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Paula Del Nunzio Balser and Paul F Balser Sr Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$40k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0189% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Human Services$651kInternational$129kArts & Culture$86kCommunity Improvement$83kPhilanthropy$48kRecreation & Sports$36kEducation$36kEnvironment$31kHealth$15kOther$167k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
$4,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HUDSON GUILD$25,000
TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL$10,000
YALE UNIVERSITY$4,000
GREATER NEW YORK AL ANON FAMILY$1,000
WATERFRONT ALLIANCE INC$250
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 (FY17–24, $651k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%BRONXWORKS INC: $1k → 28%NEW ENGLAND KURN HATTIN HOMES: $4k → 11%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $10k → 20%BRONXWORKS INC: $500 → 28%NEW ENGLAND KURN HATTIN HOMES: $2k → 11%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $10k → 20%BRONXWORKS INC: $250 → 28%SQUASH HAVEN INC: $1k → 12%NEW ENGLAND KURN HATTIN HOMES: $2k → 11%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $3k → 20%SQUASH HAVEN INC: $1k → 12%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $2k → 20%SQUASH HAVEN INC: $1k → 12%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $1k → 20%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $1k → 20%SQUASH HAVEN INC: $1k → 12%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK INC: $50k → 17%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK INC: $50k → 17%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK INC: $42k → 17%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK INC: $30k → 17%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK INC: $25k → 17%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK INC: $20k → 17%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK INC: $20k → 17%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK INC: $20k → 17%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK INC: $15k → 17%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK INC: $14k → 17%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK INC: $10k → 17%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK INC: $10k → 17%LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $1k → 17%HUDSON GUILD: $85k → 17%HUDSON GUILD: $58k → 17%HUDSON GUILD: $40k → 17%HUDSON GUILD: $35k → 17%HUDSON GUILD: $25k → 17%HUDSON GUILD: $25k → 17%HUDSON GUILD: $25k → 17%HUDSON GUILD: $1k → 17%HUDSON GUILD: $1k → 17%HUDSON GUILD: $1k → 17%HUDSON GUILD: $1k → 17%HUDSON GUILD: $1k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $1k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $1k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $1k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $1k → 17%UNION SETTLEMENT ASSOC: $2k → 17%UNION SETTLEMENT ASSOC: $1k → 17%UNION SETTLEMENT ASSOC: $1k → 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

ME
VT
IL
NY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
DC
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.

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 45 repeat orgs$44k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

45 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
33

Total granted

$1.2M
$44k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+29%

Still filing today

89%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthEnvironmentPublic BenefitOther

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

  • TU
    THE UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $306k · revenue +200%
  • HG
    HUDSON GUILDINC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $298k · revenue +51%
  • BE
    BUSINESS EXECUTIVES FOR NATIONAL SECURITY
    6× · 2017–2022 · $126k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • MP
    MORY'S PRESERVATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -95%
  • BT
    BUILDING TOGETHER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +63%
  • DC
    DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY TELEVISION CENTER INC
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -61%

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
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
2
Hudson Yards Development Corporation

See schedule oto coordinate and facilitate the economic development of the hudson yards area of manhattan. this includes construction of an extension to the no. subway line, the coordination of the design and construction of certain public…

Community Improvement
3
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
4
Manhattanville University

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

Education
5
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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6
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
7
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
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
Long Island Community Hospital At Nyu Langone Health

The goals and objectives of the corporation are as follows:(a) to operate and maintain a nonsectarian, general hospital at one or more locations for the furnishing of inpatient, ambulatory, restorative, preventative and emergency medical…

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10
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
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
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Henry Street Settlement and the most unlike its peers is American Farmland Trust. 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 backsteadyAffordable Housing Developm…Community FoundationsElementary Literacy TutoringJewish Community Organizati…Policy Research and AdvocacyAddiction Recovery ServicesLocal Food System Organizat…Cancer Support ServicesYouth Sports ProgramsLocal History MuseumsEnvironmental Conservation …
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 43 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr19%13%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%42%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr19%7%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr16%65%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% 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 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/75
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,685

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.

04the grantee network

71 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. 71 of the 80 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/71
Grantees still filing
52/71
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK INC — $305,650 · Human ServicesTHE UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK INCHUDSON GUILDINC — $298,300 · Human ServicesHUDSON GUILDINCRED HOOK INITIATIVE — $26,000 · Human Services+6 more — $20,750 · Human ServicesAlumni Fund Association of Yale University — $78,100 · OtherAlumni Fund Associati…FRIENDS OF STISSING LANDMARKS INC — $16,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF STISSING L…YALE UNIVERSITY — $11,500 · OtherTRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL — $26,250 · OtherTRUSTEES OF THE LAWRE…Resources for the Future Inc — $15,750 · OtherResources for the Fut…+47 more — $101,300 · Other+47 moreBUSINESS EXECUTIVES FOR NATIONAL SECURITY — $126,000 · InternationalBUSINESS EX…+1 more — $3,000 · InternationalTHE MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM — $37,500 · Arts & CultureTHE WASSAIC PROJECT INC — $17,500 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $6,000 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH MUSEUM — $5,000 · Arts & CultureMORY'S PRESERVATION INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $4,000 · Arts & CultureDOWNTOWN COMMUNITY TELEVISION CENTER INC — $3,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $8,250 · Arts & CultureWATERFRONT ALLIANCE INC — $83,400 · Community ImprovementSEACHANGE CAPITAL PARTNERS INC — $42,166 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $4,500 · Philanthropy+1 more — $1,500 · PhilanthropySQUASH AND EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC — $35,313 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $1,000 · Recreation & Sports
Human Services$650,700Other$248,900International$129,000Arts & Culture$86,250Community Improvement$83,400Philanthropy$48,166Recreation & Sports$36,313

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 budgetTHE UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK INC — $305,650 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetHUDSON GUILDINC — $298,300 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetBUSINESS EXECUTIVES FOR NATIONAL SECURITY — $126,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetWATERFRONT ALLIANCE INC — $83,400 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetSEACHANGE CAPITAL PARTNERS INC — $42,166 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTHE MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM — $37,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSQUASH AND EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC — $35,313 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL — $26,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRED HOOK INITIATIVE — $26,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE WASSAIC PROJECT INC — $17,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF STISSING LANDMARKS INC — $16,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetResources for the Future Inc — $15,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS STOREFRONT — $6,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNEW ENGLAND KURN HATTIN HOMES — $6,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLenox Hill Hospital — $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES INC — $6,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSQUASH HAVEN INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCivitas Citizens Inc — $4,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetGREATER NEWARK CONSERVANCY INC — $3,650 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC — $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT SOCIETY OF NEW YORK — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNION SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION INC — $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOSPITALITY INC — $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMID HUDSON ADDICTION RECOVERY CENTER INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBUILDING TOGETHER INC — $3,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHE MISSION CONTINUES — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGODDARD RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDUTCHESS LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $2,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC — $2,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREADWORKSINC — $2,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROCKING THE BOAT INC — $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MARITIME HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $2,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELAINE KAUFMAN CULTURAL CENTER LUCY MOSES SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND DANCE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRICHARD J CARON FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKAWAY WATERFRONT ALLIANCE INC — $1,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBRONXWORKS INC — $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $1,500 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.

The Hyde and Watson F…The Goldman Sachs Cha…The New York Communit…Jewish Communal FundLily Auchincloss Foun…Pinkerton FoundationThe Ayco Charitable F…Robin Hood FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…Louis and Anne Abrons…The Dyson FoundationThe Warburg Pincus Fo…
The Hyde and Watson FoundationNJ28.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Pinkerton Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Louis and Anne Abrons Foundation Inc · The Dyson Foundation · The Warburg Pincus 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 Paula Del Nunzio Balser and Paul F Balser Sr 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • The Montclair Art Museum — 11% of income from government
  • Mystic Seaport Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Squash Haven Inc — 4% of income from government
  • The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven — 2% of income from government
  • New England Kurn Hattin Homes — 1% of income from government
  • High Watch Recovery Center Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.

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 80 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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