· Private foundation
Paul Rizzoli Family Foundation Aka Martha & Paul Rizzoli Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EDUCATION PARTNERS NIGERIA | $4,000 |
| DEXTER SOUTHFIELD SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| MCMULLEN MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| JOHN ANDRUZZI FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ST JOHN'S FOOD PANTRY | $1,000 |
| NOTRE DAME ACADEMY | $750 |
| BUZZARDS BAY COALITION | $500 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| WOODS HOLE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $500 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| SAINT JOHNS HIGH SCHOOL | $250 |
| ELIOT SCHOOL | $250 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 39% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against -20% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 1 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- EPEDUCATION PARTNERS NIGERIA7× · 2019–2025 · $26k · revenue +70%
- DSDEXTER SOUTHFIELD INC9× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +78%
- FFFAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAM INC4× · 2021–2024 · $5k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $2k
- MRMIGRAINE RESEARCH FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue -84%
- SPSAINT PETERS TEEN CENTERone grant, 2018 · $1k
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 mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)
Education and Research
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
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…
Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.
Description of organization mission: at suffolk university we are driven by the power of education, inclusion, and engagement to change lives and positively impact communities. committed to excellence, we provide students with experiential…
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Third Sector New England Inc and the most unlike its peers is Education Partners Nigeria. 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.
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 62 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
24 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. 24 of the 65 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 EDUCATION PARTNERS NIGERIA ↗
- Who funds DEXTER SOUTHFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds WOODS HOLE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds BUZZARDS BAY COALITION ↗
- Who funds CUREPSP INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Bucknell University ↗
- Who funds BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds MIGRAINE RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NOBSKA LIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds JOE ANDRUZZI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THOMAS BECKET FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Fidelity Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Paul Rizzoli Family Foundation Aka Martha & Paul Rizzoli Family Foundation 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.
- Buzzards Bay Coalition — 37% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Families First Parenting Program Inc — 10% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
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.