How much does Ancona Family Foundation give?

Ancona Family Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $52,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Ancona Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (72%), Education (17%), Social Science (3%).

Who are Ancona Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ($80k), University of Chicago ($40k), York College Foundation ($14k).

Does Ancona Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Ancona Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Ancona Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.

Where is Ancona Family Foundation based?

Ancona Family Foundation is based in IL.

Ancona Family Foundation

Ancona Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Ancona Family Foundation

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.

$52k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$15k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$620kEducation$142kSocial Science$28kArts & Culture$25kPhilanthropy$22kFood & Nutrition$7kCommunity Improvement$5kEnvironment$1kOther$0

02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k28 grants · $37k
$10k–50k1 grant · $15k

$750

Median grant

States reached

$696k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	$15,000
Amherst Fund	$5,200
York College Foundation	$5,000
Univ of Chicago Booth School of Bus	$5,000
Nantucket Cottage Hospital	$5,000
London School of Economics	$4,000
Greenwich Academy	$1,650
Nantucket Preservation Trust	$1,500
Nantucket Atheneum	$1,200
Massachusetts General Hospital	$1,000
Nantucket Food Fuel Rental Assistan	$1,000
Northern Illinois Food Bank	$1,000
Individual grant recipient	$1,000
Nantucket Dreamland Foundation	$750
Nantucket Historical Association	$750

02The need

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$846k · 28 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$846k

$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%

+21%

Still filing today

68%

38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyEnvironmentHealthFood & NutritionOther

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

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +25%
University of Chicago
8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +56%
NP
NANTUCKET PRESERVATION TRUST INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $10k · revenue +83%

Funded once

AA
Amherst Annual Fund
one grant, 2017 · $2k
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The Society for The Relief of Women
one grant, 2017 · $700
Save The Children Federation Inc
one grant, 2017 · $400 · revenue +21%

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.

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

Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education

Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment

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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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture

National Association of College and University Attorneys

To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.

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Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment

National Association of Corporate Directors New England Chapter Inc

The organization promotes high professional standards and provides governance education to boards of directors and senior corporate management.

Philanthropy

National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners

Founded in 1889, the national association of regulatory utility commisioners (naruc) is a non-profit organization dedicated to representing the state public service commisions who regulate the utilities that provide essential services such…

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The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenwich Academy Inc; the most unlike its peers is Lake Forest Police Foundation 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

25 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. 25 of the 44 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

25/25

Grantees still filing

16/25

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$682,370Education$142,000Arts & Culture$16,000Food & Nutrition$5,750Community Improvement$5,390Philanthropy$3,200Health$1,700

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.

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.

Community Foundation for Nantucket IncMA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Ancona Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ancona Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

6report 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home