· Private foundation
The Papa Family Charitable Trust
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $500
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
- $250k+1 grant · $273k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC | $272,537 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| COMMUNITY HOPE | $10,000 |
| THE SDHB COALITION INC | $10,000 |
| MADISON FIREWORKS ORGANIZATION | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 4%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC7× · 2019–2025 · $874k · revenue +104%
Northwestern University7× · 2019–2025 · $600k · revenue +34%- CHCommunity Hope Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $65k · revenue +13%
Funded once
THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INCone grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue -31%- LGLIGHTHOUSE GUILDone grant, 2021 · $25k
- MHMENDHAM HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL BOOSTERS INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -8%
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.
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.
The glaucoma foundation, inc. is an international not-for-profit organization dedicated to eradicating glaucoma, the leading cause of preventable blindness. the strategy to achieve this goal is two-fold: raise public awareness concerning…
To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
Patient care, teaching, research and serving the community.
Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…
The mission of the broad institute is to propel progress in biomedicine, through research aimed at the understanding and treatment of disease and the dissemination of scientific knowledge to the scientific community to benefit the public.…
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 17 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds Community Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds SDHB COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds Road Recovery Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MENDHAM HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL BOOSTERS INC ↗
- Who funds WINGS HOME ↗
- Who funds OPTOMETRY GIVING SIGHT ↗
- Who funds BLINKNOW FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT ↗
- Who funds MADISON FIREWORKS ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Union County Inc ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Papa Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Papa Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Community Hope Inc: 41% of income from government
How this is measured
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