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The Carl & Gloria Lagrassa Family Foundation

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.

$10k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$255kFood & Nutrition$140kRecreation & Sports$70kEducation$61kHealth$35kHousing & Shelter$250Other$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$16k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$360k · 6 repeat orgs$256k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +43% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
12

Total granted

$360k
$256k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+43%

Still filing today

17%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
EducationHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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

  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHURCH EXTENSION SOCIETY OF US OF AMER
    5× · 2017–2021 · $110k
  • RC
    ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF METUCHEN
    3× · 2020–2022 · $100k
  • CA
    CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $70k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • TP
    THE PAPAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • TA
    The American Collegegraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +49%
  • BA
    BISHOP'S ANNUAL APPEAL
    one grant, 2017 · $35k
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.

1
Saint Andrew's School of Boca Raton Inc

Saint andrew's school is an independent school founded in the episcopal tradition. our mission is to build a community of learners, provide excellence in education, and nurture each student in mind, body, and spirit.

Education
2
Morristown-Beard School

Morristown beard school is an educational college preparatory school in grades 6 to 12 located in morristown, new jersey.

Education
3
Ashbrook Independent School

To challenge and nurture academically capable students.

Education
4
Hillbrook School

Hillbrook provides an extraordinary educational experience that fosters a love of learning in our students and helps them to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to achieve their highest individual potential in school and in life.…

Education
5
The Altamont School

The mission of the altamont school is to improve the fabric of society by graduating compassionate, well educated individuals capable of independent thinking and innovative ideas. to this end, the school attracts, nurtures and challenges…

Education
6
Ave Maria School of Law

Educating students leading to a juris doctorate degree

Education
7
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
8
The Craig School

To provide a strategy-based, comprehensive and challenging school experience for students with diagnosed learning disabilities

Education
9
Montgomery Academy

K-12 school serving students with special needs.

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10
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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11
South Shore Charter School

The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…

Education
12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Summit Speech School; the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Shelter 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

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 18 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATHOLIC CHURCH EXTENSION SOCIETY OF US OF AMER: $110,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHURCH EXTENSION SOCIETY OF US OF AMERROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF METUCHEN: $100,000 · OtherROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF METUCHENTHE PAPAL FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherTHE PAPAL FOUNDATIONBISHOP'S ANNUAL APPEAL: $35,000 · OtherBISHOP'S ANNUAL APPEALDIOCESE OF METUCHEN: $35,000 · OtherDIOCESE OF METUCHENTHE CATHOLIC EXTENSION - TRIBAL COMMUNITIES - DIOCESE OF WI: $30,000 · OtherTHE CATHOLIC EXTENSION - TRIBAL COMMUNITIES - DIOCESE OF WIFEINBERG SCHOOL OF MEDICINE - MARSEL MESULAM CENTER: $30,000 · OtherFEINBERG SCHOOL OF MEDICINE - MARSEL MESULAM CENTERSISTERS OF LIFE: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · Other+1 more: $5,000 · OtherCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesCHALLENGED A…The American College: $50,000 · EducationThe America…AVE MARIA UNIVERSITY INC: $10,000 · EducationAVE MARIA U…+4 more: $850 · EducationFriends of the Shelter Inc: $250 · Animals
Other$485,000Human Services$70,000Education$60,850Animals$250

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $70,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe American College: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAVE MARIA UNIVERSITY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUMMIT SPEECH SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALBROOK SCHOOL: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Shelter Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WILLOW SCHOOL INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GILL ST BERNARD'S SCHOOL: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEWARK ACADEMY: $200 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.

  • Who funds CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC ↗
  • Who funds The American College ↗
  • Who funds AVE MARIA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds SUMMIT SPEECH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ALBROOK SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Friends of the Shelter Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE WILLOW SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GILL ST BERNARD'S SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds NEWARK ACADEMY ↗

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.

Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ17× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Carl & Gloria Lagrassa Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Carl & Gloria Lagrassa Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Ave Maria University Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.

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 18 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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