· Private foundation
The Acierno Family Foundation John Yannacone and Michael Acierno
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $229k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $305k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST EDMONDS ACADEMY | $150,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF DELAWARE | $55,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $50,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $49,200 |
| CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $20,000 |
| THE LIGHT HOUSE INC | $20,000 |
| THE V FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH | $20,000 |
| EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF DELAWARE | $15,000 |
| ANNAPOLIS WELLNESS CORP | $15,000 |
| THE TREVOR PROJECT | $10,000 |
| UC DAVIS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE INNOCENCE PROJECT | $10,000 |
| FAITHFUL FRIENDS | $10,000 |
| LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- FBFOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $321k · revenue +31%
- AWANNAPOLIS WELLNESS CORPORATION5× · 2021–2025 · $225k · revenue +88%
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $205k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- JMJupiter Medical Center Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +77%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $100k
- DADELAWARE ART MUSEUM FATHER ROBERT BALDUCELLI FUNDone grant, 2020 · $50k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
Wilmington university is committed to excellence in teaching, relevancy of the curriculum, and individual attention to students. as an institution with admissions policies that provide access for all, it offers opportunity for higher…
To promote networking, exchange, and creative collaboration among scientists, scholars, artists, and professionals in the u.s. and germany consistent with the goals of the alexander von humboldt foundation.
The friends are dedicated to the rescue, protection, and adoption of companion animals in need while inspiring the human-animal bond. we meet our mission by:-saving 100% of healthy and treatable animals.-providing high-quality animal care…
Our mission is to shape the future of finance by developing leaders whose innovation, investment excellence, and human-centered leadership advance the industry and its adjacent sectors.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
We, saint francis hospital and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.st. francis hospital is a member of trinity health of the mid-atlantic…
The foundation for sarcoidosis research (fsr) is the leading international organization dedicated to finding a cure for sarcoidosis and improving care for sarcoidosis patients through research, education, and support. since its…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of the Chesapeake Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Yolo County Animal Services. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
41 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 60 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 FOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds ANNAPOLIS WELLNESS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DO IT FOR THE LOVE ↗
- Who funds Sunday Breakfast Mission ↗
- Who funds ARUNDEL HOUSE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FAITHFUL FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEST END NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASHER HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THORN ↗
- Who funds HUMANE ANIMAL PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds Friends of Yolo County Animal Services ↗
- Who funds HURRICANE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIANA FIRE COMPANY INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Longwood Foundation Inc · Laffey-McHugh Foundation · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · United Way of Delaware · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of Anne Arundel Co · Marmot Foundation · Crestlea Foundation Inc · Welfare Foundation Inc · The Anthony & Catherine Fusco Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc
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 The Acierno Family Foundation John Yannacone and Michael Acierno 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- West End Neighborhood House Inc — 36% of income from government
- Food Bank of Delaware Inc — 26% of income from government
- Christiana Fire Company Inc — 25% of income from government
- Faithful Friends Inc — 15% of income from government
- Humane Animal Partners — 14% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Delaware Art Museum Inc — 8% of income from government
- Little Sisters of the Poor Inc — 5% of income from government
- Forgotten Cats Inc — 4% of income from government
- Epilepsy Foundation of Delaware — 0% of income from government
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.