New York · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF VENICE ITALY INC
FRIENDS OF VENICE ITALY INC (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,200 to it, the largest being THE HOPE INITIATIVE FOR A BETTER LIFE FOUNDATION ($22,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FRIENDS OF VENICE ITALY INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,857 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Donald a Pels Charitable Trust Utd 8/18/92 C/O Pkf O'Connor Daviesshared funders
- Ohio Isda Community Foundation Incportfolio match
- The Garden Club of Americaportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.
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.
100% of FRIENDS OF VENICE ITALY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $22k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 FRIENDS OF VENICE ITALY INC’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
FRIENDS OF VENICE ITALY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
27% 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 FRIENDS OF VENICE ITALY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2021 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
FRIENDS OF VENICE ITALY INC draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Donald a Pels Charitable Trust Utd 8/18/92 C/O Pkf O'Connor Daviesshared fundersNY · backs 19 organizations that share your funders
- Ohio Isda Community Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Garden Club of Americaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Garden Conservancy Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Public Gardens Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Bennett Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Peter Marino Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Marian Goodman Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Alexander Bodini Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Italian American Foundationincportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Columbus Citizens Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brill Dassa Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like FRIENDS OF VENICE ITALY INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDS OF VENICE ITALY INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF VENICE ITALY INC?
- FRIENDS OF VENICE ITALY INC (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,200 to it, the largest being THE HOPE INITIATIVE FOR A BETTER LIFE FOUNDATION ($22,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF VENICE ITALY INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $37,200 in grants to FRIENDS OF VENICE ITALY INC.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF VENICE ITALY INC?
- THE HOPE INITIATIVE FOR A BETTER LIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $22,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF VENICE ITALY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing