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The John Fscarpa 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.

$176k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$67k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$5.9MPhilanthropy$1.7MHealth$986kScience & Tech$709kArts & Culture$219kHuman Services$135kCrime & Legal$118kAnimals$104kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $92k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $67k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$975k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SALESIAN SISTERS$66,825
A MEANINGFUL PURPOSE AT REED'S FARM$25,000
CUMBERLAND CAPE ATLANTIC YMCA$20,000
PALM BEACH POLICE & FIRE FOUNDATION$15,160
VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW$12,054
Individual grant recipient$10,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$10,000
CHOP FOUNDATION$5,000
ST MARY SCHOOL$5,000
LARC SCHOOL$1,500
MILLVILLE ARMY AIR FIELD MUSEUM$1,000
WHEATON ARTS$1,000
AVALON RESCUE SQUAD$1,000
CCTEC FOUNDATION INC$1,000
GARDEN STATE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $123k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PURPLE MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE: $5k → 15%PURPLE MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE: $5k → 15%PURPLE MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE: $3k → 15%PURPLE MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE: $3k → 15%PURPLE MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE: $3k → 15%PURPLE MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE: $3k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES - DIOCESE OF PALM BEACH: $1k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES - DIOCESE OF PALM BEACH: $1k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES - DIOCESE OF PALM BEACH: $1k → 11%CUMBERLAND CAPE ATLANTIC YMCA: $20k → 16%CUMBERLAND CAPE ATLANTIC YMCA: $20k → 16%CUMBERLAND CAPE ATLANTIC YMCA: $20k → 16%CUMBERLAND CAPE ATLANTIC YMCA: $20k → 16%CUMBERLAND CAPE ATLANTIC YMCA: $20k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
HI
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$10M · 69 repeat orgs$232k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

69 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 53 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

69
48

Total granted

$10M
$207k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+29%

Still filing today

54%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
HealthEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureCrime & LegalHuman ServicesOther

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

  • VU
    VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +50%
  • TO
    Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc
    5× · 2017–2022 · $1.3M · revenue +54%
  • SU
    STOCKTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · $758k · revenue +235%

Funded once

  • HP
    HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +14%
  • PB
    PALM BEACH PHILANTHROPY TANK
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • HS
    HOME SAFE
    one grant, 2017 · $20k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Plainview Hospital

Plainview hospital is part of northwell health, inc ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
2
Northwell Health Foundation

Northwell health foundation inc. is dedicated toward helping donors, patients, and leaders link their vision and philanthropic support toward helping the underserved and uninsured, advancing the latest frontiers in medical technology and…

Health
3
Phelps Memorial Hospital Association

Phelps memorial hospital association ("pmha") is part of northwell health, inc ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the…

Health
4
Staten Island University Hospital Foundation

The mission of staten island university hospital's foundation is to achieve philanthropic relationships for support and endowment, providing highest quality care, services and state of the art equipment. philanthropy has played an…

Health
5
South Shore University Hospital

South shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
6
North Shore University Hospital

North shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
7
Palm Healthcare Foundation Inc

Palm Health Foundation invests in bold, community-led solutions that improve health and well-being in Palm Beach County. (Continued on Schedule O)Established in 2001 from the sale of Good Samaritan and St. Mary's hospitals, the Foundation…

Health
8
Northwell Health Inc

Northwell health is the parent company of a fully integrated health system that is committed to promote clinical care, health education, conduct biomedical research, and caring for the community regardless of ability to pay.

Community Improvement
9
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
10
Staten Island University Hospital

Staten island university hospital is an affiliate within northwell health, inc. ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the…

Health
11
Lenox Hill Hospital

Lenox hill hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future generations…

Health
12
Central Suffolk Hospital

Central suffolk hospital ("csh") d/b/a peconic bay medical center ("pbmc") is a not-for-profit hospital consisting of acute health care, a skilled nursing facility and a certified home care agency. csh provides a full range of health care…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wills Eye Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Vineland Historical & Antiquarian Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPublic University Foundatio…Community Health CentersYmca Community CentersFallen First Responder Supp…Education Equity LeadershipJewish Community FederationsCommunity Arts OrganizationsLegal Aid & Immigration Ser…Volunteer Fire DepartmentsYouth Development CentersDevelopmental Disabilities …Veteran Support ServicesSubstance Abuse TreatmentFaith-Based Senior LivingAnimal Rescue and AdoptionYouth Sports Booster Organi…Cancer Support OrganizationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…United Way Federations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%2%10–20yr16%4%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr16%78%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/58
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,507

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

55 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 55 of the 118 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/55
Grantees still filing
41/55
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE RICHARD STOCKTON COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $1,250,000 · OtherTHE RICHARD STOCKTON COLLEGE FOUNDATIONSTOCKTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $757,500 · OtherSTOCKTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONCCTEC FOUNDATION INC — $704,000 · OtherCCTEC FOUNDATION INCSOUTH JERSEY HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION (INSPIRA HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION) — $481,150 · OtherSOUTH JERSEY HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION (INSPIRA HEALTH NE…ST PADRE PIO PARISH VINELAND NJ — $372,160 · OtherST PADRE PIO PARISH VINELAND NJINSPIRA FOUNDATION — $246,550 · Other+82 more — $1,085,817 · Other+82 moreVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY — $3,334,831 · EducationVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY+4 more — $88,500 · EducationTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc — $1,331,000 · PhilanthropyTown of Palm Be…Friends of Recreation Inc — $80,000 · PhilanthropyFriends of Recr…+3 more — $9,500 · PhilanthropyINSPIRA HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $160,800 · HealthFOUNDCARE INC — $101,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $50,000 · HealthHOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $45,000 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $40,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $20,500 · Health+6 more — $17,000 · HealthCumberland Cape Atlantic YMCA — $100,000 · Human ServicesPURPLE MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE — $20,000 · Human Services+1 more — $3,000 · Human ServicesIMPACTISRAEL INC — $85,000 · InternationalThe Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc — $46,210 · Crime & LegalJOHN R ELLIOTT FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Crime & Legal+2 more — $1,950 · Crime & Legal
Other$4,897,177Education$3,423,331Philanthropy$1,420,500Health$434,300Human Services$123,000International$85,000Crime & Legal$58,160

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY — $3,334,831 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc — $1,331,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetSTOCKTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $757,500 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetINSPIRA HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $160,800 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetFOUNDCARE INC — $101,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCumberland Cape Atlantic YMCA — $100,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetIMPACTISRAEL INC — $85,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of Recreation Inc — $80,000 over 3y, 30% of budgetWILLS EYE FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc — $46,210 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetHOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $45,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetELLIS ISLAND HONORS SOCIETY INC — $34,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetVINELAND HISTORICAL & ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY INC — $29,400 over 6y, 35% of budgetHAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetECOFLIGHT — $23,750 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $20,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPURPLE MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE — $20,000 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetGARDEN STATE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $20,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetMillville Army Air Field Museum Inc — $18,000 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetLARC SCHOOL INC D/B/A THE LARC NORCROSS SCHOOL — $13,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetVINELAND JUNIOR FOOTBALL LEAGUE INC — $10,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJOHN R ELLIOTT FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetAVALON RESCUE SQUAD INC — $8,000 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CUMBERLAND & SALEM COUNTIES INC — $6,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSaint Joseph Villa — $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPalm Beach Civic Association Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPalm Beach Island Cats Inc — $5,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetBRH Endowment Inc — $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPOLICE UNITY TOUR CHAPTER TWO — $3,750 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PALM BEACH INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCUMBERLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLEGACY FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetThe Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Fund for West Palm Beach Police Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetMissions of Mercy Inc — $2,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN — $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTOP BULLYING NOW FOUNDATION INC — $1,250 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTARFISH EQUINE RESCUE — $1,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY — $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJunior League of Boca Raton Inc — $600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLegal Aid Society of Palm Beach County Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc
  • Who funds STOCKTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds INSPIRA HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds FOUNDCARE INC
  • Who funds Cumberland Cape Atlantic YMCA
  • Who funds IMPACTISRAEL INC
  • Who funds Friends of Recreation Inc
  • Who funds WILLS EYE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc
  • Who funds The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc
  • Who funds HOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ELLIS ISLAND HONORS SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds VINELAND HISTORICAL & ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds ECOFLIGHT
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds PURPLE MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE
  • Who funds GARDEN STATE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
  • Who funds Millville Army Air Field Museum 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.

Oceanfirst FoundationNJ22.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Oceanfirst Foundation · The Azeez Foundation · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · The Mary Alice Fortin Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation · United Way of Palm Beach County Inc · Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 John Fscarpa Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 240%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 6%
  • Hansen Foundation Inc25% of income from government
  • Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Palm Beach Inc12% of income from government
  • Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County Inc10% of income from government
  • Foundcare Inc6% of income from government
  • Center for Creative Education2% of income from government
  • Larc School Inc D/B/a the Larc Norcross School1% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
24get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The John Fscarpa Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The John Fscarpa 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 118 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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