· Private foundation
The Paula and William J Marino 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 68% of THE PAULA AND WILLIAM J MARINO FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k111 grants · $154k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $214k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $299k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST VINCENT ACADEMY | $118,500 |
| NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS | $70,000 |
| ST PETERS UNIVERSITY | $60,840 |
| SOUTH STREET THEATER COMPANY | $50,000 |
| CHURCH OF ASSUMPTION | $45,250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| NFSO | $25,000 |
| SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF INNER CITY CHILDREN | $22,500 |
| TRI-COUNTY SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $20,000 |
| DIOCESAN MINISTRIES APPEAL | $20,000 |
| GARDEN STATE INTIATIVE | $13,450 |
| MPAC | $12,700 |
| FOOD FOR THE POOR | $10,000 |
| AFRICA SURGERY | $10,000 |
| COMM FOOD BANK OF NJ | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
168 repeat relationships — 99 still active in FY2025, 69 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $128k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION4× · 2022–2025 · $235k · revenue +23%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $70k · revenue +39%- TGTHE GENEVA SCHOOL OF MANHATTAN3× · 2019–2021 · $56k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- SPSAINT PETER'S UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $133k · revenue -10%
- NJNEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +16%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Michael and Denise Mandelbaum Family Foundation 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.
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 40 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
148 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 148 of the 340 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SAINT PETER'S UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MPAC ↗
- Who funds AFRICA SURGERY INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE GENEVA SCHOOL OF MANHATTAN ↗
- Who funds SOUTH STREET THEATER COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds MICHAEL AND DENISE MANDELBAUM FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds SEVERAL SOURCES SHELTERS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds MAUI UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds REFORM AMERICA ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Project Hope ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds NOURISHNJ INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Fm Kirby Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Investors Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Pseg Foundation Inc · Farrell Family Foundation · Healey Family Foundation · Ej Grassmann Trust · Columbia Bank Foundation · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · Vandevere Charitable Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc
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 Paula and William J Marino Family Foundation 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.
- Employment Horizons Inc — 90% of income from government
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Nourishnj Inc — 27% of income from government
- New Jersey Symphony Orchestra — 21% of income from government
- Cheshire Home Inc — 6% of income from government
- Homeless Solutions Inc — 6% of income from government
- Cornerstone Family Programs — 3% of income from government
- Saint Elizabeth University — 2% of income from government
- New Jersey Audubon Society — 1% of income from government
- New Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Saint Peter's University — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
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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