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The Jerry R Licari Foundation at a glance

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The Jerry R Licari 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.

$63k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$24k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$201kInternational$126kHousing & Shelter$61kFood & Nutrition$33kReligion$17kPublic Safety & Disaster$16kArts & Culture$8kPhilanthropy$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $34k
$3,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNTOLD$24,000
THE SAMBURU PROJECT$10,000
ROOF ABOVE$5,000
RUTHERFORD COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMAN$5,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$5,000
PHILABUNDANCE$3,000
NOWRUSH UP$3,000
GOOD SHEPHERD CENTER FOR HOMELESS$3,000
HIGH MUSEUM OF ART$1,000
HOUSE OF MERCY INC$1,000
MOVEMENT MIGRATION$1,000
PROJECT LIFE MOVEMENT$1,000
THE FABRIC WORKSHOP & MUSEUM$500
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 (FY19–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 28% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%PATIENT ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION OF CANCER SPECIALISTS OF NORTH FLORIDA: $1k → 14%GOOD SHEPHERD CENTER FOR HOMELESS WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $3k → 14%GOOD SHEPHERD CENTER FOR HOMELESS WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $3k → 14%NOWRUSH UP: $3k → 10%LOAVES & FISHES: $6k → 10%LOAVES & FISHES: $3k → 10%LOAVES & FISHES: $3k → 10%LOAVES & FISHES: $3k → 10%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

PA
CA
MD
TN
NC
DC
MS
GA
FL
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$442k · 14 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
6

Total granted

$442k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
-6%

Still filing today

86%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
InternationalArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthFood & NutritionEmploymentOther
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

  • UI
    Untold Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $192k · revenue +172%
  • TS
    THE SAMBURU PROJECT INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $88k · revenue +44%
  • ROOF ABOVE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $37k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • CR
    CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -6%
  • GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · 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.

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
Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
2
Global Partners in Care

The organization's mission is to build partnerships to enhance compassionate care globally. we are dedicated to improving access to hospice and palliative care worldwide.

International
3
Partners in Food Solutions

Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.

International
4
Catholic Charities Diocese of Charlotte

We are a christian ministry of charity, service and justice dedicated to providing help to those in need, hope to those in despair, and inspiration for others to follow.

Human Services
5
Pact Inc

Pact is a nonprofit organization that builds evidence-based, data-driven, and community-led solutions for human development (continued in schedule o)

International
6
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
7
Clinton Health Access Initiative Inc

For over 20 years, chai's mission has been to save lives and improve health outcomes in low-and middle-income countries around the world. we do this by enabling the government and private sector to strengthen and sustain quality health…

International
8
West Side Center for Community Life

To pursue anti-hunger initiatives through the west side campaign against hunger (wscah) program whose mission is to alleviate hunger by ensuring that all new yorkers have access with dignity to a choice of healthy food and supportive…

Youth Development
9
Hospice & Palliative Care Charlotte Region

Our mission is to relieve suffering and improve the quality and dignity of life through compassionate hospice care at the end of life, palliative care for those with advanced illness, and through community education.

Human Services
10
Carolina Ballet Inc

Carolina ballet's mission is to perform world-class professional ballet, entertaining and enlightening audiences in raleigh, the triangle region, the state of north carolina, and beyond. carolina ballet works to accomplish this mission by…

Arts & Culture
11
Care Share Health Alliance Inc

Care share health alliance is a north carolina-based nonprofit organization advancing community health and wellbeing through systems change. guided by the mission of collaborating for health and a vision of communities that are healthy and…

Health
12
Florida Community Health Centers Inc

Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for the Carolinas; the most unlike its peers is Project Life. 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

19 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. 19 of the 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
15/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Untold Inc: $192,000 · HealthUntold IncProject Life: $8,000 · HealthTHE SAMBURU PROJECT INC: $87,500 · InternationalTHE SAMBURU PROJECT INCGLOBAL CONNECTIONS: $28,000 · InternationalGLOBAL CONNECTIONSWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $5,000 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · InternationalURBAN MINISTRY CENTER: $16,000 · OtherURBAN MINIS…HOUSE OF MERCY INC: $9,500 · OtherHOUSE OF ME…GOOD SHEPHERD CENTER FOR HOMELESS: $9,000 · OtherGOOD SHEPHE…CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES: $5,000 · OtherCATHOLIC RE…RUTHERFORD COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMAN: $5,000 · OtherRUTHERFORD …+2 more: $2,000 · OtherROOF ABOVE INC: $37,000 · Arts & CultureROOF ABOVE…MOVEMENT MIGRATION: $4,000 · Arts & CultureMOVEMENT M…CHARLOTTE BALLET: $2,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureNourish Up: $18,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesPATIENT ASSISTANCE FDN OF CANCER SPECIALISTS OF NORTH FLORIDA INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesPhilabundance: $15,000 · Food & NutritionFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS: $5,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF NORTH GEORGIA: $1,000 · PhilanthropyThe Fabric Workshop and Museum: $500 · Employment
Health$200,000International$135,500Other$46,500Arts & Culture$44,000Human Services$25,000Food & Nutrition$15,000Philanthropy$6,000Employment$500

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 budgetUntold Inc: $192,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetTHE SAMBURU PROJECT INC: $87,500 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetROOF ABOVE INC: $37,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBAL CONNECTIONS: $28,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetNourish Up: $18,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPhilabundance: $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSE OF MERCY INC: $9,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetProject Life: $8,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOVEMENT MIGRATION: $4,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetCHARLOTTE BALLET: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF NORTH GEORGIA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Fabric Workshop and Museum: $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.

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.

Charities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA9.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Jerry R Licari Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jerry R Licari Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 25 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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