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Pete Amato 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.

$5k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$22kHealth$19kRecreation & Sports$16kEducation$12kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kCrime & Legal$4kHuman Services$3kReligion$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
2
States reached
$197k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WELLSVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$1,195
Individual grant recipient$500
TUITION MISSION FOUNDATION$500
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF WELLSVILLE$500
AKTION CLUB OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY$500
WELLSVILLE CARE & SHARE COMMUNITY CLUB$500
CROSS CATHOLIC OUTREACH$480
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN COLUMBIANA COUNTY$350
WELLSVILLE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION$250
MT SINAI FBH CHURCH$150
UPPER OHIO VALLEY MUSEUM$100
DIALYSIS CLINIC INC$100
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NIKI FEEZLE FOUNDATION: $3k → 13%LINCOLN PARK ATHLETICS: $4k → 21%FRANKLIN COUNTY DOG SHELTER: $1k → 15%UNITED WAY: $5k → 16%THE ORANGE & BLACK BOOSTERS: $500 → 16%THE NICOLAS J DESARRO FOUNDATION: $2k → 19%NUMBERSUSA: $1k → 7%BEAVER COUNTY UNITED WAY: $4k → 10%NIKI FEEZLE FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%LINCOLN PARK ATHLETICS: $2k → 21%UNITED WAY: $4k → 16%NIKI FEEZLE FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%LINCOLN PARK ATHLETICS: $2k → 21%EAST LIVERPOOL POLICE PATROLMAN'S ASSOCIATION: $3k → 16%NIKI FEEZLE FOUNDATION EXPLOSION OF HOPE: $1k → 13%FAMILY CARE MINISTRIES: $2k → 16%TUITION MISSION: $1k → 16%FAMILY CARE MINISTRIES: $1k → 16%UNITED WAY: $1k → 16%TUITION MISSION: $1k → 16%UNITED WAY: $1k → 16%TUITION MISSION: $1k → 16%UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN COLUMBIANA COUNTY: $1k → 16%TUITION MISSION FOUNDATION: $500 → 16%TUITION MISSION FOUNDATION: $500 → 16%TUITION MISSION FOUNDATION: $500 → 16%UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN COLUMBIANA COUNTY: $500 → 16%FAMILY CARE MINISTRIES: $500 → 16%EAST LIVERPOOL POLICE DEPARTMENT: $500 → 16%COPS AND KIDS FOP 29: $500 → 16%COLUMBIANA COUNTY EDUCATIONAL SERVICE CENTER: $1k → 16%LISBON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1k → 16%COLUMBIANA COUNTY EDUCATIONAL SERVICE CENTER: $500 → 16%AKTION CLUB OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY: $500 → 16%FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE: $3k → 16%WELLSVILLE LADY TIGERS VOLLEYBALL: $3k → 16%WELLSVILLE LADY TIGERS VOLLEYBALL: $2k → 16%WELLSVILLE VFD: $2k → 16%WELLSVILLE LADY TIGERS VOLLEYBALL: $2k → 16%WELLSVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1k → 16%WELLSVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1k → 16%WELLSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL SOCCER: $1k → 16%WELLSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL: $1k → 16%WELLSVILLE LADY TIGERS VOLLEYBALL: $780 → 16%WELLSVILLE SONS OF ITALY 657: $500 → 16%WELLSVILLE FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH - CARE AND SHARE PROGRAM: $500 → 16%WELLSVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500 → 16%VILLAGE OF WELLSVILE: $500 → 16%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$61k · 23 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
30

Total granted

$61k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+15%

Still filing today

13%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
EducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • UW
    UNITED WAY
    5× · 2018–2022 · $11k
  • LP
    LINCOLN PARK ATHLETICS
    3× · 2017–2022 · $8k
  • WL
    WELLSVILLE LADY TIGERS VOLLEYBALL
    4× · 2019–2022 · $7k

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • BC
    BEAVER COUNTY UNITED WAY
    one grant, 2022 · $4k
  • FO
    FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
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
East Liverpool Community Partnership

Improve the communtiy of east liverpool and develope for future generations.

Community Improvement
2
Casstown Ohio Community Volunteer Fire Co Inc

Fire protection.

Public Safety & Disaster
3
St Marys Weller Cemetery Association

Cemetery

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4
East Windsor Historical Society Inc
—
5
Wayne County Historical Society

To preserve and share local history

—
6
Historical Soc Mllrsbrg & U P

History preservation to preserve history of millersburg boro and upper paxton twp museum in old fire station

—
7
Heritage Society of New Braunfels Endowment Foundation
Arts & Culture
8
Navarre-Bethlehem Township Historical Society Inc

To awaken the apppreciation of the heritage of the village and township

—
9
Middleburg Heights Historical Society

Non profit historical society

Arts & Culture
10
North Franklin Township Volunteer Fire Company

Volunteer Fire Company

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Elizabeth Twp Historical Society

Society formed for the preservation of history of Elizabeth Township.

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12
Smithville Community Historical Society Inc

To collect and preserve any and all historic materials books artifacts machinery etc.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Fire Safety Council Inc; the most unlike its peers is East Liverpool Historical Society. 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

12 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. 12 of the 59 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)
11/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY: $11,200 · OtherUNITED WAYTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONLINCOLN PARK ATHLETICS: $7,500 · OtherLINCOLN PARK ATHLETICSWELLSVILLE LADY TIGERS VOLLEYBALL: $6,955 · OtherWELLSVILLE LADY TIGERS VOLLEYBALLNIKI FEEZLE FOUNDATION: $6,000 · OtherNIKI FEEZLE FOUNDATIONBEAVER COUNTY UNITED WAY: $3,500 · OtherFAMILY CARE MINISTRIES: $3,500 · OtherTHE NICOLAS J DESARRO FOUNDATION: $3,464 · OtherTUITION MISSION: $3,000 · OtherFRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE: $3,000 · Other+43 more: $30,241 · Other+43 moreWELLSVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,445 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN COLUMBIANA COUNTY: $1,850 · PhilanthropyProvident Charter School: $200 · EducationFRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE: $200 · EducationTRAILS Ministries: $250 · Youth DevelopmentNATIONAL FIRE SAFETY COUNCIL INC: $150 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$88,360Philanthropy$5,295Education$400Youth Development$250Public Safety & Disaster$150

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 budgetWELLSVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,445 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN COLUMBIANA COUNTY: $1,850 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetLISBON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER OF EAST LIVERPOOL INC: $800 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLORDS BLESSING PANTRY CORP: $500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetEAST LIVERPOOL HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $200 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetProvident Charter School: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FIRE SAFETY COUNCIL INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSALEM HISTORICAL SOCIETY SALEM HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $100 over 1y, 0.1% 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 WELLSVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN COLUMBIANA COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds LISBON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Niki Feezle CF Explosion of Hope Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER OF EAST LIVERPOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds LORDS BLESSING PANTRY CORP ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Pete Amato Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pete Amato Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 Pete Amato Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Pete Amato 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 59 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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