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The Caputo 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.

$700k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$600k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of The Caputo Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Brown University, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

11
’17
2
’18
11
’19
12
’20
0
’21
0
’22
0
’23
0
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$6.5MRecreation & Sports$823kHealth$40kHuman Services$21kAnimals$10kInternational$6kFood & Nutrition$3kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+1 grant · $600k
$600,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BROWN UNIVERSITY$600,000
BROWN UNIVERSITY$100,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–19, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%GOOD COUNSEL INC: $15k → 14%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF GREENWICH: $1k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 11 repeat orgs$847k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +120% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2021, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
8

Total granted

$1.7M
$97k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+120%
+15%

Still filing today

91%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $750k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
EducationRecreation & SportsHealthHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY
    4× · 2017–2020 · $1.6M · revenue +122%
  • AF
    AMERICARES FREE CLINICS INC
    3× · 2017–2020 · $30k · revenue +223%
  • HL
    HARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION
    2× · 2019–2020 · $10k · revenue +157%

Funded once

  • NR
    NATIONAL ROWING FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +14%
  • GC
    GOOD COUNSEL INC
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +13%
  • SA
    STAMFORD ANIMAL SHELTER ALLIANCE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Brunswick School Inc

Brunswick school, inc. is a day school for boys in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. the purpose of the school is to educate the "whole boy". it does so by helping boys and young men - without regard to culture, ethnicity or religion…

Education
2
Greenwich Hospital

To provide healthcare services.

Health
3
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
4
Greenwich Academy Inc

Greenwich academy is an independent college-preparatory day school for girls and young women that seeks to foster excellence. for more information see schedule o.its mission is to provide a challenging, comprehensive educational experience…

Education
5
Greenwich Country Club

To maintain a clubhouse and golf grounds to cultivate a social spirit among its members to provide them with lawful recreation to do generally whatever may serve for the advancement, benefit, diversion or pleasure of the members.

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6
Greenwich Ballet Academy Inc

Greenwich ballet academy was founded in 2006 and is proud to be among the most prestigious and highly regarded pre-professional classical ballet academies in the united states. the academy's mission is to nurture talented young students…

Education
7
The Trustees of Grinnell College

To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…

Education
8
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.

Education
9
Fairfield University

To establish, organize, maintain and conduct an institution for secondary, undergraduate and graduate education in the state of connecticut, and to perform such other works of education, charity and religion. see schedule o.

Education
10
The Greenwich Hospital Endowment Fund Inc

Supporting organization of greenwich hospital

Health
11
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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12
Great Oaks Charter School - Bridgeport

Great oaks charter school is a public school providing high-dosage tutoring, data-driven learning strategies & extra-curricular opportunities to students in grades 6-12 to ensure success in the career or college of their choice. great oaks…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighbor to Neighbor Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Bowery Mission Foundation. 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
16/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BROWN UNIVERSITY: $4,850,000 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERSITYTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $1,605,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD AC…+3 more: $9,000 · EducationBROWN UNIVERSITY -Brown Annual Fund: $750,000 · OtherBROWN UNIVER…+7 more: $36,000 · OtherNATIONAL ROWING FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsHARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsAMERICARES FREE CLINICS INC: $30,000 · HealthTHE DANNY BUTLER MEMORIAL FUND INC: $10,000 · HealthGOOD COUNSEL INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF GREENWICH INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · International
Community Improvement$4,850,000Education$1,614,000Other$786,000Recreation & Sports$62,000Health$40,000Human Services$16,000International$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $4,850,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $1,605,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL ROWING FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetAMERICARES FREE CLINICS INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGOOD COUNSEL INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE DANNY BUTLER MEMORIAL FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREENWICH LIBRARY: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PERROT MEMORIAL LIBRARY ASSOCIA OF OLD GREENWICHINC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGREENWICH ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetOLD GREENWICHRIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF GREENWICH INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

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.

Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN9.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Caputo Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Caputo Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich: 7% of income from government
  • Greenwich Alliance for Education Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get 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 · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Caputo Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Caputo 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 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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