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The Muscari Family Foundation at a glance

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The Muscari 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.

$60k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$95kHousing & Shelter$49kRecreation & Sports$43kFood & Nutrition$19kPhilanthropy$14kHealth$10kReligion$6kYouth Development$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$2,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SEA ISLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$15,000
UNCF$8,000
GRACE CHURCH SCHOOL$7,500
COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON$5,000
CHARLESTON COLLEGIATE SCHOOL$5,000
Individual grant recipient$4,100
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
CAMP JAMISON$2,500
TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$2,500
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY$2,500
SEA ISLAND HUNGER AWARENESS$1,000
WINDERMERE PREPARATORY SCHOOL$1,000
THIRD GIVE FOUNDATION$500
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 (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN: $10k → 16%CAMP JAMISON: $3k → 6%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $12k → 11%TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%THE ROOTHBERT FUND INC: $10k → 17%ROPER ST FRANCIS FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%JUMP START: $5k → 15%LOW COUNTRY FOOD BANK: $5k → 20%50 CAN INC: $10k → 14%WINDERMERE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $1k → 13%ST JUDE RESEARCH: $3k → 17%SHADOW WARRIORS: $3k → 9%ALPHA COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 9%CCS FOUNDATION: $16k → 12%CHARLESTON AISE: $10k → 6%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $2k → 19%JUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN: $10k → 16%SHADYSIDE ACADEMY: $2k → 11%GRACE CHURCH SCHOOL: $8k → 17%CHARLESTON RISE: $5k → 12%UNCF: $8k → 14%CCS FOUNDATION: $7k → 12%IT AVAILABILITY: $3k → 6%SHADY SIDE ACADEMY: $2k → 11%MARYMOUNT NEW YORK: $4k → 17%CHARLESTON RISE: $5k → 12%UNCF: $8k → 14%CCS FOUNDATION: $2k → 12%GREATER PITTSBURGH FOOD BANK: $6k → 11%YALE CLUB: $3k → 17%SEA ISLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $15k → 12%TEPPER SCHOOL OF BUSINESS CMU: $5k → 11%SEA ISLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $12k → 12%CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%SEA ISLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $10k → 12%CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%SEA ISLANDS HUNGER AWARENESS FOUNDATION: $6k → 12%CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%CHARLESTON COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $5k → 12%CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%OUR LADY MERCY OUTREACH: $5k → 12%CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON: $5k → 12%CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON: $4k → 12%COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON: $3k → 12%COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON: $3k → 12%MEETING STREET SCHOOLS CHARLESTON: $8k → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CO
NE
VA
MD
TN
SC
DC
FL
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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$154k · 10 repeat orgs$120k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
15

Total granted

$154k
$91k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+13%

Still filing today

60%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationFood & NutritionHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • SI
    Sea Island Habitat For Humanity Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $37k · revenue +102%
  • JF
    JUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +15%
  • CM
    Carnegie Mellon University
    6× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    one grant, 2022 · $12k
  • 5I
    50CAN INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +21%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
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
Phillips Exeter Academy

Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…

Education
2
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
3
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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4
The Collegiate School

To create a diverse and inclusive community of learners committed to a challenging and supportive educational experience that will foster the intellectual, moral, emotional, and physical development of each student.

Education
5
John Carroll University

As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…

Education
6
Elizabethtown College

Provide a transformative educational experience that cultivates strengths of its students.

Education
7
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
8
Springside Chestnut Hill Academy

See schedule owe are an inclusive community on a mission to inspire unbounded curiosity and independent thought in every one of our students. in a unique educational environment that extends well beyond campus, we nurture students'…

Education
9
St Mary's University

St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.

—
10
Pembroke Hill School

A preschool through 12th grade, private, college preparatory school. the school's mission statement is "together, cultivating the best in each for the benefit of all."

Education
11
Washington College

Washington college challenges and inspires emerging citizen leaders to discover lives of purpose and passion.core valueswe share these values of our founding patron, george washington: integrity, determination, curiosity, civility,…

Education
12
The Chestnut Hill School

At the chestnut hill school, our mission to educate children is deeply rooted in a commitment to academic excellence, diversity, and community. we engage, challenge and support children as they develop the skills and confidence to achieve…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 50CAN Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Roothbert 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.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 34 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Sea Island Habitat For Humanity Inc: $37,000 · OtherSea Island Habitat For Humanity IncCCS FOUNDATION: $24,500 · OtherCCS FOUNDATIONCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON: $15,100 · OtherCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTONCarnegie Mellon University: $15,000 · OtherCarnegie Mellon UniversityHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $11,900 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE ROOTHBERT FUND INC: $10,000 · OtherTHE ROOTHBERT FUND INCMEETING STREET SCHOOLS CHARLESTON: $7,500 · Other+14 more: $44,100 · Other+14 moreJUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC: $20,000 · EducationJUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILD…UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $16,000 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND…50CAN INC: $10,000 · Education50CAN INCGRACE CHURCH SCHOOL: $7,500 · EducationGRACE CHURCH SCHOOLSHADY SIDE ACADEMY: $4,000 · EducationSHADY SIDE ACADEMYSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Education+1 more: $1,500 · EducationSea Island Hunger Awareness Foundation: $8,000 · Food & NutritionGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $6,000 · Food & NutritionRoper St Francis Foundation: $10,000 · HealthCAMP JAMISON CORPORATION: $2,500 · Youth Development
Other$185,100Education$61,500Food & Nutrition$14,000Health$10,000Youth Development$2,500

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 budgetSea Island Habitat For Humanity Inc: $37,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budget50CAN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRoper St Francis Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROOTHBERT FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetSea Island Hunger Awareness Foundation: $8,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetGRACE CHURCH SCHOOL: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharleston Collegiate School: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHADY SIDE ACADEMY: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP JAMISON CORPORATION: $2,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALPHA COMMUNITY CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA9.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Muscari Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Muscari Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.

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 34 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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