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Sons of Italy Foundation

The SONS OF ITALY FOUNDATION was founded as a grant-making institution with the purpose of preserving italian american culture, encouraging educational excellence, supporting medical research, preventing discrimination and improving the quality of life in other areas.

$458k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$113k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$593kArts & Culture$174kPublic Benefit$162kPublic Safety & Disaster$75kCivil Rights$65kHuman Services$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 16 grants below total $396,442, the rows itemized in this filing. The $457,984 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $61,542 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $155k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $234k
$10,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$5.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COOLEY'S ANEMIA FOUNDATION$113,361
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$67,917
DOUG FLUTIE JR FOUND FOR AUTISM$52,343
GARIBALDI MEUCCI MUSEUM$29,821
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$20,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$15,000
PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME$10,000
COLBY COLLEGE$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD$10,000
BROWN UNIVERSITY$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$10,000
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 (FY17–19, $248k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COOLEY'S ANEMIA FOUNDATION: $158k → 17%COOLEY'S ANEMIA FOUNDATION: $65k → 17%COOLEY'S ANEMIA FOUNDATION: $25k → 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.
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 9 repeat orgs$452k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
5

Total granted

$1.0M
$120k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+82%

Still filing today

78%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $332k 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
HealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesPublic BenefitCrime & LegalOther
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

  • WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $248k · revenue +90%
  • AF
    ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $192k · revenue +100%
  • GM
    Garibaldi Meucci Museum
    9× · 2017–2025 · $144k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • FR
    FIRST RESPONDERS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue +309%
  • TJ
    THE JIMMY V FUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • GD
    GRANT DISTRIBUTE6040 MOTHER CABR
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
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
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
2
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
3
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
4
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
5
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

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
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
8
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
9
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
10
Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education
11
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
12
California Lutheran University

The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Delaware; the most unlike its peers is Garibaldi Meucci Museum. 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

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 29 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
8/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $192,034 · HealthALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AME…THE DOUG FLUTIE JR FOUNDATION FOR AUTISM INC: $122,874 · HealthTHE DOUG FLUTIE JR FOUNDATION…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $67,917 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED…+2 more: $15,000 · HealthCOOLEY'S ANEMIA FOUNDATION: $113,361 · OtherCOOLEY'S ANEMIA FOUNDATIONDOUG FLUTIE JR FOUND FOR AUTISM: $52,343 · OtherDOUG FLUTIE JR FOUND FOR A…Individual grant recipient: $40,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $15,954 · OtherTHE JIMMY V FUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherGRANT DISTRIBUTE6040 MOTHER CABR: $15,000 · OtherCOMMISSION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $64,750 · OtherCOMMISSION FOR SOCIAL JUST…+5 more: $48,000 · Other+5 moreWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $248,027 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PR…Garibaldi Meucci Museum: $143,826 · Arts & CultureGaribaldi Meucc…COLUMBUS CITIZENS FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureCOLUMBUS CITIZE…Help Our Military Heroes Inc: $162,321 · Public BenefitHelp Our Mi…Cornell University: $20,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · EducationThe President and Trustees of Colby College: $10,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $10,000 · EducationPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $10,000 · EducationUniversity of Miami: $10,000 · EducationFIRST RESPONDERS FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Health$397,825Other$364,408Human Services$248,027Arts & Culture$203,826Public Benefit$162,321Education$85,000Public Safety & Disaster$75,000

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 budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $248,027 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $192,034 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetHelp Our Military Heroes Inc: $162,321 over 8y, 7.0% of budgetGaribaldi Meucci Museum: $143,826 over 9y, 18% of budgetTHE DOUG FLUTIE JR FOUNDATION FOR AUTISM INC: $122,874 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetCOOLEY'S ANEMIA FOUNDATION: $113,361 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetFIRST RESPONDERS FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $67,917 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMISSION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $64,750 over 4y, 30% of budgetCOLUMBUS CITIZENS FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCornell University: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe President and Trustees of Colby College: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $5,000 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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Sons of Italy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sons of Italy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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.

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 29 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 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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