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Wayne and Jill Canastra Family Foundation Inc

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.

$858k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What you fund
0178% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172025.

Education$4.8MPhilanthropy$338kHealth$69kInternational$20kRecreation & Sports$10kCivil Rights$10kHuman Services$6kOther$1.5M
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $156k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $296k
  • $250k+1 grant · $400k
$20,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$460k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SPECIAL OLYMIPIC NEW JERESY$400,000
RIDER UNIVERSITY$230,000
B'NAI SHALOM$66,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ$39,000
Individual grant recipient$31,600
ST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$25,000
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$20,000
NATIONAL WW11 MUSEUM$10,000
HIGHER GROUND$10,000
GOOD GRIEF$10,000
ANTI- DEFAMATION LEAGUE$10,000
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS$5,000
POLICE UNITY TOUR$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $5k → 16%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $250 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

ID
NY
PA
NJ
TN
DC
LA
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.4M · 14 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
7

Total granted

$6.4M
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+38%

Still filing today

43%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthRecreation & SportsEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther

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

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $50k · revenue +10%
  • GOOD GRIEF INC
    5× · 2018–2025 · $19k · revenue +6%
  • TF
    THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC
    2× · 2018–2023 · $6k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • TM
    THE MARC
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $900

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
2
Shalom School

Shalom school's mission is to provide each child with an outstanding education in a nurturing environment that is academically excellent, inclusive, innovative, and inspired by jewish values and traditions.

3
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
4
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
5
Tucson Jewish Community Center Inc

The mission of the tucson jewish community center (tucson j) is to cultivate and enrich jewish identity, ensure jewish continuity, foster wellness, and broaden communal harmony. the vision is to strive to be an outstanding jewish community…

Human Services
6
Kesher Ld Inc Kesher

To provide, and guide other schools in providing, an education in both jewish and secular studies that meet the needs of the invididual student, and which empowers each student to reach his/her highest level of independent and…

Education
7
University of Saint Joseph

The university provides a rigorous liberal arts and professional education for a diverse student population. (see schedule o for the organization's mission.)

Education
8
John Carroll University

As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…

Education
9
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
10
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

11
Masters School

The masters school celebrates active participation, deep understanding, and meaningful connection. a community of diverse individuals, we gather to learn, to strive, to dare, to do - to be a power for good in the world.

12
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Greater Metrowest Nj and the most unlike its peers is The Friendship Circle 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

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 26 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

RIDER UNIVERSITY — $4,837,250 · EducationRIDER UNIVERSITYSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW JERSEY INC — $652,500 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW JER…ST BARNABAS — $254,000 · OtherST BARNABASBNAI SHALOM — $184,641 · OtherBNAI SHALOMUJA — $181,000 · OtherUJAIndividual grant recipient — $91,600 · OtherIndividual grant recipie…Individual grant recipient — $50,000 · Other+10 more — $65,330 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ — $337,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $700 · PhilanthropyST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $50,000 · HealthGOOD GRIEF INC — $19,200 · HealthJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $20,000 · InternationalHIGHER GROUND USA INC — $10,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $100 · Recreation & SportsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $10,000 · Civil RightsTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC — $5,650 · Human Services
Education$4,837,250Other$1,479,071Philanthropy$337,700Health$69,200International$20,000Recreation & Sports$10,100Civil Rights$10,000Human Services$5,650

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRIDER UNIVERSITY — $4,837,250 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW JERSEY INC — $652,500 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ — $337,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD GRIEF INC — $19,200 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHIGHER GROUND USA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC — $5,650 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetKERSHAW'S CHALLENGE — $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 RIDER UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW JERSEY INC
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC
  • Who funds GOOD GRIEF INC
  • Who funds HIGHER GROUND USA INC
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
  • Who funds THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC
  • Who funds KERSHAW'S CHALLENGE
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Wayne and Jill Canastra Family Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Rider University1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

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How do I get to Wayne and Jill Canastra Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Wayne and Jill Canastra Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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