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The Pistone Family Foundation Inc

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.

$26k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$115kHuman Services$43kHealth$32kFood & Nutrition$14kPhilanthropy$8kInternational$8kPublic Safety & Disaster$6kEnvironment$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$448k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MERCY CAREER & TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL$8,500
ST JUDES CHILDREN HOSPITAL$4,000
STREET GRACE$2,950
ST PIUS CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL$1,000
CURE ALZHEIMER'S FUND$1,000
IOCC$1,000
CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK$1,000
CLEMSON LIFE PROGRAM$1,000
MARYLAND FOOD BANK$1,000
ALHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$950
BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$950
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$900
CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION$450
TUNNEL TO TOWERS$400
THE CATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOC$250
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%STREET GRACE: $5k → 9%STREET GRACE: $5k → 9%STREET GRACE: $5k → 9%STREET GRACE: $5k → 9%STREET GRACE: $4k → 9%STREET GRACE: $4k → 9%STREET GRACE: $4k → 9%STREET GRACE: $3k → 9%STREET GRACE: $3k → 9%HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND: $1k → 19%HOUSE OF RUTH OF MARYLAND: $931 → 19%HOUSE OF RUTH OF MARYLAND: $556 → 19%HOUSE OF RUTH OF MARYLAND: $500 → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$217k · 24 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
17

Total granted

$217k
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+11%

Still filing today

67%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthInternationalHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther

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

  • SG
    Street Grace Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +419%
  • RC
    ROSEMONT COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CHILD JESUS
    4× · 2017–2020 · $24k · revenue +156%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    one grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue 0%
  • SJ
    ST JOHN VIANNEY CATHOLIC CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
  • J
    JEFFERSON
    one grant, 2023 · $2k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
2
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
3
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
4
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
5
Blood Cancer United Inc

Our mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.

Health
6
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
7
Cancer Research and Biostatistics

To help conquer cancer and other diseases through the application of biostatistical principles and innovative data management methods.

Health
8
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

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…

Health
9
Curesearch for Children's Cancer

Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…

Health
10
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute

We conduct fundamental infectious disease research to generate critical new knowledge about pathogens and their interactions with see schedule o for continuationhumans to enable the discovery and development of novel interventions,…

11
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

12
Conservation International Foundation

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

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of the Mid-Atlantic Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCancer Support OrganizationsFood Pantries & AssistanceCommunity Health CentersVeteran Support ServicesLgbtq+ Community CentersSouth Asian Cultural and Sp…Land Conservation Organizat…Community FoundationsDomestic Violence Crisis Se…Affordable Housing Developm…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%36%20–35yr13%36%35–55yr16%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr16%6%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%53%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/33
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,532

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.

04the grantee network

29 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 45 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
22/29
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MERCY VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL SISTERS OF MERCY — $73,400 · OtherMERCY VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL SISTERS OF MERCYMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID-ATLANTIC INC — $5,362 · OtherCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $5,675 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC — $5,026 · Other+21 more — $30,018 · Other+21 moreStreet Grace Inc — $38,434 · Human ServicesStreet Grace IncTHE HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND INC — $2,987 · Human ServicesTHE HOUSE OF RUTH M…+1 more — $500 · Human ServicesROSEMONT COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CHILD JESUS — $24,000 · EducationROSEMONT COLLEG…CHANGE THE CONVERSATION INC — $7,250 · EducationCHANGE THE CONV…+3 more — $2,400 · Education+3 moreST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $14,843 · HealthST JUDE C…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $2,000 · HealthALZHEIMER…ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $1,500 · HealthALZHEIMER…MEDSTAR HEALTH INC — $1,000 · Health+1 more — $500 · HealthCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $8,404 · Food & NutritionFOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC — $2,000 · Food & NutritionWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $6,400 · InternationalINT'L ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES INC — $3,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $750 · International+1 more — $200 · InternationalBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $7,854 · Philanthropy
Other$119,481Human Services$41,921Education$33,650Health$19,843Food & Nutrition$10,404International$10,350Philanthropy$7,854

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetStreet Grace Inc — $38,434 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetROSEMONT COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CHILD JESUS — $24,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $14,843 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $8,404 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $7,854 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCHANGE THE CONVERSATION INC — $7,250 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $6,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $5,675 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID-ATLANTIC INC — $5,362 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC — $5,026 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC — $3,378 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINT'L ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND INC — $2,987 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDSTAR HEALTH INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUCKERS AGAINST TRAFFICKING — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC — $550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLyme Disease Association Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCure Childhood Cancer Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Street Grace Inc
  • Who funds ROSEMONT COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CHILD JESUS
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC
  • Who funds BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds CHANGE THE CONVERSATION INC
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
  • Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID-ATLANTIC INC
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE
  • Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC
  • Who funds INT'L ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES INC
  • Who funds THE HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND INC
  • Who funds FOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC
  • Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds MEDSTAR HEALTH INC
  • Who funds TRUCKERS AGAINST TRAFFICKING
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
  • Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC
  • Who funds Lyme Disease Association Inc
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
  • Who funds Cure Childhood Cancer 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.

Verizon FoundationNJ11.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Verizon Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Pistone Family Foundation Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • Medstar Health Inc23% of income from government
  • The House of Ruth Maryland Inc19% of income from government
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc11% of income from government
  • Int'l Orthodox Christian Charities Inc7% of income from government
  • Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake Inc4% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc2% of income from government
  • Truckers Against Trafficking0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 45 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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