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The Michele & Agnese Cestone Foundation Inc - C/O Bank of America Private Bank

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$861k
Granted FY2024still arriving
35
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.

Animals$2.4MEducation$1.5MHuman Services$341kHealth$130kPublic Benefit$33kYouth Development$15kEnvironment$10kOther$411k
02FY2024 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $411k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $385k
$12,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$200,000
FARM SANCTUARY INC$75,000
ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER$60,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE$45,000
RAPTOR TRUST$40,000
CATSKILL ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC$30,000
FLORIDA RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR EQUINE NURTURING DEVELOPMENT AND SAFETY IN$30,000
EQUINE ADVOCATES INC$25,000
BANGOR HUMANE SOCIETY$25,000
CENTER FOR ORANGUTAN AND CHIMPANZEE CONSERVATION INC$25,000
FRONT RANGE EQUINE RESCUE$25,000
MIGHTY MUTTS INC$25,000
NATIONAL AVIARY IN PITTSBURGH$20,000
VETERINARIANS INTERNATIONAL INC$20,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $298k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC: $5k → 10%SUSQUEHANNA SERVICE DOGS: $15k → 12%GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC: $30k → 16%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $46k → 15%WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC: $5k → 10%SUSQUEHANNA SERVICE DOGS: $8k → 12%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $45k → 15%WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC: $5k → 10%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $45k → 15%WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC: $5k → 10%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $45k → 15%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $45k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
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AR
DC
LA
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.5M · 44 repeat orgs$275k to everyone else

44 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
21

Total granted

$4.5M
$210k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+51%

Still filing today

93%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
AnimalsHuman ServicesHealthPublic BenefitEducationEnvironmentOther

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

  • Cornell University
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +46%
  • FS
    FARM SANCTUARY INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $270k · revenue +18%
  • TA
    THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER
    5× · 2020–2024 · $260k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • GA
    GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +69%
  • CC
    CITY CRITTERS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +16%
  • WW
    WOODLANDS WILDLIFE REFUGE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +39%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
2
2nd Chance Ranch and Rescue

Sanctuary for abused or abandoned animals

Animals
3
Happy Tails Animal Sanctuary
Animals
4
Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka Paws

A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.

Animals
5
Martha's Farm Animal Sanctuary
Animals
6
Fur Animal Rescue

Animal rescue organization dedicated to finding homes for animals at the animal shelter. we also provde vet care foster homes, and assistance with homing for special needs animals.

Animals
7
Cat Tail Farms Feline Sanctuary

Animal rescue and housing

Animals
8
Happy Acres Pet Rescue
Animals
9
Paws Claws Exotics

A sanctuary for unfortunate animals

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10
Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Inc

Dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation, and release of orphaned, injured and displaced wildlife. wildlife rescue rescues and cares for all wildlife, including native and nonnative species believing all animals are deserving of care,…

Animals
11
The Animal Haven Inc

The animal haven's misson is to provide a temporary, safe, caring and humane refuge for homeless dogs and cats and place these animals in quality adoptive homes.

Animals
12
Hooves & Paws Animal Rescue Inc

To rescue and provide medical treatment for abused and abandoned animals; to rehabilitate rescued animals and find permanent placement in loving adoptive homes; to provide loving lifelong care at our sanctuary for those animals who are not…

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spca of Westchester Inc and the most unlike its peers is World Wildlife Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Local Food System Organizat…Cancer Support ServicesCommunity FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Equine Therapy ProgramsAnimal Rescue and Shelter
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%2%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr19%34%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr19%22%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr16%43%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/58
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,702

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.

04the grantee network

58 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 58 of the 68 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/58
Grantees still filing
44/58
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FARM SANCTUARY INC — $270,000 · AnimalsFARM SANCTUARY INCTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER — $260,000 · AnimalsTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTERTHE RAPTOR TRUST — $200,000 · AnimalsTHE RAPTOR TRUSTCATSKILL ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC — $150,000 · AnimalsCATSKILL ANIMAL SANCTUARY INCEQUINE ADVOCATES INCORPORATED — $125,000 · AnimalsBangor Humane Society — $125,000 · AnimalsFront Range Equine Rescue — $125,000 · AnimalsMIGHTY MUTTS INC — $116,000 · AnimalsCenter for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc — $102,000 · AnimalsNATIONAL AVIARY IN PITTSBURGH INC — $100,000 · Animals+31 more — $800,700 · Animals+31 moreCornell University — $1,497,000 · EducationCornell UniversityFLORIDA RESEARCH INST FOR EQUINE NURTURING DEVELOPMENT & SAFETY INC — $110,000 · OtherFLORIDA R…ENVISIONING ACCESS INC — $90,000 · OtherENVISIONI…Individual grant recipient — $50,000 · OtherIndividua…HIGH HOPES THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC — $45,000 · OtherHIGH HOPE…COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC — $40,170 · OtherCOLLEGE O…GREYHOUND FRIENDS OF NJ — $15,000 · OtherAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF ANIMAL CRUELTY — $15,000 · OtherANIMAL PROTECTION LEAGUE OF NJ — $14,000 · Other+6 more — $31,795 · Other+6 moreCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $225,500 · Human ServicesTHE SEEING EYE INC — $42,750 · Human ServicesGUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesKEYSTONE SERVICE SYSTEMS INC — $22,500 · Human ServicesWINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesVETERINARIANS INTERNATIONAL INC — $95,000 · HealthCancer Care Inc — $20,000 · HealthUNITED DISABILITIES SERVICES FOUNDATION — $15,000 · HealthTEATOWN LAKE RESERVATION INC — $27,500 · Public BenefitPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS — $5,000 · Public BenefitKELLY'S KIDS INC — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $10,000 · Environment
Animals$2,373,700Education$1,497,000Other$410,965Human Services$340,750Health$130,000Public Benefit$32,500Youth Development$15,000Environment$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCornell University — $1,497,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFARM SANCTUARY INC — $270,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER — $260,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $225,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RAPTOR TRUST — $200,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetCATSKILL ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC — $150,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetEQUINE ADVOCATES INCORPORATED — $125,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetBangor Humane Society — $125,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetFront Range Equine Rescue — $125,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetMIGHTY MUTTS INC — $116,000 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetFLORIDA RESEARCH INST FOR EQUINE NURTURING DEVELOPMENT & SAFETY INC — $110,000 over 4y, 7.8% of budgetCenter for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc — $102,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL AVIARY IN PITTSBURGH INC — $100,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetVETERINARIANS INTERNATIONAL INC — $95,000 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetENVISIONING ACCESS INC — $90,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetLonghopes Donkey Shelter Inc — $75,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetHORSE of Connecticut Inc — $63,000 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetQUACK'S CORNER — $62,500 over 4y, 95% of budgetPennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals — $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTourniquet Inc — $50,000 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetFOR OUR FRIENDS INC — $50,000 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetPeaceable Primate Sanctuary — $49,200 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetHIGH HOPES THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC — $45,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTHE SEEING EYE INC — $42,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC — $40,170 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPCA OF WESTCHESTER INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDAYS END FARM HORSE RESCUE INC — $37,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC — $30,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSAVE THE CHIMPS INC — $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTEATOWN LAKE RESERVATION INC — $27,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOTTONTAIL COTTAGE FARM SANCTUARY — $25,000 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetCHIMPANZEE SANCTUARY NORTHWEST — $25,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMT PLEASANT ANIMAL SHELTER INC — $25,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetKEYSTONE SERVICE SYSTEMS INC — $22,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEA TURTLE RECOVERY INC — $21,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetWINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCancer Care Inc — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetA Purrfect World — $20,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetCITY CRITTERS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTRRAC INC — $17,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetNATIONAL AQUARIUM INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED DISABILITIES SERVICES FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetKELLY'S KIDS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCOW SANCTUARY — $12,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetHappy Homes Animal Rescue Inc — $11,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetRUDE RANCH ANIMAL RESCUE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPets are Wonderful Support Inc dba PAWS — $10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetHAWK CREEK WILDLIFE CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budget
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.

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.

The Pfizer Foundation…Humane World for Anim…The American Society …Petsmart Charities IncJpmorgan Chase Founda…The American Anti-Viv…National Anti-Vivisec…A Kinder World Founda…Bernice Barbour Found…The Susan and Ford Sc…Ahimsa FoundationThe Gerald B Shreiber…
The Pfizer Foundation IncNY17.6× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Humane World for Animals Inc · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · Petsmart Charities Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The American Anti-Vivisection Society · National Anti-Vivisection Society · A Kinder World Foundation · Bernice Barbour Foundation Inc 5487-00-40 · The Susan and Ford Schumann Foundation · Ahimsa Foundation · The Gerald B Shreiber Foundation

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 Michele & Agnese Cestone Foundation Inc - C/O Bank of America Private Bank 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 160%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Kelly's Kids Inc — 7% of income from government
  • National Aquarium Inc — 1% of income from government
  • High Hopes Therapeutic Riding Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
16get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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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How do I get to The Michele & Agnese Cestone Foundation Inc - C/O Bank of America Private Bank?

Find your warmest path to The Michele & Agnese Cestone Foundation Inc - C/O Bank of America Private Bank 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 68 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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