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The Aiello Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
58
Grants FY2024
59
Organizations funded FY2023
19%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$620,000
Organizations funded a year
59 to 79
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$22M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 19% of the organizations The Aiello Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CulturePublic BenefitEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving57$1.0M32%
FY202359$992k19%
FY202270$969k26%
FY202169$1.1M23%
FY202068$1.1M24%
FY201979$1.1M28%
FY201870$330k46%
FY201765$191kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$3.8MHealth$1.3MEducation$463kArts & Culture$379kInternational$210kRecreation & Sports$87kHuman Services$84kHousing & Shelter$63kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 133 grantees
All grantees of The Aiello Charitable Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Norwalk Hospital Foundation$565,50060%
Palliative Care and Education for Rural$210,000641%
The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc$154,25080%
Stepping Stones Museum for Children Inc$100,00050%
Yale New Haven Hospital$93,50060%
St Luke's Foundation Inc$77,00070%
Connecticut College$64,00080%
Griffin Hospital$62,50080%
New York University$62,00080%
New York STEM Cell Foundation Inc$57,50050%
The Council of Italian American Societies of Greater Bridgeport Inc$53,750899%
Cerebral Palsy of Westchester Inc$51,00060%
Fairfield Country Day School Corporation$42,50080%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$40,00070%
Bj Ryans Foundation Inc$38,5007n/a
Fairfield University$38,00060%
Team Woofgang & Co Inc$36,00052%
Community Solutions Inc$31,00050%
Operation Hope of Fairfield Inc$31,00070%
Habitat for Humanity Inc$29,50046%
Bridgeport Public Schools$25,0001n/a
Shriners Hospitals for Children$25,00060%
Connecticut Burns Care Foundation Inc$23,50081%
Bacio Inc$21,5005n/a
Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund Inc$20,00080%
Women's Business Development Council Inc$20,00020%
Notre Dame Catholic High School$20,0002n/a
The Open Door Shelter Inc$15,00070%
Ability Beyond Disability Inc$15,00010%
Knights of Columbus Charities Inc$15,00060%
Connecticut Zoological Societyinc$15,00040%
New Hope Missionary Baptist Church$15,0003n/a
Connecticut Foodshare Inc$14,50050%
Special Olympics Connecticut Inc$14,50080%
Central Connecticut Coast Young Men's Christian Association Inc$13,50060%
The Campaign School Inc$13,50072%
Hole in the Wall Gang Fund Inc$13,00060%
Help Our Military Heroes Inc$13,00061%
Ment Ltd$12,00020%
Puppies Behind Bars Inc$11,00020%
Mighty Quinn Foundation Inc$11,0004n/a
The Tiny Miracles Foundation Inc$10,50051%
The University of Connecticut Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Emmanuel College$10,00010%
March of Dimes Inc$10,00010%
Human Services Council Inc$9,00030%
Fairfield Christmas Tree Festival$9,000374%
Learning Community Inc$8,50011%
Marine Toys for Tots Foundation$7,75070%
Fairfield Police Foundation Ct Inc$7,50033%
Cardinal Shehan Center Inc$7,50030%
Nourish Bridgeport Inc$7,50030%
Norwalkstamford Grassroots Tennis & Education Inc$7,50030%
Monroe First Foundation Inc$7,5003n/a
The Child and Family Guidance Center Inc$7,00060%
Bridgeport Rescue Mission Inc$6,00030%
The Near and Far Association Inc$6,00040%
The Courage to Speak Foundation Inc$6,00051%
Bridgeport Animal Rescue Crew Inc$6,0004n/a
St Thomas Aquinas Catholic School Inc$5,7505n/a
Habitat for Humanity of Coastal Fairfield County Inc$5,00020%
Wooster Square Conservancy Inc$5,0001n/a
St Joseph High School$5,0001n/a
The Southport School Inc$5,00010%
The Unquowa School Association Inc$5,00010%
Park City Initiative Corporation$5,0001n/a
Citymeals-On-Wheels$5,00010%
Liberation Programs Inc$5,00010%
Glioblastoma Foundation Inc$5,00010%
McGivney Community Center Inc$4,50030%
Impactrumbull$4,0001n/a
Norwalk 20 Inc$4,000216%
Save Our Babies Inc$3,2004n/a
Bridge House Inc$3,00010%
Catalyst Ct Inc$3,00030%
Connecticut Certification Board Inc$2,7503n/a
Bridgeport Public Education Fund Inc$2,60020%
Allpaths Family Building Inc$2,50011%
New Haven Legal Assistance Association Inc$2,50010%
Norwalk River Watershed Association Inc$2,50012%
The Palace Theater Group Inc$2,50010%
The Reach Institute Resource for Advancing Children's Health$2,50010%
Holy Family Church Corp$2,2503n/a
American University$2,00010%
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Incorpora$2,00020%
Aurora Women and Girls Foundation Inc$2,00020%
The Animal Haven Inc$2,00020%
Food Rescue US Inc$2,0002n/a
The Tommy Fund Inc$2,00011%
Parkinson's Foundation Inc$2,00020%
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc$2,00020%
Jane Ryan Fathers Club Inc$1,8001n/a
Bridgeport Field of Dreams Fdtn Inc$1,50030%
Hartford Interval House Inc$1,50020%
Fish of New Fairfield$1,5001n/a
The Norwalk Symphony Society Inc$1,50010%
Sterling House Community Center Inc$1,50010%
Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum of Norwalk Inc$1,50010%
Merola Endowment Fund Inc$1,5001n/a
The Center for Family Justice Inc$1,50030%
The Barnum Museum Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Rise Up Inc$1,0001n/a
Kids in Crisis Inc$1,00010%
The Kennedy Collective Inc$1,00010%
Wakeman Boys and Girls Club Corp$1,00010%
Husky House Inc$1,00010%
Pet Animal Welfare Society of Connecticut Inc$1,00010%
The Connection Inc$1,00010%
Applied Behavioral Rehabilitation Instit$1,00010%
East End Developers Inc$1,00012%
Power Play Club Inc$1,0002n/a
All for the Animals Inc$1,00013%
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity$1,0001n/a
Golden State Opportunity$1,00010%
Catholic Charities of Fairfield County Inc$1,00010%
Westport Country Playhouse Inc$1,00010%
Holy Brancoveanu Martyrs Romanian Orthodox Church$1,0001n/a
National Tuberous Sclerosis Association$1,00010%
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated$50010%
St Josephs Soup Kitchen Incorporated$5003n/a
Blood Cancer United Inc$50010%
Education and Hope Inc$50010%
School Volunteer Association of Bridgeport Inc$5001n/a
Ludlowe Glax$5001n/a
Livfree Inc$50010%
Earthplace Inc$50010%
Malta House Inc$50010%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$25010%
The Milk Bank Inc$25010%
Kjs Legacy Project Inc$2501n/a
Bridgeport Youth Lacrosse Inc$2001n/a
Colors of the World Inc$1251n/a
Trashbusters of Bridgeport Inc$1001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 65 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.3M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Aiello Charitable Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 102 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorwalk Hospital Foundation: $565,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPalliative Care and Education for Rural: $210,000 over 6y, 41% of budgetThe Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc: $154,250 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetStepping Stones Museum for Children Inc: $100,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetYale New Haven Hospital: $93,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSt Luke's Foundation Inc: $77,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetConnecticut College: $64,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGriffin Hospital: $62,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $62,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNew York STEM Cell Foundation Inc: $57,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Council of Italian American Societies of Greater Bridgeport Inc: $53,750 over 8y, 99% of budgetCerebral Palsy of Westchester Inc: $51,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFairfield Country Day School Corporation: $42,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $40,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFairfield University: $38,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTeam Woofgang & Co Inc: $36,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetCommunity Solutions Inc: $31,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Hope of Fairfield Inc: $31,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHabitat for Humanity Inc: $29,500 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetShriners Hospitals for Children: $25,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetConnecticut Burns Care Foundation Inc: $23,500 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetLambda Legal Defense & Education Fund Inc: $20,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWomen's Business Development Council Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Open Door Shelter Inc: $15,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAbility Beyond Disability Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKnights of Columbus Charities Inc: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetConnecticut Zoological Societyinc: $15,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetConnecticut Foodshare Inc: $14,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics Connecticut Inc: $14,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Connecticut Coast Young Men's Christian Association Inc: $13,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Campaign School Inc: $13,500 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetHole in the Wall Gang Fund Inc: $13,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHelp Our Military Heroes Inc: $13,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetMent Ltd: $12,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPuppies Behind Bars Inc: $11,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Tiny Miracles Foundation Inc: $10,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetThe University of Connecticut Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmmanuel College: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarch of Dimes Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHuman Services Council Inc: $9,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFairfield Christmas Tree Festival: $9,000 over 3y, 74% of budgetLearning Community Inc: $8,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMarine Toys for Tots Foundation: $7,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFairfield Police Foundation Ct Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetCardinal Shehan Center Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNourish Bridgeport Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNorwalkstamford Grassroots Tennis & Education Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe Child and Family Guidance Center Inc: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 102.

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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.

Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT81.6× affinity44 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Near and Far Association Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · Ernest and Joan Trefz Foundation · Elizabeth Raymond Ambler Trust · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Elizabeth M Pfriem Foundation · David and Eunice Bigelow Foundation · The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education Inc · The Bauer Family Foundation Inc · The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts

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.

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About The Aiello Charitable Foundation Inc

How much does The Aiello Charitable Foundation Inc give?
The Aiello Charitable Foundation Inc reported 58 grants totaling $1,015,050 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 59 and 79 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Aiello Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (56%), Health (20%), Education (7%).
Who are The Aiello Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Norwalk Hospital Foundation ($566k), Palliative Care and Education for Rural ($210k), The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc ($154k).
Does The Aiello Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Aiello Charitable Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Aiello Charitable Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, The Near and Far Association Inc, Peoples United Community Foundation.
Where is The Aiello Charitable Foundation Inc based?
The Aiello Charitable Foundation Inc is based in CT.

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 199 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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