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CATHERINE J MALATESTA FOUNDATION

CATHERINE J MALATESTA FOUNDATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $341,003 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($323,350). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$152k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$341k
Net assets
$179k
2/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 72%
01What it does

What Catherine J Malatesta Foundation does

Mission

The mission of the catherine j. Malatesta foundation is to save the lives of cancer patients, with an emphasis on children, and to inspire hope and lend support to the families and patients caring for, living with and surviving cancer. This will be accomplished by funding scientific research, raising awareness through fundraising events and providing grants to organizations dedicated to early detection, finding a cure, and optimizing the patient care and family experience during and after their cancer journey.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Funding scientific research, raising awareness through fundraising events and providing grants to organizations dedicated to early detection, finding a cure, and optimizing the patient care and family experience during and after their cancer journey.

    $121,409 spentof which $119,331 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $121,409.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($25k) Expenses 100 ($67) Net assets 100 ($25k)2019 Revenue 431 ($106k) Expenses 91566 ($61k) Net assets 283 ($70k)2020 Revenue 590 ($146k) Expenses 113501 ($76k) Net assets 565 ($139k)2021 Revenue 702 ($173k) Expenses 224825 ($151k) Net assets 657 ($162k)2022 Revenue 227 ($56k) Expenses 77588 ($52k) Net assets 673 ($166k)2023 Revenue 164 ($41k) Expenses 87601 ($59k) Net assets 599 ($147k)2024 Revenue 489 ($121k) Expenses 143712 ($96k) Net assets 694 ($171k)2025 Revenue 617 ($152k) Expenses 214515 ($144k) Net assets 728 ($179k)
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Revenue (617)Expenses (214515)Net assets (728)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $70k to $139k (+100%).

$25k
$70k
$139k
$162k
$166k
$147k
$171k
$179k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

97% of CATHERINE J MALATESTA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,932 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

’18
$45k
’19
$70k
’20
$22k
’21
$4k
’22
−$18k
’23
$24k
’24
$8k
’25
4407
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

20182025
Listed38
Joined··
No longer listed··
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $105k → $16k.

2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of CATHERINE J MALATESTA FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

CATHERINE J MALATESTA FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

96% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CATHERINE J MALATESTA FOUNDATION.

95%
largest funder
98%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 86% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

96% of CATHERINE J MALATESTA FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $12k that is directly attributable, 74% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 4 states.

IL
MA
NJ
NC

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $329k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CATHERINE J MALATESTA FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 8,464 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)30% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,464 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

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Questions and answers

Who funds CATHERINE J MALATESTA FOUNDATION?
CATHERINE J MALATESTA FOUNDATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $341,003 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($323,350). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CATHERINE J MALATESTA FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $341,003 in grants to CATHERINE J MALATESTA FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CATHERINE J MALATESTA FOUNDATION?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $323,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CATHERINE J MALATESTA FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 7 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing