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Pisa 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $86k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $270k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OCEAN STATE JOB LOT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $217,557 |
| LINCOLN SCHOOL | $52,000 |
| ST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL PARISH DAY SCHOOL | $46,400 |
| SISTERS OF THE PRESENTATION | $20,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL FLORIDA | $20,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- PUProject Undercover Inc5× · 2017–2021 · $533k · revenue +30% · 39% of their budget
- HAHOPE AND COMFORT INC4× · 2018–2021 · $120k · revenue ×15
- TUTHE USA VETERAN AND MILITARY SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC2× · 2020–2021 · $99k · revenue +67% · 57% of their budget
Funded once
- HLH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTERone grant, 2021 · $21k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $20k
- STSupport the Soupman Corpone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +209%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Provides food, clothing, furniture, household goods, and emergency assistance to needy families in the seacoast area including regions of maine and massachusetts within 30 miles of portsmouth.
To collect and distribute food and provide economic assistance to needy families in the suffolk county and surrounding area. encourage awareness of the plight of the needy.
The family pantry's mission is to provide food and clothing to those in need without regard to age, race, color, national origin, religion, residence, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, handicap, veteran, or any other status.
Charitable organization to feed middle school students during Thanksgiving break
Mothers' milk bank northeast is dedicated to the belief that every baby deserves the chance to thrive. the organization supports family and community health by providing equitable access to safe, lifesaving pasteurized donor human milk,…
We seek to minimize hunger and provide nutritional sustenanc
The purpose of this organization is to improve the lives and health of underpriviledged communities in vietnam by sharing gifts, giving hopes, and change lives.
To supply the necessary food to needy residents
Feeding families foundation's mission is to eliminate hospital food insecurity for parents/caregivers of critically ill children by covering the cost of hospital meals and having those meals delivered to the room so parents do not need to…
The foundation assists poor, needy, homeless and destitute children and young adults, particularly those with special educational and social needs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Massachusetts Military Support Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mary Martin Pettingell Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 27 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds OCEAN STATE JOB LOT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Project Undercover Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE AND COMFORT INC ↗
- Who funds THE USA VETERAN AND MILITARY SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH KINGSTOWN FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds CHOPCHOP FAMILY INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds GREGG'S GIVING TREE INC ↗
- Who funds MARY MARTIN PETTINGELL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Support the Soupman Corp ↗
- Who funds IVU MED ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS MILITARY SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Make A Difference Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HORSES BRING HOPE ↗
- Who funds NARRAGANSETT COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Ocean State Job Lot Charitable Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Pisa 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.
- Hope and Comfort Inc — 1% of income from government
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.
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Find your warmest path to Pisa 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.