· Private foundation
Cheryl and Paul Speranza 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES | $20,000 |
| SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO SCHOOL OF LAW | $15,000 |
| WXXI | $10,000 |
| SAINT THOMAS MORE CATHOLIC CHURCH | $10,000 |
| HOLY CROSS CHURCH | $9,500 |
| MOTHER OF SORROWS CHURCH | $7,500 |
| SANDRA ELLER MERCY PROGRAM | $7,294 |
| EWTN GLOBAL CATHOLIC NETWORK | $5,000 |
| CLOVERWOOD SENIOR LIVING | $3,000 |
| CATHOLIC MINISTRIES APPEAL | $1,000 |
| ST JUDES RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF RICHESTER MEDICAL CENTER | $300 |
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 (FY17–17, $250k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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.
10 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k 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
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER2× · 2021–2023 · $105k · revenue +35%
University of San Francisco7× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +14%
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY3× · 2023–2025 · $35k · revenue +13%
Funded once
GOODWILL OF THE FINGER LAKES INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue +84%- CCCAMERON COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
- GSGirl Scouts of Greater NY Incone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +0%
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.
The rochester general college of health careers is dedicated to preparing adult learners with the knowledge, skills, and competencies necessary to pursue health careers, advanced education, and lifelong learning.
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…
Rochester general health system, provides patient care, senior housing, laboratory services, and community outreach to residents and other clients in monroe county, new york and several surrounding counties.
Provide administrative and other support services to academic programs sponsored by rochester institute of technology both in the united states and abroad.
St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Syracuse University and the most unlike its peers is Girl Scouts of Greater Ny Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 27 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 GOODWILL OF THE FINGER LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds CAMERON COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds University of San Francisco ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CLOVERWOOD SENIOR LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Greater NY Inc ↗
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Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Cheryl and Paul Speranza Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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