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Paluszek Family Foundation Inc

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.

$142k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$111k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$435kHealth$86kPublic Safety & Disaster$17kRecreation & Sports$13kHuman Services$11kYouth Development$10kCommunity Improvement$5kFood & Nutrition$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $111k
$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$62k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY$111,000
POLY PREP COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$12,000
360 ACADEMY SPORTS$2,500
MANHATTAN UNIVERSITY$2,000
OUR LADY OF CHARITY RC CHURCH$1,250
CARDINAL'S ANNUAL STEWARDSHIP APPEAL$1,000
NYU STERN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS$1,000
SCHOOL OF ST MARY'S$1,000
ST IGNATIUS SCHOOL$1,000
PROSTRATE CANCER FOUNDATION$1,000
JESUIT REFUGEE SERVICE$1,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING HOSPITAL$1,000
WEILL CORNELL HOSPITAL$1,000
RIDGEWOOD CC FOUNDATION$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
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 (FY25–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%COMPREHENSIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT: $1k → 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

IL
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CA
MD
NC
DC
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$558k · 26 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
11

Total granted

$558k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+220%

Still filing today

38%
18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationInternationalPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesOther
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

  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $235k · revenue +47%
  • PP
    POLY PREP COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
    8× · 2018–2025 · $83k · revenue +60%
  • PC
    PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION
    5× · 2018–2025 · $34k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • UM
    UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • PF
    Pennys Flight Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +220%
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
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
2
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
6
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
9
Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy

The parker institute for cancer immunotherapy's (pici) mission is to develop and accelerate access to breakthrough cancer therapies, curating innovation from discovery to patient access.

Health
10
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
11
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
12
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Inner City Scholarship Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is Pennys Flight Foundation Inc. 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

14 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. 14 of the 42 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $235,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYPOLY PREP COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $83,000 · EducationPOLY PREP COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL+1 more: $2,000 · EducationMANHATTAN COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $56,400 · OtherMANHATTAN COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP FUNDST MARY'S KENYA CHRISTIAN BROS CONF: $20,000 · OtherST MARY'S KENYA CHRISTIAN BROS CONFSCHOOL OF ST MARY'S: $13,500 · OtherSCHOOL OF ST MARY'STHE SILVER SHIELD FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 · OtherTHE SILVER SHIELD FOUNDATION INCMANHATTEN COLLEGE: $10,500 · OtherMANHATTEN COLLEGEUNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CEN: $9,500 · OtherCARDINAL'S ANNUAL STEWARDSHIP APPEAL: $7,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $7,000 · Other+22 more: $46,000 · Other+22 moreTHE CHILDREN'S HEARING INSTITUTE INC: $22,000 · HealthThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc: $9,000 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $5,000 · HealthPennys Flight Foundation Inc: $2,000 · HealthPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $34,000 · PhilanthropyCAPE FEAR HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $4,000 · Housing & ShelterREFUGEPOINT INC: $1,500 · InternationalCOMPREHENSIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC: $1,000 · Human Services
Education$320,000Other$190,900Health$38,000Philanthropy$34,000Housing & Shelter$4,000International$1,500Human Services$1,000

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 budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $235,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPOLY PREP COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $83,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $34,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HEARING INSTITUTE INC: $22,000 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetTHE SILVER SHIELD FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAPE FEAR HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPennys Flight Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetManhattan University: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEPOINT INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPREHENSIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds POLY PREP COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HEARING INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SILVER SHIELD FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc ↗
  • Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
  • Who funds INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds CAPE FEAR HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds Pennys Flight Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Manhattan University ↗
  • Who funds REFUGEPOINT INC ↗
  • Who funds COMPREHENSIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY ↗

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY14.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Paluszek Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Paluszek Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 42 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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