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Viola Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$18M
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$10M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$38MEducation$28MArts & Culture$5.0MHuman Services$4.1MRecreation & Sports$2.1MReligion$1.4MYouth Development$695kPublic Benefit$570kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $355k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $597k
  • $250k+4 grants · $17M
$25,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$353k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION$10,000,000
WEST POINT ASSOCIATION OF GRADUATES$6,711,660
JACK SANDNER ACE MEMORIAL FUND$500,000
NATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR MUSEUM FDN$250,000
FOCUS (FELLOWSHIP OF CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY STUDENT)$150,000
FOUNDATION FOR CITY COLLEGE$130,000
GRAYSON JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION$116,523
GOLD STAR TEEN ADVENTURES$100,000
MIDDLE EAST INSTITUTE$100,000
EDEN II SCHOOL FOR AUTISTIC CHILDREN$35,000
NATIONAL ITALIAN AMERICAN SPORTS HALL$30,000
DR RICHARD BARNETT FOUNDATION$30,000
US SPORTS CAMPS INC$25,460
BE THE BEST SPORT$25,000
PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION$25,000
02The need
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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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $778k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NO ONE LEFT BEHIND INC: $200k → 7%THE MICHAEL E THORNTON FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%GOLD STAR TEEN ADVENTURES: $100k → 16%UINICO NATIONAL: $20k → 16%GOLD STAR TEEN ADVENTURES: $100k → 16%UINICO NATIONAL: $10k → 16%FEDERAZIONE DELLE ASSOC DELLA CAMPANIA: $3k → 28%GOLD STAR TEEN ADVENTURES: $100k → 16%UINICO NATIONAL: $10k → 16%GOLD STAR TEEN ADVENTURES: $75k → 16%GOLD STAR TEEN ADVENTURES: $50k → 16%GOLD STAR TEEN ADVENTURES: $25k → 16%GOLD STAR TEEN ADVENTURES: $25k → 16%ITALIAN WELFARE LEAGUE: $10k → 17%ITALIAN WELFARE LEAGUE: $10k → 17%ITALIAN WELFARE LEAGUE: $10k → 17%ITALIAN WELFARE LEAGUE: $10k → 17%ITALIAN WELFARE LEAGUE: $10k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
WI
NY
MA
IA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
KY
VA
MD
DE
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$75M · 56 repeat orgs$5.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

56 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
87

Total granted

$75M
$4.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+23%

Still filing today

64%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $595k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyAnimalsOther
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

  • PC
    PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $30M · revenue +7%
  • ASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY
    5× · 2019–2024 · $17M · revenue +66%
  • NO
    No One Left Behind
    2× · 2018–2021 · $2.7M · revenue +180%

Funded once

  • MO
    MIGHTY OAKS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue -29%
  • NI
    NATIONAL INFANTRY MUSEUM FOUNDATIONINCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $881k · revenue +26%
  • SC
    SHAWN CARTER SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    one grant, 2019 · $200k · revenue +5%
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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
Us Naval Academy Foundation Inc

To support, promote, and advance the mission of the naval academy.

Education
3
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
6
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
7
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
St Francis College

St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.

Education
9
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Futures in Education; the most unlike its peers is Mariano Rivera Foundation. 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

78 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. 78 of the 150 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
75/78
Grantees still filing
53/78
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $30,410,000 · PhilanthropyPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION+6 more: $575,000 · PhilanthropyASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY: $17,353,600 · Public BenefitASSOCIATION OF THE GRADU…+1 more: $15,000 · Public BenefitASSOCIATION OF GRADUATES: $6,065,386 · OtherASSOCIATION OF GRADUATESUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $5,100,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SC…FOCUS (FELLOWSHIP OF CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY STUDENT): $975,000 · OtherTHE CITY COLLEGE 21ST CENTURY FOUNDATION INC: $800,000 · Other+92 more: $5,622,951 · Other+92 moreFordham University: $1,974,434 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $1,525,000 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $500,000 · EducationTHE FOUNDATION FOR CITY COLLEGE: $360,000 · EducationSHAWN CARTER SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $200,000 · Education+8 more: $579,150 · EducationThe Army Historical Foundation Inc: $1,100,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL INFANTRY MUSEUM FOUNDATIONINC: $881,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL MUSEUM OF RACING INC: $400,000 · Arts & CultureNAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME: $150,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $380,000 · Arts & CultureNo One Left Behind: $2,700,000 · Human ServicesGOLD STAR TEEN ADVENTURES: $475,000 · Human Services+6 more: $270,000 · Human ServicesMIGHTY OAKS FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · HealthMONMOUTH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $100,000 · Health+10 more: $261,500 · Health
Philanthropy$30,985,000Public Benefit$17,368,600Other$18,563,337Education$5,138,584Arts & Culture$3,911,000Human Services$3,445,000Health$2,361,500

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 budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $30,410,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY: $17,353,600 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetNo One Left Behind: $2,700,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetFordham University: $1,974,434 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $1,525,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Army Historical Foundation Inc: $1,100,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetNATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMIGHTY OAKS FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetMONMOUTH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetNATIONAL INFANTRY MUSEUM FOUNDATIONINC: $881,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTHE CITY COLLEGE 21ST CENTURY FOUNDATION INC: $800,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $500,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGOLD STAR TEEN ADVENTURES: $475,000 over 7y, 16% of budgetGRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $428,760 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetPERMANENTLY DISABLED JOCKEYS FUND INC: $400,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF RACING INC: $400,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR CITY COLLEGE: $360,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE MIDDLE EAST INSTITUTE: $324,250 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetTHE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF TRUST AND ESTATE COUNSEL FOUNDATION: $225,000 over 2y, 45% of budgetSHAWN CARTER SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $200,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetBE THE BEST SPORT INC: $175,000 over 7y, 70% of budgetNAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME: $150,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLEONARDO DICAPRIO FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL ITALIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATIONINC: $130,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WAR INC: $120,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetEDEN II SCHOOL FOR AUTISTIC CHILDREN: $110,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF AMERICAN FINANCE: $100,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetFUTURES IN EDUCATION: $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH IMPACT PROGRAM INC: $95,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetTHE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $95,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $85,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetST NICKS ALLIANCE CORPORATION: $78,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDE LA SALLE ACADEMY: $77,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL ITALIAN AMERICAN SPORTS HALL OF FAME: $75,000 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetGALATIANS 62 INC: $75,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetJOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND INC: $67,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMARINE CORPS-LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDA FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetFIGLI DI SAN GENNARO INC: $60,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetDR RICHARD BARNETT FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetITALIAN WELFARE LEAGUE INC: $50,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF AUTISTIC PERSONS: $45,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetJANA DOMINO THOROUGHBRED FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 3y, 100% of budgetCIAO WOMEN INC: $45,000 over 1y, 81% of budgetSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $44,650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNICO NATIONAL INC: $40,000 over 3y, 3.4% 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.

Moglia Family Foundat…Jewish Communal FundThe Brian Ratner Foun…The Francesco and Mar…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Mutual of America Fou…The New York Communit…Nfl Foundation IncMorgan Stanley Global…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Nafzger Family Founda…The Lewis Family Char…
Moglia Family FoundationNE19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Moglia Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Brian Ratner Foundation · The Francesco and Mary Giambelli Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Mutual of America Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Nfl Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Nafzger Family Foundation · The Lewis Family Charitable 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 Viola Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Viola Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 46%
  • Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc: 46% of income from government
  • Sacred Heart University Incorporated: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Viola Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Viola Foundation Inc 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.

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 150 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.

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