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The Costigan Family Foundation

Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$205k
Granted FY2018
12
Grants FY2018
10
Organizations funded FY2018
40%
First-time grantees FY2018
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Median grant, FY2018
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2018
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 11
FY2017 to FY2018
States reached, FY2018
3
Total assets, FY2018
$2k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2018, 40% of the organizations The Costigan Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 62% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY201810$205k40%
FY201711$186kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Education$170kReligion$125kHuman Services$47kHealth$38kCrime & Legal$10kArts & Culture$1k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of The Costigan Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Milwaukee Education Partnership$50,0001n/a
United States Veterans Initiative$40,00020%
The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc$40,00020%
Gold in September Charitable Trust$25,00012%
En Gedi Retreat Inc$25,000143%
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Travis County$10,00020%
Sacred Heart Schools Atherton$10,0001n/a
Viper Nation Academic Booster$10,00022%
Midwest Athletes Against Childhood Cancer Inc$8,00020%
Villa St Joseph of Baden Inc$5,00010%
American Heart Association Inc$5,00010%
Kids From Wisconsin Ltd$1,00010%

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($162k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Costigan Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited States Veterans Initiative: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Medical College of Wisconsin Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGold in September Charitable Trust: $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetEn Gedi Retreat Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocates of Travis County: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetViper Nation Academic Booster: $10,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetMidwest Athletes Against Childhood Cancer Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVilla St Joseph of Baden Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKids From Wisconsin Ltd: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 10.

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.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC7.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

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About The Costigan Family Foundation

How much does The Costigan Family Foundation give?
The Costigan Family Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $204,500 in its FY2018 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
What does The Costigan Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2018, its largest causes are Education (44%), Religion (32%), Human Services (12%).
Who are The Costigan Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2018: Milwaukee Education Partnership ($50k), United States Veterans Initiative ($40k), The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc ($40k).
Does The Costigan Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2018, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Costigan Family Foundation 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 Costigan Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is The Costigan Family Foundation based?
The Costigan Family Foundation is based in DE.

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 15 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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