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Peter and Vivian Falco Family Foundation at a glance

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Peter and Vivian Falco 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.

$471k
Granted FY2024still arriving
50
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$160k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$776kPhilanthropy$653kHealth$270kEnvironment$229kEducation$139kHousing & Shelter$104kYouth Development$57kHuman Services$37kOther$0
02FY2024 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k38 grants · $81k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $230k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $160k
$2,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$6.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ADIRONDACK MUSEUM$160,000
Individual grant recipient$37,438
HERKIMER AND ONEIDA CTY COMM FDTN$35,000
THE VIEW ARTS ARTS GUILD$32,675
NATURE CONSERVANCY ADIRONDACK CHAPT$30,719
ADIRONDACK MUSEUM$29,168
ADIRONDACK FOUNDATION$15,000
LIVINGADK FKA CAP 21$10,000
PENDENNIS INC$10,000
ADIRONDACK LAKES CENTER FOR THE ART$10,000
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC$10,000
KELBERMAN FOUNDATION$10,000
YALE SCHOOL OF FORESTRY$7,500
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$7,500
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY$7,500
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 (FY20–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PENDENNIS INC: $5k → 11%THEA BOWMAN HOUSE: $1k → 12%THEA BOWMAN HOUSE: $1k → 12%THEA BOWMAN HOUSE: $2k → 16%THEA BOWMAN HOUSE: $1k → 16%PENDENNIS INC: $5k → 9%PENDENNIS INC: $10k → 9%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

WI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
VA
DE
DC
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 50 repeat orgs$419k to everyone else

50 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
14

Total granted

$1.4M
$362k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+28%

Still filing today

54%
21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k 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 & CultureEnvironmentEducationHealthAnimalsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • TP
    THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $77k · revenue +21%
  • SN
    SPARKYOUTH NYC INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $25k · revenue +21%
  • Cornell University
    5× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • KC
    KELBERMAN CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $200k · revenue +86%
  • H(
    HOCCF (DAF) FALCO FAMILY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $88k
  • NC
    NATURE CONSERVANCY ADIRONDACK CHAPTER
    one grant, 2022 · $30k
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
Adirondack Mountain Club Inc

Adk is the only non-profit organization in new york state dedicated to the conservation, preservation, and responsible recreational use of the new york state forest preserve and other parks, wild lands, and waters vital to our members and…

Environment
2
Protect the Adirondacks Inc

Protect is a grassroots, membership organization dedicated to the protection, stewardship and sustainability of the natural environment and human communities of the adirondack park and the new york state forest preserve for current and…

Environment
3
Ausable Freshwater Center Incorporated

Advancing science and stewardship of adirondack waters.

Environment
4
The Central New York Land Trust Inc

The central new york land trust seeks to preserve and protect natural areas in order to provide our communities clean water, clean air, wildlife habitat, and a chance to connect with the land.

Environment
5
Dutchess Land Conservancy Inc

Dutchess land conservancy (dlc) is dedicated to preserving the scenic, agricultural and environmental resources of dutchess county, new york, and the surrounding area. dlc, as a private non-profit land conservation organization, carries…

Environment
6
Adirondack North Country Association Inc

Support regional economic development in new york's 14 northernmost counties

Food & Nutrition
7
Adirondack League Club

To manage the preservation and conservation of an approximate 50,000 acre preserve.

Recreation & Sports
8
New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund

See schedule onylcvef's mission is to educate, engage and empower new yorkers to be effective advocates on behalf of the environment from clean energy and funding for parks, to solid waste and green buildings. first, we educate new yorkers…

Environment
9
New York League of Conservation Voters

See schedule onylcv is a non-partisan policy making and political action organization that works to make environmental protection a top priority with elected officials, decision-makers and the voters by evaluating incumbent performance and…

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10
Lake George Land Conservancy Inc

Dedicated to permanently preserve the natural, scenic and recreational resources of the Lake George Basin.

Environment
11
Hudson River Foundation for Science and Environmental Research Inc

The mission of the hudson river foundation is to inspire and inform action through science and engaging people to enhance the hudson river, estuary, and watershed (see schedule o).

Environment
12
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adirondack Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Pendennis 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

37 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. 37 of the 75 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
29/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $183,668 · OtherIndividual grant recipientVIEW ARTS: $117,810 · OtherVIEW ARTSHOCCF (DAF) FALCO FAMILY FOUNDATION: $88,000 · OtherHOCCF (DAF) FALCO FAMILY FOUNDATIONTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $63,150 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYLIVING ADK FKA CAP 21: $62,000 · OtherLIVING ADK FKA CAP 21THE VIEW ARTS ARTS GUILD: $61,445 · OtherTHE VIEW ARTS ARTS GUILDNATURE CONSERVANCY ADIRONDACK CHAPT: $60,719 · OtherNATURE CONSERVANCY ADIRONDACK CHAPTNEW YORK STATE ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY & RESIDENTAL AGENCY: $58,800 · Other+45 more: $407,151 · Other+45 moreTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HERKIMER AND ONEIDA COUNTIES INC: $491,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION…ADIRONDACK FOUNDATION: $49,000 · PhilanthropyADIRONDACK FOUNDATIONADIRONDACK HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $420,070 · Arts & CultureADIRONDACK HISTORICAL A…THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $76,500 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHO…+3 more: $15,980 · Arts & CultureKELBERMAN CENTER INC: $200,000 · HealthKELBERMAN…+2 more: $7,450 · HealthTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $37,000 · EducationCornell University: $23,075 · EducationYale University: $22,000 · EducationST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $7,000 · Education+2 more: $1,450 · EducationTHE ADIRONDACK COUNCIL INC: $14,000 · EnvironmentADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INC: $9,596 · EnvironmentSAVE THE SOUND: $4,500 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $2,000 · EnvironmentWestchester Land Trust Inc: $1,200 · EnvironmentSPARKYOUTH NYC INC: $25,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,102,743Philanthropy$540,000Arts & Culture$512,550Health$207,450Education$90,525Environment$31,296Crime & Legal$25,000

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 budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HERKIMER AND ONEIDA COUNTIES INC: $491,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetADIRONDACK HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $420,070 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetKELBERMAN CENTER INC: $200,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $76,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $63,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetADIRONDACK FOUNDATION: $49,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $37,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARTS GUILD OF OLD FORGE INC: $35,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetSPARKYOUTH NYC INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSAGAMORE INSTITUTE OF THE ADIRONDACKS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCornell University: $23,075 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYale University: $22,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPENDENNIS INC: $20,000 over 3y, 84% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $17,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ADIRONDACK COUNCIL INC: $14,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL ADIRONDACK PARTNERSHIP FOR THE 21ST CENTURY INC: $10,500 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetADIRONDACK LAKES CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INC: $9,596 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC: $6,450 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHEA BOWMAN HOUSE INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $4,980 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE THE SOUND: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOLD FORGE VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMIANUS RIVER GORGE INC: $2,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTHERN WESTCHESTER: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $1,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTOWN OF WEBB HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $1,210 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetWestchester Land Trust Inc: $1,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetORTHOPAEDIC FOUNDATION FOR ACTIVE LIFESTYLES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetADIRONDACK EXPLORER INC: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetADIRONDACK CENTER FOR LOON CONSERVATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPOUND RIDGE LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $758 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CONVERSATION US INC: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOLD FORGE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC: $700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPOUND RIDGE FIRE DEPARTMENTINC: $400 over 2y, 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 THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HERKIMER AND ONEIDA COUNTIES INC ↗
  • Who funds ADIRONDACK HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds KELBERMAN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds ADIRONDACK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds THE ARTS GUILD OF OLD FORGE INC ↗
  • Who funds SPARKYOUTH NYC INC ↗
  • Who funds SAGAMORE INSTITUTE OF THE ADIRONDACKS INC ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds Yale University ↗
  • Who funds PENDENNIS INC ↗
  • Who funds FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ADIRONDACK COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL ADIRONDACK PARTNERSHIP FOR THE 21ST CENTURY INC ↗
  • Who funds ADIRONDACK LAKES CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds ADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION 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.

Cloudsplitter Foundat…The Community Foundat…Adirondack FoundationGlenn and Carol Pears…Ge Aerospace Foundati…The Devito Family Tru…JM McDonald Foundatio…The New York Communit…Ibm International Fou…Charles R Wood Founda…Cerity Partners Found…Boston Foundation Inc
Cloudsplitter FoundationNY21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cloudsplitter Foundation · The Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties Inc · Adirondack Foundation · Glenn and Carol Pearsall Adirondack Foun · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Devito Family Trust (Fka the Beechmont Foundation) · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Ibm International Foundation · Charles R Wood Foundation · Cerity Partners Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc

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 Peter and Vivian Falco Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Peter and Vivian Falco Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 37%
  • Save the Sound: 37% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
11report 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
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.

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 75 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home