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The Frank & Fermina Pasciuto Founda at a glance

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The Frank & Fermina Pasciuto Founda

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.

$6k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$76kArts & Culture$20kCivil Rights$1kHuman Services$896Health$855Education$300Animals$290Community Improvement$240Other$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
2
States reached
$21k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
POPE SAINT JOHN XXIII NATIONAL$5,000
SS COSMAS AND DAMIAN SOCIETY$500
ORDER OF MALTA PILGRIMAGE$200
PIRANDELLO LYCEUM$100
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $216) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%EAST BOSTON SOCIAL CENTER: $216 → 16%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.
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$87k · 22 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
20

Total granted

$87k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+29%

Still filing today

45%
10%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureReligionHealthEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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

  • TO
    THE ORDER OF MALTA PILGRIMAGE FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2023 · $14k · revenue +199%
  • SC
    SS COSMAS E DAMIAN SOCIETY INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $4k · revenue +2%
  • DA
    DANTE ALIGHIERI SOCIETY OF MASSACHUSETTS INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $670 · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • CO
    CELEBRATION OF THE PRIESTHOOD -ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
  • TA
    THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • IA
    ITALIAN AMERICAN ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
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
Magazzino Italian Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
2
Center for Italian American Memoryfoundation Inc
—
3
Massimo and Chiara Ferragamo Family Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
4
Boston Portuguese Festival

The purpose of the Boston Portuguese Festival is to promote the image of Portugal and the visibility of the Portuguese community and its ancestry in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to promote the education of the community regarding…

Arts & Culture
5
The American Society for the Florence Academy of Art Inc
—
6
Italian Community Services
—
7
Pascucci Family Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Peter C Dozzi Family Foundation Aka Eugene Dozzi Charitable Foundation
Education
9
The Sergio Franchi Music Foundation
Arts & Culture
10
The Anthony & Catherine Fusco Foundation
Philanthropy
11
The Bacardi Family Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Florida Italian American Bar Assoc
Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dante Alighieri Society of Massachusetts Inc; the most unlike its peers is Pescosolido Family Scholarship. 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

13 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. 13 of the 44 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

POPE SAINT JOHN XXIII NATIONAL SEMINARY: $27,500 · OtherPOPE SAINT JOHN XXIII NATIONAL SEMINARYSAINT EULALIA CHURCH: $14,500 · OtherSAINT EULALIA CHURCHARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON CATHOLIC APPEAL: $7,900 · OtherARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON CATHOLIC APPEALPOPE SAINT JOHN XXIII NATIONAL: $5,000 · OtherPOPE SAINT JOHN XXIII NATIONAL+28 more: $13,029 · Other+28 moreTHE ORDER OF MALTA PILGRIMAGE FOUNDATION: $14,025 · ReligionTHE ORDER OF MALTA …SS COSMAS E DAMIAN SOCIETY INC: $3,500 · ReligionSS COSMAS E DAMIAN …1638 Fund Charitable Trust: $10,000 · Philanthropy1638 Fund C…PIRANDELLO LYCEUM INC: $2,200 · Arts & CultureDANTE ALIGHIERI SOCIETY OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $670 · Arts & CultureCASIT Inc: $500 · Arts & CultureOCTOBER AS ITALIAN HERITAGE MONTH COMMITTEE INC: $320 · Arts & CultureTHE PIERCE FAMILY FRAGILE X FOUNDATION: $250 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $80 · HealthPESCOSOLIDO FAMILY SCHOLARSHIP: $200 · EducationTHE JUSTINIAN LAW SOCIETY OF MASS: $50 · EducationEAST BOSTON SOCIAL CENTERS INC: $216 · Human Services
Other$67,929Religion$17,525Philanthropy$10,000Arts & Culture$3,690Health$330Education$250Human Services$216

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 budgetTHE ORDER OF MALTA PILGRIMAGE FOUNDATION: $14,025 over 7y, 0.5% of budget1638 Fund Charitable Trust: $10,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSS COSMAS E DAMIAN SOCIETY INC: $3,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetPIRANDELLO LYCEUM INC: $2,200 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetDANTE ALIGHIERI SOCIETY OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $670 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCASIT Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOCTOBER AS ITALIAN HERITAGE MONTH COMMITTEE INC: $320 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE PIERCE FAMILY FRAGILE X FOUNDATION: $250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEAST BOSTON SOCIAL CENTERS INC: $216 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $80 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCARDINAL CUSHING CENTERS INC: $75 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JUSTINIAN LAW SOCIETY OF MASS: $50 over 1y, 2.4% 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 THE ORDER OF MALTA PILGRIMAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds 1638 Fund Charitable Trust ↗
  • Who funds SS COSMAS E DAMIAN SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds PIRANDELLO LYCEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds DANTE ALIGHIERI SOCIETY OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
  • Who funds CASIT Inc ↗
  • Who funds OCTOBER AS ITALIAN HERITAGE MONTH COMMITTEE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PIERCE FAMILY FRAGILE X FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EAST BOSTON SOCIAL CENTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds PESCOSOLIDO FAMILY SCHOLARSHIP ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds CARDINAL CUSHING CENTERS INC ↗

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.

Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Frank & Fermina Pasciuto Founda funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Frank & Fermina Pasciuto Founda. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 44%
  • East Boston Social Centers Inc: 53% of income from government
  • Cardinal Cushing Centers Inc: 44% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 44 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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