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Paragano Family Foundation Inc 5484-05-42

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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
49
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Health$1.2MArts & Culture$942kEducation$496kInternational$187kPublic Safety & Disaster$160kHousing & Shelter$123kEnvironment$117kReligion$83kOther$0
02FY2025 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k29 grants · $430k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $621k
$10,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$8.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
South Street Theater Company Inc$200,000
From The Heart Productions Inc$150,000
Mayo Clinic$100,000
Trustees of Newark Academy$62,500
Morristown Memorial Health Foundation$58,250
Overlook Foundation$50,000
Save the Music Foundation$25,000
California Community Foundation$25,000
World Central Kitchen Inc$25,000
Broadway Cares$25,000
Pasadena Humane Society$25,000
Morris Habitat for Humanity$20,000
The University of Texas Foundation$20,000
Villanova University$20,000
Texas Childrens Hospital$15,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–22, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%The Kindness Project: $10k → 11%The Center for Family Support Foundation: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MT
MN
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
TN
SC
DC
HI
GA
TX
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% of Paragano Family Foundation Inc 5484-05-42’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Paragano Family Foundation Inc 5484-05-42lessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.0M · 36 repeat orgs$470k to everyone else

36 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
27

Total granted

$3.0M
$229k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+8%

Still filing today

75%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $241k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationInternationalAnimalsArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther

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

  • SS
    SOUTH STREET THEATER COMPANY INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $680k · revenue +74%
  • NA
    NEWARK ACADEMY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $243k · revenue +27%
  • OF
    OVERLOOK FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2025 · $110k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • DU
    DREW UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $34k · revenue -1%
  • WM
    WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +12%
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -2%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

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

Health
3
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
4
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
5
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
6
Stony Brook Orthopedic 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
7
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
8
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
9
St Francis Hospital Foundation Inc

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health
10
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
11
St Charles Hospital Foundation

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

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12
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Coccia Foundation Coccia Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Arts CentersCommunity FoundationsCommunity College Foundatio…Affordable Housing Construc…Food Banks and PantriesDomestic Violence ServicesPublic Library OperationsPregnancy Support ServicesAnimal Rescue and ShelterChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Affordable Housing Developm…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Independent K-12 SchoolsVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Lgbtq+ Community SupportFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Cancer Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr16%34%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr16%38%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%33%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/56
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,509

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.

05the grantee network

56 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. 56 of the 76 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/56
Grantees still filing
34/56
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Mayo Clinic — $300,000 · OtherMayo ClinicMorristown Memorial Health Foundation — $273,000 · OtherMorristown Memorial Health FoundationShepherds of Youth — $182,500 · OtherShepherds of YouthSAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION — $75,000 · OtherBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC — $60,000 · OtherTRUE COLORS UNITED INC — $70,000 · Other+33 more — $467,973 · Other+33 moreSOUTH STREET THEATER COMPANY INC — $680,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH STREET THEATER COMPA…From The Heart Productions — $150,000 · Arts & CultureFrom The Heart ProductionsWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureMAYO CLINIC — $200,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICOVERLOOK FOUNDATION — $110,000 · HealthOVERLOOK FOUNDA…MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $71,000 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-…Cure Sanfilippo Foundation — $50,000 · HealthCure Sanfilippo…CHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION — $50,000 · HealthCHRISTOPHER REE…+7 more — $29,500 · Health+7 moreNEWARK ACADEMY — $242,500 · EducationNEWARK ACADEM…COUNTY COLLEGE OF MORRIS FOUNDATION — $91,000 · EducationCOUNTY COLLEG…VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY — $45,000 · EducationVILLANOVA UNI…DREW UNIVERSITY — $33,500 · EducationDREW UNIVERSI…FAR HILLS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $16,500 · Education+4 more — $25,000 · Education+4 moreMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $65,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $55,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $51,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC — $20,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF — $15,000 · International+1 more — $6,000 · InternationalBERNARDSVILLE FIRE COMPANY — $90,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · Public Safety & DisasterCOCCIA FOUNDATION COCCIA FOUNDATION — $50,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $25,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY — $3,500 · Philanthropy+1 more — $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,428,473Arts & Culture$860,000Health$510,500Education$453,500International$242,000Public Safety & Disaster$105,000Philanthropy$79,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSOUTH STREET THEATER COMPANY INC — $680,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetNEWARK ACADEMY — $242,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOVERLOOK FOUNDATION — $110,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCOUNTY COLLEGE OF MORRIS FOUNDATION — $91,000 over 4y, 9.1% of budgetBERNARDSVILLE FIRE COMPANY — $90,000 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetSAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $71,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUE COLORS UNITED INC — $70,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $65,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $51,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCure Sanfilippo Foundation — $50,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOCCIA FOUNDATION COCCIA FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY — $45,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMORRIS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDREW UNIVERSITY — $33,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAR HILLS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $16,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNION COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $13,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc — $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDowntown Bernardsville Inc Main Street Bernardsville — $12,500 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetJERSEY BATTERED WOMEN'S SERVICE INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE KINDNESS PROJECT — $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROWARD CHILDRENS CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEVA'S VILLAGE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRI-COUNTY SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR FAMILY SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOCKS OF LOVE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE BERNARDSVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE BERNARDS TOWNSHIP LIBRARY — $2,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Chubb Charitable Foun…Community Foundation …The Pfizer Foundation…The Blackbaud Giving …Verizon FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Morgan Stanley Global…Network for Good
Chubb Charitable FoundationPA17.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chubb Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Verizon Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good

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 Paragano Family Foundation Inc 5484-05-42 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 19%
  • Downtown Bernardsville Inc Main Street Bernardsville — 100% of income from government
  • Christopher Reeve Foundation — 49% of income from government
  • Jersey Battered Women's Service Inc — 40% of income from government
  • Eva's Village Inc — 19% of income from government
  • Broward Childrens Center Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Drew University — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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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Find your warmest path to Paragano Family Foundation Inc 5484-05-42 through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 76 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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