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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.

$11M
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$4.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$28MEducation$14MReligion$1.8MHuman Services$789kAnimals$468kPhilanthropy$375kMembership Benefit$202kRecreation & Sports$149kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $775k
  • $250k+6 grants · $10M
$50,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$73M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY$1,000,000
WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE$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
FOUNDATION FOR FOSTER CHILDREN INC$50,000
UPWARD CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP$50,000
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ISLAND HARVEST: $15k → 7%SUNRISE DAY CAMP: $3k → 11%ONE SIMPLE WISH: $20k → 11%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $20k → 15%ISLAND HARVEST: $15k → 7%PEACE HOUSE: $25k → 5%HOSPICE OF THE CALUMET AREA: $35k → 15%LITTLE BROTHERS - FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY: $15k → 14%LONG ISLAND CARES: $5k → 7%MATTIE N DIXON COMMUNITY CUPBOARD INC: $5k → 7%ISLAND HARVEST: $5k → 7%FOUNDATION FOR FOSTER CHILDREN INC: $50k → 13%SHARING CONNECTIONS: $15k → 7%COVENANT HOUSE: $5k → 17%FOUNDATION FOR FOSTER CHILDREN INC: $50k → 13%LIFT DISABILITY NETWORK: $25k → 13%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $30k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
NC
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$33M · 26 repeat orgs$5.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
94

Total granted

$33M
$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+22%

Still filing today

50%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationAnimalsPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SJ
    ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK
    4× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +12%
  • NV
    NEW VOCATIONS RACEHORSE ADOPTION
    6× · 2017–2024 · $365k · revenue +193%
  • FU
    Fordham University
    4× · 2020–2023 · $250k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $250k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • MI
    MountainCare Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -16%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Personal Care Products Council Foundation Inc

The foundation is set up to deliver one program - look good feel better. the mission of this nationwide program is to improve the quality of life of women, men, and teens undergoing cancer treatment by offering advice on how to cope with…

Health
2
National Comprehensive Cancer Network

To define and advance quality, effective, equitable, and accessible cancer care and prevention so all people can live better lives.

Health
3
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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,…

Health
4
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
5
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis

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.

Human Services
6
City of Hope

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

Health
7
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

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…

Food & Nutrition
8
University of New Haven

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…

Education
9
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

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.

Health
10
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
11
Cancer Research and Biostatistics

To help conquer cancer and other diseases through the application of biostatistical principles and innovative data management methods.

Health
12
Patient Access Network Foundation

As a leading charitable foundation and healthcare advocacy organization, the pan foundation is dedicated to accelerating access to treatment for those who need it most and empowering patients on their healthcare journeys. we provide…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America; 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.
04the grantee network

72 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. 72 of the 131 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/72
Grantees still filing
53/72
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $23,075,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTERHOLY CROSS HIGH SCHOOL OF BAYSIDE: $2,225,000 · OtherHOLY CROSS HIGH SCHOOL OF BAYSIDEWEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE: $2,000,000 · OtherWEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE+81 more: $4,181,370 · Other+81 moreTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $9,226,061 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNI…ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK: $1,650,000 · EducationST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YOR…UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $400,000 · Education+5 more: $570,000 · EducationNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $2,000,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $175,000 · HealthCure Childhood Cancer Inc: $175,000 · HealthMountainCare Inc: $100,000 · Health+9 more: $212,000 · HealthNEW VOCATIONS RACEHORSE ADOPTION: $365,400 · AnimalsSECOND CHANCE RESCUE INC: $35,000 · AnimalsTHE 11TH HOUR ANIMAL RESCUE INC T/A ELEVENTH HOUR ANIMAL RESCUE: $17,500 · AnimalsPAWTCAKE REFUGE INC: $17,500 · Animals+1 more: $15,000 · AnimalsTHE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $200,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PHILIP MORGAN FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $35,000 · PhilanthropyALL-IN TO FIGHT CANCER: $20,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR FOSTER CHILDREN INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesISLAND HARVEST LTD: $35,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF THE CALUMET AREA INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesLIFT DISABILITY NETWORK INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesPeace House Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesONE SIMPLE WISH INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesLITTLE BROTHERS - FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY: $15,000 · Human ServicesSHARING CONNECTIONS INC: $15,000 · Human Services+4 more: $17,918 · Human ServicesNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER: $75,000 · Recreation & SportsTOGETHER WE RISE: $20,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$31,481,370Education$11,846,061Health$2,662,000Animals$450,400Philanthropy$365,000Human Services$337,918Recreation & Sports$95,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $9,226,061 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $2,000,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK: $1,650,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $400,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNEW VOCATIONS RACEHORSE ADOPTION: $365,400 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetFordham University: $250,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $175,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCure Childhood Cancer Inc: $175,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetVARIETY CHILD LEARNING CENTER: $145,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR FOSTER CHILDREN INC: $100,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetMountainCare Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetPKD Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE PHILIP MORGAN FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 90% of budgetNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER: $75,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF LEARNERS AND LEADERS: $75,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetWOODWARD ACADEMY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF RACING INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOMORROW'S HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 3y, 64% of budgetNAMI National: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Liver Foundation: $35,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetISLAND HARVEST LTD: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND CHANCE RESCUE INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE CALUMET AREA INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UMBRELLA CLUB INC: $35,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetCOLON CANCER COALITION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNATIONAL COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $30,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetZERO PROSTATE CANCER: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFT DISABILITY NETWORK INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetPeace House Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTOGETHER WE RISE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYORK STREET PROJECT: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALL-IN TO FIGHT CANCER: $20,000 over 1y, 62% of budgetEXPERIENCE CAMPS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetONE SIMPLE WISH INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetORBIT THEATRICAL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetTHE 11TH HOUR ANIMAL RESCUE INC T/A ELEVENTH HOUR ANIMAL RESCUE: $17,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMUTTY PAWS RESCUE: $17,500 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetPAWTCAKE REFUGE INC: $17,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE BROTHERS - FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMOUNTAINEER FOOD BANK INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN TRAILS FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budget
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 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 FOUNDATION FOR FOSTER CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds MountainCare Inc ↗
  • Who funds PKD Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE PHILIP MORGAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF LEARNERS AND LEADERS ↗
  • Who funds WOODWARD ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF RACING INC ↗
  • Who funds ERIC AYALA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION 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.

AbbVie FoundationThe Blackbaud Giving …Synchrony FoundationAmerican Express Foun…Arthur J Gallagher Fo…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Equitable Foundation …The Pfizer Foundation…The Robert Wood Johns…Lavin Family Foundati…PhilabundanceChubb Charitable Foun…
AbbVie FoundationIL17.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Nonna's Garden funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nonna's Garden. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 24%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 131 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home