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Sanzone Family Foundation at a glance

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Sanzone 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.

$148k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Animals$242kEducation$191kHuman Services$106kHealth$83kArts & Culture$50kEnvironment$18kPhilanthropy$18kEmployment$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $100k
$5,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAYO CLINIC$30,000
JACKSONVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY$25,000
TUNNEL 2 TOWERS FOUNDATION$25,000
ASPCA$10,000
PRETTY IN PINK FOUNDATION$10,000
HIRE HEROES USA$6,000
PROJECT K9 HERO$5,000
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS$5,000
UNITED WAY VENTURA COUNTY$5,000
GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC$5,000
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY$5,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$3,000
TRINITY RESCUE MISSION$2,500
BETTY GRIFFIN CENTER$2,500
HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES$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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TRUE GRIT FOUNDATION: $2k → 6%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $5k → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $5k → 9%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $5k → 14%COMPANIONS FOR HEROES: $2k → 13%Guiding Eyes For The Blind Inc: $2k → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $2k → 9%Guiding Eyes For The Blind Inc: $2k → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $2k → 9%RETHREADED: $3k → 14%Rethreaded Inc: $2k → 14%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

WA
MN
IL
NY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
MO
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
GA
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$592k · 24 repeat orgs$119k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
25

Total granted

$592k
$93k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+6%

Still filing today

75%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationHealthHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • HU
    HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2018–2020 · $160k · revenue +21%
  • JH
    JACKSONVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $126k · revenue +9%
  • CA
    CATHEDRAL ARTS PROJECT INC
    5× · 2018–2023 · $50k · revenue +134%

Funded once

  • TF
    THE FOLDED FLAG FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +19%
  • PP
    PATRIOT'S PATH COUNCIL
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • PH
    PROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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
Lucky Dog Animal Rescue

Lucky dog animal rescue is a volunteer-powered nonprofit dedicated to rescuing homeless, neglected, and abandoned animals from certain euthanasia and finding them loving forever homes. we educate the community and all pet owners on…

Animals
2
Helping Animals Live & Overcome in

Helping animals live and overcome (h.a.l.o.) provides a no-kill safe haven where extraordinary measures are taken to save homeless pets and protect them from abuse and neglect. we continually refine our programs to maintain a 98% save…

Animals
3
Florida Pointer Rescue Inc

Rescue pointer dogs and treat back to health and f

Animals
4
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
5
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Inc

Protection of animal rights

Animals
6
Humane World for Animals International

HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…

Animals
7
Juneau Animal Rescue

To serve our community by promoting animal welfare and strengthening the animal-human bond. to improve the lives of pets through education and protection. to shelter stray, abandoned, and surrendered pets and find them loving homes.

Animals
8
New Hampshire Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To save the lives of animals through rescue, rehabilitation and adoption; to promote learning, eliminate animal cruelty and be a leader in advancing the highest standards in animal welfare.

Animals
9
The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.

Animals
10
Noah's Animal House Foundation

To remove the "no pets allowed" sign on the doors of domestic violence shelters. women should not have to choose between leaving their abuser and leaving their pets behind to be abused.

Animals
11
Aerial Recovery

Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…

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12
The Humane Society of Rochester & Monroe County for the Prevention of Cruelty to

Together with our community, we better the lives of animals through justice, prevention, and life-saving care. lollypop farm, the humane society of greater rochester, envisions a just and compassionate world for all animals.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project K9 Hero; the most unlike its peers is Twin Oaks Horse Sanctuary 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

46 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. 46 of the 57 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/46
Grantees still filing
27/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY: $160,000 · EducationHOFSTRA UNIVERSITYCATHEDRAL ARTS PROJECT INC: $50,000 · EducationCATHEDRAL ARTS PROJECT INCChildren's Enviromental Literacy Fdn: $14,000 · EducationChildren's Enviromental Literacy F…HIRE HEROES USA INC: $11,000 · EducationJACKSONVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $125,500 · AnimalsJACKSONVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INCTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $27,500 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVE…AMARYLLIS FARM EQUINE RESCUE INC: $17,000 · AnimalsAMARYLLIS FARM EQUINE RESCUE INCBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $11,500 · AnimalsNEW YORK BULLY CREW: $10,500 · Animals+10 more: $38,000 · Animals+10 moreTUNNEL 2 TOWERS FOUNDATION: $62,000 · OtherTUNNEL 2 TOWERS FOUNDA…Individual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recip…PATRIOT'S PATH COUNCIL: $10,000 · OtherPATRIOT'S PATH COUNCILRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $8,000 · OtherVESTED INTEREST IN K-9'S: $6,000 · OtherSAFETY SHELTER OF ST JOHNS COUNTY INC: $12,500 · OtherSAFETY SHELTER OF ST J…+14 more: $42,607 · Other+14 moreMAYO CLINIC: $55,000 · Health+4 more: $3,000 · HealthGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $18,000 · Human ServicesJERSEY BATTERED WOMEN'S SERVICE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 · Human ServicesRethreaded Inc: $4,500 · Human ServicesCompanions for Heroes: $2,000 · Human ServicesTRUE GRIT FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesPRETTY IN PINK FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyPINK AID INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF VENTURA COUNTY INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER GOOD CHARITIES: $2,500 · PhilanthropyGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $2,000 · PhilanthropyA MOMENT OF MAGIC INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyTHE FOLDED FLAG FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Public Benefit
Education$235,000Animals$230,000Other$151,107Health$58,000Human Services$41,000Philanthropy$25,500Public Benefit$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHOFSTRA UNIVERSITY: $160,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJACKSONVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $125,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCATHEDRAL ARTS PROJECT INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $27,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOLDED FLAG FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $18,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMARYLLIS FARM EQUINE RESCUE INC: $17,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetChildren's Enviromental Literacy Fdn: $14,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSAFETY SHELTER OF ST JOHNS COUNTY INC: $12,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHIRE HEROES USA INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK BULLY CREW: $10,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPRETTY IN PINK FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJERSEY BATTERED WOMEN'S SERVICE INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT K9 HERO: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPINK AID INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF VENTURA COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRethreaded Inc: $4,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSAFE PET RESCUE INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWarrior Dog Foundation: $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTWIN OAKS HORSE SANCTUARY INC: $4,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetDedication and Everlasting Love to Animals: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMENS CENTER OF JACKSONVILLE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER GOOD CHARITIES: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEACHES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOperation New Hope Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrother Wolf Animal Rescue Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRANKIE'S FRIENDS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CITY RESCUE MISSION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCompanions for Heroes: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $1,107 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA MOMENT OF MAGIC INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEAD FOR THE CURE FOUNDATION: $500 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.

Thomas & Annette Dirc…The Community Foundat…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Ayco Charitable F…AbbVie FoundationJacksonville Jaguars …The Jim Moran Foundat…Mayo Clinic Group Ret…The Pfizer Foundation…Pga Tour IncEnterprise Holdings F…The Bank of America C…
Thomas & Annette Dircks Family FoundationFL20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Thomas & Annette Dircks Family Foundation · The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation Inc · The Jim Moran Foundation Inc · Mayo Clinic Group Return · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Pga Tour Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Sanzone Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sanzone Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 37%
  • Jersey Battered Women's Service Inc: 40% of income from government
  • Womens Center of Jacksonville Inc: 37% of income from government
  • Operation New Hope Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Cathedral Arts Project Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 57 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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