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Susan Nicholas Fasciano Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20232025.

Education$3.2MPhilanthropy$1.8MRecreation & Sports$1.5MYouth Development$725kHealth$130kHuman Services$100kReligion$75kEnvironment$55kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $235k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $308k
  • $250k+5 grants · $2.3M
$35,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$53M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL PHILANTROPIC TRUST$1,091,456
THE VARSITY COLLECTIVE CHARITABLE FUND$350,000
UNIVERSITY OF WI FOUNDATION$350,000
THE VARSITY COLLECTIVE CHARITABLE FUND$250,000
UNIVERSITY OF WI FOUNDATION$250,000
UNIVERSITY OF WI FOUNDATION$107,500
UNIVERSITY OF WI FOUNDATION$100,000
YOUTH SERVICES OF GLENVIEWNORTHBROOK$100,000
RAVINA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION$35,000
MISERICORDIA HOME$25,000
YOUTH SERVICES OF GLENVIEWNORTHBROOK$25,000
GET UPSTAND UP TO CURE PARALYSIS FOUNDATION$25,000
UNITE 2 FIGHT PARALYSIS FOUNDATION$25,000
CHRIST CHURCH$25,000
THE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP$25,000
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $725k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICE: $25k → 10%DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICE: $25k → 10%MISERICORDIA HOME: $25k → 14%MISERICORDIA HOME: $25k → 14%YOUTH SERVICES OF GLENVIEWNORTHBROOK: $500k → 14%YOUTH SERVICES OF GLENVIEWNORTHBROOK: $100k → 14%YOUTH SERVICES OF GLENVIEWNORTHBROOK: $25k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 63% of Susan Nicholas Fasciano Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Susan Nicholas Fasciano Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.6M · 10 repeat orgs$240k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
2

Total granted

$5.6M
$200k

Still filing today

80%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyEnvironmentArts & CultureOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $3.2M · revenue +39%
  • TV
    THE VARSITY COLLECTIVE CHARITABLE FUND INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +118%
  • YS
    YOUTH SERVICES OF GLENVIEWNORTHBROOK
    2× · 2024–2025 · $625k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • TR
    TEAM RUBICON
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WI NIL FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $100k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

To support scientific research within the uw-madison community by providing financial support, actively managing assets, and moving innovations to the marketplace for a financial return and global impact.

Education
2
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education
3
Mathematics Institute of Wisconsin Co Kathryn Leverenz
Education
4
The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc

The medical college of wisconsin (mcw) is a distinguished leader and innovator in the education and development of the next generation of physicians, (continued in schedule o)

Education
5
Madison Community Foundation

Madison community foundation will engage greater madison in philanthropy to advance a more vibrant and equitable community.

Philanthropy
6
Wisconsin Medical Society Inc

To improve the health of the people of wisconsin by supporting and strengthening physicians' ability to practice high quality patient care in a changing environment.

7
University Research Park Incorporated

The organization acquires, holds, administers, and distributes real and personal property for the benefit of the university of wisconsin (uw)-madison.

Education
8
Wisconsin Trust Account Foundation Inc

The wisconsin trust account foundation works with civil legal aid organizations in wisconsin to increase access to justice. we oversee funds and invest in services and projects to help people resolve legal problems.

Crime & Legal
9
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
10
Uwm Research Foundation Inc

Support research and innovation at the university of wisconsin - milwaukee by providing reserach funding, entrepreneurship support, and by engaging in corporate partnering activities to that end.

Community Improvement
11
Daniel Murphy Scholarship Fund

The mission of the daniel murphy scholarship fund is to give high school scholarship assistance and educational support to chicago students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. the fund seeks to make a life-altering difference in…

12
Wisconsin Economic Development Association Inc

The mission of wisconsin economic development association, inc. is to enhance economic development in wisconsin through professional development, networking, and advocacy.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Horticultural Society and the most unlike its peers is Get Up Stand Up to Cure Paralysis Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 15 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $3,223,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATIONNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $1,786,456 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUSTTHE VARSITY COLLECTIVE CHARITABLE FUND INC — $1,351,000 · PhilanthropyTHE VARSITY COLLECTIVE CHARITABLE FUND INCYOUTH SERVICES OF GLENVIEWNORTHBROOK — $625,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH SERV…DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC A…MISERICORDIA HOME — $50,000 · Human ServicesMISERICORD…TEAM RUBICON — $100,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WI NIL FUND — $100,000 · OtherCHRIST CHURCH INC — $75,000 · OtherUNITE 2 FIGHT PARALYSIS FOUNDATION — $40,000 · OtherTHE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP — $50,000 · HealthGet Up Stand Up to Cure Paralysis Foundation — $40,000 · HealthCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY — $50,000 · EnvironmentRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION — $35,000 · Arts & CultureTHE RIDGES SANCTUARY INC — $5,000 · Animals
Education$3,223,500Philanthropy$3,137,456Human Services$725,000Other$315,000Health$90,000Environment$50,000Arts & Culture$35,000Animals$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $3,223,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $1,786,456 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VARSITY COLLECTIVE CHARITABLE FUND INC — $1,351,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetYOUTH SERVICES OF GLENVIEWNORTHBROOK — $625,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMISERICORDIA HOME — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGet Up Stand Up to Cure Paralysis Foundation — $40,000 over 2y, 28% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Renaissance Charitable Foundation IncIN11.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Susan Nicholas Fasciano Family Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Susan Nicholas Fasciano Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Susan Nicholas Fasciano Family Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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