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Rita and Frank Castagna Family Foundation Inc

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.

$120k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 42
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$214k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Rita and Frank Castagna Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHealthHuman ServicesCivil RightsScience & TechAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving2$120k0%
FY20234$245k0%
FY20225$420k0%
FY20216$520k17%
FY20205$200k20%
FY201922$1.0M27%
FY201842$685k52%
FY201735$776kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.8MHealth$730kArts & Culture$417kYouth Development$330kHuman Services$298kPhilanthropy$145kEnvironment$115kReligion$66kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 38 grantees
All grantees of Rita and Frank Castagna Family Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Adelphi University$806,00030%
Hofstra University$600,00050%
The Viscardi Center Inc$310,00051%
Nassau County Museum of Art$189,00034%
Northwell Health Foundation$160,00020%
United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc$145,00070%
The North Shore Land Alliance Inc$105,00025%
Syracuse University$100,00040%
Old Westbury Gardens Inc$84,50040%
American Heart Association Inc$55,00030%
Long Island Council on Alcoholism & Drug Dependence Inc$45,00031%
American Jewish Committee$45,00010%
Widener University$35,00040%
Friends Academy$30,00030%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory$30,00030%
Canonry of Saint Leopold Inc$25,0001n/a
International Center for the Preservation of Wild Animals Inc$20,00020%
The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research$20,00010%
Head Injury Association Inc$15,00030%
Healing Headbands Project Inc$14,00022%
Long Island Alzheimers and Dementia Center Inc$12,50011%
Long Island Gay and Lesbian Youth Inc$10,0001n/a
The Jeffrey Ahn Jr Foundation Inc$10,00024%
American-Italian Cancer Foundation$10,00011%
Columbus Zoological Park Association$10,00010%
Paws for Purple Hearts$5,00010%
Nassau County Ahrc Foundation Inc$5,00020%
National Parkinson Foundation Inc$5,0001n/a
Michael Magro Foundation Inc$5,0001n/a
Girl Scouts of Nassau County Inc$5,00010%
Special Olympics New York Inc$4,00010%
Tomorrow's Hope Foundation Inc$4,00010%
Lutheran Church of Our Saviour$4,0001n/a
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$2,00010%
Helen Keller Services$2,00020%
The Performance Zone Inc$2,00010%
Long Island University$1,50010%
Oyster Bay Historical Society Inc$1,00011%

Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Rita and Frank Castagna Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAdelphi University: $806,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHofstra University: $600,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Viscardi Center Inc: $310,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetNassau County Museum of Art: $189,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetNorthwell Health Foundation: $160,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc: $145,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe North Shore Land Alliance Inc: $105,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetSyracuse University: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOld Westbury Gardens Inc: $84,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLong Island Council on Alcoholism & Drug Dependence Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetAmerican Jewish Committee: $45,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWidener University: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFriends Academy: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCold Spring Harbor Laboratory: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Center for the Preservation of Wild Animals Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHead Injury Association Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHealing Headbands Project Inc: $14,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetLong Island Alzheimers and Dementia Center Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Jeffrey Ahn Jr Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetAmerican-Italian Cancer Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetColumbus Zoological Park Association: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPaws for Purple Hearts: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNassau County Ahrc Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGirl Scouts of Nassau County Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSpecial Olympics New York Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTomorrow's Hope Foundation Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHelen Keller Services: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Performance Zone Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLong Island University: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOyster Bay Historical Society Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 33.

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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.

Del Vecchio Family FoundationNY17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Del Vecchio Family Foundation · The Bahnik Foundation Inc · Lostritto Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Donald and Barbara Zucker Family Foundation · Peter & Jeri Dejana Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Susan & Leonard Feinstein Foundation · McKeen Fund · Rk Mellon 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.

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About Rita and Frank Castagna Family Foundation Inc

How much does Rita and Frank Castagna Family Foundation Inc give?
Rita and Frank Castagna Family Foundation Inc reported 2 grants totaling $120,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 42 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Rita and Frank Castagna Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (44%), Health (18%), Arts & Culture (10%).
Who are Rita and Frank Castagna Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Adelphi University ($806k), Hofstra University ($600k), The Viscardi Center Inc ($310k).
Does Rita and Frank Castagna Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Rita and Frank Castagna Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Rita and Frank Castagna Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Del Vecchio Family Foundation, The Bahnik Foundation Inc, Lostritto Family Foundation.
Where is Rita and Frank Castagna Family Foundation Inc based?
Rita and Frank Castagna Family Foundation Inc is based in NY.

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 65 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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