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The Rocco and Barbara Martino Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Rocco and Barbara Martino 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.

$31k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$93kHuman Services$50kEducation$24kInternational$2kHealth$1kRecreation & Sports$750Science & Tech$500Arts & Culture$350Other$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,200
Median grant
6
States reached
$406k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CATHOLIC CHARITIES APPEAL$10,000
BALTIMORE BASILICA OF THE ASSUMPTION$9,390
CHESTNUT HILL COLLEGE$5,012
ORDER OF MALTA AMERICAN ASSOCIATION$1,665
ST KATHERINE OF SIENNA$1,200
Individual grant recipient$1,000
SUBPRIORY OF OUR LADY OF LOURDES$995
EQUESTRIAN ORDER OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE$750
FRIENDS OF LITTLE FLOWER$500
VATICAN OBSERVATORY FOUNDATION$500
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%VATICAN OBSERVATORY FOUNDATION: $500 → 15%EQUESTRIAN ORDER OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE: $750 → 12%ST KATHERINE OF SIENA: $4k → 6%FOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%AFRICAN SISTERS EDUCATION COLLABORATIVE: $500 → 13%CHESTNUT HILL COLLEGE: $5k → 22%SOVEREIGN MILITARY ORDER OF MALTA: $3k → 17%REGNUM CHRISTI: $1k → 4%BALTIMORE BASILICA OF THE ASSUMPTION: $9k → 19%ST KATHERINE OF SIENA: $3k → 6%PAPAL FOUNDATION: $9k → 7%CHESTNUT HILL COLLEGE: $3k → 22%SOVEREIGN MILITARY ORDER OF MALTA: $2k → 17%REGNUM CHRISTI: $1k → 4%BALTIMORE BASILICA OF THE ASSUMPTION: $9k → 19%ST KATHERINE OF SIENNA: $1k → 6%CHESTNUT HILL COLLEGE: $3k → 22%MALTESER INTERNATIONAL AMERICAS: $1k → 17%BALTIMORE BASILICA OF THE ASSUMPTION: $9k → 19%ST KATHERINE OF SIENNA: $1k → 6%CHESTNUT HILL COLLEGE: $1k → 22%SUBPRIORY OF OUR LADY OF LOURDES: $995 → 17%BALTIMORE BASILICA OF THE ASSUMPTION: $9k → 19%ST KATHERINE OF SIENA: $1k → 6%ST CHARLES BOEROMEO SEMINARY: $1k → 7%CHESTNUT HILL COLLEGE: $500 → 22%SUBPRIORY OF OUR LADY OF LOURDES: $845 → 17%BALTIMORE BASILICA OF THE ASSUMPTION: $9k → 19%ST KATHERINE OF SIENA: $1k → 6%ST CHARLES BOEROMEO SEMINARY: $1k → 7%CATHOLIC CHARITIES APPEAL: $10k → 22%ORDER OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE: $750 → 17%ST CHARLES BOEROMEO SEMINARY: $1k → 7%CATHOLIC CHARITIES APPEAL: $10k → 22%ORDER OF MALTA AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $3k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES APPEAL: $10k → 22%ORDER OF MALTA AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $2k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES APPEAL: $10k → 22%ORDER OF MALTA AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $2k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES APPEAL: $10k → 22%ORDER OF MALTA AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $2k → 17%LEGATUS: $3k → 22%FRIENDS OF LITTLE FLOWER: $1k → 22%LITTLE FLOWER SCHOOL: $600 → 22%FRIENDS OF LITTLE FLOWER: $500 → 22%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $1k → 22%OUR LADY OF LOURDES: $900 → 22%OUR LADY OF LOURDES: $750 → 22%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

MI
NY
PA
NE
MD
DE
AZ
GA
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$154k · 15 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
12

Total granted

$154k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-2%
+12%

Still filing today

20%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPublic Safety & DisasterReligionHealthHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES APPEAL OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF PHILADELPHIA
    5× · 2021–2025 · $50k
  • BB
    BALTIMORE BASILICA OF THE ASSUMPTION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $47k
  • CH
    CHESTNUT HILL COLLEGE
    5× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue -2%

Funded once

  • DL
    DE LA SALLE COLLEGE
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • L
    LEGATUS
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
  • OO
    ORDER OF MALTA WORLDWIDE RELIEF MALTESER INTERNATIONAL AMERICAS
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -46%
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
Servants of Mary
Religion
2
Imperial Order of Constantine the Great and St Helen Inc
Arts & Culture
3
Holy Women Icons Project
Arts & Culture
4
Catholic Order of Foresters Welfare and Relief Fund
International
5
Society for the Propagation of the Faith
—
6
Lovers of the Holy Cross of Nha Trang
Education
7
Keep the Faith Inc

Keep the faith is a catholic lay apostolate devoted to assist in the dissemanation of good catholic doctrine

Religion
8
The Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame

The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)

Education
9
Alvernia University

Alvernia university is a catholic comprehensive university with a liberal arts foundation founded by the bernardine franciscan sisters in 1958. see continuation on schedule o.

—
10
International Catholic Jurists Forum Inc

The International Catholic Jurists Forum (ICJF) was established to produce, compile, and share resources on fundamental human rights under attack in the regional and international human rights protection systems. It operates as a forum for…

Religion
11
Collegium Institute

Collegium Institute is a Catholic intellectual apostolate that fosters the Catholic intellectual tradition within the University of Pennsylvania community and within the greater region and secular academia. (Continued on Sch. O)

—
12
Deaconess Foundation
Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Little Sisters of the Poor Inc; the most unlike its peers is Little Sisters of the Poor. 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

10 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. 10 of the 29 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
4/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATHOLIC CHARITIES APPEAL OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF PHILADELPHIA: $50,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES APPEAL OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF PHILADELPHIABALTIMORE BASILICA OF THE ASSUMPTION: $46,950 · OtherBALTIMORE BASILICA OF THE ASSUMPTIONDE LA SALLE COLLEGE: $10,000 · OtherDE LA SALLE COLLEGETHE PAPAL FOUNDATION: $9,371 · OtherTHE PAPAL FOUNDATIONORDER OF MALTA AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $8,630 · OtherORDER OF MALTA AMERICAN ASSOCIATIONST KATHERINE OF SIENA: $8,500 · OtherST KATHERINE OF SIENA+17 more: $24,748 · Other+17 moreCHESTNUT HILL COLLEGE: $11,612 · EducationFriends of Little Flower Inc: $1,500 · EducationORDER OF MALTA WORLDWIDE RELIEF MALTESER INTERNATIONAL AMERICAS: $1,000 · Public Safety & DisasterFOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION: $1,000 · HealthLegatus: $320 · ReligionLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR INC: $250 · Housing & Shelter
Other$158,199Education$13,112Public Safety & Disaster$1,000Health$1,000Religion$320Housing & Shelter$250

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHESTNUT HILL COLLEGE: $11,612 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Little Flower Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetORDER OF MALTA WORLDWIDE RELIEF MALTESER INTERNATIONAL AMERICAS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $1,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetVatican Observatory Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CATHOLIC HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLegatus: $320 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAGNIFICAT FOUNDATION INC: $98 over 2y, 0.2% 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 CHESTNUT HILL COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Little Flower Inc ↗
  • Who funds ORDER OF MALTA WORLDWIDE RELIEF MALTESER INTERNATIONAL AMERICAS ↗
  • Who funds FOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR ↗
  • Who funds Vatican Observatory Foundation ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CATHOLIC HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Legatus ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR INC ↗
  • Who funds MAGNIFICAT FOUNDATION 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.

Chubb Charitable Foun…National Philanthropi…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Verizon FoundationVanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Charities Aid Foundat…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
Chubb Charitable FoundationPA12.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chubb Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Rocco and Barbara Martino Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rocco and Barbara Martino Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Little Sisters of the Poor Inc: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
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 29 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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