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The Donofrio 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k29 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $31k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OCEAN COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $10,680 |
| COMMUNITY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $10,334 |
| UNITED WAY OF OCEAN COUNTY | $10,000 |
| TOMS RIVER BOARD OF EDUCATION | $6,000 |
| GEORGIAN COURT UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| YOUR GRANDMOTHER'S CUPBOARD | $5,000 |
| UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND | $5,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| THE FRANCES FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| DONOVAN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| OCEAN'S HARBOR HOUSE | $4,600 |
| ST JOSEPH'S GRADE SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| INTERFAITH FAMILY SEVICES | $2,500 |
| THE ITALIAN-AMERICAN CULTURAL SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| CAREGIVERS VOLUNTEERS OF CENTRAL JERSEY | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against -40% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- OCOCEAN COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $86k · revenue +32%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC7× · 2017–2024 · $33k · revenue +145%
UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC6× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +99%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -40%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Within a place of hope and faith, our mission is to serve individuals and families in crisis with dignity and compassion, providing for their basic human needs and striving to empower each person to achieve his or her greatest level of…
To provide needed food, shelter, clothing, medicine and educational scholarships.
Ohi is a federally qualified health center (fqhc) based in ocean county, new jersey. (see schedule o for details)
Our mission is that no one in the community goes hungry.
Ocean Bay Community Development Corporation (Ocean Bay CDC) mission is to revitalize the Rockaway peninsula and to improve the quality of life and socioeconomic status of its residents.
To provide shelter, meals and case management for homeless families, as well as aiding the families in finding a home , family services and training.
The organization, a not-for-profit acute care hospital serving the ocean county region, is committed to enhancing the overall health status of the community by providing the highest quality healthcare and related services including…
To advocate, provide opportunities and support necessary for all individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities to be accepted and valued as citizens of the communities in which they choose to live, learn, work and play.
Outer cape health services, inc.'s mission is to provide a full range of healthcare and supportive social services that promote the health and well-being of all who live in or visit the ten outermost towns of cape cod.
The mission of Ocean Park Food Bank is to distribute food and other items of personal necessity to those who present themselves in need.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Monmouth and Ocean Counties and the most unlike its peers is Georgian Court University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
29 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. 29 of the 55 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds COMMUNITY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OCEAN COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN'S HARBOR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds YOUR GRANDMOTHERS CUPBOARD ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES OF OCEAN COUNTY OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds GEORGIAN COURT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds 21 PLUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JERSEY SHORE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds OPEN ARMS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ZACHARY & ELIZABETH M FISHER CENTER FOR ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OCEAN COUNTY HUNGER RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE SHEDS LIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF COASTAL & NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF THE JERSEY SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN COUNTY YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds LACEY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN COUNTY FOUNDATION FOR VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Oceanfirst Foundation · New Jersey Natural Gas Company Charity Inc · Wintrode Family Foundation Inc · The Jay and Linda Grunin Foundation D/B/A Grunin Foundation · The Citta Foundation Inc · The Provident Bank Foundation · Jean R D Hecht & Betty Rae Hecht Charitable Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · The Kotzas Family Charitable Foundation · The Buckelew Family Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · 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 Donofrio Foundation 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.
- Ocean's Harbor House Inc — 75% of income from government
- Hope Sheds Light Inc — 7% of income from government
- Georgian Court University — 1% of income from government
- Lacey Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Ocean County Ymca Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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