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Andersen-Formolo Family Foundation at a glance

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Andersen-Formolo Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$746k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.1MReligion$851kInternational$706kYouth Development$435kRecreation & Sports$435kHealth$160kCommunity Improvement$150kHuman Services$105kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $308k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $433k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
SHELDRICK WILDFIRE TRUST$25,000
EMERALD SOUTH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT$25,000
SALT AND LIGHT COALITION$25,000
TOGETHER CHICAGO$25,000
PURPLE PROJECT$20,000
VARSITY COLLECTIVE CHARITABLE FUND INC$20,000
CHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WAYFORWARD RESOURCES: $10k → 10%ASPIRE: $10k → 14%ASPIRE: $10k → 14%ASPIRE: $10k → 14%JANE ADDAMS SENIOR CAUCUS: $10k → 14%UCAN: $10k → 14%UCAN: $10k → 14%UCAN: $5k → 14%UCAN: $5k → 14%UCAN: $5k → 14%UCAN: $5k → 14%SALT AND LIGHT COALITION: $25k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
MI
NY
NJ
CT
CA
VA
AZ
DC
AL
GA
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.8M · 30 repeat orgs$625k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
25

Total granted

$3.8M
$405k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+60%

Still filing today

83%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $220k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalHuman ServicesEnvironmentHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • AF
    ASSOCIATION FOR A MORE JUST SOCIETY -US
    7× · 2017–2024 · $430k · revenue +27%
  • NA
    NORTH AUSTIN COMMUNITY CENTER
    3× · 2021–2024 · $380k · revenue ×19 · 100% of their budget
  • BT
    By The Hand Club For Kids
    7× · 2017–2024 · $360k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • HH
    HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • NC
    NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue ×103
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -40%
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.

1
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
2
Arise Chicago

Arise chicago builds partnerships between faith communities and workers to fight workplace injustice through education, organizing, and advocating for public policy changes.

Employment
3
The University of Chicago Charter School Corporation

To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.

Education
4
Thrive Chicago Nfp

Thrive chicago's mission is to prepare chicago's youth for a vibrant future by aligning efforts and outcomes from cradle to career.

Human Services
5
Junior Achievement of Chicago

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy

International
6
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
7
A Better Chicago

A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.

Human Services
8
Kipp Chicago Schools

The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…

Education
9
National Association of Corporate Directors

We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.

Public Benefit
10
Legal Aid Chicago

At legal aid chicago, we work together to provide high quality civil legal aid to people living in poverty and other vulnerable groups.through advocacy, education, collaboration, and litigation we empower individuals, protect fundamental…

Crime & Legal
11
Chicago United

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.

Philanthropy
12
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids First Chicago for Education; 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.
04the grantee network

45 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. 45 of the 65 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
35/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

By The Hand Club For Kids: $360,000 · OtherBy The Hand Club For KidsSUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES: $230,000 · OtherSUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIESUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $195,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSINGRACE & PEACE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH: $174,500 · OtherGRACE & PEACE FELLOWSHIP CHURCHNORTH SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $145,000 · OtherNORTH SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLGRACE & PEACE FELLOWSHIP: $105,000 · OtherGRACE AND PEACE CHURCH: $100,000 · OtherHELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $100,000 · OtherBREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC: $96,500 · OtherTHE ROGER BALDWIN FOUNDATION OF ACLU INC: $75,000 · OtherCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $77,500 · Other+27 more: $375,000 · Other+27 moreKIDS FIRST CHICAGO FOR EDUCATION: $341,750 · EducationKIDS FIRST CHICAGO F…National Louis University: $315,000 · EducationNational Louis Unive…UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $83,333 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCON…+5 more: $60,000 · Education+5 moreASSOCIATION FOR A MORE JUST SOCIETY -US: $429,999 · InternationalASSOCIATION FOR A …EXODUS WORLD SERVICE: $236,280 · InternationalEXODUS WORLD SERVI…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $25,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $25,000 · International+2 more: $25,000 · InternationalNORTH AUSTIN COMMUNITY CENTER: $380,000 · Community ImprovementNORTH AUSTIN…TOGETHER CHICAGO INC: $125,000 · Community ImprovementTOGETHER CHI…PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $130,000 · HealthNO STOMACH FOR CANCER INC: $5,000 · HealthLyme Warrior Inc: $5,000 · HealthNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · PhilanthropyTHE VARSITY COLLECTIVE CHARITABLE FUND INC: $45,000 · PhilanthropyNORTH SHORE EXCHANGE NFP: $10,000 · PhilanthropyUCAN: $40,000 · Human ServicesASPIRE OF ILLINOIS: $30,000 · Human ServicesSALT AND LIGHT COALITION NFP: $25,000 · Human ServicesJane Addams Senior Caucus: $10,000 · Human ServicesWAYFORWARD RESOURCES INC: $10,000 · Human Services
Other$2,033,500Education$800,083International$741,279Community Improvement$505,000Health$140,000Philanthropy$115,000Human Services$115,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetASSOCIATION FOR A MORE JUST SOCIETY -US: $429,999 over 7y, 12% of budgetNORTH AUSTIN COMMUNITY CENTER: $380,000 over 3y, 100% of budgetBy The Hand Club For Kids: $360,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetKIDS FIRST CHICAGO FOR EDUCATION: $341,750 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetNational Louis University: $315,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetEXODUS WORLD SERVICE: $236,280 over 6y, 6.1% of budgetSUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES: $230,000 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetNORTH SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $145,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $130,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTOGETHER CHICAGO INC: $125,000 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC: $96,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $83,333 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $77,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ROGER BALDWIN FOUNDATION OF ACLU INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE VARSITY COLLECTIVE CHARITABLE FUND INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUCAN: $40,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetASPIRE OF ILLINOIS: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSALT AND LIGHT COALITION NFP: $25,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetPADI AWARE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCATALYST SCHOOLS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYEAR UP INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAGC LTD: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTURKISH PHILANTHROPY FUNDS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH SHORE EXCHANGE NFP: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWALWORTH COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGARDENEERS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCLEAN LAKES ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPORCHLIGHT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget100 BLACK MEN OF MADISON INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF PHEASANT BRANCH CONSERVANCY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetFETCH WISCONSIN RESCUE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetWAYFORWARD RESOURCES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALL HERDING BREED DOG RESCUE OF ILLINOIS: $5,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetNO STOMACH FOR CANCER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLyme Warrior Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAPPEL FARM ARTS AND MUSIC CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds SALT AND LIGHT COALITION NFP ↗
  • Who funds GIRLFORWARD ↗
  • Who funds PADI AWARE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CATALYST SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
  • Who funds AGC LTD ↗

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.

The Chicago Community…Lloyd a Fry FoundationCircle of Service Fou…Jewish Federation of …Alliant Energy Founda…New Harbor Charitable…Madison Gas and Elect…Madison Community Fou…Polk Bros Foundation …Gs Donor Advised Phil…AbbVie FoundationThe MacKenzie Family …
The Chicago Community TrustIL23.4× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Andersen-Formolo Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Andersen-Formolo Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 65 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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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