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The Joseph and Susan Gatto 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.

$506k
Granted FY2023
24
Itemized grants FY2023
23
Organizations funded FY2023
35%
First-time grantees FY2023
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100% of The Joseph and Susan Gatto Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Joseph and Susan Gatto Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 20 organizations, $506k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

0
’19
14
’20
14
’21
12
’22
20
’23
1
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Itemized, FY2023
$476k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
15 to 23
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
11
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 35% of the organizations The Joseph and Susan Gatto Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
HealthEducationEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202323$426k35%
FY202215$337k47%
FY202118$416k28%
FY202018$447kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Philanthropy$12MHealth$932kEducation$488kEnvironment$135kFood & Nutrition$105kYouth Development$101kScience & Tech$40kInternational$25kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Sjogren's Foundation Inc$200,00042%
Lupus Foundation of America Inc$200,00040%
Cornell University$142,93050%
Ecoamerica$120,00032%
Greenwich Hospital$120,00040%
The Trustees of Princeton University$120,00040%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$100,0004n/a
National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression$90,00040%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc$50,00020%
Connecticut Foodshare Inc$45,00030%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($271k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Joseph and Susan Gatto Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSjogren's Foundation Inc: $200,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetLupus Foundation of America Inc: $200,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCornell University: $142,930 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEcoamerica: $120,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetGreenwich Hospital: $120,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $120,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNational Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression: $90,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetConnecticut Foodshare Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJohns Hopkins University: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNeighbor to Neighbor Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFood Bank for New York City: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Harpswell Foundation: $25,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetAmericares Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLaurel House Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Weekapaug Foundation for Conservation: $10,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetAbilis Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Rescue League of Boston: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFilling in the Blanks Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetInspirica Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCancer Support Team Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetShatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEcology Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPelotonia: $2,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKilimanjaro Mission of Hope & Outreach: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA12.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · 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.

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About The Joseph and Susan Gatto Foundation

How much does The Joseph and Susan Gatto Foundation give?
The Joseph and Susan Gatto Foundation reported 24 itemized grants totaling $475,900, out of $505,900 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 23 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does The Joseph and Susan Gatto Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (82%), Health (6%), Education (3%).
Who are The Joseph and Susan Gatto Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Sjogren's Foundation Inc ($200k), Lupus Foundation of America Inc ($200k), Cornell University ($143k).
Does The Joseph and Susan Gatto Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Joseph and Susan Gatto Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Joseph and Susan Gatto Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is The Joseph and Susan Gatto Foundation based?
The Joseph and Susan Gatto Foundation is based in NY.

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 41 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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