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Pettinelli 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.

$90k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What you fund
0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20192025.

Education$176kHealth$30kArts & Culture$20kEnvironment$6kAnimals$5kRecreation & Sports$4kCommunity Improvement$3kHuman Services$3kYouth Development$1kOther$28k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$761k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS$70,000
NAPLES COMMUNITY HOSPITAL$7,500
ARTIS-NAPLES$5,000
BAY COLONY DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS$4,000
NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN$2,000
COUNTRY CLUB AT MUIRFIELD VILLAGE FDN$1,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $3k → 20%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

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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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$222k · 13 repeat orgs$52k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
11

Total granted

$222k
$52k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+23%

Still filing today

85%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthArts & CultureEnvironmentAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • UO
    University of St Thomas
    3× · 2023–2025 · $123k · revenue +34%
  • FW
    Francis W Parker School
    3× · 2019–2024 · $12k · revenue +36%
  • CC
    COUNTRY CLUB AT MUIRFIELD VILLAGE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $10k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • NL
    National Louis Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +60%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • HO
    Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -7%

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
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
2
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
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

4
Naples Zoo Inc

Naples zoo is accredited by the american zoo & aquarium association (aza) and has numerous animal exhibits placed on its 45-acre site. (continued on schedule o)each exhibit is unique and designed to simulate typical conditions for the…

Animals
5
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
6
Illinois College

Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…

Education
7
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
8
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
9
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

10
Lake Forest College

Provide post-secondary education leading to a baccalaureate degree. Program service expenditures are made in conjunction with the operation of a liberal arts college spread over 107 acres with approximately 63 educational and support…

Education
11
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
12
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.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naples Botanical Garden Inc and the most unlike its peers is Artis-Naples 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

16 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 24 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
11/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

University of St Thomas — $122,500 · EducationUniversity of St ThomasNational Louis University — $30,000 · EducationNational Louis UniversityFrancis W Parker School — $12,000 · EducationFrancis W Parker SchoolTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO — $9,000 · Education+1 more — $2,500 · EducationNAPLES COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INC — $15,000 · HealthNAPLES COMMU…COUNTRY CLUB AT MUIRFIELD VILLAGE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · HealthCOUNTRY CLUB…NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC — $5,000 · HealthNEIGHBORHOOD…SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA - BAY COLONY — $8,000 · OtherSCHOLARSHIP AM…BAY COLONY DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS — $7,000 · OtherBAY COLONY DOL…Individual grant recipient — $3,000 · OtherIndividual gra…LYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER — $2,500 · OtherLYNN SAGE BREA…Individual grant recipient — $2,500 · OtherIndividual gra…MECHANICSBURG BAPTIST CHURCH — $2,000 · OtherMECHANICSBURG …BAY COLONY COMMUNITY ASSN INC — $2,000 · OtherBAY COLONY COM…Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc — $3,000 · OtherHonorable Orde…RED HOOK INITIATIVE — $2,500 · OtherRED HOOK INITI…+2 more — $1,500 · OtherARTIS-NAPLES INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ARTS OF LIFE INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureNAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $5,500 · EnvironmentLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $4,500 · AnimalsLINCOLN PARK CONSERVANCY — $3,500 · Recreation & Sports
Education$176,000Health$30,000Other$34,000Arts & Culture$20,000Environment$5,500Animals$4,500Recreation & Sports$3,500

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 budgetUniversity of St Thomas — $122,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNational Louis University — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAPLES COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARTIS-NAPLES INC — $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFrancis W Parker School — $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNTRY CLUB AT MUIRFIELD VILLAGE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO — $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARTS OF LIFE INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN PARK CONSERVANCY — $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHonorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRED HOOK INITIATIVE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO — $1,000 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 Chicago Community TrustIL12.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Pettinelli 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 3%
  • Naples Botanical Garden Inc3% of income from government
  • Naples Community Hospital Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Pettinelli Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Pettinelli Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 24 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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