· Private foundation
The Lois & Richard Nicotra Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k93 grants · $125k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $56k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NYC DEPT OF EDUCATION | $55,500 |
| BLUE LIVES MATTER | $3,320 |
| COLLEGE OF STATEN ISLAND | $3,000 |
| RICHMOND COUNTY ORCHESTRA | $3,000 |
| SI CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| ST RITA ST TERESA STREAM ACADEMY | $2,500 |
| OUR LADY OF PITY - ST ANTHONY OF PADUA CHURCH | $2,500 |
| GATEWAY ACADEMY (A MINISTRY OF GATEWAY CATHEDRAL INC) | $2,500 |
| SI WOMAN INC | $2,500 |
| TRAVIS FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION COMMITTEE INC | $1,755 |
| CONSTRUCTIVE PARTNERSHIPS UNLIMITED | $1,621 |
| SI REGIONAL ANTIQUE AUTO | $1,581 |
| HILLEL AT CSI | $1,500 |
| FOUNDATION FOR DIGNITY | $1,500 |
| UFT DISASTER RELIEF FUND | $1,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
149 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2024, 112 since wound down; 57 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, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k 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
- SJST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK4× · 2017–2023 · $9k · revenue +12%
- PHPROJECT HOSPITALITY INC5× · 2017–2023 · $5k · revenue +69%
- OYON YOUR MARK INC5× · 2017–2024 · $5k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- COCHURCH OF SAINT RITAone grant, 2021 · $10k
- SSIEDCone grant, 2018 · $10k
- FFFDNY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -3%
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.
Catholic charities of staten island (formerly known as mission of the immaculate virgin for the protection of homeless and destitute children) is a not-for-profit agency of the archdiocese of new york. founded in 1871 by father john c.…
We are committed to helping people with intellectual (cont. on schedule o) and developmental disabilities to live full lives.
Spotlight Theatre's mission is to share imaginative, live theatre that challenges and inspires and creates a diverse performing arts community to provide cultural resources and to enrich the lives of actors, artists, and audiences.
To promote the public's knowledge and enjoyment of the arts by providing a venue for theatre education and live theatrical performances for children and families in the local community. It hopes to inspire young performers to develop…
The simhs is a not-for-profit children's services provider agency, founded in 1895. our mission is to diagnose and treat emotional, behavioral, organic, and developmental problems; to create and support programs and environments that…
Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…
Advancing the cause of women by providing incentives and assistance to further their careers through mentoring programs and awarding scholarships. also annually recognizing women who render extraordinary community service.
The college of staten island association, inc. of the city university of new york is a nonprofit corporation created for the principal purpose of developing and cultivating educational, social, cultural, and recreational activities among…
The purposes for which community agency for senior citizens (casc) was formed are: (a) to aid and counsel the members of the senior citizen community, as well as others in the city of new york, and particularly in the staten island area…
The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…
1. to disseminate a knowledge of zoology and an appreciation of animal life.2. to maintain a zoological garden where small mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and tropical fish will be on display for observation and study.3. through local…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is A Very Special Place Inc and the most unlike its peers is Travis Fourth of July Celebration Cmte Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
119 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. 119 of the 411 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds STATEN ISLAND REGION ANTIQUE AUTO CLUB OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOSPITALITY INC ↗
- Who funds FDNY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ON YOUR MARK INC ↗
- Who funds Illuminart Productions ↗
- Who funds Richmond Choral Society ↗
- Who funds STATEN ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Garibaldi Meucci Museum ↗
- Who funds MICHAEL'S CAUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PRIDE CENTER OF STATEN ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE LIVES MATTER - NYC INC ↗
- Who funds EDEN II SCHOOL FOR AUTISTIC CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds LITERACY INC ↗
- Who funds MINTY ORGANIZATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND COUNTY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds TRAVIS FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION CMTE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ALICE AUSTEN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SI INC ↗
- Who funds Greenbelt Conservancy 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Richmond County Savings Foundation · The Staten Island Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · The Roberta and Allan Weissglass Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · City Parks Foundation Inc · Robin Hood Foundation · Mutual of America Foundation · The Achelis & Bodman Foundation Co Manice & Budd LLP · Food Bank for New York City
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 Lois & Richard Nicotra Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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