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The John and Melinda Ortenzio Family Foundation at a glance

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The John and Melinda Ortenzio Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$236kYouth Development$60kRecreation & Sports$7kReligion$6kHealth$4kPhilanthropy$3kHousing & Shelter$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$730k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA$2,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 60% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%THE DEVON HORSE SHOW & CTRY FAIR FD: $700 → 6%PARTNERSHIP FOR BETTER HEALTH: $1k → 8%YORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA: $25k → 9%ANDREW'S GIFT: $2k → 12%ELON UNIVERSITY: $6k → 13%TRINITY HIGH SCHOOL: $55k → 8%YORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA: $25k → 9%THE JOSHUA GROUP: $23k → 12%ELON UNIVERSITY: $3k → 13%TRINITY HIGH SCHOOL: $30k → 8%YORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA: $25k → 9%THE JOSHUA GROUP: $10k → 12%TRINITY HIGH SCHOOL: $25k → 8%YORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA: $19k → 9%LOGOS ACADEMY HARRISBURG: $5k → 12%TRINITY HIGH SCHOOL: $5k → 8%YORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2k → 9%THE JOSHUA GROUP: $10k → 12%TRINITY HIGH SCHOOL: $5k → 8%ST THERESA PARISH: $5k → 9%LOGOS ACADEMY HARRISBURG: $1k → 12%TRINITY HIGH SCHOOL: $3k → 8%PENNSYLVANIA NATIONAL HORSESHOW FDN: $4k → 9%JOSHUA GROUP: $10k → 12%FOUR DIAMONDS FUND: $1k → 8%MEDARD'S HOUSE: $3k → 9%LOGOS ACADEMY HARRISBURG: $1k → 12%THE PEYTON WALKER FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%PENNSYLVANIA NATIONAL HORSESHOW FDN: $3k → 9%HEALING GEMS: $3k → 12%CEDAR CLIFF HIGH SCHOOL: $550 → 8%MEDARD'S HOUSE: $2k → 9%GAUDENZIA FOUNDATION: $500 → 12%SAINT THERESA SCHOOL: $1k → 9%GAUDENZIA FOUNDATION: $500 → 12%ST THERESA PARISH: $500 → 9%GAUDENZIA FOUNDATION: $500 → 12%GAUDENZIA FOUNDATION: $500 → 12%LIVINGWELL INSTITUTE: $500 → 12%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$311k · 11 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
9

Total granted

$311k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%
+101%

Still filing today

82%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentHuman 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

  • YC
    YORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA
    5× · 2017–2025 · $96k · revenue +17%
  • TJ
    THE JOSHUA GROUP
    4× · 2017–2024 · $53k · revenue +71%
  • Elon University
    2× · 2018–2019 · $9k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $8k
  • AG
    ANDREWS GIFT
    one grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue -3%
  • FD
    FOUR DIAMONDS FUND
    one grant, 2019 · $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.

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Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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2
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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3
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
4
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
5
Houghton University

Houghton university provides an academically challenging, christ-centered education in the liberal arts and sciences to students from diverse traditions and economic backgrounds and equips them to lead and labor as scholar-servants in a…

Education
6
Waynesburg University

Waynesburg university educates students to make connections between faith, learning and serving so they might faithfully transofrm their communiities and the world. see continuation on schedule o.as a christian comprehensive university, we…

Education
7
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
8
Ysc Academy

Ysc academy is licensed as a private academic school for grades 7-12.

Education
9
Williamsburg Christian Academy

Williamsburg christian academy provides college preparatory instruction in a culture of grace through personalized learning in academics, arts, and athletics while building relationships that inspire students to serve their community and…

Education
10
Eagle Hill Foundation of Massachusettsinc

Eagle hill school is a coeducational boarding school that educates students with learning disabilities, including attention deficit disorder, in grades eight through twelve. eagle hill students demonstrate average to above average…

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11
Windward School

Windward school is a dynamic college-preparatory school that challenges each student to achieve excellence in a nurturing, inclusive community. windward teachers, parents, and administrators work together to inspire our students to be…

Education
12
Howard Gardner Multiple Intelligence Charter School

The mission of the howard gardner multiple intelligence charter school is to provide an approach to education that cultivates the potential of each student through the development of his/her multiple intelligences. by focusing on…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partnership for Better Health; the most unlike its peers is Logos Academy Harrisburg. 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, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 20 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA: $96,000 · EducationYORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIATHE JOSHUA GROUP: $52,500 · EducationTHE JOSHUA GROUPElon University: $8,500 · EducationLOGOS ACADEMY HARRISBURG: $7,000 · Education+1 more: $500 · EducationTRINITY HIGH SCHOOL: $123,000 · OtherTRINITY HIGH SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient: $7,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST THERESA PARISH: $5,500 · Other+4 more: $3,350 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA NAT'L HORSE SHOW FOUNDATION: $6,700 · Recreation & SportsMEDARDS HOUSE: $4,500 · Youth DevelopmentGAUDENZIA FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · HealthANDREWS GIFT: $1,500 · HealthPARTNERSHIP FOR BETTER HEALTH: $1,000 · HealthBOB CRAIG YOUTH FOUNDATION: $3,000 · PhilanthropyPEYTON WALKER FOUNDATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropyBRIDGE OF HOPE INC: $2,000 · Human Services
Education$164,500Other$139,350Recreation & Sports$6,700Youth Development$4,500Health$4,500Philanthropy$4,000Human Services$2,000

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 budgetYORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA: $96,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JOSHUA GROUP: $52,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetElon University: $8,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOGOS ACADEMY HARRISBURG: $7,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA NAT'L HORSE SHOW FOUNDATION: $6,700 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetMEDARDS HOUSE: $4,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetBOB CRAIG YOUTH FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetGAUDENZIA FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGE OF HOPE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetANDREWS GIFT: $1,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPEYTON WALKER FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR BETTER HEALTH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIVINGWELL INSTITUTE: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Kenneth Bankert Found…The Foundation for En…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Kenneth Bankert Foundation IncPA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kenneth Bankert Foundation Inc · The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 John and Melinda Ortenzio Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The John and Melinda Ortenzio Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
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    How do I get to The John and Melinda Ortenzio Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The John and Melinda Ortenzio Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 20 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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