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Robert F Agostinelli Foundation at a glance

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Robert F Agostinelli 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.

$192k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$61k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Public Benefit$903kSocial Science$431kArts & Culture$348kHealth$261kHuman Services$141kEducation$136kEnvironment$98kInternational$71kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $111k
$42,079
Median grant
4
States reached
$217k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN-ITALIAN CANCER FOUNDATION$61,000
NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE$50,000
AMERICAN VETERANS CENTER$42,079
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PRADO MUSEUM$27,500
BORNE USA INC$10,500
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CANCER RESEARCH INC$1,270
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PRADO MUSEUM: $28k → 11%PRINCE ALBERT II OF MONACO FOUNDATION USA: $98k → 22%FRENCH AMERICAN FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%MICHAEL P MURPHY NAVAL SEAL MUSEUM: $100k → 7%ARCHBISHOP MOLLOY HIGH SCHOOL: $10k → 13%FRIENDS OF FONDATION DE FRANCE INC: $25k → 17%THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $200k → 14%THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES: $5k → 14%AMERICAN VETERANS CENTER: $116k → 9%LIONS CLUB INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 7%FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION: $25k → 11%AMERICAN VETERANS CENTER: $42k → 7%BORNE USA INC: $11k → 16%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PRADO MUSEUM: $25k → 11%LT MICHAEL P MURPHY NAVY SEAL MUSEUM: $100k → 7%HUMAN LIFE FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $150k → 14%CENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY: $25k → 14%AMERICAN VETERANS CENTER: $52k → 9%AMERICAN VETERANS CENTER: $30k → 7%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PRADO MUSEUM: $20k → 11%LT MICHAEL P MURPHY NAVY SEAL MUSEUM: $50k → 7%COMMENTARY INC: $25k → 17%THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $150k → 14%AMERICAN VETERANS CENTER: $25k → 9%AMERICAN VETERANS CENTER: $28k → 7%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PRADO MUSEUM: $10k → 11%COMMENTARY INC: $13k → 17%GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $150k → 14%AMERICAN VETERANS CENTER: $27k → 7%BRITISH SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES FOUNDATION INC: $42k → 17%THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%AMERICAN VETERANS CENTER: $15k → 7%AMERICAN-ITALIAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $61k → 17%AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE: $10k → 7%HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $50k → 17%AMERICAN ITALIAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $42k → 17%AMERICAN ITALIAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%AMERICAN-ITALIAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $22k → 17%AMERICAN-ITALIAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $15k → 17%AMERICAN ITALIAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $15k → 17%ENCOUNTER BOOKS: $15k → 17%ENCOUNTER FOR CULTURE AND EDUCATION: $10k → 17%THE NEW CRITERION: $10k → 17%NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE: $246k → 17%NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE: $120k → 17%NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE: $50k → 17%NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE: $15k → 17%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

MN
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
VA
DC
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 9 repeat orgs$531k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
22

Total granted

$2.0M
$520k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+25%

Still filing today

78%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
Arts & CultureInternationalEducationReligionPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • NR
    NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE
    4× · 2018–2024 · $431k · revenue +25%
  • AC
    AMERICAN-ITALIAN CANCER FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $185k · revenue +62%
  • LM
    LT MICHAEL P MURPHY NAVY SEAL MUSEUM
    2× · 2018–2019 · $150k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • MP
    MICHAEL P MURPHY NAVAL SEAL MUSEUM
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • TP
    THE PRINCE ALBERT II OF MONACO FOUNDATION USA
    one grant, 2023 · $98k · revenue -49%
  • HF
    HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
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
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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2
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
3
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
4
American Spectator Foundation Inc

The American Spectator Foundation is a non-profit, non-partisan media organization responsible for publishing The American Spectator. Through its editorial programs, The American Spectator strives to educate the public on new ideas,…

Education
5
American Academy of Sciences and Letters Inc

The American Academy of Sciences and Letters (AASL) promotes scholarship and honors outstanding achievement in the arts, sciences, and learned professions. It encourages the fruitful exchange of ideas within academia and society at large…

Education
6
First Look Institute Inc

First Look Institute supports fearless investigative journalism, innovative and cinematic nonfiction filmmaking, and press freedom initiatives to protect the right to a free and open society and press.

Arts & Culture
7
Trustees of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens

The broad mission of the ASCSA has remained constant over its distinguished history: teaching research archaeological exploration publication and dissemination of research. Founded in 1881 the ASCSA provides graduate students and scholars…

Arts & Culture
8
Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies

The Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies (FAPE) is dedicated to enhancing the United States' image abroad through American Art. Founded as a public-private, non-partisan partnership in 1986, FAPE works with the U.S. Department…

Arts & Culture
9
Foundation for American Security and Freedom Inc

To inform and educate the American public on issues of national security and advocate for a strong national foreign policy that best serves the interests of the United States.

Education
10
American Friends of Cambridge Middle East and North Africa Forum Inc

The forum educates on all subjects relating to the politics, international relations and contemporary affairs of the middle east and north africa. the forum advances public knowledge about the importance of the region to british foreign…

International
11
American Friends of the National Portrait Gallery (London) Foundation Inc

To encourage appreciation and understanding of the art of portraiture through support of the operations and activities of the national portrait gallery in london and its collaboration with american arts and academic institutions.

Arts & Culture
12
The French-American Foundation

Founded in 1976, and building on more than two centuries of shared ideals between France and the United States, the French-American Foundation works to enrich a transatlantic relationship that is essential in todays world.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Cultural Review; the most unlike its peers is The Neumann Forum 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

20 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. 20 of the 33 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
12/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE: $431,228 · OtherNATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTEAMERICAN VETERANS CENTER: $192,826 · OtherAMERICAN VETERANS CENTERAMERICAN STUDIES CENTER: $142,705 · OtherAMERICAN STUDIES CENTERMICHAEL P MURPHY NAVAL SEAL MUSEUM: $100,000 · OtherMICHAEL P MURPHY NAVAL SEAL MUSEUMHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $50,000 · Other+12 more: $137,500 · Other+12 moreTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $750,000 · EducationTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION+1 more: $1,270 · EducationLT MICHAEL P MURPHY NAVY SEAL MUSEUM: $150,000 · Arts & CultureLT MICHAEL …American Friends of the Prado Museum: $82,500 · Arts & CultureAmerican Fr…ENCOUNTER FOR CULTURE AND EDUCATION: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN-ITALIAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $185,140 · HealthTHE PRINCE ALBERT II OF MONACO FOUNDATION USA: $97,500 · PhilanthropyFoundation For Excellence in Higher Education: $25,000 · PhilanthropyBRITISH SCHOOLS & UNIVERSITIES FOUNDATION INC: $42,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF FONDATION DE FRANCE INC: $25,000 · InternationalCENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY INC: $25,000 · InternationalCOMMENTARY INC: $37,500 · ReligionThe Neumann Forum Inc: $5,000 · ReligionAMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL: $10,000 · Public Benefit
Other$1,054,259Education$751,270Arts & Culture$247,500Health$185,140Philanthropy$122,500International$92,000Religion$42,500Public Benefit$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $750,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE: $431,228 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetAMERICAN-ITALIAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $185,140 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetLT MICHAEL P MURPHY NAVY SEAL MUSEUM: $150,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetAMERICAN STUDIES CENTER: $142,705 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTHE PRINCE ALBERT II OF MONACO FOUNDATION USA: $97,500 over 1y, 13% of budgetAmerican Friends of the Prado Museum: $82,500 over 4y, 13% of budgetBRITISH SCHOOLS & UNIVERSITIES FOUNDATION INC: $42,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMENTARY INC: $37,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF FONDATION DE FRANCE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetENCOUNTER FOR CULTURE AND EDUCATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Human Life Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR CULTURAL REVIEW: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF CANCER RESEARCH INC: $1,270 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc: $1,000 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.

Donors Trust IncSarah Scaife Foundati…Diana Davis Spencer F…The Lynde and Harry B…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Goldman Sachs Cha…California Community …The Ayco Charitable F…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…
Donors Trust IncVA17.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated · Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · California Community Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
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    How do I get to Robert F Agostinelli Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Robert F Agostinelli 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 33 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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