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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.

$356k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$218k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$1.5MEducation$690kReligion$207kFood & Nutrition$118kHealth$48kYouth Development$40kPhilanthropy$11kHousing & Shelter$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $86k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $270k
$46,400
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OCEAN STATE JOB LOT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$217,557
LINCOLN SCHOOL$52,000
ST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL PARISH DAY SCHOOL$46,400
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL FLORIDA$20,000
SISTERS OF THE PRESENTATION$20,000
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HOPE AND COMFORT: $39k → 7%CHOPCHOP FAMILY: $25k → 8%PROJECT UNDERCOVER: $181k → 7%PROJECT UNDERCOVER: $120k → 7%HOPE AND COMFORT: $36k → 7%CHOPCHOP FAMILY: $20k → 8%OCEAN STATE JOB LOT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $316k → 7%PROJECT UNDERCOVER: $101k → 7%PROJECT UNDERCOVER: $80k → 14%HOPE AND COMFORT: $25k → 7%OCEAN STATE JOB LOT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $218k → 7%PROJECT UNDERCOVER: $51k → 7%HOPE AND COMFORT: $20k → 7%OCEAN STATE JOB LOT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $169k → 7%GREGG'S GIVING TREE INC: $10k → 7%GREGG'S GIVING TREE INC: $5k → 7%GREGG'S GIVING TREE INC: $5k → 7%GREGG'S GIVING TREE INC: $3k → 7%HORSES BRING HOPE: $1k → 7%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.
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 17 repeat orgs$67k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
10

Total granted

$2.6M
$67k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+64%

Still filing today

59%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Human ServicesPublic BenefitPhilanthropyEducationHealthInternationalOther
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

  • PU
    Project Undercover Inc
    5× · 2017–2021 · $533k · revenue +30% · 39% of their budget
  • HA
    HOPE AND COMFORT INC
    4× · 2018–2021 · $120k · revenue ×15
  • TU
    THE USA VETERAN AND MILITARY SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $99k · revenue +67% · 57% of their budget

Funded once

  • HL
    H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $21k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • ST
    Support the Soupman Corp
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +209%
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
Operation Blessing Inc

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.

Human Services
2
Montauk Food Pantry

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.

Food & Nutrition
3
The Family Pantry of Cape Cod Corp

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.

Food & Nutrition
4
Mgh Foundation

Charitable organization to feed middle school students during Thanksgiving break

Food & Nutrition
5
Mothers' Milk Bank Northeast Inc

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,…

Health
6
The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
7
Jamestown Community Food Pantry

We seek to minimize hunger and provide nutritional sustenanc

Food & Nutrition
8
Christmas for Breakfast

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.

Human Services
9
Shaw Fund for Mariners' Children
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10
West Bridgewater Food Pantry Inc

To supply the necessary food to needy residents

Food & Nutrition
11
Feeding Families Foundation Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
12
New England Food Foundation Inc

The foundation assists poor, needy, homeless and destitute children and young adults, particularly those with special educational and social needs.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Massachusetts Military Support Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 27 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/17
Grantees still filing
11/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OCEAN STATE JOB LOT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $703,286 · Human ServicesOCEAN STATE JOB LOT CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONProject Undercover Inc: $532,890 · Human ServicesProject Undercover IncHOPE AND COMFORT INC: $120,409 · Human ServicesHOPE AND COMFORT INC+3 more: $68,655 · Human ServicesLINCOLN SCHOOL: $639,974 · OtherLINCOLN SCHOOLCONGREGATION SCHAARAI ZEDEK: $159,034 · OtherCONGREGATION SCHAARAI ZEDEKNORTH KINGSTOWN FOOD PANTRY INC: $73,324 · OtherNORTH KINGSTOWN FOOD PANTRY INCSISTERS OF THE PRESENTATION: $48,019 · OtherST JOHNS EPISCOPAL PARISH DAY SCHOOL INC: $47,400 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF RI: $40,000 · Other+8 more: $115,166 · Other+8 moreTHE USA VETERAN AND MILITARY SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC: $98,608 · Public Benefit+1 more: $3,088 · Public BenefitPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $25,307 · HealthMARY MARTIN PETTINGELL FOUNDATION: $11,000 · PhilanthropyIVU MED: $6,000 · InternationalCHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureMake A Difference Foundation Inc: $2,500 · Education
Human Services$1,425,240Other$1,122,917Public Benefit$101,696Health$25,307Philanthropy$11,000International$6,000Arts & Culture$5,000Education$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOCEAN STATE JOB LOT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $703,286 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetLINCOLN SCHOOL: $639,974 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetProject Undercover Inc: $532,890 over 5y, 39% of budgetHOPE AND COMFORT INC: $120,409 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetTHE USA VETERAN AND MILITARY SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC: $98,608 over 2y, 57% of budgetNORTH KINGSTOWN FOOD PANTRY INC: $73,324 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetCHOPCHOP FAMILY INC: $45,155 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $25,307 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREGG'S GIVING TREE INC: $22,500 over 4y, 26% of budgetMARY MARTIN PETTINGELL FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 2y, 59% of budgetIVU MED: $6,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS MILITARY SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC: $3,088 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNARRAGANSETT COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $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.

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.

Ocean State Job Lot C…Amica Companies Found…Eastern Bank Foundati…The Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…Charities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Ocean State Job Lot Charitable FoundationRI26.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Hope and Comfort Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get 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 · 0–30%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Pisa Foundation?

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.

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 27 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 camps
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