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The John D and Eleanore Carifa Foundation at a glance

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The John D and Eleanore Carifa Foundation

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.

$47k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$77kEducation$68kPhilanthropy$21kEnvironment$13kRecreation & Sports$9kPublic Safety & Disaster$8kHealth$6kReligion$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$4,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$503k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTER FOR THE ARTS$10,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION JACKSON HOLE$10,000
CHARLESTON COLLEGIATE SCHOOL$5,000
NEW VERNON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$5,000
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH NEW VERNON$4,000
DELBARTON SCHOOL$4,000
PECK SCHOOL$4,000
HARDING LAND TRUST$3,000
COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON LADY'S GOLF$1,500
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 20% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%COLGATE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 11%LITTLE PEAKS FUND: $1k → 13%COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON LADY'S GOLF: $2k → 12%CARDINALS GIRLS LACROSSE BOOSTER CLUB INC: $1k → 9%ST JUDES: $1k → 17%BRADY LIFE CAMP: $1k → 4%PECK SCHOOL: $5k → 4%THE WILLOW SCHOOL: $3k → 5%CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $20k → 5%ADIRONDACK LAND TRUST: $1k → 13%CHARLESTON COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $5k → 12%DELBARTON SCHOOL: $5k → 4%THE WILLOW SCHOOL: $2k → 5%CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $10k → 5%CHARLESTON COLLEGIATE: $5k → 12%PECK SCHOOL: $4k → 4%THE WILLOW SCHOOL: $2k → 5%CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $10k → 5%CHARLESTON COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $5k → 12%CARDINAL QUATERBACK CLUB: $1k → 9%DELBARTON SCHOOL: $4k → 4%THE WILLOW SCHOOL: $2k → 5%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION JACKSON HOLE: $10k → 5%CHARLESTON COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $5k → 12%DELBARTON SCHOOL: $4k → 4%THE WILLOW SCHOOL: $2k → 5%CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $10k → 5%AUSABLE CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $1k → 13%OLM COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $1k → 12%PECK SCHOOL: $4k → 4%CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $10k → 5%AUSABLE CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $1k → 13%COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON WOMEN'S GOLF: $2k → 12%THE PECK SCHOOL: $2k → 4%FRIENDS OF CDPL: $1k → 5%CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $10k → 5%AUSABLE CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $1k → 13%NEW VERNON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $5k → 4%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON: $5k → 5%HARDING TOWNSHIP EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 4%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $5k → 5%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH NEW VERNON: $4k → 4%ST JOHN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $4k → 5%HARDING LAND TRUST: $3k → 4%HARDING LAND TRUST: $3k → 4%HARDING TOWNSHIP EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $3k → 4%NEW VERNON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT FUND: $2k → 4%HARDING LAND TRUST: $2k → 4%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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$166k · 16 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
21

Total granted

$166k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+125%

Still filing today

75%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentEducationHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • CC
    Community Center for the Arts
    6× · 2018–2025 · $70k · revenue +188%
  • TP
    THE PECK SCHOOL
    4× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +37%
  • TW
    THE WILLOW SCHOOL INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $10k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • SJ
    St John's Health Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +482%
  • NV
    NEW VERNON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
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
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
2
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
5
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
6
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
7
Trustees of Deerfield Academy

Deerfield academy is an independent secondary school committed to high standards of scholarship, citizenship, and personal responsibility. through a rigorous liberal arts curriculum, extensive co-curricular program, and supportive…

Education
8
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
9
The Waldorf School Inc

The waldorf school of lexington nurtures each child's curiosity, ingenuity, and love of learning so that they can meet the future with wonder, confidence, and resilience.

Education
10
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
11
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
12
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Taft School Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Bruce Museum Inc. 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 40 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
13/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Charleston Collegiate School: $20,000 · OtherCharleston Collegiate SchoolTHE PECK SCHOOL: $15,000 · OtherTHE PECK SCHOOLDELBARTON SCHOOL: $13,000 · OtherDELBARTON SCHOOLAUSABLE CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $6,000 · OtherAUSABLE CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATIONNEW VERNON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $6,000 · OtherNEW VERNON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON: $5,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSONFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH NEW VERNON: $4,000 · Other+18 more: $16,780 · Other+18 moreCommunity Center for the Arts: $70,000 · Arts & CultureCommunity Center for the Arts+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $15,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FO…Harding Township Educational Foundation: $8,000 · PhilanthropyHarding Town…HARDING LAND TRUST: $8,500 · EnvironmentJACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST: $2,000 · EnvironmentADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INC: $2,000 · EnvironmentLAMINGTON CONSERVANCY: $750 · EnvironmentTHE WILLOW SCHOOL INC: $9,500 · EducationCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $1,000 · EducationTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION: $750 · EducationSt John's Health Foundation: $3,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $1,000 · HealthCARDINAL QUARTERBACK CLUB INC: $1,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$85,780Arts & Culture$71,000Philanthropy$23,000Environment$13,250Education$11,250Health$5,500Recreation & Sports$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCommunity Center for the Arts: $70,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCharleston Collegiate School: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PECK SCHOOL: $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILLOW SCHOOL INC: $9,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHARDING LAND TRUST: $8,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetNEW VERNON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRUCE MUSEUM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAMINGTON CONSERVANCY: $750 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMane Stream Inc: $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.

  • Who funds Community Center for the Arts ↗
  • Who funds Charleston Collegiate School ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ↗
  • Who funds THE PECK SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE WILLOW SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds HARDING LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds Harding Township Educational Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NEW VERNON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
  • Who funds St John's Health Foundation ↗
  • Who funds JACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds ADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds CARDINAL QUARTERBACK CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BRUCE MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds LAMINGTON CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Mane Stream 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.

Community Foundation …Brian Thebault Family…Fm Kirby Foundation I…National Philanthropi…The Pfizer Foundation…Morgan Stanley Global…Charities Aid Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ14.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · Brian Thebault Family Foundation Inc · Fm Kirby Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 D and Eleanore Carifa Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The John D and Eleanore Carifa Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Mane Stream Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Bruce Museum Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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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Find your warmest path to The John D and Eleanore Carifa 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 40 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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