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· Private foundation
RALPH AND LAURA DURSO FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$35k
Granted FY2024
9
Grants
4
Communities
$23k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 93% of RALPH AND LAURA DURSO FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
officejudemissionschildrenwildlifemuseum
2019
townwildlifeenglewoodsag harborpbamuseumchurch
2020
judetownchildrensag harborwildlife
2021
sag harborpbahackensack highschool
2022
sag harborpbahackensack highschool
2023
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2024
hackensack highschoolchurch
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 9 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $23k
$2,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$936k
Total assets
Largest grants
- OUR LADY OF MT CARMEL CHURCH$22,557
- MISSIONARY OF FRANSICAN SISTERS$2,500
- PHI BETA KAPPA$2,000
- SISTERS OF SAINT JOSEPH$2,000
- HACKENSACK HIGHSCHOOL MODEL UN$2,000
- HACKENSACK HIGHSCHOOL$2,000
- UNIVERSITY OF NC AT GREENSBORO$1,000
- ST REGINA CHURCH$500
- PARK RIDGE FOOTBALL$250
02The need
04
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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 10%. 28% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$378k · 48 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else
48 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
48
21
Total granted
$378k
$18k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+20%
+26%
Still filing today
25%
29%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $750 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Public Safety & DisasterInternationalEnvironmentMembership BenefitHealthAnimalsOther
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
- WCWildlife Conservation Society4× · 2017–2020 · $12k · revenue +24%
- TPThe Planetary Society2× · 2017–2018 · $5k · revenue +5%
- CIChildren International5× · 2017–2021 · $2k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- CFCycle for Survical - MSKCCone grant, 2023 · $5k
WORLD WILDLIFE FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +46%- BWBishop Ward Highschool Trentonone grant, 2017 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
American Gas Association
American gas association (the association) is an advocate for natural gas utility companies and their customers. the association helps natural gas utilities achieve operational excellence in the safe, reliable and efficient delivery of…
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2
American Political Science Association
The leading professional organization for the study of political science.
Social Science
3
American Geophysical Union
Agu is an international nonprofit association supporting an inclusive community of earth and space scientists and partners dedicated to discovery and solutions to address societal challenges.
Science & Tech
4
Air Transport Association of America Inc
The organization is the trade association for the nation's scheduled airlines. the organization conducts activities that advocate industry positions, promote aviation safety and programs that benefit the industry as a whole.
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5
Federation of State Medical Boards of
Leader in medical regulation, serving as an innovative catalyst for effective policy & standards.
Health
6
American Society of Plastic Surgeons
Asps promotes the highest standards in advocacy, research, education, patient safety, and ethical standards for plastic surgery, our members, and their patients.
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7
American Cancer Society Inc
Improve the lives of people with cancer and their families through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.
Health
8
The Personal Care Products Council Inc
Represent the common business interests of the personal care products industry.
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9
United States Telecom Association
Ustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.
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10
Poultry Science Association Inc
The poultry science association is a global scientific society dedicated to discovery and dissemination of knowledge generated by poultry research that enhances human and animal health and well-being and provides for the ethical,…
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11
Americas Physician Groups
Americas Physician Groups (APG) is a national association representing more than 335 physician groups with approximately 170,000 physicians providing care to nearly 90 million patients. APGs tagline, Taking Responsibility for Americas…
Community Improvement
12
Air Line Pilots Association International
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to promote the interests of the airline piloting profession and to safeguard the rights, individually and collectively, of its members.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Children International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
0.0%0/22
the rest of the field
10%
5,422/52,270
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
05the grantee network
18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
15/18
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$371,036Animals$11,500Arts & Culture$5,000Environment$3,500International$2,539Education$2,000Membership Benefit$1,200
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.
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.
Verizon FoundationNJ10.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Verizon Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organisation RALPH AND LAURA DURSO 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
- The Valley Hospital Inc — 1% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Teaneck PBA Local 215.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 223206189 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Teaneck PBA Local 215, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 0% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Ralph and Laura Durso Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Ralph and Laura Durso Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines