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The Joseph and Susan Gatto Foundation at a glance

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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
Grants FY2023
11
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

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.

01What it funds
0193% 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
02FY2023 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 24 grants below total $475,900, the rows itemized in this filing. The $505,900 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $30,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k9 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $250k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $200k
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Greenwich Hospital$50,000
The Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania$50,000
Lupus Foundation Of America$50,000
Sjogren's Syndrome Foundation, Inc.$50,000
ecoAmerica$40,000
The Johns Hopkins University$40,000
McLean Hospital$35,000
Cornell University$30,000
Boys And Girls Club Of Dorchester$25,000
Princeton University$20,000
Brain And Behavior Research Foundation$20,000
Neighbor To Neighbor Inc$10,000
Harpswell Foundation$10,000
Connecticut Foodshare$10,000
NAMI$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 (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 0% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%see attached schedule: $543k → 7%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $42k → 9%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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 17 repeat orgs$275k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
13

Total granted

$1.4M
$210k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+28%

Still filing today

82%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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

  • SF
    SJOGREN'S FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $200k · revenue +114%
  • LF
    LUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $200k · revenue +25%
  • Cornell University
    5× · 2020–2024 · $143k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • G
    geoXmetrica
    one grant, 2022 · $40k
  • WA
    World Alliance for Planetary Health Corporation
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +20%
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
4
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
5
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
6
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
7
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
8
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
9
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
10
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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11
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighbor to Neighbor Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Harpswell Foundation. 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

28 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. 28 of the 41 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
24/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $12,197,195 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND+1 more: $25,000 · Community ImprovementMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $100,000 · OtherNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION: $90,000 · OtherUniversity Of Pennsylvania Law School: $75,000 · OtherDorchester Boys And Girls Club: $51,000 · OtherCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC: $45,000 · OthergeoXmetrica: $40,000 · OtherNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC: $30,000 · OtherWorld Alliance for Planetary Health Corporation: $25,000 · OtherMassachusetts General Hospital: $25,000 · OtherCovenant House: $20,000 · OtherAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Other+10 more: $60,200 · OtherSJOGREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · HealthLUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $200,000 · HealthGREENWICH HOSPITAL: $120,000 · Health+3 more: $20,000 · HealthCornell University: $142,930 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeton University: $120,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $120,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $110,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $40,000 · Education+2 more: $2,450 · EducationECOAMERICA: $120,000 · EnvironmentTHE WEEKAPAUG FOUNDATION FOR CONSERVATION: $10,000 · EnvironmentECOLOGY CENTER: $5,000 · EnvironmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE HARPSWELL FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Public Benefit
Community Improvement$12,222,195Other$586,200Health$540,000Education$535,380Environment$135,000Youth Development$50,000Public Benefit$25,000

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 budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $12,197,195 over 1y, 0.1% of 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 budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $120,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $110,000 over 2y, 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
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.

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 Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Joseph and Susan Gatto Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Joseph and Susan Gatto Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Joseph and Susan Gatto Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Joseph and Susan Gatto 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 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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