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Ron and Andrea DeFeo Family Foundation at a glance

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Ron and Andrea DeFeo Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$516kRecreation & Sports$197kEducation$24kArts & Culture$8kHuman Services$4kYouth Development$1kReligion$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RECREATION UNLIMITED FOUNDATION$2,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SIBLING CONNECTIONS INC: $2k → 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

NH
IL
MA
OH
NJ
CT
CA
SC
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$632k · 6 repeat orgs$122k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
8

Total granted

$632k
$119k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+1%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
HealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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

  • PC
    PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · $225k · revenue +7%
  • Northwestern University
    4× · 2017–2024 · $197k · revenue +41%
  • BH
    BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL
    4× · 2018–2021 · $180k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • CH
    Concord Hospital Trustgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +46%
  • FO
    FAMILIES OF SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY DBA CURE SMA
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +1%
  • BOSTON BALLET INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +19%
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
Miriam Hospital Foundation

To be operated exclusively for charitable, scientific, and educational purposes, and more specifically, for the purpose of supporting and otherwise benefiting and being responsive to the needs of Brown University Health and its affiliates.

Health
2
Newport Hospital Foundation Inc

NHF coordinates fundraising in support of comprehensive integrated health care services for the advancement and well-being of the southern Rhode Island community, in furtherance of the purposes of Newport Hospital.

Health
3
Boston Philharmonic Orchestra Corporation

The BPO was formed in 1979 to provide opportunities for an evolving community of amateur student and professional players to perform together present challenging classical repertoire & enhance the publics awareness & understanding of this…

Arts & Culture
4
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
5
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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6
MaineGeneral Health

To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.

Health
7
Saratoga Care Inc

To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.

Health
8
Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Specialists Pllc

The Mission of Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Specialists, PLLC is to put the patients first, provide coordinated quality care and value, exceed the expectations of patients, providers, staff and the community that it serves.

Health
9
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
10
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
11
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute is an independent health research facility closely affiliated with The Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa, committed to the excellence in the creation of scientific knowledge that…

Health
12
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Recreation Unlimited Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Music for Youth 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

13 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. 13 of the 15 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL: $180,000 · HealthBRIDGEPORT HOSPITALConcord Hospital Trust: $100,000 · HealthConcord Hospital Trust+1 more: $7,500 · HealthPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $225,000 · PhilanthropyPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATIONNorthwestern University: $196,500 · Recreation & SportsNorthwestern University+1 more: $2,500 · Recreation & SportsOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $24,000 · EducationPELOTONIA: $3,500 · EducationBOSTON BALLET INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureNEW HAMPSHIRE MUSIC FESTIVAL: $3,000 · Arts & CultureMusic for Youth Inc: $1,000 · Arts & CultureRonald McDonald House Charities of Central Ohio Inc: $1,800 · OtherCATHEDRAL OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST: $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherSIBLING CONNECTIONS INC: $2,000 · Human Services
Health$287,500Philanthropy$225,000Recreation & Sports$199,000Education$27,500Arts & Culture$9,000Other$3,800Human Services$2,000

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 budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $225,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNorthwestern University: $196,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL: $180,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetConcord Hospital Trust: $100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $24,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILIES OF SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY DBA CURE SMA: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON BALLET INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPELOTONIA: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE MUSIC FESTIVAL: $3,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSIBLING CONNECTIONS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Central Ohio Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMusic for Youth Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC8.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Ron and Andrea DeFeo Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ron and Andrea DeFeo Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Sibling Connections Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Bridgeport Hospital: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Ballet Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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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Find your warmest path to Ron and Andrea DeFeo Family 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 15 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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