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The Santoro Family Charitable 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.

$100k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2019
50%
First-time grantees FY2019
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100% of The Santoro Family Charitable Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Trustees Of Columbia University In The City Of New York, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

2
’17
0
’18
2
’19
0
’21
0
’22
0
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2024
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 4
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$87k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 50% of the organizations The Santoro Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19
PhilanthropyHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20194$33k50%
FY20183$42k33%
FY20174$174kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$838kEnvironment$150kPublic Safety & Disaster$75kPublic Benefit$5kHuman Services$2kHealth$2k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Greenwich Land Trust Inc$150,00013%
Foundations in Education Inc$15,00010%
Navy League of the United States$5,00010%
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc$1,00010%

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($78k), not named here.

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How do I get to The Santoro Family Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Santoro Family Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Santoro Family Charitable Foundation

How much does The Santoro Family Charitable Foundation give?
The Santoro Family Charitable Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $100,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 4 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does The Santoro Family Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Education (78%), Environment (14%), Public Safety & Disaster (7%).
Who are The Santoro Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: The Greenwich Land Trust Inc ($150k), Foundations in Education Inc ($15k), Navy League of the United States ($5k).
Does The Santoro Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Santoro Family Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is The Santoro Family Charitable Foundation based?
The Santoro Family Charitable Foundation is based in CT.

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 9 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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