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The Rudolph J Torello Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Rudolph J Torello 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.

$77k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.3MReligion$64kYouth Development$60kCrime & Legal$58kPhilanthropy$53kArts & Culture$29kScience & Tech$23kFood & Nutrition$21kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $66k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$921k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE PINGRY SCHOOL$12,000
DWIGHT-ENGLEWOOD SCHOOL$12,000
RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$12,000
BUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL$10,000
THE PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL$10,000
JAJJA'S KIDS$10,000
GROTON SCHOOL$5,000
ST CATHARINE ST MARGARET PARISH$5,000
CHENOA MANOR$1,000
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 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 35% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MILTON ACADEMY: $15k → 7%KINGSLEY MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $10k → 16%HACKLEY SCHOOL: $10k → 9%JAJJA'S KIDS: $10k → 14%Jamal C Morris Foundation: $40k → 14%Explorers Club: $15k → 17%Horace Mann School: $10k → 28%THE PINGRY SCHOOL: $15k → 5%MONMOUTH ARTS: $11k → 6%DWIGHT-ENGLEWOOD SCHOOL: $500k → 7%The Lawrenceville School: $15k → 11%INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $10k → 7%MILTON ACADEMY: $10k → 7%KINGSLEY MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $10k → 16%RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $20k → 9%JAJJAS KIDS INC: $10k → 14%THE PINGRY SCHOOL: $12k → 5%DWIGHT-ENGLEWOOD SCHOOL: $85k → 7%The Lawernceville School: $10k → 11%MILTON ACADEMY: $10k → 7%GROTON SCHOOL: $10k → 8%RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $20k → 9%JAJJA'S KIDS: $10k → 14%THE PINGRY SCHOOL: $10k → 5%DWIGHT-ENGLEWOOD SCHOOL: $50k → 7%LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL: $10k → 11%THE BAY SCHOOL: $15k → 11%BUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL: $20k → 8%RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $17k → 9%JAJJAS KIDS INC: $10k → 14%THE TUXEDO PARK SCHOOL: $15k → 14%THE DALTON SCHOOL: $12k → 17%THE PINGRY SCHOOL: $10k → 5%DWIGHT-ENGLEWOOD SCHOOL: $30k → 7%THE PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL: $20k → 11%GEORGE STEVENS ACADEMY: $10k → 11%RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $12k → 9%JAJJAS KIDS INC: $10k → 14%THE DALTON SCHOOL: $10k → 17%DWIGHT-ENGLEWOOD SCHOOL: $25k → 7%THE PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL: $10k → 11%DWIGHT-ENGLEWOOD SCHOOL: $20k → 7%Dwight-Englewood School: $20k → 7%TRINITY SCHOOL: $12k → 17%Dwight-Englewood School: $15k → 7%COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $12k → 17%DWIGHT-ENGLEWOOD SCHOOL: $12k → 7%ST CATHERINE & ST MARGARET PARISH: $12k → 6%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.
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 25 repeat orgs$92k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
13

Total granted

$1.5M
$92k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+23%

Still filing today

68%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EducationHealthYouth DevelopmentAnimalsScience & TechFood & NutritionOther
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

  • DS
    DWIGHT-ENGLEWOOD SCHOOL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $758k · revenue +42%
  • RC
    RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
    6× · 2020–2025 · $89k · revenue +30%
  • JK
    JAJJAS KIDS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • TP
    Tuxedo Park School
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +4%
  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +46%
  • HM
    Horace Mann School
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +25%
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
Darrow School

Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…

Education
2
Concord Academy

Concord academy is a community animated by love of learning, diverse and striving for equity, with common trust as our foundation. honoring each individual, we challenge and expand our understanding of ourselves and the world through…

Education
3
Tabor Academy

Tabor academy focuses its academic programs to inspire a life-long love of learning, to instill a passion for the highest standards of achievement, to encourage personal responsibility, and to foster care for others and committed…

Education
4
Hampshire Country School

Hampshire country school is a place of possibilities for high-ability, neurodiverse students enrolling in later elementary or middle school who have not found success in traditional educational environments. hampshire country school offers…

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5
Morristown-Beard School

Morristown beard school is an educational college preparatory school in grades 6 to 12 located in morristown, new jersey.

Education
6
Hillbrook School

Hillbrook provides an extraordinary educational experience that fosters a love of learning in our students and helps them to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to achieve their highest individual potential in school and in life.…

Education
7
The Hill School

The hill school prepares students from across the country and around the world for college, careers and life. within a family school environment and a rigorous liberal arts curriculum, we challenge our young people to work hard; think and…

Education
8
Solebury School

See schedule o.solebury school is a private independent school for students in grades 9 through 12. solebury school's mission is to create an environment of educational excellence that prepares students for success in college and beyond.…

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9
The Wilson School

To prepare students for success in an ever-changing world, our exceptional educators embrace classic and innovative methods within a nurturing, inclusive, and collaborative environment. our mission is to provide them with an excellent…

Education
10
Berkwood School

Berkwood Hedge School provides a hands-on developmental curriculum that promotes deep and intuitive learning. Students achieve academic excellence by becoming critical thinkers and creative problem solvers. Our teachers meet the needs of…

Education
11
Mastery Charter High School

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education
12
Dean College

Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Princeton Day School Inc; the most unlike its peers is Jajjas Kids Inc. 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

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 38 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)
26/26
Grantees still filing
21/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DWIGHT-ENGLEWOOD SCHOOL: $757,570 · EducationDWIGHT-ENGLEWOOD SCHOOLRYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $89,000 · EducationRYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLDALTON SCHOOLS INC: $42,000 · Education+10 more: $222,000 · Education+10 moreMONMOUTH COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $48,000 · OtherMONMOUTH COUNTY CHILD ADV…THE PINGRY SCHOOL: $47,000 · OtherTHE PINGRY SCHOOLJamal C Morris Foundation: $45,000 · OtherJamal C Morris FoundationST CATHERINE & ST MARGARET PARISH: $44,000 · OtherST CATHERINE & ST MARGARE…TRINITY SCHOOL: $42,000 · OtherTRINITY SCHOOLTHE BAY SCHOOL: $25,000 · OtherTHE BAY SCHOOLTHE KINGSLEY MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC: $20,000 · OtherTHE KINGSLEY MONTESSORI S…MONMOUTH ARTS: $17,675 · OtherTuxedo Park School: $15,000 · OtherST CATHARINE ST MARGARET PARISH: $15,000 · Other+9 more: $51,000 · Other+9 moreJAJJAS KIDS INC: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE EXPLORERS CLUB: $23,000 · Science & TechLUNCH BREAK INC: $21,000 · Food & NutritionCHENOA MANOR: $19,000 · AnimalsHACKLEY SCHOOL: $10,000 · HealthMEMORIAL AMBULANCE CORPS: $5,000 · Health
Education$1,110,570Other$369,675Youth Development$60,000Science & Tech$23,000Food & Nutrition$21,000Animals$19,000Health$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDWIGHT-ENGLEWOOD SCHOOL: $757,570 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetRYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $89,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJAJJAS KIDS INC: $60,000 over 6y, 17% of budgetDALTON SCHOOLS INC: $42,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMILTON ACADEMY: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC: $32,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRINCETON DAY SCHOOL INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BAY SCHOOL: $25,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE EXPLORERS CLUB: $23,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLUNCH BREAK INC: $21,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE KINGSLEY MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHENOA MANOR: $19,000 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetEASTERN MONMOUTH AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $19,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetTuxedo Park School: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGROTON SCHOOL: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHorace Mann School: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHACKLEY SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGeorge Stevens Academy: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPROPRIETORS OF THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISLAND HERITAGE TRUST INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMEMORIAL AMBULANCE CORPS: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetOCEAN GROVE HISTORIC PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 DWIGHT-ENGLEWOOD SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds JAJJAS KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds DALTON SCHOOLS INC ↗
  • Who funds MILTON ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds BUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE BAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE EXPLORERS CLUB ↗
  • Who funds LUNCH BREAK INC ↗
  • Who funds THE KINGSLEY MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds CHENOA MANOR ↗
  • Who funds EASTERN MONMOUTH AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Tuxedo Park School ↗
  • Who funds GROTON SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds Horace Mann School ↗
  • Who funds HACKLEY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds George Stevens Academy ↗
  • Who funds PROPRIETORS OF THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM ↗
  • Who funds ISLAND HERITAGE TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds MEMORIAL AMBULANCE CORPS ↗
  • Who funds OCEAN GROVE HISTORIC PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTERS 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.

Fidelity FoundationIbm International Fou…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Maine Community Found…Community Foundation …The Goldman Sachs Cha…Chubb Charitable Foun…Vanguard Charitable E…The Pfizer Foundation…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…
Fidelity FoundationMA14.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment 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 Rudolph J Torello Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rudolph J Torello Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Lunch Break Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum: 0% of income from government
  • Milton Academy: 0% of income from government
  • Buckingham Browne & Nichols School: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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 38 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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