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The Pasculano Foundation at a glance

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The Pasculano Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$2.9MArts & Culture$2.7MHealth$1.7MEducation$1.6MHousing & Shelter$925kYouth Development$795kFood & Nutrition$700kHuman Services$400kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $2.0M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
$100,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$400,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$400,000
CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION$250,000
HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN$200,000
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL$200,000
GREENWAVE ORGANIZATION CORP$150,000
PROSPERITYME$125,000
URBAN ARTS$120,000
COMPASS WORKING CAPITAL$120,000
RARE INC$100,000
FOODCORPS$100,000
ZUMIX INC$100,000
ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY$100,000
LOVIN' SPOONFULS INC$100,000
CERES INC$100,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $910k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 62% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PROSPERITYME: $125k → 7%PREBLE STREET: $125k → 7%PROSPERITYME: $100k → 7%CHOOSE LOVE: $10k → 17%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $200k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $100k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $75k → 16%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $100k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $75k → 17%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

ME
NY
MA
OR
CT
CO
VA
MD
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 34 repeat orgs$423k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
9

Total granted

$12M
$423k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+21%

Still filing today

88%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthEducationFood & NutritionOther
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

  • NY
    NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $1.6M · revenue +16%
  • GH
    GREENWICH HOSPITAL
    5× · 2018–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +49%
  • TN
    The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations
    2× · 2018–2019 · $1.0M · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • FT
    FOOD TO POWER (FKA COLORADO SPRINGS FOOD RESCUE)
    one grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue +23%
  • PS
    PREBLE STREETgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue +50%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
The Climate Group Inc

Climate group advances climate action by mobilizing business and government leadership to drive systemic decarbonization across energy, transport, and industry, while engaging the public through large-scale convenings and global platforms.…

Environment
5
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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6
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
7
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
8
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
9
Watttime Corporation

To raise awareness about the potential to reduce environmental harm by shifting electricity use to particular times; to encourage the development and spread of common protocols for this practice.

Science & Tech
10
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
11
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
12
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Roundabout Theatre Company 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

39 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. 39 of the 45 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/39
Grantees still filing
28/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LINCOLN CENTER EDUCATION: $750,000 · OtherLINCOLN CENTER EDUCATIONIndividual grant recipient: $740,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $735,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYCOMPASS WORKING CAPITAL INC: $295,000 · OtherCOMPASS WORKING CAPITAL INCTHE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC: $275,000 · OtherTHE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATI…Urban Arts Partnership: $220,000 · OtherUrban Arts PartnershipRAW ART WORKS INC: $150,000 · OtherROSIE'S PLACE INC: $250,000 · OtherROSIE'S PLACE INCHEADING HOME INC: $175,000 · Other+7 more: $175,000 · OtherNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC: $1,625,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY CENTER…ZUMIX INC: $175,000 · Arts & CultureZUMIX INCMIND BUILDERS CREATIVE ARTS INC: $170,000 · Arts & CultureMIND BUILDERS CREATI…ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureARTISTS FOR HUMANITY…DANCES FOR A VARIABLE POPULATION INC: $85,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $117,500 · Arts & CultureCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC: $625,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION LAW F…Cape Elizabeth Land Trust: $600,000 · EnvironmentCape Elizabeth Lan…NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $400,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES …CERES INC: $300,000 · EnvironmentCERES INCRARE: $250,000 · EnvironmentRAREGREENWICH HOSPITAL: $1,100,000 · HealthGREENWICH HOSPI…MaineHealth: $375,000 · HealthMaineHealthChildren's Hospital Corporation: $250,000 · HealthChildren's Hosp…The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $1,000,000 · EducationThe New York…GREENWAVE ORGANIZATION CORP: $275,000 · EducationGREENWAVE OR…THE GREENWICH LIBRARY: $150,000 · EducationTHE GREENWIC…HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $375,000 · Human ServicesPROSPERITYME: $225,000 · Human ServicesHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $175,000 · Human ServicesPREBLE STREET: $125,000 · Human Services+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesSPOONFULS: $275,000 · Food & NutritionFOODCORPS INC: $275,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD TO POWER (FKA COLORADO SPRINGS FOOD RESCUE): $150,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$3,765,000Arts & Culture$2,322,500Environment$2,175,000Health$1,725,000Education$1,425,000Human Services$910,000Food & Nutrition$700,000

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 budgetNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC: $1,625,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetGREENWICH HOSPITAL: $1,100,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $1,000,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $735,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC: $625,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetCape Elizabeth Land Trust: $600,000 over 4y, 30% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $400,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMaineHealth: $375,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $375,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCERES INC: $300,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCOMPASS WORKING CAPITAL INC: $295,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSPOONFULS: $275,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetGREENWAVE ORGANIZATION CORP: $275,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetFOODCORPS INC: $275,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC: $275,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $250,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetRARE: $250,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $250,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPROSPERITYME: $225,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetUrban Arts Partnership: $220,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $175,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetZUMIX INC: $175,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetHEADING HOME INC: $175,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMIND BUILDERS CREATIVE ARTS INC: $170,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetRAW ART WORKS INC: $150,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetFOOD TO POWER (FKA COLORADO SPRINGS FOOD RESCUE): $150,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetTHE GREENWICH LIBRARY: $150,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC: $150,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetPREBLE STREET: $125,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDANCES FOR A VARIABLE POPULATION INC: $85,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetFAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetA Company of Girls: $45,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY: $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHIAS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHOOSE LOVE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAZOM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCaramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc: $2,500 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.

Td Charitable Foundat…Boston Foundation IncSilicon Valley Commun…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Td Charitable FoundationME12.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Td Charitable Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Pasculano Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Pasculano Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Foodcorps Inc: 21% of income from government
  • Horizons for Homeless Children: 21% of income from government
  • Heading Home Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Raw Art Works Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Zumix Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Artists for Humanity Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Compass Working Capital Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Ceres Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Greenwich Hospital: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Pasculano Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Pasculano 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 45 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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