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Sons of Italy 216 Charitable & Educational Trust at a glance

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Sons of Italy 216 Charitable & Educational Trust

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.

$9k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$60kCrime & Legal$8kHuman Services$2kFood & Nutrition$1kScience & Tech$1kCommunity Improvement$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$208k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VARIOUS CHARITIES$2,750
NEW ENGLAND LAWBOSTON$2,000
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY$2,000
STONEHILL COLLEGE$1,000
UMASS AMHERST$1,000
UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA$650
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 56% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MASS MARITIME: $2k → 8%VARIOUS CHARITIES: $4k → 8%FRAMINGHAM STATE UNIV: $2k → 8%MERRIMACK COLLEGE: $1k → 10%STONEHILL COLLEGE: $2k → 11%UMASS AMHERST: $2k → 12%SIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $2k → 16%AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE: $2k → 17%FLORIDA ST UNIV: $1k → 19%ROGER WILLIAMS UNIV: $1k → 7%SAINT ANSLEM: $2k → 7%KEENE STATE: $1k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF NH: $1k → 9%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $2k → 10%UNIV OF NEW ENGLAND: $2k → 9%BABSON COLLEGE: $1k → 7%VARIOUS CHARITIES: $3k → 8%UMASS LOWELL: $1k → 8%STONEHILL COLLEGE: $1k → 11%UNIV OF MASS AMHERST: $2k → 12%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $2k → 16%AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE: $1k → 17%PROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $1k → 14%UNIV OF NEW ENGLAND: $1k → 9%VARIOUS CHARITIES: $2k → 8%BRISTOL COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $1k → 11%UMASS AMHERST: $1k → 12%MASS COLLEGE OF PHARMACY: $1k → 16%VARIOUS CHARITIES: $2k → 8%UMASS DARTMOUTH: $2k → 11%UMASS AMHERST: $1k → 12%SIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $1k → 16%VARIOUS CHARITIES: $1k → 8%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $1k → 8%UMASS DARTMOUTH: $1k → 11%UMASS BOSTON: $3k → 16%BRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITY: $6k → 8%UMASS BOSTON: $2k → 16%FAMILY AND COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $1k → 8%UMASS BOSTON: $1k → 16%BRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 8%NEW ENGLAND LAWBOSTON: $4k → 16%BRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 8%NEW ENGLAND LAWBOSTON: $2k → 16%BRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERTY: $1k → 8%NEW ENGLAND LAWBOSTON: $2k → 16%STONEHILL COLLEGE: $2k → 8%SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY: $1k → 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

ME
NH
NY
MA
CT
RI
TN
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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$55k · 12 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
27

Total granted

$55k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+19%

Still filing today

42%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationFood & NutritionOther
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

  • NE
    NEW ENGLAND LAWBOSTON
    3× · 2023–2025 · $8k · revenue +18%
  • SC
    STONEHILL COLLEGE INC
    3× · 2020–2025 · $4k · revenue +41%
  • SIMMONS UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $3k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • SAINT ANSELM COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +40%
  • UO
    UNIV OF MASS AMHERST
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
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
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
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
4
Dean College

Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…

Education
5
Emmanuel College

Emmanuel college is a coed, residential catholic liberal arts and sciences college with 2,112 undergraduate and graduate students.

Education
6
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
7
Regis College

Regis college, through education in the arts, sciences, and professions empowers women and men to challenge themselves academically, to serve and to lead. a catholic college, regis is a diverse and welcoming community guided by the values…

Education
8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
9
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
10
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
11
The President and Trustees of Colby College

to provide a rigorous and transformative liberal arts education that prepares students to become thoughtful, engaged citizens.

Education
12
Le Moyne College

The College is a diverse learning community that strives for academic excellence in the Catholic and Jesuit tradition through comprehensive programs rooted in the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeastern University; the most unlike its peers is The Charity Guild 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

21 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. 21 of the 43 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
17/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VARIOUS CHARITIES: $12,035 · OtherVARIOUS CHARITIESBRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITY: $7,500 · OtherBRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITYUMASS BOSTON: $5,500 · OtherUMASS BOSTONUMASS AMHERST: $4,300 · OtherUMASS AMHERSTUMASS DARTMOUTH: $2,500 · OtherUMASS LOWELL: $2,150 · Other+17 more: $15,470 · Other+17 moreNEW ENGLAND LAWBOSTON: $8,000 · EducationNEW ENGLAND LAWBOSTONSTONEHILL COLLEGE INC: $4,150 · EducationSTONEHILL COLLEGE INCSIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $3,000 · EducationSIMMONS UNIVERSITYUniversity of New England: $3,000 · EducationUniversity of New EnglandAmerican International College: $2,500 · EducationAmerican International CollegeSAINT ANSELM COLLEGE: $2,000 · EducationSAINT ANSELM COLLEGENORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $2,000 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYTrustees of Dartmouth College: $1,500 · Education+11 more: $8,650 · Education+11 moreTHE CHARITY GUILD INC: $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$49,455Education$34,800Food & Nutrition$1,000

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 budgetNEW ENGLAND LAWBOSTON: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTONEHILL COLLEGE INC: $4,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of New England: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican International College: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT ANSELM COLLEGE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY AND COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $1,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERRIMACK COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHARITY GUILD INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBABSON COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUFFOLK UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Tampa Incorporated: $650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCURRY COLLEGE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBelmont University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRYANT UNIVERSITY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY: $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.

  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND LAWBOSTON ↗
  • Who funds STONEHILL COLLEGE INC ↗
  • Who funds SIMMONS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds University of New England ↗
  • Who funds American International College ↗
  • Who funds SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY AND COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC ↗
  • Who funds MERRIMACK COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE CHARITY GUILD INC ↗
  • Who funds BABSON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds The University of Tampa Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds CURRY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Belmont University ↗
  • Who funds BRYANT UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

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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 Sons of Italy 216 Charitable & Educational Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sons of Italy 216 Charitable & Educational Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Family and Community Resources Inc: 56% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 5% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 4% of income from government
  • Merrimack College: 2% of income from government
  • Stonehill College Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Suffolk University: 1% of income from government
  • Curry College: 0% of income from government
  • Simmons University: 0% of income from government
  • Babson College: 0% of income from government
  • The University of Tampa Incorporated: 0% of income from government
  • American International College: 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)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 Sons of Italy 216 Charitable & Educational Trust 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 43 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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