· Private foundation
The Robert & Nancy Amato 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
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $87k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE GARDEN HOUSE | $36,000 |
| AZ FAITH AND FAMILIES | $23,000 |
| SMILE TRAIN | $18,000 |
| NORTH STAR FOUNDATION | $13,000 |
| SHINE VILLAGE MINISTRIES UGANDA | $13,000 |
| CROSSPOINT CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $12,000 |
| HART PANTRY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,500 |
| CARING PLACE INC | $8,000 |
| CLAIRE PARKER FOUNDATION INC | $8,000 |
| BETHLEHAM HOUSE | $8,000 |
| TRUE NORTH TRAINING STABLES | $8,000 |
| VALLEY VIEW COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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 +22% since the first grant, against -34% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 18 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, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $170k 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
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE4× · 2019–2022 · $100k · revenue +53%
SMILE TRAIN INC2× · 2023–2024 · $21k · revenue +22%- TNTRUE NORTH TRAINING STABLES INC2× · 2023–2024 · $12k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- NENADABURG EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $75k
- UPUSA PATRIOTSone grant, 2023 · $7k
- NNORTHSTARone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
Domestic violence shelter
Provide residential and life skill care to youth in the foster care system ages 17.5 to 21.
To provide women, non-binary people, and the families they lead with shelter, housing, and the opportunity to explore options for their future during periods of crisis or transition.
To provide shelter and affordable housing, as well as advocacy and support services, to homeless, battered and low-income women, with or without children. abby's house empowers the women we serve to lead self-directed lives filled with…
The Dwelling Place is a Christ-centered ministry providing healing and hope to victims of domestic abuse through supportive services and a safe, transitional place to call home.
My sisters place is committed to ending homelessness by empowering women, families, and others in greater hartford to achieve independence and stability in their community by providing housing and supportive services.
At caring for the hungry and homeless of peekskill (chhop), we believe that every person is entitled to safe and affordable housing and healthy nutritious food.
Provide a safe and secure environment based on a common lifestyle of the residents. homeless women were provided trasitional shelter that could be available to them for up to two years.
Women's lunch place (wlp) inspires hope and supports the development of self-sustaining skills for women experiencing hunger, homelessness, and poverty. we create a safe, welcoming day shelter community in which we respect the dignity of…
Assisting families in shelters to gain more confidence in building future goals that will lead to success of the entire family.
To provide food, safety, education, counseling, healing & hope for homeless and at-risk teens
A woman's place envisions a society where all individuals are safe in their relationships and can thrive.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northstar Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hart Pantry. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 31 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 BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds Shine Village Ministries Uganda Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUE NORTH TRAINING STABLES INC ↗
- Who funds HART PANTRY ↗
- Who funds THE CLAIRE PARKER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY VIEW COMMUNITY FOOD ASSISTANCE ↗
- Who funds BETHLEHEM HOUSE ↗
- Who funds EVE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds PATRIOTIC KENNY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Our Greater Good Incorporated ↗
- Who funds Phoenix After School Sports Inc ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONE SHELTER FOR WOMEN 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.
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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 Robert & Nancy Amato 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% 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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