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Paul F and Franca G Oreffice Foundation

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.

$5.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$893k
Largest
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$514kPublic Benefit$340kEducation$244kRecreation & Sports$135kArts & Culture$120kReligion$20kEmployment$18kHuman Services$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k2 grants · $328k
  • $250k+8 grants · $5.2M
$605,229
Median grant
5
States reached
$23k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PURDUE UNIVERSITY$893,433
PURDUE UNIVERSITY$809,515
NATIONAL PARKINSON FOUNDATION$749,331
NATIONAL PARKINSON FOUNDATION$673,845
MD ANDERSON - UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION$605,229
MD ANDERSON - UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION$544,260
AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE$461,127
AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE$414,674
MYMICHIGAN HEALTH FOUNDATION-MIDLAND HOSPITAL$172,923
MYMICHIGAN HEALTH FOUNDATION-MIDLAND HOSPITAL$155,503
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 (FY17–21, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS RELIEF FUND: $500 → 9%BLINDED VETERANS ASSOCIATION: $1k → 14%BLINDED VETERANS ASSOCIATION: $1k → 14%BELMONT CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION: $3k → 6%BLINDED VETERANS ASSOCIATION: $1k → 14%BLINDED VETERANS ASSOCIATION: $1k → 14%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $1k → 11%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
MI
NY
IN
CA
KY
VA
AZ
TN
DC
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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.5M · 19 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
21

Total granted

$4.5M
$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-9%
+17%

Still filing today

47%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M 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
Human ServicesHealthPublic BenefitEducationSocial ScienceArts & 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

  • BH
    Banner Health Foundation
    3× · 2017–2022 · $90k · revenue +220%
  • JUDICIAL WATCH INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $36k · revenue +40%
  • PD
    PERMANENTLY DISABLED JOCKEYS FUND INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $3k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • GM
    GREATER MIDLAND TENNIS CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
  • MA
    MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • BC
    Belmont Child Care Association Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +49%
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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
Banner Alzheimer's Foundation

Established in 2006, the banner alzheimer's foundation (baf) secures and stewards charitable gifts to advance the mission of banner alzheimer's institute (bai), including groundbreaking research initiatives and pioneering prevention…

Health
3
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
4
America's Newspapers

Providing research, education and practical information all aimed at optimizing newspapers' business operations, deepening their community engagement and enhancing the quality of their journalism.

Employment
5
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
6
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
7
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
8
National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated

The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.

Community Improvement
9
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
10
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
11
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
12
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Jockey Club Safety Net Foundation; the most unlike its peers is International Fellowship of Christians & Jews 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

17 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. 17 of the 43 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
9/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $1,943,573 · OtherTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITYNATIONAL PARKINSON FOUNDATION INC: $1,670,676 · OtherNATIONAL PARKINSON FOUNDATION INCMD ANDERSON - UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION: $1,149,489 · OtherMD ANDERSON - UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATIONMYMICHIGAN HEALTH FOUNDATION-MIDLAND HOSPITAL: $328,426 · OtherMYMICHIGAN HEALTH FOUNDATION-MIDLAND HOSPITAL+26 more: $521,990 · Other+26 moreAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $875,801 · Social ScienceAMERICAN ENTER…SARATOGA WARHORSE FOUNDATION INC: $303,000 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $36,000 · Public BenefitBanner Health Foundation: $90,000 · HealthPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $11,500 · HealthBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $6,000 · HealthBLINDED VETERANS ASSOCIATION: $7,000 · Human ServicesBelmont Child Care Association Inc: $2,500 · Human ServicesHospice of the Valley: $1,000 · Human ServicesLAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS RELIEF FUND INC: $500 · Human ServicesPERMANENTLY DISABLED JOCKEYS FUND INC: $3,000 · PhilanthropySTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $2,000 · EducationPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Education
Other$5,614,154Social Science$875,801Public Benefit$339,000Health$107,500Human Services$11,000Philanthropy$3,000Education$3,000

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 budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $875,801 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSARATOGA WARHORSE FOUNDATION INC: $303,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetBanner Health Foundation: $90,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $36,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $11,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBLINDED VETERANS ASSOCIATION: $7,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPERMANENTLY DISABLED JOCKEYS FUND INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBelmont Child Care Association Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE JOCKEY CLUB SAFETY NET FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHospice of the Valley: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS RELIEF FUND INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER: $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 AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds SARATOGA WARHORSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Banner Health Foundation ↗
  • Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds BLINDED VETERANS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PERMANENTLY DISABLED JOCKEYS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Belmont Child Care Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE JOCKEY CLUB SAFETY NET FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC ↗
  • Who funds SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY ↗
  • Who funds Hospice of the Valley ↗
  • Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS RELIEF FUND 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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA8.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Paul F and Franca G Oreffice Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Paul F and Franca G Oreffice Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 Paul F and Franca G Oreffice Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Paul F and Franca G Oreffice Foundation 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 43 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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