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Posoli Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$378k
Granted FY2025still arriving
45
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$206k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Education$718kReligion$341kHealth$251kEmployment$233kHuman Services$132kHousing & Shelter$124kCrime & Legal$105kRecreation & Sports$95kOther$0
02FY2025 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k39 grants · $106k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $66k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $206k
$2,500
Median grant
15
States reached
$7.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAREER SPRING$205,600
Individual grant recipient$26,000
ST JOHN PAUL II FOUNDATION$10,000
CHRISTOPHER AND DANA REEVE FOUNDATION$10,000
CRISTO REY NETWORK$10,000
PARADISUS DEI$10,000
STUDENT MOBILIZATION$6,000
FOCUS$5,500
MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION$5,000
YOUNG CATHOLIC PROFESSIONALS$5,000
THE LANDING$5,000
AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION$5,000
JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL$5,000
JESUITS CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN PROVIDENCE$5,000
STRAKE JESUIT COLLEGE PREPARATORY$5,000
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 (FY17–25, $127k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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%UNBOUND: $532 → 16%UNBOUND: $532 → 16%UNBOUND: $532 → 16%UNBOUND: $532 → 16%UNBOUND: $532 → 16%UNBOUND: $532 → 16%NO LONGER ORPHANS: $500 → 7%UNBOUND: $482 → 16%UNBOUND: $432 → 16%UNBOUND: $432 → 16%HIS GRACE FOUNDATION: $12k → 16%HIS GRACE FOUNDATION: $8k → 16%HIS GRACE FOUNDATION: $8k → 16%HIS GRACE FOUNDATION: $7k → 16%HIS GRACE FOUNDATION: $6k → 16%HIS GRACE FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%HIS GRACE FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%HIS GRACE FOUNDATION: $2k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON-HOUSTON: $15k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON-HOUSTON: $9k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON-HOUSTON: $5k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON-HOUSTON: $5k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE: $500 → 16%COVENANT HOUSE: $500 → 16%SUMMER HOUSE: $5k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE: $500 → 16%SUMMER HOUSE: $5k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE: $200 → 16%SUMMER HOUSE: $5k → 16%COMMUNITY WORKS CDC: $1k → 16%THE LANDING: $5k → 16%THE LANDING: $5k → 16%THE LANDING: $5k → 16%KIDS MEALS: $5k → 16%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

WA
IL
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
GA
TX
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 100 repeat orgs$249k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

100 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 70 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

100
77

Total granted

$2.5M
$208k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+12%

Still filing today

53%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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
EducationHealthHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyReligionOther
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

  • CA
    CHILD ADVOCATES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $107k · revenue +12%
  • SS
    Small Steps Nurturing Center
    8× · 2017–2024 · $101k · revenue +64%
  • PD
    PARADISUS DEI INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $75k · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • AO
    ANNUNCIATION ORTHODOX SCHOOL - ANNUAL FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $16k
  • GS
    GIMME SHELTER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
  • DP
    Dan Pastorini Charity
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +8%
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
St John's School

See Schedule OSt. John's School is an independent, co-educational day school presenting a 13-year sequence of college preparatory training. A non-profit institution, it was founded in 1946 to provide the community with a school of exacting…

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2
Children's Health System of Texas

With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…

Health
3
Texas Children's Hospital

Texas children's hospital, headquartered in houston, texas, is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and…

Health
4
Texas Christian University

Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…

Education
5
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
6
The Awty International School

See Schedule OThe purpose of Awty International School (Awty) is to create an environment where students experience excellence every day to make their mark on the world alongside their community, in a spirit of curiosity, courage and…

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7
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
8
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
10
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
11
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
12
Cook Children's Health Care System

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pro-Vision Inc; the most unlike its peers is Crj Foundation 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

102 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. 102 of the 196 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)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
99/102
Grantees still filing
66/102
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CAREER SPRING: $414,400 · OtherCAREER SPRINGIndividual grant recipient: $180,234 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST AGNES ACADEMY: $142,660 · OtherST AGNES ACADEMYStrake Jesuit College Prep: $109,712 · OtherStrake Jesuit College PrepSEARCH HOMELESS SERVICES: $104,400 · OtherSEARCH HOMELESS SERVICES+129 more: $850,676 · Other+129 moreSmall Steps Nurturing Center: $101,200 · EducationSmall Steps Nu…University of St Thomas: $39,000 · EducationUniversity of …University of Miami: $38,853 · EducationUniversity of …MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · EducationMARINE CORPS S…GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNI…TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $20,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BO…William Marsh Rice University: $19,350 · EducationWilliam Marsh …+14 more: $63,023 · Education+14 moreHis Grace Foundation: $51,063 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON: $33,500 · Human ServicesChristian Community Service Center Inc: $29,000 · Human ServicesSojourn Landing DBA The Landing: $15,000 · Human ServicesThe Summerhouse: $15,000 · Human Services+7 more: $18,173 · Human ServicesCHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION: $34,860 · HealthCasa El Buen Samaritano: $29,109 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $22,750 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $15,000 · HealthAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $10,000 · HealthGratia Plena: $10,000 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $6,550 · Health+6 more: $9,175 · HealthPARADISUS DEI INC: $75,250 · ReligionTHE JOHN PAUL II FOUNDATION FOR LIFE AND FAMILY: $26,000 · ReligionYoung Catholic Professionals: $12,500 · ReligionPRO-VISION INC: $5,000 · Religion+2 more: $2,175 · ReligionCHILD ADVOCATES INC: $107,215 · Crime & LegalThe Periwinkle Foundation: $25,850 · PhilanthropyDan Pastorini Charity: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCONCERTS FOR HOPE: $5,000 · PhilanthropyUndies for Everyone: $5,000 · Philanthropy+5 more: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,802,082Education$341,426Human Services$161,736Health$137,444Religion$120,925Crime & Legal$107,215Philanthropy$50,850

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 budgetCHILD ADVOCATES INC: $107,215 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetSmall Steps Nurturing Center: $101,200 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetPARADISUS DEI INC: $75,250 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetHis Grace Foundation: $51,063 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas: $39,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $38,853 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION: $34,860 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON: $33,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCasa El Buen Samaritano: $29,109 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetChristian Community Service Center Inc: $29,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE JOHN PAUL II FOUNDATION FOR LIFE AND FAMILY: $26,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetThe Periwinkle Foundation: $25,850 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $22,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $19,350 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHope Stone Inc: $17,150 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetSojourn Landing DBA The Landing: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $12,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetYoung Catholic Professionals: $12,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetDISCOVERU: $11,100 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNextOp Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDan Pastorini Charity: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetALLEY THEATRE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCRISTO REY NETWORK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE URBAN ENRICHMENT INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGratia Plena: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE WOODS PROJECT: $8,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBE AN ANGEL FUND INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEvelyn's Park Conservancy: $7,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSER-JOBS FOR PROGRESS OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $6,550 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetST COLETTA OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLET GIRLS READ RUN GROW: $5,023 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetCommunity Artists Collective: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCRISTO REY SAN DIEGO HIGH SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL HISPANIC INSTITUTE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetETOILE ACADEMY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONCERTS FOR HOPE: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetKIDS' MEALS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNOTRE DAME CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEKENYWA: $5,000 over 2y, 2.1% 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 CHILD ADVOCATES INC ↗
  • Who funds Small Steps Nurturing Center ↗
  • Who funds PARADISUS DEI INC ↗
  • Who funds His Grace Foundation ↗
  • Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
  • Who funds University of Miami ↗
  • Who funds MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON ↗
  • Who funds Casa El Buen Samaritano ↗
  • Who funds Christian Community Service Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE JOHN PAUL II FOUNDATION FOR LIFE AND FAMILY ↗
  • Who funds The Periwinkle Foundation ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
  • Who funds Hope Stone Inc ↗
  • Who funds Sojourn Landing DBA The Landing ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON ↗

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.

Greater Houston Commu…Albert & Ethel Herzst…Shell USA Company Fou…Strake FoundationThe Brown Foundation …Harry S & Isabel C Ca…Houston Texans Founda…The William Stamps Fa…Charity Guild of Cath…The Elkins FoundationSterling-Turner Found…Marek Family Foundati…
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX46.5× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Strake Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Houston Texans Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · Charity Guild of Catholic Women of Harris County Inc · The Elkins Foundation · Sterling-Turner Foundation · Marek Family Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Christopher Reeve Foundation: 49% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 196 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home