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The LaBarbera Family Foundation at a glance

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The LaBarbera Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$57k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$27k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $42k
$500
Median grant
7
States reached
$843k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Peconic Community School$27,059
American Film Institute$15,000
Individual grant recipient$3,675
Open Arms Care Center$3,500
Emmanuel Cancer Foundation$2,065
OCI Healing Research Foundation$1,500
Eddie's Little Bulldogs$600
Ethan Children's Scholarship Foundation$500
Church of the Harvest$500
Good Shepherd Community$500
StIsidore RC Church$500
Living Water$500
The Butterfly Effect Project$500
Southampton Animal Shelter$160
Individual grant recipient$126
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Open Arms Care Center: $4k → 7%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 field
03the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
2/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PECONIC COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $27,059 · EducationPECONIC COMMUNITY SCHOOLTHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE: $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTEIndividual grant recipient: $3,675 · OtherIndividual grant r…THE EMMANUEL CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $2,065 · OtherTHE EMMANUEL CANCE…Eddie's Little Bulldogs: $600 · OtherEddie's Little Bul…Church of the Harvest: $500 · OtherChurch of the Harv…ETINAN CHILDRENS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $500 · OtherETINAN CHILDRENS S…StIsidore RC Church: $500 · OtherStIsidore RC Churc…Good Shepherd Community: $500 · OtherGood Shepherd Comm…Living Water: $500 · OtherLiving Water+5 more: $435 · OtherOPEN ARMS CARE CENTER INC: $3,500 · Human ServicesOCI HEALING RESEARCH FOUNDATIONINC: $1,500 · HealthTHE BUTTERFLY EFFECT PROJECT INC: $500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE SOUTHAMPTON ANIMAL SHELTER FOUNDATION INC: $160 · Animals
Education$27,059Arts & Culture$15,000Other$9,275Human Services$3,500Health$1,500Youth Development$500Animals$160

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPECONIC COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $27,059 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EMMANUEL CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $2,065 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOCI HEALING RESEARCH FOUNDATIONINC: $1,500 over 1y, 1.2% 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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The LaBarbera Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The LaBarbera Family 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 19 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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