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The Pomposi Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Pomposi 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.

$2k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$6kHousing & Shelter$3kHealth$2kPhilanthropy$563Recreation & Sports$502Religion$250Youth Development$100Food & Nutrition$100Other$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$300
Median grant
5
States reached
$5k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Homes for our Troops$1,160
Play for Pink$620
St Paul Catholic High School$300
Habitat for Humanity$200
Lakewood Ranch Sarasota Elks$104
American Cancer Socity$25
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 39% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%The Collings Foundation: $350 → 8%Homes for our Troops: $1k → 11%Play for Pink: $620 → 17%Folds of Honor: $570 → 15%ALS Association: $250 → 14%Selby Gardens: $100 → 9%Lakewood Ranch Sarasota Elks: $194 → 10%St John Neuman Catholic High Schoo: $100 → 10%Sickle Cell Disease Association: $100 → 12%Multiple Sclerosis Foundation: $125 → 13%Lakewood Ranch Sarasota Elks: $204 → 19%St Aloysius Church: $250 → 11%Police Activity League of Waterbury: $100 → 12%Habitat for Humanity: $200 → 13%Habitat for Humanity: $225 → 22%Alzheimers Association: $50 → 14%Homes for our Troops: $125 → 11%Play for Pink: $150 → 17%Lakewood Ranch Elks: $35 → 10%Multiple Sclerosis Foundation: $50 → 13%FI Sherrifs Association: $163 → 19%Homes for our Troops: $1k → 11%Habitat for Humanity: $50 → 13%Habitat for Humanity: $100 → 22%Play for Pink: $145 → 17%Bradenton Elks: $250 → 10%Multiple Sclerosis Foundation: $50 → 13%Lakewood Ranch Sarasota Elks: $104 → 19%St Paul Catholic High School: $960 → 11%Habitat for Humanity: $85 → 22%Play for Pink: $50 → 17%Bradenton Elks: $99 → 10%Multiple Sclerosis Foundation: $50 → 13%FI Sherrifs Association: $50 → 19%St Paul Catholic HS: $790 → 11%Habitat for Humanity: $75 → 22%Bradenton Elks: $40 → 10%Multiple Sclerosis Foundation: $50 → 13%St Paul Catholic High School: $750 → 11%Bradenton Elks: $30 → 10%Multiple Sclerosis Foundation: $50 → 13%St Paul Catholic High School: $700 → 11%St Paul Catholic High School: $650 → 11%St Paul Catholic High School: $625 → 11%St Paul Catholic High School: $300 → 11%St Paul Catholic HS: $250 → 11%St Paul Catholic HS: $250 → 11%Ramona Lainas Scholarship: $100 → 11%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

IL
NY
MA
CT
DC
OK
GA
FL
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10k · 10 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
14

Total granted

$10k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+162%

Still filing today

30%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25 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
HealthCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • SP
    ST PAULS HIGH SCHOOL BRISTOL INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $4k
  • SP
    St Paul Catholic HS
    3× · 2017–2019 · $1k
  • HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC
    2× · 2022–2025 · $1k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • HF
    Homes for our Troops
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
  • FO
    FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $570 · revenue +19%
  • TC
    The Collings Foundation
    one grant, 2019 · $350
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
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
2
Brightfocus Foundation

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…

Health
3
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.

Health
4
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

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,…

Health
5
Targeting Resistance in Cancer Cooperative
Health
6
Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc

To create and lead alliances and public-private partnerships that advance breakthrough biomedical discoveries and improve the quality of people's lives

Health
7
American Lung Association

The american lung association's mission is to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease. we do this through education, advocacy, and research.

Health
8
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
9
Global Down Syndrome Foundation

To significantly improve the lives of people with down syndrome through research, medical care, education and advocacy. an important part of this mission is to support the global affiliate organizations that we helped establish and…

Health
10
International Myeloma Foundation

Dedicated to improving the quality of life of myeloma patients while working toward prevention and a cure.

Unclassified
11
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
12
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homes for Our Troops Inc; the most unlike its peers is The James 127 Foundation. 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

15 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. 15 of the 25 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST PAULS HIGH SCHOOL BRISTOL INC: $3,985 · OtherST PAULS HIGH SCHOOL BRISTOL INCSt Paul Catholic HS: $1,290 · OtherSt Paul Catholic HSHomes for our Troops: $1,025 · OtherHomes for our TroopsLakewood Ranch Sarasota Elks: $502 · OtherHabitat for Humanity: $485 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $419 · OtherMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION INC: $375 · OtherThe Collings Foundation: $350 · Other+10 more: $1,183 · Other+10 moreHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $1,285 · Housing & ShelterHOMES FOR O…PLAY FOR PINK INC: $965 · Crime & LegalFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $570 · EducationAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $250 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $150 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $50 · HealthPOLICE ACTIVITY LEAGUE OF WATERBURY: $100 · Youth Development
Other$9,614Housing & Shelter$1,285Crime & Legal$965Education$570Health$450Youth Development$100

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 budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $1,285 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLAY FOR PINK INC: $965 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $570 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION INC: $375 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPOLICE ACTIVITY LEAGUE OF WATERBURY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $50 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 HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
  • Who funds PLAY FOR PINK INC ↗
  • Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds POLICE ACTIVITY LEAGUE OF WATERBURY ↗
  • Who funds SICKLE CELL DISEASE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA8.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Pomposi Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Pomposi Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 25 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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