· Private foundation
Alfredo and Ada Capitanini Foundati On
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k42 grants · $89k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO | $25,000 |
| HIPPOCRATIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDAT | $10,000 |
| ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE | $6,000 |
| IGNITE | $5,000 |
| HADLEY | $5,000 |
| SAINT IGNATIUS COLLEGE PREP | $5,000 |
| ST VINCENT FERRER CHURCH | $5,000 |
| FENWICK HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| THE NIGHT MINISTRY | $5,000 |
| PRESERVATION CHICAGO | $5,000 |
| CHICAGO ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF FLORENCE | $2,500 |
| CHICAGO POLICE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| AVE MARIA UNIVERSITY ANNUAL FUND | $2,500 |
| LITTLE CITY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $128k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
66 repeat relationships: 37 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LOLyric Opera of Chicago9× · 2017–2025 · $72k · revenue +33%
- ICInspiration Corporation6× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +102%
- BGBETTER GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION INC7× · 2017–2023 · $46k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- CLChicago Loop Alliance Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +55%
- AOARCHDIOCESE OF CHICAGOone grant, 2020 · $5k
- ASA SILVER LININGone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
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.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The chicago high school for the arts (chiarts) develops the next generation of diverse, artistically promising scholar-artists through intensive pre-professional training in the arts, combined with a comprehensive college preparatory…
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
The music institute of chicago ("music institute") leads people toward a lifelong engagement with music, by providing widely accessible resources for high quality music teaching, performing, and service activities.
The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.
The chicago theatre group is committed to producing both classic and contemporary works giving full voice to a wide range of artists and visions. by dedicating itself to three guiding principles - quality, equity, and community - the…
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
The chicago bar foundation brings the legal community together through advocacy, funding, and innovation to improve access to justice for people in need and to make the legal system more fair, equitable, and effective.
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.
How this is measured
41 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. 41 of the 94 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Lyric Opera of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Inspiration Corporation ↗
- Who funds BETTER GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds THE SERVICE CLUB OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds UCAN ↗
- Who funds MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HADLEY INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN MACULAR DEGENERATION GOEHRING ↗
- Who funds Chicago Loop Alliance Foundation ↗
- Who funds Big Shoulders Fund ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Allstate Foundation · Richard and Mary L Gray Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Alfredo and Ada Capitanini Foundati On funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alfredo and Ada Capitanini Foundati On. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
How this is measured
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