· Private foundation
The Joseph & Agatha Sicari Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $88k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $210k
- $250k+1 grant · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Earning for Life Inc | $400,000 |
| Friends of Ellen M Leach Memorial H | $85,000 |
| Holden Christian Academy | $75,000 |
| Ducks on a Pond | $50,000 |
| Missionaries 2 Marriages | $47,500 |
| Regenerating Life Ministries | $30,000 |
| Westwood Food Pantry | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 84% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
14 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $410k 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
- MMissionaries2Marriages8× · 2017–2024 · $277k · revenue +68% · 61% of their budget
- RLRegenerating Life Ministries Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $179k · revenue +135%
- GBGREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES INC4× · 2017–2021 · $40k · revenue +120%
Funded once
- RIRobbins Institute for Speech Correcone grant, 2017 · $45k
- EMELLEN M LEACH MEMORIAL HOMEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $38k · revenue +50%
- GLGray Lady Foundation Incone grant, 2018 · $35k · revenue +17% · 32% of their budget
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.
Christian counseling for individuals with anxiety depression or other emotional struggles. Christian counseling for marriages and other couples.
Ministry that turns men from addiction to Jesus Christ by daily engaging them in spiritual, physical and financial guidance and goals
To provide or connect low -income or ex-offenders affordable houses who wouldn't otherwise have the opportunity to have a bighter future
To provide a transitional living faclity for battered women, women released from prison and women rehabing from drug addiction
Ministry to Married Couples
To give the gospel of Jesus Christ of Nazareth to the poor and dejected of the world. We do this by caring for widows, orphans, and broken people around the world. We care for hem by feeding, clothing, and encouraging them in Jesus by His…
Recovery home
Joan Murray Ministries is a teaching ministry that utilizes the power, truth and principles of God s word to minister to the spiritual, emotional and physical nees of persons seeking to discover God.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Regenerating Life Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ellen M Leach Memorial Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 20 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 Haiti Empowered Inc ↗
- Who funds Earning for Life Inc ↗
- Who funds Missionaries2Marriages ↗
- Who funds Regenerating Life Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds DUCKS ON THE POND REALTY INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ELLEN M LEACH MEMORIAL HOME ↗
- Who funds Gray Lady Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW CREATION HEALING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR CHRISTIAN RENEWAL ↗
- Who funds THE MARJOT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WESTWOOD FOOD PANTRY 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: 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 Joseph & Agatha Sicari Charitable Trust 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.
- Greater Boston Legal Services Inc — 3% of income from government
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.