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Pat and Nancy Esposito Foundation Inc at a glance

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Pat and Nancy Esposito Foundation Inc

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$46k
Granted FY2023
6
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2023.

Education$69kHuman Services$35kReligion$33kRecreation & Sports$14kHousing & Shelter$13kFood & Nutrition$11kInternational$9kEnvironment$8kOther$0
02FY2023 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k5 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NY Board of Rabbis$18,219
HSCB Foundation$8,000
Citymeals on Wheels$5,000
Hebrew College$5,000
Williams College$5,000
Coalition for the Homeless$4,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Charity Navigator: $500 → 7%Cooke Center For Learning Developme: $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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 53% of Pat and Nancy Esposito Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 47%.

Pat and Nancy Esposito Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$159k · 11 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
20

Total granted

$159k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+31%

Still filing today

55%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationRecreation & SportsEnvironmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther
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

  • PP
    PROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $13k · revenue +186%
  • COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $13k · revenue +17%
  • C
    CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS
    4× · 2019–2023 · $11k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • CC
    Catholic Charities Brooklyn Queens
    one grant, 2018 · $11k
  • CC
    Catholic Charities Brooklyn & Queens
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • MF
    MOZILLA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +31%
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
Manhattanville University

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

Education
2
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
3
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
4
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
5
Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education
6
Governors Island Corporation

The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…

Animals
7
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
8
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
9
New York University

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.

Education
10
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
11
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
12
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Restoration Project; the most unlike its peers is Mid-Island Rotary Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 33 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
15/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HSCB Foundation: $71,100 · OtherHSCB FoundationNY Board of Rabbis: $26,719 · OtherNY Board of RabbisCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $12,500 · OtherCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INCCatholic Charities Brooklyn Queens: $10,750 · OtherCatholic Charities Brooklyn QueensFAE-The Moynihan Scholarship Fund: $5,280 · Other+17 more: $19,200 · Other+17 morePROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC: $12,500 · Recreation & SportsCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsHEBREW COLLEGE: $5,000 · EducationWilliams College: $5,000 · EducationPACE UNIVERSITY: $500 · EducationWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $500 · EducationCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $10,750 · Food & NutritionMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $8,500 · InternationalNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $7,250 · EnvironmentNEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT: $500 · EnvironmentMOZILLA FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Science & Tech
Other$145,549Recreation & Sports$13,500Education$11,000Food & Nutrition$10,750International$8,500Environment$7,750Science & Tech$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $10,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $7,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEBREW COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWilliams College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoga Society of New York Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMOZILLA FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOOKE SCHOOL AND INSTITUTE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPACE UNIVERSITY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharity Navigator: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMID-ISLAND ROTARY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $250 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Pat and Nancy Esposito Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pat and Nancy Esposito Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Williams College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Pat and Nancy Esposito Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Pat and Nancy Esposito Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 33 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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