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Piantino Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3k
Granted FY2026still arriving
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Grants FY2026still arriving
1
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Community Improvement$208kPhilanthropy$110kHuman Services$75kScience & Tech$62kEducation$57kPublic Benefit$45kInternational$25kFood & Nutrition$25kOther$0
02FY2026 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM$2,500
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MARIA MITCHELL ASSOCIATION: $5k → 6%MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM: $3k → 8%SCRATCH FOUNDATION: $17k → 16%PHILANTROPHIC VENTURES FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%REALITY CHANGERS: $5k → 11%MILAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1k → 9%DIA ART FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%ECONOMIC SECURITY PROJECT-THE HOPEWELL FUND: $50k → 14%CAFA - THIRD HORIZON INC: $10k → 15%NEW JERSEY SEEDS: $17k → 16%SCRATCH FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%HOPEWELL FUND FOR THE ECONOMIC SECURITY: $50k → 14%MAYOR'S FUND TO ADVANCE NEW YORK CITY: $30k → 17%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC: $25k → 17%VOTE RUN LEAD: $10k → 17%FOOD BANK OF NYC: $25k → 17%VOTE RUN LEAD: $10k → 17%ROBIN HOOD: $60k → 17%CONVENANT HOUSE INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 17%ROBIN HOOD BENEFIT: $58k → 17%WOMEN MAKE MOVIES: $10k → 17%ROBIN HOOD BENEFIT: $45k → 17%VOTE RUN LEAD: $25k → 17%THE SCRATCH FOUNDATION: $15k → 17%WOMEN'S MARCH GLOBAL: $5k → 17%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

NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
WV
DC
FL
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.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$225k · 4 repeat orgs$368k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +154% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2026, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
17

Total granted

$225k
$366k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+154%
+27%

Still filing today

75%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’26
Community ImprovementArts & CultureEducationInternationalPhilanthropyScience & TechOther
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

  • SF
    Scratch Foundation
    3× · 2017–2020 · $57k · revenue +587%
  • VR
    VOTE RUN LEAD INC
    3× · 2019–2023 · $45k · revenue +154%
  • CM
    Carnegie Mellon University
    2× · 2019–2021 · $20k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • RH
    ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue +40%
  • ES
    ECONOMIC SECURITY PROJECT-THE HOPEWELL FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • HF
    HOPEWELL FUND FOR THE ECONOMIC SECURITY
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
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
Women First Inc

Women first invests in grassroots initiatives driven by women in developing economies that sustainably advance their lives.

International
2
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc

Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…

Arts & Culture
3
Manhattanville University

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

Education
4
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
5
New York Women's Foundation Inc

Creating a platform for women (cis, trans & non-binary) through anequitable and just future for women & girls, investing in women-led,innovative, and bold community-based solutions that promote theeconomic security, safety, and health of…

Human Services
6
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
7
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.

Public Benefit
8
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
9
Open New York Education Inc

Open new york education, inc. supports public education, awareness, and engagement around housing issues to help build a movement for a more abundant and inclusive new york.

Housing & Shelter
10
Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education
11
New York University School of Law Foundation

The foundation, a subsidiary of new york university, fosters legal education and research at new york university's school of law by awarding scholarships, making grants for educational purposes related to law, and supporting programs of…

Education
12
Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp

To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Jersey Seeds Inc; the most unlike its peers is Women's March Global. 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

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 23 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
13/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $102,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientECONOMIC SECURITY PROJECT-THE HOPEWELL FUND: $50,000 · OtherECONOMIC SECURITY PROJECT-THE HOPEWELL FUNDHOPEWELL FUND FOR THE ECONOMIC SECURITY: $50,000 · OtherHOPEWELL FUND FOR THE ECONOMIC SECURITYCONVENANT HOUSE INTERNATIONAL: $25,000 · OtherCONVENANT HOUSE INTERNATIONALCarnegie Mellon University: $20,000 · OtherCarnegie Mellon UniversityYCF EMERGENCY IMPACT FUND: $20,000 · OtherYCF EMERGENCY IMPACT FUNDNEW JERSEY SEEDS INC: $17,000 · OtherNEW JERSEY SEEDS INC+5 more: $18,500 · Other+5 moreROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $60,000 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOOD FOUNDATI…PHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyPHILANTHROPIC VENTU…VOTE RUN LEAD INC: $45,000 · Community ImprovementVOTE RUN LEAD INCTHE MAYOR'S FUND TO ADVANCE NEW YORK CITY: $30,000 · Community ImprovementTHE MAYOR'S FUND …FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $25,000 · Community ImprovementFOOD BANK FOR NEW…Scratch Foundation: $57,250 · Science & TechScratch Fo…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $25,000 · InternationalSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesCAFA-THIRD HORIZON INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureDIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $2,640 · Arts & Culture
Other$303,000Philanthropy$110,000Community Improvement$100,000Science & Tech$57,250International$25,000Human Services$25,000Arts & Culture$22,640

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetScratch Foundation: $57,250 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVOTE RUN LEAD INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE MAYOR'S FUND TO ADVANCE NEW YORK CITY: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW JERSEY SEEDS INC: $17,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCAFA-THIRD HORIZON INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREALITY CHANGERS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNANTUCKET MARIA MITCHELL ASSOCIATION IN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $2,640 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association in: 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report 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, 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.
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Find your warmest path to Piantino Family 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 23 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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