Operations Fund ↗
- Who funds IONA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ASOLO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Big Waters Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds The Stamford Hospital ↗
- Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL TENNIS HALL OF FAME INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc ↗
- Who funds Horizons at CT State Norwalk Inc ↗
- Who funds TODD MARTIN DEVELOPMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROWAYTON CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORWALK LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING ↗
- Who funds SELAH FREEDOM INC ↗
- Who funds ROWAYTON ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds SHAKESPEARE ON THE SOUND INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY 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.
Open a dossier: Ibm International Foundation · The Dave Hokin Foundation · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · The Arthur S Karp Family Foundation Inc · Konstantin Family Foundation · The Goodnow Fund · William G and Marie Selby Foundation Inc · The Huisking Foundation Inc · Horizon Foundation Inc · Cornelia T Bailey Charitable Trust · Manatee Community Foundation Inc
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 Neil & Sandra Defeo Family Foundati 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.
- Selah Freedom Inc — 53% of income from government
- Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc — 23% of income from government
- The Open Door Shelter Inc — 14% of income from government
- Center for Childrens Advocacy Inc — 5% of income from government
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Westport Country Playhouse Inc — 2% of income from government
- Rowayton Arts Center — 0% of income from government
- Darien Nature Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Stamford Hospital — 0% of income from government
- The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc — 0% of income from government
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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