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Tarky Lombardi Foundation Inc

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.

$44k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
0187% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$476kArts & Culture$161kHealth$20kHuman Services$12kReligion$8kPublic Safety & Disaster$300Environment$200Food & Nutrition$100Other$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
$3,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$144k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NASCENTIA HEALTH CHARITABLE FOUNDAT$15,000
HONOR FLIGHT SYRACUSE$15,000
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION$10,200
CROUSE HEALTH FOUNDATION$3,000
SYRACUSE STAGE$500
IN MY FATHERS KITCHEN$100
GUARDIAN ANGELS SOCIETY$100
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $550) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FRANCIS HOUSE: $450 → 14%FRANCIS HOUSE: $100 → 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.

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$707k · 18 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
18

Total granted

$707k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+30%

Still filing today

50%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
EducationArts & CultureHealthReligionHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterOther

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

  • SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $266k · revenue +45%
  • SJ
    ST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2022 · $89k · revenue +29%
  • CM
    Carnegie Mellon University
    4× · 2018–2021 · $55k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • HP
    HIGH POINT UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +73%
  • NH
    NY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2024 · $6k
  • SB
    ST BARNABAS THE APOSTLE
    one grant, 2021 · $1k

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
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
2
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

3
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
4
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
5
St Francis College

St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.

Education
6
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
7
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

8
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
9
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
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
11
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
12
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Syracuse University and the most unlike its peers is From the Ground Up Therapeutic Horsemanship 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

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 39 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY — $266,181 · EducationSYRACUSE UNIVERSITYST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY — $89,000 · EducationST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITYThe George Washington University — $24,500 · EducationThe George Washington UniversityHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY — $19,500 · Education+1 more — $100 · EducationNEW YORK STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $99,542 · OtherNEW YORK STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETYMISCELLANEOUS — $74,816 · OtherMISCELLANEOUSCarnegie Mellon University — $55,000 · OtherCarnegie Mellon UniversityNASCENTIA HEALTH CHARITABLE FOUNDAT — $15,000 · OtherCHRISTIAN BROTHER ACADEMY — $11,300 · OtherMAKE A WISH FOUNDATION — $11,200 · OtherGeorge Mason University — $10,000 · Other+17 more — $19,545 · Other+17 moreNew York Historical Society — $35,098 · Arts & CultureHONOR FLIGHT SYRACUSE INC — $16,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $689 · Arts & CultureCROUSE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $3,600 · Health+1 more — $100 · HealthFRANCIS HOUSE INC — $550 · Human ServicesDEWITT FIRE DEPT INC — $300 · Public Safety & DisasterIN MY FATHER'S KITCHEN INC — $100 · ReligionALBANY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $100 · Recreation & Sports
Education$399,281Other$296,403Arts & Culture$52,287Health$3,700Human Services$550Public Safety & Disaster$300Religion$100Recreation & Sports$100

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 budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY — $266,181 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY — $89,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University — $55,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Historical Society — $35,098 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University — $24,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY — $19,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHONOR FLIGHT SYRACUSE INC — $16,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCROUSE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $3,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Battlefield Trust — $589 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRANCIS HOUSE INC — $550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDEWITT FIRE DEPT INC — $300 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFROM THE GROUND UP THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP INC — $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAIRCRAFT CARRIER HORNET FOUNDATION — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY LIBRARY — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSKANEATELES LAKE ASSOCIATION INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIN MY FATHER'S KITCHEN INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALBANY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds ST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds Carnegie Mellon University
  • Who funds New York Historical Society
  • Who funds The George Washington University
  • Who funds HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds HONOR FLIGHT SYRACUSE INC
  • Who funds CROUSE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds American Battlefield Trust
  • Who funds FRANCIS HOUSE INC
  • Who funds DEWITT FIRE DEPT INC
  • Who funds FROM THE GROUND UP THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP INC
  • Who funds AIRCRAFT CARRIER HORNET FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY LIBRARY
  • Who funds SKANEATELES LAKE ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds IN MY FATHER'S KITCHEN INC
  • Who funds ALBANY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER

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.

Lewis Roth Family FoundationNY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lewis Roth Family Foundation · Froelich Family Foundation · Central New York Community Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Tarky Lombardi 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report 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, 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 Tarky Lombardi Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Tarky Lombardi 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 39 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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