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The Ascienzo Family Foundation
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k63 grants · $282k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN | $23,691 |
| RED HOOK CENTRAL SCHOOLS | $16,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ULSTER COUNT | $10,000 |
| RED HOOK COMMUNITY CENTER | $10,000 |
| ISLAND AUTISM GROUP INC | $10,000 |
| HISTORIC RED HOOK | $10,000 |
| BARD CENTER FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT | $9,000 |
| LITERACY PITTSBURG | $7,750 |
| FLEUR DE LIS CAMP | $7,750 |
| RUFFNER MOUNTAIN NATURE COALITION | $7,500 |
| COLUMBIA COUNTY PATHWAYS TO RECOVER | $7,500 |
| TOWN OF ESOPUS LIBRARY | $7,500 |
| FLY THE COOP | $7,500 |
| HIT THE BOOKS | $7,500 |
| RED HOOK RESPONDS | $7,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $406k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 32% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +38% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
97 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2025, 54 since wound down; 26 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $126k 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
- RHRED HOOK RESPONDS INCORPORATED5× · 2021–2025 · $132k · revenue +18% · 59% of their budget
- TRTHE RED HOOK COMMUNITY CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $92k · revenue +281%
- CICULTURECONNECT INC7× · 2019–2025 · $74k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $33k
- NLNOBODY LEAVES MID-HUDSONone grant, 2020 · $29k
- SFSOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE INCone grant, 2020 · $29k · revenue -62%
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.
Driven by the belief that access to healthy food is a basic right for all people, feeding westchester leads hunger action programs and mobilizes the resources needed to eradicate hunger in westchester county.
We strive to maximize participation in, and support for, federally funded nutrition assistance programs including supplemental nutrition assistance program (snap), the school breakfast program and national school lunch program, the summer…
Rhi believes that social change to overcome systemic inequities begins with empowered youth. in partnership with community adults, we nurture young people in red hook to be inspired, resilient, and healthy, and to envision themselves as…
The goal of Farm School NYC is to train the next generation of farmers in New York City and beyond, with a focus on limited resourced and socially disadvantaged individuals and communities, and to increase access to healthy, local food in…
To pursue anti-hunger initiatives through the west side campaign against hunger (wscah) program whose mission is to alleviate hunger by ensuring that all new yorkers have access with dignity to a choice of healthy food and supportive…
The mission of island harvest is to end hunger and reduce food waste on long island.
We envision a food system that reflects the diverse communities of our region in leadership, ownership, and priorities. all farmers lowers barriers to enable refugee and immigrant farmers to grow resilient community farms through access to…
East End Food is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to support, promote and advocate for farmers and producers, while ensuring everyone in the community can enjoy and be nourished by local food. We envision the East End of Long…
To provide rehabilitative housing services and support to help people with psychiatric disabilities reintegrate into the community.the agency provides rehabilitative housing services and staff support as a primary mechanism for achieving…
Goodwill nynj empowers people with disabilities and other barriers to employment to gain independence through the power of work. goodwill nynj provided services to more than 11,087 adults in fiscal year 2025 through all programs.
Pathways kitchen helps justice-impacted youth thrive over survive by providing training, work opportunities and individualized support to ensure they can chart their own path forward
Food bank for nyc has been the city's major hunger-relief organization driven by our mission to empower every new yorker to achieve food security for good. we harness the collective power of our network of food providers, partners, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Loyalty Foundation. 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 22 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
111 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. 111 of the 226 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 RED HOOK RESPONDS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE RED HOOK COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CULTURECONNECT INC ↗
- Who funds POUGHKEEPSIE FARM PROJECT ↗
- Who funds RAMAPO FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Worker Justice Center of New York Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S MONEY MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds WE CARE SOLAR ↗
- Who funds IN FLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC ↗
- Who funds SUNFLOWER BAKERY INC ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY GREENWAYS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KITE'S NEST INC ↗
- Who funds WILD EARTH WILDERNESS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DUTCHESS OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds SOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SUSIE REIZOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ULSTER IMMIGRANT DEFENSE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds SKY HIGH FARM INC ↗
- Who funds MINDS MATTER OF NYC INC ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK 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: Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc · The Dyson Foundation · Ulster Savings Charitable Foundation · Hudson Valley Foundation for Youth Health · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · United Way of the Dutchess-Orange Region Inc · Bank of Greene County Charitable Foundation · Novo Foundation · Vassar College · The Alexander and Marjorie Hover Foundation · The Thendara 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 The Ascienzo Family Foundation 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.
- Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc — 46% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Junta for Progressive Action Inc — 35% of income from government
- United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc — 34% of income from government
- Mystic Learning Center Inc — 30% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Smart From the Start Inc — 7% of income from government
- A Wider Circle Inc — 6% of income from government
- Crossroads for Kids Inc — 1% of income from government
- Women's Money Matters Inc — 1% 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.
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