· Private foundation
The Principato Family Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of THE PRINCIPATO FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’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 · FY2024
- Under $10k36 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $73k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST ALBANS SCHOOL | $39,500 |
| NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART | $13,000 |
| SPIRIT OF AMERICA | $10,000 |
| SUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| METROPOLITAN CLUB PRESERVATION FUND | $8,600 |
| CHRIST CHURCH GEORGETOWN | $8,100 |
| WASHINGTON NATIONAL CATHEDRAL | $6,000 |
| MERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER | $4,400 |
| KENNEDY CENTER | $4,000 |
| GIVE WELL | $4,000 |
| BLAIR HOUSE RESTORATION FUND | $2,500 |
| RONALD REGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDAION | $2,000 |
| WADSWORTH SULGRAVE HISTORIC PRESERVATION FUND | $1,500 |
| DANA-FABER CANCER INSTITUTE | $1,500 |
| BETHESDA CHEVY CHASE RESCUE SQUAD | $1,250 |
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 (FY17–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +57% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
68 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- NGNational Gallery of Art8× · 2017–2024 · $101k · revenue +29%
- SOSpirit of America Worldwide6× · 2019–2024 · $49k · revenue +245%
- MCMETROPOLITAN CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $47k · revenue +115%
Funded once
- TCTHE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -45%
- TWTHE WASHINGTON BALLETone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +14%
- MGMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDone grant, 2017 · $4k
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.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The climate institute is organized for the purpose of educating the general public and policy makers as to the gravity of potential climate change, exploring the policy implications of the latest scientific findings on climate modelling…
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…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Tudor place historic house & garden preserves the stories of six generations of descendants of martha washington and the enslaved and free people who lived and worked at this georgetown landmark for nearly two centuries. by examining their…
Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Citizens for Fauquier County. 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 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
79 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. 79 of the 136 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
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 National Gallery of Art ↗
- Who funds Spirit of America Worldwide ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds THE CLEAR FUND ↗
- Who funds MERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds BLAIR HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY AND MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA-CHEVY CHASE RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE WASHINGTON BALLET ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Against Malaria Foundation ↗
- Who funds GIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC ↗
- Who funds THE LAND TRUST OF VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds LIGHT OF HEALING HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
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: William M Backer Foundation Inc · Awa Family Foundation · Dun Foundation · Thomas Rutherfoord Foundation · The Luminescence Foundation Inc · McGraw Foundation · The Brennan Family Foundation · The Seilheimer Foundation · Fauquier Health Foundation Dba the Path Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · J Willard Marriott Jr Foundation
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 Principato 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.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- The National Federation of the Blind — 2% 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.