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The Gristmill Foundation Co Candida Cucharo
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DIGNITY BEYOND BORDERS | $5,000 |
| NEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| NYS ASSOC FOR INFANT MENTAL HEALTH | $5,000 |
| INNER-CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $3,900 |
| ADVENTURES IN LEARNING | $2,500 |
| DANCING DREAMS | $2,500 |
| ST MARY'S HEALTH CARE FOR CHILDREN | $2,000 |
| HUNTS POINT ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN | $1,500 |
| DOCS FOR TOTS | $1,000 |
| HARMONY PROGRAM | $1,000 |
| ST JOHN'S BREAD LIFE | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- ICINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC6× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +18%
- AIADVENTURES IN LEARNING INC6× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +77%
- TVTHE VISCARDI CENTER INC2× · 2021–2022 · $10k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- SMST MARY'S HEALTH CARE- FOR CHLDRNone grant, 2021 · $3k
- IEINFANT EARLY MENTAL HEALTH PROMOTIOone grant, 2023 · $1k
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.
Abilites Inc is a non-profit agency dedicated to facilitating integrated employment and full participation of persons with disabilities in their work and living communities. Employment is accomplished through direct service to youth and…
To provide quality programs for young children with special needs.
A private school providing an exceptional college preparatory program with a specialty in learning disabilities.
The Vincent Smith School is a co-ed, independent, special education school for grades ones through twelve, serving Nassau, Suffolk, and New York City students. The School specializes in students with various learning issues.
To provide each child with a unique and individualized educational, therapeutic experience which will lay the foundation for the future as a capable and productive member of their community
To provide a program for children with special needs, ages three to five years by utilizing the disciplines of psychology, speech therapy, occupational therapy, and physical therapy as integral functions of the educational program.
Includenyc fosters positive futures and enhances the quality of life for new york city children and youth with disabilities, ages birth through 26, and their families. (continued on schedule o)includenyc empowers families of children and…
Pediatric healthcare, education & research
Acds is dedicated to providing lifetime resources of exceptional quality, innovation and inclusion for individuals with down syndrome, autism and other developmental disabilities and their families. we provide a continuum of year round…
Variety child learning center (vclc) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides programs and services that meet the individual educational, therapeutic, and social-emotional needs of children with and without disabilities.…
The organization provides childcare services to children age 12 weeks to 12 years through infant/toddler, pre-k, before and after school, and summer camp programs.
To serve people with developmental disabilities
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Alternatives for Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dancing Dreams. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 16 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 INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ADVENTURES IN LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds THE VISCARDI CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DANCING DREAMS ↗
- Who funds NEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds THE HARMONY PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds DIGNITY INC ↗
- Who funds HUNTS POINT ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds DOCS FOR TOTS ↗
- Who funds St Johns Bread & Life Program Inc ↗
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: The New York Community Trust · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Gristmill Foundation Co Candida Cucharo 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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