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The Palermo Foundation

Provide funding for fertility research

$6k
Granted FY2022
18
Grants FY2022
4
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Health$3kArts & Culture$3kEducation$3kReligion$666Public Safety & Disaster$375
02FY2022 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$207
Median grant
4
States reached
$263k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTHFORK NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM & NATURE CENTER$1,100
ASRM$1,000
THE ELLEN HERMANSON FOUNDATION$750
THE CHURCH$666
SOUTHAMPTON FRESH AIR HOME$500
Individual grant recipient$500
SOUTHHAMPTON HISTORY MUSEUM$300
CP EXTENSION$250
I-TRI SPRING AUCTION PARTY$207
OUR FABULOUS VARIETY SHOW$200
SHELTER ISLAND FIREWORKS$200
GOAT THEATRE$134
COAST GUARD FOUNDATION$100
Individual grant recipient$79
SAG HARBOR SONG FESTIVAL$75
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.

US giving: 90% of grant dollars ($9k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 10% that went abroad ($1k) is mapped below.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 33% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%THE ELLEN HERMANSON FOUNDATION: $750 → 7%CP EXTENSION: $250 → 17%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE: $2k → 16%COAST GUARD FOUNDATION: $100 → 9%NIGHT OF HOPE: $500 → 6%SOUTHFORK NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM & NATURE CENTER: $1k → 7%ASRM: $1k → 16%COAST GUARD FOUNDATION: $75 → 9%OUR FABULOUS VARIETY SHOW: $200 → 7%BAY STREET THEATRE FESTIVAL INC: $1k → 7%THE CHURCH: $666 → 7%I-TRI SPRING AUCTION PARTY: $207 → 7%GOAT THEATRE: $134 → 7%SAG HARBOR CINEMA: $79 → 7%SAG HARBOR SONG FESTIVAL: $75 → 7%SOUTHAMPTON FRESH AIR HOME: $500 → 7%SOUTHHAMPTON HISTORY MUSEUM: $300 → 7%SOUTHAMPTON FRESH AIR HOME: $40 → 7%SOUTHAMPTON ARTS CENTER: $32 → 7%SHELTER ISLAND FIREWORKS: $200 → 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.

Beyond the US: 10% of all-years giving ($1k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Australia$1k · 1 grant
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its 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
Maritime Music and Tradition Society Corp

The mission of the Maritime Music and Tradition Society Corp is preserving and encouraging maritime and traditional music through education, research, performance and community.

Arts & Culture
2
Bridgehampton Chamber Music Associates Inc

The general purpose of the organization is to promote chamber music concerts to the general public.

Arts & Culture
3
Salt Marsh Opera Company

To stage the finest professional opera productions in Southeastern New England. To excite and build audiences for the enjoyment of a grand art form. To offer educational programs and creative community outreach events that expand the opera…

Arts & Culture
4
Eastern Shore Repertory Theatre in

Eastern shore repertory theatre provides innovative, high quality theatre experiences for the eastern shore community. we provide theatre education and productions for children of all ages, abilities, and cultural heritages.

Arts & Culture
5
Site-Specicific Dances Inc

Dance and music performances held in specific sites, often of historic significance, often free and open to the public

Arts & Culture
6
The Complex Sag Harbor Inc

Friends of Bay Street and Sag Harbor Redevelopment, Inc. is organized for the purposes which are exclosively charitable, educational, scientific, religious and literary within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the IRC of 1986. The…

Arts & Culture
7
Block Island Film Festival
Arts & Culture
8
Ocean Film Fest Inc Dba Waimea Ocean Film Festival

Our mission is to bring a greater understanding of the ocean environment and island culture and build awareness that everything we do on land affects the sea, and the people whose livelihood and subsistence depends on the health of the…

Arts & Culture
9
The New York Festival of Song Inc

NYFOS is dedicated to creating intimate song concerts of great beauty and originality, weaving music, poetry, history and humor into unforgettable evenings of compelling theater, entertaining, educating and creating community among…

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10
Sausalito Art Festival Foundation

The mission of the sausalito art festival foundation is to encourage, promote and support the arts for the community.

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11
The Summer Solstice Celebration Inc

Bringing the community together through the arts

Arts & Culture
12
Suffolk Festivals Inc

To advance and promote the civic betterment and general welfare of the City of Suffolk and exploit the natural resources and opportunities of the community, its trade and commerce, and its educational life, by providing recreation and…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bay Street Theatre Festival Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cp Extension 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

10 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. 10 of the 20 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE: $1,500 · OtherTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINESOUTHFORK NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM & NATURE CENTER: $1,100 · OtherSOUTHFORK NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM & NATURE CENTERCHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC (MONASH UNIVERSITY): $1,000 · OtherCHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC (MONASH UNIVERSITY)ASRM: $1,000 · OtherASRMTHE CHURCH: $666 · OtherTHE CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSOUTHHAMPTON HISTORY MUSEUM: $300 · Other+4 more: $525 · Other+4 moreBAY STREET THEATRE FESTIVAL INC: $1,070 · Arts & CultureBAY STREET THEA…OUR FABULOUS VARIETY SHOW INC: $200 · Arts & CultureOUR FABULOUS VA…SAG HARBOR SONG FESTIVAL INC: $75 · Arts & CultureSAG HARBOR SONG…+1 more: $32 · Arts & CultureTHE SOUTHAMPTON FRESH AIR HOME: $540 · HealthTHE SOUTH…CP EXTENSION INC: $250 · HealthCP EXTENS…THE ELLEN P HERMANSON FOUNDATION: $750 · PhilanthropySHELTER ISLAND FIREWORKS INC: $200 · Public Safety & DisasterCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $175 · Public Benefit
Other$6,591Arts & Culture$1,377Health$790Philanthropy$750Public Safety & Disaster$200Public Benefit$175

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAY STREET THEATRE FESTIVAL INC: $1,070 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ELLEN P HERMANSON FOUNDATION: $750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SOUTHAMPTON FRESH AIR HOME: $540 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCP EXTENSION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOUR FABULOUS VARIETY SHOW INC: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $175 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCOA INC: $32 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 Philanthropic TrustPA8.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover 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

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 Palermo Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Palermo Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Palermo Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Palermo 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 20 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $2k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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