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Pierro Family Charitable 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.

$13k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$24kPhilanthropy$15kHealth$13kAnimals$8kInternational$1kYouth Development$750Religion$100Other$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$118k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Italian American Club Hilton Head$6,200
St Jude's Children's Research$1,500
Bluffton Self Help$1,029
Boys Town$1,000
Palmetto Animal League$1,000
Physicians for Human Rights$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
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 (FY17–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Boy's Town: $2k → 12%Boy's Town: $1k → 12%Boys Town: $1k → 12%Boy's Town: $1k → 12%Boy's Town: $1k → 12%Boy's Town: $1k → 12%Boy's Town: $500 → 12%Boy's Town: $500 → 12%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

NH
IL
NY
PA
NJ
NE
TN
NC
SC
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$54k · 10 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
15

Total granted

$54k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+216%

Still filing today

50%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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

  • FF
    Father Flanagan's Boys' Home
    8× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +40%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $8k · revenue +99%
  • BS
    BLUFFTON SELF HELP INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $3k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • IA
    Italian American Club
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • TH
    The Hospital
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • B
    Bluffton
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
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
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
2
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
3
Lehigh Valley Hospital

Our mission is to heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value, supported by education and research.

Health
4
American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities Inc

American lebanese syrian associated charities, inc. (alsac) was founded in 1957 and exists solely to raise funds and build awareness to sustain and grow the mission of st. jude children's research hospital, inc. to advance cures, and means…

Religion
5
Rhode Island Hospital

As a founding hospital in the Brown University Health system, RIH is committed to its mission: Delivering health with care.

Health
6
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health
7
East Tennessee Children's Hospital Association Inc

East tennessee children's hospital is a free-standing, independent, not-for-profit pediatric health care system which serves the east tennessee region. children's hospital is certified by the state of tennessee as a comprehensive regional…

Health
8
Suncoast Center Inc

For 80 years, suncoast center, inc. has held true to its mission of "strengthening, protecting, and restoring lives for a healthy community" by providing a comprehensive range of evidence-based services that address emotional wellness,…

Health
9
Virtua Medical Group Pa

The physicians of virtua medical group (vmg) share a common philosophy in all they do: to create an outstanding experience for patients. in a broad range of specialties, from family medicine to surgery to oncology, vmg's highly-trained…

Health
10
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
11
Palo Alto University Inc

Advancing human understanding through education, research, and practice in behavioral science

Education
12
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc; the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. 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

8 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. 8 of the 26 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Community Foundation of: $12,495 · OtherCommunity Foundation ofPalmetto: $6,223 · OtherPalmettoBLUFFTON SELF HELP INC: $3,087 · OtherBLUFFTON SELF HELP INCItalian American Club: $3,000 · OtherItalian American ClubPALMETTO ANIMAL LEAGUE: $2,000 · OtherLowcountry: $2,000 · OtherThe Hospital: $1,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,500 · Other+11 more: $6,375 · Other+11 moreITALIAN AMERICAN CLUB OF HILTON HEAD: $9,200 · PhilanthropyITALIAN AMERICA…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $7,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDR…THE V FOUNDATION: $1,000 · HealthTHE V FOUNDATI…+1 more: $100 · HealthFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $8,000 · Human ServicesFather Flanag…PHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $1,000 · International
Other$39,680Philanthropy$9,200Health$8,600Human Services$8,000International$1,000

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 budgetITALIAN AMERICAN CLUB OF HILTON HEAD: $9,200 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $7,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBLUFFTON SELF HELP INC: $3,087 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPALMETTO ANIMAL LEAGUE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTOP SOLDIER SUICIDE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 ITALIAN AMERICAN CLUB OF HILTON HEAD ↗
  • Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds BLUFFTON SELF HELP INC ↗
  • Who funds PALMETTO ANIMAL LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds PHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds STOP SOLDIER SUICIDE INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Pierro Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pierro Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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
    1report 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.

    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 26 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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