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The Ursini Family Foundation at a glance

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The Ursini Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$28k
Granted FY2022
2
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0177% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Youth Development$989kReligion$351kEducation$110kHealth$52kPhilanthropy$42kHuman Services$30kArts & Culture$25kInternational$21kOther$0
02FY2022 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REFUGEE RECOVERY WORLD SERVICES$15,000
JOHN TRACY CLINIC$12,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–22, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNBOUND: $2k → 16%CHARITY WATER: $25k → 17%UNBOUND: $360 → 16%JOHN TRACY CLINIC: $13k → 14%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

WA
NY
OR
CA
UT
VA
KS
DC
TX
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 10 repeat orgs$337k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2022, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
27

Total granted

$1.5M
$309k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-3%
+17%

Still filing today

30%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalFood & NutritionEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICA
    2× · 2020–2021 · $989k
  • AM
    American Martyrs Catholic Community
    5× · 2017–2021 · $319k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    5× · 2017–2021 · $141k

Funded once

  • MO
    MARY OF THE SEA HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • KM
    Katherine Michiels School
    one grant, 2017 · $35k
  • JF
    JEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO
    one grant, 2019 · $30k
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
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
2
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
3
The One Campaign

The ONE Campaign ("ONE") continued its work to educate and raise awareness among the public, media and policymakers around the world about the importance of official development assistance and international programs that (Continued on…

Unclassified
4
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
5
World Telehealth Initiative

World telehealth initiative provides sustainable medical expertise to the world's most vulnerable communities to build local capacity and advance core health services through a network of volunteer healthcare professionals supported by…

Health
6
Targeting Resistance in Cancer Cooperative
Health
7
Project Orbis International Inc

Orbis builds strong and sustainable eye care systems globally that put treatment and prevention within reach

International
8
The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc

The multiple myeloma research foundation (mmrf) is the largest nonprofit in the world solely focused on accelerating acurefor multiple myeloma patient. we drive the development and delivery of next-generation therapies, leverage data to…

Health
9
International Biomedical Research Alliance

Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.

Health
10
International Medical Corps

To save lives & relieve suffering through health interventions & related activities that strengthen communities affected by conflict, natural disasters & disease outbreaks.

International
11
Water for People

Water for people exists to develop high quality water and sanitation, accessible to all, and sustained by strong communities, businesses, and governments, working in ten countries; guatemala, honduras, tanzania, peru, bolivia, uganda,…

International
12
Retina Global

To provide sustainable solutions to the increasing number of people around the world afflicted with retinal diseases.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Water First International; the most unlike its peers is The Blake King Corp. 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

16 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. 16 of the 39 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
8/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICA: $989,294 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICAAmerican Martyrs Catholic Community: $319,024 · OtherAmerican Martyrs Catholic CommunityIndividual grant recipient: $141,210 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+22 more: $304,935 · Other+22 moreCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesJOHN TRACY CLINIC: $12,500 · Human ServicesUnbound: $2,700 · Human ServicesRefuge Recovery World Services Inc: $15,000 · HealthUNRAVEL: $12,008 · HealthThe Blake King Corp: $7,858 · Health+3 more: $2,315 · HealthFOOD SHARE INC: $20,000 · Food & NutritionMercy Ships International: $15,400 · InternationalMercury One Inc: $1,000 · InternationalWATER FIRST INTERNATIONAL: $2,000 · PhilanthropyMANHATTAN BEACH EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $1,120 · Education
Other$1,754,463Human Services$40,200Health$37,181Food & Nutrition$20,000International$16,400Philanthropy$2,000Education$1,120

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKCRW FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEARNING LAB VENTURES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetFOOD SHARE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMercy Ships International: $15,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRefuge Recovery World Services Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetJOHN TRACY CLINIC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNRAVEL: $12,008 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetThe Blake King Corp: $7,858 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetUnbound: $2,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWATER FIRST INTERNATIONAL: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMANHATTAN BEACH EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $1,120 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEXTSTEP FITNESS INC: $1,065 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercury One Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SURF: $250 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 CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
  • Who funds KCRW FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LEARNING LAB VENTURES INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD SHARE INC ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
  • Who funds Refuge Recovery World Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds JOHN TRACY CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds UNRAVEL ↗
  • Who funds The Blake King Corp ↗
  • Who funds Unbound ↗
  • Who funds WATER FIRST INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds MANHATTAN BEACH EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEXTSTEP FITNESS INC ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds Mercury One Inc ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION SURF ↗

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.

The Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Paypal Charitable Giv…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Blackbaud Giving FundSC12.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Ursini Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ursini Family Foundation. 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%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report 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 39 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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