· Private foundation
Nonna's Garden
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 $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $775k
- $250k+6 grants · $10M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $4,000,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN NYC | $2,100,000 |
| NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC | $2,000,000 |
| WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE | $1,000,000 |
| ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY | $1,000,000 |
| HOLY CROSS HIGH SCHOOL OF BAYSIDE | $250,000 |
| THE UCF FOUNDATION INC | $200,000 |
| ST THOMAS MORE CHURCH | $100,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY | $100,000 |
| ARCHDIOCESE FOR MILITARY SERVICES USA | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC | $75,000 |
| NEW VOCATIONS | $50,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $50,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR FOSTER CHILDREN INC | $50,000 |
| UPWARD CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $338k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% 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
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 7 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M 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
- SJST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK4× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +12%
- NVNEW VOCATIONS RACEHORSE ADOPTION6× · 2017–2024 · $365k · revenue +193%
- FUFordham University4× · 2020–2023 · $250k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $250k
- MIMountainCare Incone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -16%
- PFPKD Foundationone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +23%
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.
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To define and advance quality, effective, equitable, and accessible cancer care and prevention so all people can live better lives.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.
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Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
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…
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
To help conquer cancer and other diseases through the application of biostatistical principles and innovative data management methods.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Earthjustice. 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 34 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
72 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. 72 of the 131 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 THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW VOCATIONS RACEHORSE ADOPTION ↗
- Who funds Fordham University ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Cure Childhood Cancer Inc ↗
- Who funds VARIETY CHILD LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds MountainCare Inc ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR FOSTER CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds PKD Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE PHILIP MORGAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF LEARNERS AND LEADERS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ERIC AYALA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOODWARD ACADEMY 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: AbbVie Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Synchrony Foundation · American Express Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Equitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Lavin Family Foundation · Philabundance · Chubb Charitable 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 Nonna's Garden 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.
- York Street Project — 32% of income from government
- Harbor House of Central Florida Inc — 24% of income from government
- Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida Inc — 2% of income from government
- The 11TH Hour Animal Rescue Inc T/a Eleventh Hour Animal Rescue — 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.