· Private foundation
Andersen-Formolo Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $308k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $433k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTH AUSTIN COMMUNITY CENTER | $100,000 |
| GRACE AND PEACE CHURCH | $100,000 |
| NATIONAL LOUIS UNIVERSITY | $80,000 |
| KIDS FIRST CHICAGO FOR EDUCATION | $52,500 |
| ASSOCIATION FOR A MORE JUST SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $33,333 |
| NORTH SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| EMERALD SOUTH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | $25,000 |
| SALT AND LIGHT COALITION | $25,000 |
| SHELDRICK WILDFIRE TRUST | $25,000 |
| TOGETHER CHICAGO | $25,000 |
| PURPLE PROJECT | $20,000 |
| VARSITY COLLECTIVE CHARITABLE FUND INC | $20,000 |
| CHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS | $20,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
30 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $220k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- AFASSOCIATION FOR A MORE JUST SOCIETY -US7× · 2017–2024 · $430k · revenue +27%
- NANORTH AUSTIN COMMUNITY CENTER3× · 2021–2024 · $380k · revenue ×19 · 100% of their budget
- BTBy The Hand Club For Kids7× · 2017–2024 · $360k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- HHHELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2022 · $100k
- NCNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue ×103
- CLCHRISTIAN LIFE MINISTRIESone grant, 2017 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.
Thrive chicago's mission is to prepare chicago's youth for a vibrant future by aligning efforts and outcomes from cradle to career.
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
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A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
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We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.
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To achieve parity in economic opportunity for people of color by advancing multiracial leadership in corporate governance, expanding the talent pipline for executive-level management, and growing minority businesses.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids First Chicago for Education and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Pheasant Branch Conservancy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
45 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 65 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 ASSOCIATION FOR A MORE JUST SOCIETY -US ↗
- Who funds NORTH AUSTIN COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds By The Hand Club For Kids ↗
- Who funds KIDS FIRST CHICAGO FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds National Louis University ↗
- Who funds EXODUS WORLD SERVICE ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds THE ROGER BALDWIN FOUNDATION OF ACLU INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE VARSITY COLLECTIVE CHARITABLE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds UCAN ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASPIRE OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds SALT AND LIGHT COALITION NFP ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLFORWARD ↗
- Who funds CATALYST SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds PADI AWARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AGC LTD ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · New Harbor Charitable Foundation · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Madison Community Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · AbbVie Foundation · The MacKenzie Family Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Andersen-Formolo Family Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
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.