· Private foundation
Neil & Sandra Defeo Family Foundati
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MANHATTAN COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| SARASOTA BALLET | $25,000 |
| STAMFORD HOSPITAL | $20,000 |
| FROST SCHOOL OF MUSIC | $10,000 |
| SELBY GARDENS | $10,000 |
| SARASOTA ORCHESTRA | $10,000 |
| SARASOTA OPERA | $10,000 |
| SPECIAL OPERATIONS FUND | $10,000 |
| HORIZONS AT CT STATE NORWALK | $10,000 |
| ASOLO REPERTORY THEATER | $5,000 |
| RINGLING MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| CONSERVATION FOUNDATION OF GULF | $3,000 |
| TODD MARTIN DEVELOPEMENT FUND | $3,000 |
| ST JUDE'S RESEARCH HOSPICAL | $2,000 |
| MOTE MARINE LABORATORY AND AQUARIUM | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 55% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
38 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MUManhattan University7× · 2017–2025 · $570k · revenue +2%
- PCPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2022 · $350k · revenue +57%
- SBSarasota Ballet of Florida Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $136k · revenue +131%
Funded once
- IUIONA UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +12%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $15k
- SHSTAMFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
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.
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.
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."
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
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.
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.
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Education, research, medical services and other public services.
As the region's leading safety net hospital, tampa general hospital is committed to providing area residents with excellent and compassionate health care ranging from the simplest to the most complex medical services. our shared purpose:…
How this is measured
35 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. 35 of the 53 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 The Stamford Hospital ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ASOLO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Big Waters Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
- Who funds Horizons at CT State Norwalk 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 TODD MARTIN DEVELOPMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds ROWAYTON CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORWALK LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROWAYTON ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING ↗
- Who funds SELAH FREEDOM INC ↗
- Who funds SHAKESPEARE ON THE SOUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Neil & Sandra Defeo Family Foundati funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Neil & Sandra Defeo Family Foundati. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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