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The Valle Brothers Foundation at a glance

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The Valle Brothers 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.

$10k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$54kHuman Services$29kEducation$20kInternational$18kRecreation & Sports$4kFood & Nutrition$3kYouth Development$3kHousing & Shelter$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$20k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INSTITUTE C- CHILD CARE CITIZEN$10,000
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.

US giving: 63% of grant dollars ($84k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 37% that went abroad ($50k) is mapped below.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RIVER FUND: $2k → 13%THE RIVER FUND: $10k → 13%THE RIVER FUND: $1k → 13%NEW YORK CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 17%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.

Beyond the US: 37% of all-years giving ($50k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Brazil$50k · 5 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$67k · 7 repeat orgs$67k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +76% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
15

Total granted

$67k
$57k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+76%
+36%

Still filing today

71%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’25
InternationalRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesFood & NutritionHealthCivil RightsOther
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

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $14k · revenue +98%
  • TR
    THE RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC
    3× · 2017–2020 · $13k · revenue +113%
  • CP
    CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $4k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • LF
    LYCEE FRANCIAS DE NY ANNUAL FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
  • IC
    INSTITUTO C CRIANCA CUIDADO CIDADAO
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • TN
    THE NEW YORK CENTER FOR CHILDRENgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +36%
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
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
2
Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp

To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.

Community Improvement
3
New York Restoration Project

New york restoration project ("nyrp") believes that nature is a fundamental right of every new yorker. nyrp works collaboratively with residents in communities across the five boroughs to renovate gardens, restore parks, plant trees,…

Environment
4
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
5
New York Women's Foundation Inc

Creating a platform for women (cis, trans & non-binary) through anequitable and just future for women & girls, investing in women-led,innovative, and bold community-based solutions that promote theeconomic security, safety, and health of…

Human Services
6
Natural Areas Conservancy Inc

The natural areas conservancy champions urban natural areas in new york city and across the nation through innovative research, partnerships, and advocacy. we increase the health and resilience of urban forests and wetlands, catalyze…

Environment
7
Food & Water Watch

Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…

Food & Nutrition
8
New York Blood Center Inc

As one of the most preeminent and comprehensive blood centers in theworld, nybc operates under a four-part mission. for more information,see sch. o and part iii, 4a-c.

Health
9
Hudson Yards Development Corporation

See schedule oto coordinate and facilitate the economic development of the hudson yards area of manhattan. this includes construction of an extension to the no. subway line, the coordination of the design and construction of certain public…

Community Improvement
10
N Y C Mission Society

NYC Mission Society improves the lives of children, youth and families in the City's most underserved communities. Through programs and services that respond to community needs, we create cycles of success for generations to come.

Human Services
11
New York Disaster Interfaith Services Inc

Founded in 2002, following 9/11, nydis is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit faith-based federation of over 60 diverse judicatories, disaster human services providers, and charitable organizations who work in partnership to provide disaster readiness,…

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Physician Affiliate Group of New York Pc

To provide accountable, responsive quality care with the highest degree of sensitivity to the needs of our diverse, multilingual population while fulfilling the professional and educational needs of our members.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The River Fund New York Inc; the most unlike its peers is No More Tears 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

13 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. 13 of the 24 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)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INSTITUTO C: $30,000 · OtherINSTITUTO CLYCEE FRANCIAS DE NY ANNUAL FUND: $20,000 · OtherLYCEE FRANCIAS DE NY ANNUAL FUNDINSTITUTO C CRIANCA CUIDADO CIDADAO: $20,000 · OtherINSTITUTO C CRIANCA CUIDADO CIDADAOINSTITUTE C - CHILD CARE CITIZEN: $10,000 · OtherINSTITUTE C - CHILD CARE CITIZEN+8 more: $7,350 · Other+8 moreMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $14,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS F…HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $3,630 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS WA…+1 more: $500 · InternationalTHE RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC: $13,000 · Human ServicesTHE RIVER FUND …THE NEW YORK CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE NEW YORK CE…CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $3,500 · Recreation & SportsSHOE4AFRICA INC: $500 · Recreation & SportsFEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $2,000 · Food & NutritionCITY HARVEST INC: $1,000 · Food & NutritionCHILDREN OF BELLEVUE INC: $1,972 · HealthTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyGIRLS INCORPORATED OF NEW YORK CITY: $1,000 · Civil Rights
Other$87,350International$18,130Human Services$18,000Recreation & Sports$4,000Food & Nutrition$3,000Health$1,972Philanthropy$1,000Civil Rights$1,000

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 budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC: $13,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NEW YORK CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $3,630 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN OF BELLEVUE INC: $1,972 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF NEW YORK CITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNO MORE TEARS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHOE4AFRICA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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 Pfizer Foundation…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Pfizer Foundation IncNY11.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Valle Brothers Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Valle Brothers Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Feeding South Florida Inc: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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 24 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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