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Rita and Frank Castagna Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% 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
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$214k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY$100,000
UJA-FEDERATION OF NEW YORK$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 (FY17–22, $312k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%THE VISCARDI CENTER: $100k → 6%THE VISCARDI CENTER: $60k → 6%THE VISCARDI CENTER: $50k → 6%THE VISCARDI CENTER: $50k → 6%THE VISCARDI CENTER: $50k → 6%HELEN KELLER NATIONAL CENTER: $1k → 6%HELEN KELLER NATIONAL CENTER: $1k → 6%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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.6M · 29 repeat orgs$420k to everyone else

29 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
36

Total granted

$3.6M
$420k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+62%

Still filing today

69%
39%

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
HealthEducationPhilanthropyAnimalsHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther
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

  • AU
    ADELPHI UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2019–2021 · $806k · revenue +15%
  • HU
    HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2019–2024 · $600k · revenue +19%
  • TV
    THE VISCARDI CENTER INC
    5× · 2018–2022 · $310k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • H
    HERITX
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $45k · revenue +70%
  • SG
    SUSAN G KOMEN
    one grant, 2018 · $40k
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
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
2
North Shore University Hospital

North shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
3
Staten Island University Hospital

Staten island university hospital is an affiliate within northwell health, inc. ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the…

Health
4
South Shore University Hospital

South shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
5
Glen Cove Hospital

Glen cove hospital is part of northwell health, inc. ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality geriatric care; educating the current and future…

Health
6
Northwell Health Inc

Northwell health is the parent company of a fully integrated health system that is committed to promote clinical care, health education, conduct biomedical research, and caring for the community regardless of ability to pay.

Community Improvement
7
Northwell Healthcare Inc

Northwell healthcare inc. coordinates policy making and strategic planning by providing advisory and administrative support services to affiliated health care organizations within northwell health; whose mission is to improve the health of…

Health
8
Lenox Hill Hospital

Lenox hill hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future generations…

Health
9
Northern Westchester Hospital Association

Northern westchester hospital association is an affiliate within northwell health, inc. ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care;…

Health
10
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
11
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
North Shore-Lij Occupational Medicine Pc

North shore-lij occupational medicine, pc is part of northwell health, inc. ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Long Island University; the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 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

34 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. 34 of the 65 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
29/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ADELPHI UNIVERSITY: $806,000 · EducationADELPHI UNIVERSITYHOFSTRA UNIVERSITY: $600,000 · EducationHOFSTRA UNIVERSITYSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · EducationSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY+2 more: $65,000 · EducationYMCA OF LONG ISLAND: $325,000 · OtherYMCA OF LONG ISLANDNORTH SHORE CHILD FAMILY: $191,000 · OtherNORTH SHORE CHILD FAMILYTOURO LAW CENTER: $150,000 · OtherTOURO LAW CENTERLIUTILLES CENTER: $90,000 · OtherLIUTILLES CENTEROld Westbury Gardens Inc: $84,500 · OtherOld Westbury Gardens IncHERITX: $50,000 · Other+39 more: $486,500 · Other+39 moreTHE VISCARDI CENTER INC: $310,000 · Human Services+1 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $160,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $55,000 · HealthTHE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH: $20,000 · HealthHEAD INJURY ASSOCIATION INC: $15,000 · HealthHEALING HEADBANDS PROJECT INC: $14,000 · HealthLong Island Alzheimers and Dementia Center Inc: $12,500 · HealthAMERICAN-ITALIAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthNassau County Museum of Art: $189,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $145,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEFFREY AHN JR FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTHE NORTH SHORE LAND ALLIANCE INC: $105,000 · Environment
Education$1,571,000Other$1,377,000Human Services$312,000Health$286,500Arts & Culture$189,000Philanthropy$165,000Environment$105,000

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 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
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 ADELPHI UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE VISCARDI CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Nassau County Museum of Art ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NORTH SHORE LAND ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Old Westbury Gardens Inc ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds LONG ISLAND COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM & DRUG DEPENDENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds WIDENER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR THE PRESERVATION OF WILD ANIMALS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds HEAD INJURY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HEALING HEADBANDS PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds Long Island Alzheimers and Dementia Center Inc ↗

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 Fo…The Bahnik Foundation…Lostritto Family Foun…Jewish Communal FundThe Goldman Sachs Cha…The Donald and Barbar…Peter & Jeri Dejana F…Mother Cabrini Health…The New York Communit…Susan & Leonard Feins…McKeen FundRk Mellon Family Foun…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Rita and Frank Castagna Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rita and Frank Castagna Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 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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