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The Deluca Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Deluca Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$522k
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$183k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Science & Tech$878kEducation$495kHealth$251kRecreation & Sports$140kHuman Services$41kInternational$7kPhilanthropy$854Housing & Shelter$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $296k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $183k
$11,889
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PROF AHMED SHEHATA UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK$183,425
MOUHAMED ZORKOT EPFL STI INX-STI TNE$47,716
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN JENNIFER LACROSS UDUS RESEARCH GROUP$35,079
PROF LORENZO SABATTINI UNIVERSITA DI MODENA E REGGIO$21,349
ROHIT THAPA SYMBIOSIS SCHOOL OF SPORTS SCIENCES-SYMBIOSIS INT'L UNIVERSITY$21,202
KEVIN ENGLEHART INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING$20,700
AGUSTIN BENJAMIN EZEQUIEL SOLANO NATIONAL UNIV OF SAN MARTIN$20,148
SEOKHYUN HWANG UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
PROF LINDSAY BLAIR ST GEORGE THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE$16,599
RAJNISH KUMAR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI$15,786
KMCH COLLEGE OF PHYSIOTHERAPY$11,889
LAKSHMIBAI NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION$11,889
MANAV RACHNA INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH AND STUDIES$11,889
SASTRA DEEMED TO BE UNIVERSITY$11,889
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.

US giving: 59% of grant dollars ($1.1M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 41% that went abroad ($740k) is mapped below.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 53% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 14%SHRIYA SRINIVASAN OF HARVARD-MIT PROGRAM IN HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY: $3k → 8%SOUTHBOROUGH FIRE DEPARTMENT: $500 → 11%WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $5k → 16%NICHOLAS COKER: $2k → 17%NIKIL CANDRA M RESEARCHER: $2k → 12%RAJNISH KUMAR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI: $16k → 6%LEONARDO ABDALA ELIAS: $2k → 17%CLARKSON UNIVERSITY SEAN BANERJEE: $143k → 18%NARROWS INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC-CHOMACK&WENZEL: $10k → 20%OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF KINESIOLOGY JASON DEFREITAS: $25k → 19%SHRINERS HOSPITALS - WALK FOR LOVE: $100 → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN JENNIFER LACROSS UDUS RESEARCH GROUP: $250k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT: $20k → 11%AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SPORTS MEDICINE: $105k → 16%DR FRANCOIS HUG: $4k → 13%TIMOTHY REISSMAN: $2k → 14%SEOKHYUN HWANG UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $20k → 9%SASTRA DEEMED TO BE UNIVERSITY: $12k → 8%DR JAYANTHI VE: $6k → 11%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY - AMY ADKINS: $15k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS CO GRIFFIN SIPES: $10k → 19%DR VIVEK UL MALLIKARJUNA: $6k → 6%LISA MACFADDEN: $2k → 9%KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE CO AGOSTINA CASAMENTO: $10k → 19%PROF LORENZO SABATTINI UNIVERSITA DI MODENA E REGGIO: $21k → 24%SELECT GRADUATE & POST DOCTORATE STUDENTS: $12k → 8%FBO MICHEAL TWARDOWSKI AT WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $33k → 11%CARA STEPP: $1k → 16%RAJNISH KUMAR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI: $1k → 6%CLARKSON UNIVERSITY SEAN BANERJEE: $131k → 18%NEWYORK UNIVERSITY VETERNS ADMIN CO JOHN CHOMACK: $10k → 20%OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF KINESIOLOGY: $20k → 19%UCF OFFICE OF RESEARCH: $7k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN JENNIFER LACROSS UDUS RESEARCH GROUP: $35k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS CO GRIFFIN SIPES: $10k → 19%KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE CO AGOSTINA CASAMENTO: $10k → 19%VARIOUS SMALL GRANTS TO 23 INDIVIDUALS: $10k → 8%FBO MICHEAL TWARDOWSKI AT WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $27k → 11%BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER - TEJAS MEHTA: $1k → 16%CLARKSON UNIVERSITY SEAN BANERJEE: $35k → 18%JOHN CHOMACK: $4k → 20%VARIOUS SMALL GRANTS TO INDIVIDUALS FOR COVID 19 RELIEF: $9k → 8%JOHN CHIODINI - WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $23k → 11%CLARKSON UNIVERSITY ALAINA TULSKIE: $9k → 18%OTHER DONATIONS TO US CHARITIES: $854 → 8%ABBY'S HOUSE: $500 → 11%CLARKSON UNIVERSITY NICHOLAS LAMB: $4k → 18%TOWN OF WESTON: $1k → 8%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

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
SD
IN
OH
CT
MD
OK
FL

Beyond the US: 41% of all-years giving ($740k)

17 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Canada$209k · 4 grants
India$159k · 17 grants
United Kingdom$143k · 8 grants
Italy$69k · 3 grants
Switzerland$48k · 1 grant
Australia$33k · 7 grants
Argentina$22k · 2 grants
Germany$22k · 2 grants
Belgium$9k · 3 grants
Ireland$8k · 2 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

19%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$353k · 3 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
58

Total granted

$353k
$981k

Still filing today

0%
3%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $487k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN JENNIFER LACROSS UDUS RESEARCH GROUP
    2× · 2024–2025 · $285k
  • FM
    FBO MICHEAL TWARDOWSKI AT WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
    2× · 2019–2020 · $61k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2022–2023 · $7k

Funded once

  • CU
    CLARKSON UNIVERSITY SEAN BANERJEE
    one grant, 2024 · $310k
  • AC
    AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SPORTS MEDICINE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $105k · revenue 0%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $60k
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
04the grantee network

4 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. 4 of the 88 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
4/4
Grantees still filing
1/4
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLARKSON UNIVERSITY SEAN BANERJEE: $309,509 · OtherCLARKSON UNIVERSITY SEAN BANERJEEUNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN JENNIFER LACROSS UDUS RESEARCH GROUP: $285,079 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN JENNIFER LACROSS UDUS RESEARCH GROUPPROF AHMED SHEHATA UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK: $183,425 · OtherPROF AHMED SHEHATA UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICKFBO MICHEAL TWARDOWSKI AT WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $60,714 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $60,000 · Other+80 more: $811,586 · Other+80 moreAMERICAN COLLEGE OF SPORTS MEDICINE INC: $105,000 · EducationWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $5,000 · EducationABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC: $500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,710,313Education$110,000Housing & Shelter$500

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 budgetAMERICAN COLLEGE OF SPORTS MEDICINE INC: $105,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNARROWS INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC: $500 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 AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SPORTS MEDICINE INC ↗
  • Who funds NARROWS INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 88 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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