· Private foundation
The Wm M & a Cafaro Family Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k331 grants · $407k
- $10k–50k39 grants · $583k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $450k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY | $300,000 |
| JFK CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| JFK CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY | $50,000 |
| LAKE TO RIVER FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY | $31,000 |
| YOUNGSTOWNWARREN REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| YOUNGSTOWN WARREN REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| NEOMED FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| OBLATE SISTERS OF THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS | $25,000 |
| KENNEDY CATHOLIC FAMILY OF SCHOOLS | $25,000 |
| NEOMED FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| OBLATE SISTERS OF THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS | $25,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–26, $163k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +8% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
407 repeat relationships — 204 still active in FY2026, 203 since wound down; 102 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2026, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $403k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- YSYOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2022 · $704k · revenue +3%
- YWYOUNGSTOWN WARREN REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION6× · 2021–2026 · $335k · revenue +76%
- SFSIGHT FOR ALL UNITED INC6× · 2021–2026 · $147k · revenue +181%
Funded once
- AHARCHBISHOP HOBAN HIGH SCHOOL INCone grant, 2023 · $150k
- SPST PATRICK'S PARISHone grant, 2022 · $101k
- CCCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION CLEVELAND CLINIC CHILDREN'S & PEDIATRIC INSTITone grant, 2024 · $100k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Waynesburg university educates students to make connections between faith, learning and serving so they might faithfully transofrm their communiities and the world. see continuation on schedule o.as a christian comprehensive university, we…
United way of bucks county creates opportunities for quality education, financial stability, and good health to ensure real, lasting change for individuals and our communities.
Mission is to promote and advocate for the welfare of people with intellectual and other developmental disabilities.
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
To provide affordable, accessible, and quality healthcare.
Ohio hills health services is a non-profit health care operation, organized by communities in eastern ohio to promote healthy lifestyles and to provide preventative and comprehensive medical and dental care for area residents. the primary…
Finding committed, permanent homes for companion animals in our community; measurably reducing companion animal overpopulation; educating and promoting humane values.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
Greater cleveland volunteers enriches the community and indivuduals through volunteer service. volunteers age 18 and older are recruited and placed in the agency's programs or referred to local nonprofit or public organizations to help…
United way of central ohio is the local organization that harnesses the power of communities working together - people, nonprofits, businesses and government - to create a stronger, more equitable central ohio. see schedule o.we do this…
Voluntary health & welfare
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easter Seal Society of Mahoning Trumbull and Columbiana Counties and the most unlike its peers is Honey Badgers Fast Pitch. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
448 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 448 of the 880 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN WARREN REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds First Lady's Charitable Foundation ↗
- Who funds SIGHT FOR ALL UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF YOUNGSTOWN AND THE MAHONING VALLEY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ITALIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds HIRAM COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds KEARSARGE FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Dolly Parton's Imagination Library ↗
- Who funds DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ↗
- Who funds GAME CHANGERS LEADERSHIP AND PEER MENTORING INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds DANTE ALIGHIERI SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE ERIE COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley · Premier Bank Foundation · Youngstown Fdn General · Walter E & Caroline H Watson Trust · The Raymond John Wean Foundation · Fibushendricks Family Foundation · Senator Maurice & Florence Lipscher Char · Ruth Beecher H XI Char Tw · Frank & Pearl Gelbman Charitable Fdn · Heartland Charitable Trust · James B & Melita a McDonough Foundation · Erie Community Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Wm M & a Cafaro Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.