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The Cestone Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$706k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Arts & Culture$616kHealth$418kCrime & Legal$411kEducation$385kPublic Safety & Disaster$143kHuman Services$140kHousing & Shelter$100kEnvironment$95kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $245k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $450k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$8.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER$200,000
NYU LANGONE$100,000
NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN FUND$50,000
METROPOLITAN OPERA$50,000
MOUNT SAINT DOMINIC ACADEMY$50,000
EXPLORING THE ARTS INC$35,000
THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION$25,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$25,000
GREAT SWAMP WATERSHED ASSOCIATION$25,000
LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC$25,000
NEW YORK CITY BALLET$20,000
MANOR COLLEGE$20,000
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$20,000
SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC$15,000
DEPAUL SCHOOL FOR HEARING AND SPEECH$15,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $159k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%OPERATION WARM INC: $6k → 10%STRONG WOMEN STRONG GIRLS INC: $10k → 11%DRUEDING CENTER: $10k → 22%VIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT: $8k → 13%SCARC INC: $10k → 6%OPERATION WARM INC: $6k → 10%STRONG WOMEN STRONG GIRLS: $5k → 11%DRUEDING CENTER: $10k → 22%VIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT: $5k → 13%PROJECT HOME: $10k → 22%FAMILY PROMISE OF HUNTERDON COUNTY INC: $10k → 4%COMMUNITY HOPE INC: $20k → 4%FAMILY PROMISE OF HUNTERDON COUNTY INC: $10k → 4%PROJECT HOME: $5k → 22%COMMUNITY HOPE INC: $10k → 4%PROJECT HOME: $5k → 22%FACE TO FACE: $5k → 22%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MONTCLAIR: $5k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PITTSBURGH INC: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.1M · 37 repeat orgs$439k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

37 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
29

Total granted

$2.1M
$304k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+16%

Still filing today

84%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationFood & NutritionPublic Safety & DisasterOther

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

  • TT
    THE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER
    4× · 2020–2024 · $411k · revenue +22%
  • TC
    THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $106k · revenue +51%
  • GS
    Great Swamp Watershed Association
    4× · 2021–2024 · $95k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • TR
    TEAM RUBICON INC
    one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +18%
  • FO
    Friends of Firefighters Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +121%
  • AR
    AMERICAN RED CROSS
    one grant, 2023 · $20k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
2
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
3
Humc Medical Observation Pa

To serve as the physician services component of a tax-exempt healthcare delivery network and to thereby promote, support & further the charitable purposes, programs & services of hmh hospitals corp.

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4
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
5
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Hunger Solutions New York Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
8
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
The Arc of Bergen and Passaic Counties Inc

To provide enhanced opportunities for all citizens of bergen and passaic counties with intellectual and other disabilities and their families through advocacy, community education, direct services, and customized supports to help these…

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12
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eden Autism Services Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Museum of Natural History. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Dance Arts OrganizationsEnvironmental Conservation …Local History MuseumsAffordable Housing Developm…Ymca Youth DevelopmentCommunity Food PantriesJewish Community Organizati…Community Arts CentersFood Banks and PantriesOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Volunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Senior Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr16%32%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%32%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr16%38%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%36%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/60
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,505

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.

04the grantee network

55 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. 55 of the 70 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/55
Grantees still filing
39/55
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NYU LANGONE — $200,000 · OtherNYU LANGONEMOUNT SAINT DOMINIC ACADEMY — $195,000 · OtherMOUNT SAINT DOMINIC ACADEMYAMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS — $77,500 · OtherAMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSSEDEN AUTISM SERVICES FOUNDATION INC — $55,000 · OtherEDEN AUTISM SERVICES FOUNDATION INCMETROPOLITAN OPERA — $50,000 · OtherLACORDAIRE ACADEMY — $36,000 · OtherARTS COUNCIL OF THE MORRIS AREA — $35,000 · OtherSTUDENTS 2 SCIENCE INC — $62,000 · OtherSTUDENTS 2 SCIENCE INCTEAM RUBICON INC — $40,000 · Other+23 more — $268,450 · Other+23 moreTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION — $106,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPO…EXPLORING THE ARTS INC — $105,000 · Arts & CultureEXPLORING THE ARTS INCLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $75,000 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE …American Museum of Natural History — $65,000 · Arts & CultureAmerican Museum of Natu…NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC — $40,500 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY BALLET IN…Capital Harmony Works Inc — $40,000 · Arts & CultureCapital Harmony Works I…SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC — $35,000 · Arts & CultureSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALL…+5 more — $59,150 · Arts & Culture+5 moreTHE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER — $410,500 · Civil RightsTHE TAHIRIH JUSTIC…MANOR COLLEGE — $95,000 · EducationSAGE ELDERCARE — $40,000 · EducationDEPAUL SCHOOL FOR HEARING AND SPEECH — $25,000 · EducationPRESCHOOL ADVANTAGE INC — $18,500 · Education+2 more — $10,000 · EducationCommunity Hope Inc — $30,000 · Human ServicesDRUEDING CENTER — $20,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT HOME — $20,000 · Human ServicesFamily Promise of Hunterdon County Inc — $20,000 · Human ServicesGIRLS INC OF GREATER PITTSBURGH — $15,000 · Human ServicesVIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT — $12,500 · Human ServicesOperation Warm Inc — $11,500 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PGH — $10,000 · Human ServicesSCARC INC — $10,000 · Human Services+2 more — $10,000 · Human ServicesNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC — $50,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $25,000 · HealthADLER APHASIA CENTER — $20,000 · HealthST MARYS HEALTH WAGON INC — $15,000 · HealthSAINT BARNABAS MEDICAL CENTER — $15,000 · HealthCONTACT OF OCEAN AND MONMOUTH INC — $8,000 · HealthVETRI FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN — $5,000 · HealthGreat Swamp Watershed Association — $95,000 · Environment
Other$1,018,950Arts & Culture$525,650Civil Rights$410,500Education$188,500Human Services$159,000Health$138,000Environment$95,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER — $410,500 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION — $106,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEXPLORING THE ARTS INC — $105,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetGreat Swamp Watershed Association — $95,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetMANOR COLLEGE — $95,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $75,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History — $65,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDENTS 2 SCIENCE INC — $62,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetEDEN AUTISM SERVICES FOUNDATION INC — $55,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC — $40,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCapital Harmony Works Inc — $40,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAGE ELDERCARE — $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetARTS COUNCIL OF THE MORRIS AREA — $35,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Hope Inc — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDEPAUL SCHOOL FOR HEARING AND SPEECH — $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDRUEDING CENTER — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetADLER APHASIA CENTER — $20,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFriends of Firefighters Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetPROJECT HOME — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Promise of Hunterdon County Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetPRESCHOOL ADVANTAGE INC — $18,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetHunterdon Art Museum — $15,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetST MARYS HEALTH WAGON INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS INC OF GREATER PITTSBURGH — $15,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetVIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT — $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NATIONAL JAZZ MUSEUM IN HARLEM — $11,650 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetOperation Warm Inc — $11,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHORUS OF NEW YORK CITY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCONTACT WE CARE INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN ESSEX — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMETROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST MARYS FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFISH HOSPITALITY PROGRAM INC — $10,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBERGEN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEVA'S VILLAGE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PGH — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF BERGEN COUNTY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSCARC INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONTACT OF OCEAN AND MONMOUTH INC — $8,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF WARREN COUNTY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE WATSON INSTITUTE FRIENDSHIP ACADEMY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Investors Foundation …Community Foundation …The Provident Bank Fo…The Hyde and Watson F…Bristol-Myers Squibb …Lillian P Schenck Tw …Robert & Joan Dircks …Citizens Philanthropi…Kearnybank Foundation…Pseg Foundation IncColumbia Bank Foundat…Td Charitable Foundat…
Investors Foundation IncNJ39.8× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Investors Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Provident Bank Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Lillian P Schenck Tw Lps Fund · Robert & Joan Dircks Foundation Inc · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · Kearnybank Foundation Inc · Pseg Foundation Inc · Columbia Bank Foundation · Td Charitable 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 Cestone Family Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Community Hope Inc — 41% of income from government
  • Eva's Village Inc — 19% of income from government
  • Adler Aphasia Center — 12% of income from government
  • Family Promise of Warren County Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Hunterdon Art Museum — 9% of income from government
  • Bergen Performing Arts Center Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Sage Eldercare — 1% of income from government
  • Students 2 Science Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Scarc Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Cestone Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Cestone Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 70 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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