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The Joseph & Agatha Sicari Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$698k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Food & Nutrition$1.5MReligion$663kArts & Culture$645kEducation$459kCommunity Improvement$400kHealth$205kAnimals$150kCrime & Legal$40kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $88k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $210k
  • $250k+1 grant · $400k
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Robbins Institute for Speech Correc: $45k → 11%Ducks on a Pond: $50k → 16%Regenerating Life Ministries: $30k → 6%Missionaries 2 Marriages: $48k → 7%Ducks on the Pond Realty Inc: $25k → 5%Friends of Ellen M Leach Memorial H: $180k → 15%Gray Lady Foundation: $35k → 11%Ducks on a Pond: $50k → 16%ReGenerating Life Ministries Inc: $29k → 6%Missionaries 2 Marriages: $40k → 7%Ducks on the Pond Realty Inc: $25k → 5%Friends of Ellen M Leach Memorial H: $110k → 15%Robbins Instiute of Speech: $20k → 11%Ducks on a Pond: $50k → 16%Regenerating Life Ministries: $25k → 6%Missionaries 2 Marriages: $35k → 7%Ducks on the Pond Realty Inc: $25k → 5%Friends of Ellen M Leach Memorial H: $110k → 15%Robbins Instiute of Speech: $20k → 11%ReGenerating Life Ministries Inc: $25k → 6%Missionaries 2 Marriages: $35k → 7%Ducks on the Pond Realty Inc: $25k → 5%Friends of Ellen M Leach Memorial H: $85k → 15%Missionaries 2 Marriages: $35k → 7%Friends of Ellen M Leach Memorial H: $60k → 15%Missionaries 2 Marriages: $30k → 7%Friends of Ellen M Leach Memorial H: $60k → 15%Missionaries 2 Marriages: $29k → 7%Friends of Ellen M Leach Memorial H: $40k → 15%Holden Christian Academy: $75k → 11%Missionaries 2 Marriages: $26k → 7%Ellen M Leach Memorial Home: $38k → 15%Holden Christian Academy: $68k → 11%Holden Christian Academy: $63k → 11%Holden Christian Academy: $60k → 11%Holden Christian Academy: $52k → 11%Holden Christian Academy: $50k → 11%Holden Christian Academy: $47k → 11%Holden Christian Academy: $45k → 11%Mission E4 Inc: $275k → 11%Mission E4 Inc: $260k → 11%Mission E4 Inc: $228k → 11%Mission E4 Inc: $205k → 11%Mission E4 Inc: $198k → 11%Mission E4 Inc: $150k → 11%Mission E4 Inc: $150k → 11%Earning for Life Inc: $400k → 11%Robbins Instiute of Speech: $25k → 11%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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.6M · 14 repeat orgs$548k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
4

Total granted

$3.6M
$138k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+17%

Still filing today

50%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $410k 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
ReligionHealthHousing & ShelterEducationCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther
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

  • M
    Missionaries2Marriages
    8× · 2017–2024 · $277k · revenue +68% · 61% of their budget
  • RL
    Regenerating Life Ministries Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $179k · revenue +135%
  • GB
    GREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $40k · revenue +120%

Funded once

  • RI
    Robbins Institute for Speech Correc
    one grant, 2017 · $45k
  • EM
    ELLEN M LEACH MEMORIAL HOMEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $38k · revenue +41%
  • GL
    Gray Lady Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2018 · $35k · revenue +17% · 32% of their budget
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
Life Training Ministries Inc

Christian counseling for individuals with anxiety depression or other emotional struggles. Christian counseling for marriages and other couples.

Human Services
2
Repairing the Breach Ministries Inc
Religion
3
Lamb S House Ltd

Ministry that turns men from addiction to Jesus Christ by daily engaging them in spiritual, physical and financial guidance and goals

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4
Born Again Ministries

To provide or connect low -income or ex-offenders affordable houses who wouldn't otherwise have the opportunity to have a bighter future

Health
5
Brookshire New Birth Ministries

To provide a transitional living faclity for battered women, women released from prison and women rehabing from drug addiction

Human Services
6
2 1 International Inc

Ministry to Married Couples

Human Services
7
Everything Laid Down Ministries

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…

Religion
8
Refuge for Prodigals International Bible Ministries Inc
Religion
9
Boston Center for Biblical Counseling
Philanthropy
10
Grace Recovery Homes Inc
Health
11
Marys Homes Inc

Recovery home

Housing & Shelter
12
Joan Murray Ministries

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.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Regenerating Life Ministries Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Friends of Ellen M Leach Memorial H: $645,000 · OtherFriends of Ellen M Leach Memorial HHolden Christian Academy: $459,486 · OtherHolden Christian AcademyDucks on a Pond: $150,000 · OtherDucks on a PondRobbins Instiute of Speech: $90,000 · OtherRobbins Instiute of SpeechInstitue of Christian Renewal: $60,000 · Other+5 more: $210,000 · Other+5 moreHaiti Empowered Inc: $1,466,200 · Housing & ShelterHaiti Empowered IncMissionaries2Marriages: $276,500 · ReligionMissionaries2Ma…Regenerating Life Ministries Inc: $179,000 · ReligionRegenerating Li…DUCKS ON THE POND REALTY INC: $100,000 · ReligionDUCKS ON THE PO…INSTITUTE FOR CHRISTIAN RENEWAL: $20,000 · ReligionEarning for Life Inc: $400,000 · Community ImprovementEarning fo…Gray Lady Foundation Inc: $35,000 · HealthNEW CREATION HEALING CENTER INC: $27,000 · HealthTHE MARJOT FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 · EducationWESTWOOD FOOD PANTRY INC: $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,614,486Housing & Shelter$1,466,200Religion$575,500Community Improvement$400,000Health$62,000Education$16,000Food & Nutrition$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHaiti Empowered Inc: $1,466,200 over 7y, 18% of budgetEarning for Life Inc: $400,000 over 1y, 64% of budgetMissionaries2Marriages: $276,500 over 8y, 61% of budgetRegenerating Life Ministries Inc: $179,000 over 8y, 10% of budgetDUCKS ON THE POND REALTY INC: $100,000 over 4y, 44% of budgetGREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetELLEN M LEACH MEMORIAL HOME: $38,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetGray Lady Foundation Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetNEW CREATION HEALING CENTER INC: $27,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR CHRISTIAN RENEWAL: $20,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetTHE MARJOT FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetWESTWOOD FOOD PANTRY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 29% 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 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 ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Joseph & Agatha Sicari Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Joseph & Agatha Sicari Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Greater Boston Legal Services Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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