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The Critelli Family Foundation at a glance

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The Critelli 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.

$4k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$298kFood & Nutrition$101kCommunity Improvement$63kSocial Science$48kPublic Benefit$47kArts & Culture$32kScience & Tech$10kPhilanthropy$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,070
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BISHOP KEARNEY HIGH SCHOOL$4,070
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BUILDERS OF THE ADYTUM LTD: $2k → 14%MARY ELISE MILLUS FOUNDATION: $3k → 6%NEW YORK HALL OF SCIENCE (NYSCI): $5k → 13%BISHOP KEARNEY HIGH SCHOOL: $13k → 14%JUST CAPITAL FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%CENTER FOR FOOD SAFETY: $50k → 14%SEARCHING FOR SOLUTIONS INSTITUTE INC: $5k → 11%FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%YANKEE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $25k → 11%ACHIEVEMENT FIRST: $100k → 12%IVY TECH FOUNDATION: $1k → 12%INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE: $5k → 7%SEARCHING FOR SOLUTIONS: $5k → 9%NAACP: $1k → 19%BUILDERS OF THE ADYTUM LTD: $1k → 14%NEW YORK HALL OF SCIENCE (NYSCI): $5k → 13%BISHOP KEARNEY HIGH SCHOOL: $9k → 14%CENTER FOR FOOD SAFETY: $50k → 14%FAIRFIELD COUNTY SCORE: $1k → 9%YANKEE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $10k → 11%ACHIEVEMENT FIRST: $50k → 12%INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE: $1k → 7%SEARCHING FOR SOLUTIONS: $5k → 9%BISHOP KEARNEY HIGH SCHOOL: $6k → 14%POWER MY LEARNING: $43k → 17%ANDREW SHAW MEMORIAL TRUST: $6k → 9%YANKEE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $2k → 11%BISHOP KEARNEY HIGH SCHOOL: $4k → 14%POWER MY LEARNING: $23k → 17%FAMILY CENTERS - CENTER FOR HOPE: $1k → 9%BISHOP KEARNEY HIGH SCHOOL: $2k → 14%POWER MY LEARNING: $20k → 17%NATIONAL POSTAL MUSEUM: $5k → 14%SOHO FORUM REASON FOUNDATION: $4k → 17%NATIONAL POSTAL MUSEUM: $5k → 14%MANHATTAN INSTITUTE: $2k → 17%MANHATTAN INSTITUTE: $1k → 17%NATIONAL POSTAL MUSEUM: $5k → 14%MANHATTAN INSTITUTE: $1k → 17%50CAN: $5k → 14%REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION: $10k → 9%REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION: $10k → 9%REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION: $10k → 9%TEACH FOR AMERICA: $7k → 17%URBAN LEAGUE OF SOUTHERN CT: $3k → 9%INSPIRICA: $5k → 9%WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE: $10k → 9%REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION: $5k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
SD
IN
CT
CA
VA
MD
DC
FL
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$548k · 15 repeat orgs$74k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
25

Total granted

$548k
$74k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+15%

Still filing today

53%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
EducationArts & CulturePublic BenefitScience & TechHousing & ShelterHealthOther
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

  • AF
    ACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $150k · revenue +20%
  • Center for Food Safety
    3× · 2018–2020 · $101k · revenue +27%
  • The Rand Corporation
    4× · 2017–2020 · $48k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • JC
    JUST CAPITAL FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +70%
  • WC
    WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +81%
  • Teach for America Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue -3%
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
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
2
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
3
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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4
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
5
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
6
University of Hartford

Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.

Education
7
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
8
Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

The hartford foundation for public giving puts philanthropy into action to create lasting solutions that result in vibrant communities within the greater hartford region. as the region's community foundation, it is a public, grantmaking…

Philanthropy
9
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
10
The Roosevelt Institute

To create a nation where everyone enjoys a fair share of our collective prosperity.

Education
11
Institute for Defense Analyses

The institute for defense analyses is organized for the purpose of applied research. the institute for defense analyses provides independent and objective scientific and technological expertise to assist national security decision-makers…

Science & Tech
12
Institute for Financial Literacy Inc

To promote effective financial education and counseling. the institute works with organizations across the country to incorporate financial education into their existing services and is dependent upon individual and corporate financial…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Irish American Cultural Society of Stamford Saint Patricks Day Parade. 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

25 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. 25 of the 41 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
16/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC: $150,000 · EducationACHIEVEMENT FIRST INCSEARCHING FOR SOLUTIONS INSTITUTE INC: $15,000 · EducationSEARCHING FOR SOLUTIONS INSTITUT…Teach for America Inc: $7,000 · Education+5 more: $6,450 · EducationYANKEE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $37,000 · OtherYANKEE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POL…REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION: $35,000 · OtherREGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATIONBISHOP KEARNEY HIGH SCHOOL: $34,348 · OtherBISHOP KEARNEY HIGH SCHOOLNATIONAL POSTAL MUSEUM: $15,000 · OtherNATIONAL POSTAL MUSEUMNEW YORK HALL OF SCIENCE (NYSCI): $10,000 · OtherNEW YORK HALL OF SCIENCE (NYSCI…INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $6,000 · OtherANDREW SHAW MEMORIAL TRUST: $5,895 · Other+17 more: $29,880 · Other+17 moreCenter for Food Safety: $100,500 · Food & NutritionCenter for Food Sa…PowerMyLearning Inc: $85,000 · Science & TechPowerMyLearning…The Rand Corporation: $47,500 · Public BenefitThe Rand …MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $6,000 · Public BenefitMANHATTAN…JUST CAPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Social ScienceWESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureFOUR FREEDOMS PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $500 · Arts & CultureIRISH AMERICAN CULTURAL SOCIETY OF STAMFORD SAINT PATRICKS DAY PARADE: $500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $125 · Arts & Culture
Education$178,450Other$173,123Food & Nutrition$100,500Science & Tech$85,000Public Benefit$53,500Social Science$25,000Arts & Culture$11,125

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCenter for Food Safety: $100,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetPowerMyLearning Inc: $85,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe Rand Corporation: $47,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYANKEE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $37,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetJUST CAPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSEARCHING FOR SOLUTIONS INSTITUTE INC: $15,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetWESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetANDREW SHAW MEMORIAL TRUST: $5,895 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetINSPIRICA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget50CAN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUrban League of Southern CT INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUR FREEDOMS PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIRISH AMERICAN CULTURAL SOCIETY OF STAMFORD SAINT PATRICKS DAY PARADE: $500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE AL HIRSCHFELD FOUNDATION: $400 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDARIEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR COLLABORATIVE EDUCATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Noroton Heights Fire Department Incorporated: $100 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Fairfield County's Co…The Roxe FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…Silicon Valley Commun…American Endowment Fo…The Pfizer Foundation…Morgan Stanley Global…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…
Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT19.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Roxe Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Critelli Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Critelli 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Center for Collaborative Education Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Inspirica Inc: 30% of income from government
  • The Noroton Heights Fire Department Incorporated: 2% of income from government
  • Westport Country Playhouse Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Achievement First Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 41 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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