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The Peter J Palermo Trust Under Agreement at a glance

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The Peter J Palermo Trust Under Agreement

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$200k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$103k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Education$735kEnvironment$5k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $103k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SIENA COLLEGE$102,500
SUNY BUFFALO -STATE UNIVERSITY NY$30,000
SUNY BINGHAMTON$30,000
JOHN JAY COLLEGE$25,000
ALL SAINTS CATHOLIC ACADEMY$6,000
SUNY NEW PALTZ$2,500
Mater Christi School$2,000
Blessed Sacrament School$2,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SUNY GENESEO: $5k → 11%COLGATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%THE SAGE COLLEGE: $5k → 11%UNION COLLEGE: $5k → 12%SUNY BUFFALO -STATE UNIVERSITY NY: $30k → 13%SUNY PLATTSBURGH: $13k → 14%ROCHESTER INST OF TECHNOLOGY: $8k → 14%SIENA COLLEGE: $103k → 14%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $8k → 16%SUNY NEW PALTZ: $20k → 16%ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 18%SUNY BINGHAMTON: $30k → 20%MANHATTAN COLLEGE: $5k → 28%SUNY GENESEO: $5k → 11%COLGATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%THE SAGE COLLEGE: $5k → 11%UNION COLLEGE: $5k → 12%SUNY PLATTSBURGH: $5k → 14%ROCHESTER INST OF TECHNOLOGY: $8k → 14%SIENA COLLEGE: $10k → 14%SUNY NEW PALTZ: $8k → 16%ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 18%SIENA COLLEGE: $10k → 14%SUNY NEW PALTZ: $8k → 16%ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 18%SIENA COLLEGE: $8k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $5k → 14%JOHN JAY COLLEGE: $25k → 17%UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY: $15k → 14%UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY: $8k → 14%UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY: $5k → 14%SUNY ALBANY: $5k → 14%SUNY ALBANY: $5k → 14%ALBANY COLLEGE OF PHARMHLTH SCI: $5k → 14%ALBANY COLLEGE PHARMACYHEALTH SCIENCES: $5k → 14%ALBANY COLLEGE OF PHARMHLTH SCI: $5k → 14%ALBANY COLLEGE PHARMACYHEALTH SCIENCES: $5k → 14%ALL SAINTS CATHOLIC ACADEMY: $40k → 14%ALL SAINTS CATHOLIC ACADEMY: $10k → 14%ALL SAINTS CATHOLIC ACADEMY: $10k → 14%ALL SAINTS CATHOLIC ACADEMY: $10k → 14%ALL SAINTS CATHOLIC ACADEMY: $10k → 14%ALL SAINTS CATHOLIC ACADEMY: $10k → 14%ALL SAINTS CATHOLIC ACADEMY: $10k → 14%ALL SAINTS CATHOLIC ACADEMY: $10k → 14%COLLEGE OF ST ROSE: $8k → 14%ALL SAINTS CATHOLIC ACADEMY: $6k → 14%SIENA COLLEGE: $30k → 14%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.
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$641k · 33 repeat orgs$92k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
13

Total granted

$641k
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+23%

Still filing today

42%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • SU
    SIENA UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $168k · revenue +35%
  • Rochester Institute of Technology
    3× · 2017–2019 · $18k · revenue +61%
  • ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • BU
    BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • TC
    THE COLLEGE AT BROCKPORT
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
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
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
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
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
5
Molloy University

Molloy university, an independent catholic university, rooted in the dominican tradition of study, spirituality, service, and community, is committed to academic excellence with respect for each person. through transformative education,…

Education
6
Sarah Lawrence College

At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…

Education
7
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art

See schedule ovision: the cooper union for the advancement of science and art is dedicated to peter cooper's radical commitment to diversity and his founding vision that fair access to an inspiring free education and forums for courageous…

Education
8
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
9
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
10
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
11
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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12
Macalester College

Macalester is committed to being a preeminent liberal arts college with an educational program known for its high standards for scholarship and its special emphasis on internationalism, multiculturalism, and service to society.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fordham University; the most unlike its peers is Siena University. 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

20 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. 20 of the 51 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)
20/20
Grantees still filing
16/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALL SAINTS CATHOLIC ACADEMY: $116,000 · OtherALL SAINTS CATHOLIC ACADEMYSUNY NEW PALTZ: $40,000 · OtherSUNY NEW PALTZSUNY BINGHAMTON: $35,000 · OtherSUNY BINGHAMTONUNIVERSITY AT ALBANY: $30,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY AT ALBANYSUNY BUFFALO -STATE UNIVERSITY NY: $30,000 · OtherSUNY BUFFALO -STATE UNIVERSITY NYSUNY PLATTSBURGH: $17,500 · OtherALBANY COLLEGE OF PHARMHLTH SCI: $15,000 · Other+24 more: $124,000 · Other+24 moreSIENA UNIVERSITY: $167,500 · EducationSIENA UNIVERSITYJOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE STUDENT ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 · EducationJOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE STUDENT ACTIV…Rochester Institute of Technology: $17,500 · EducationST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $12,500 · Education+15 more: $95,000 · Education+15 more
Other$407,500Education$332,500

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSIENA UNIVERSITY: $167,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetJOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE STUDENT ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology: $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetManhattan University: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRATT INSTITUTE: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOFSTRA UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFordham University: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLARKSON UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAZENOVIA COLLEGE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARIST UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUTICA UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLe Moyne College: $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.

  • Who funds SIENA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE STUDENT ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
  • Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds RUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ↗
  • Who funds BARNARD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Manhattan University ↗
  • Who funds PRATT INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Fordham University ↗
  • Who funds CLARKSON UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

Donor Advised Charita…
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO7.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Peter J Palermo Trust Under Agreement funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Peter J Palermo Trust Under Agreement. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 51 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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