· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| THE FRANCES FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| DONOVAN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND | $5,000 |
| YOUR GRANDMOTHER'S CUPBOARD | $5,000 |
| GEORGIAN COURT UNIVERSITY | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against -40% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $10k
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -40%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
29 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. 29 of the 55 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Donofrio Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Donofrio Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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