· Private foundation
Cuore e Mani 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.
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 $10k45 grants · $211k
- $10k–50k37 grants · $587k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $266k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RENAISSANCE SOCIAL SERVICES INC | $61,000 |
| BRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC | $55,000 |
| FOREFRONT | $50,000 |
| AMPT ADVANCING NONPROFITS | $50,000 |
| CHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| MICHAEL REESE HEALTH TRUST | $35,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - CHICAGO | $27,500 |
| INSPIRATION CORPORATION | $27,500 |
| NEW MOMS INC | $27,500 |
| MICHAEL REESE HEALTH TRUST | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA CHAP | $25,000 |
| ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS IN SUBURBAN COOK COUN | $25,000 |
| FOOD ACCESS PROJECT | $25,000 |
| CROSSROADS FUND | $25,000 |
| FOREFRONT | $22,492 |
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, $1.3M) 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 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Cuore e Mani Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +71% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
65 repeat relationships — 53 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 23 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $204k 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
- FFOREFRONT8× · 2017–2024 · $748k · revenue +179%
- ACALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY8× · 2017–2024 · $548k · revenue +639%
- MRMICHAEL REESE HEALTH TRUST5× · 2020–2024 · $430k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- SCSANFORD C BERNSTEINAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $500k
- NSNEXT STEPS NFPone grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue 0% · 100% of their budget
- LPLatinos Progresandoone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -2%
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.
Chh honors every person's right to a home and health care, by bridging the housing and health care systems, to improve the lives of chicagoans experiencing homelessness.
To provide decent, safe and sanitary housing that is affordable to low and moderate-income persons and to stabilize and strengthen communities by improving the local housing stock. the corporation shall administer programs that revitalize…
Respond now connects those in need with health, hunger, and housing services in the chicago southland.
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
Nhs is working to build the beloit, wisconsin community through programs that support home ownership, residents, and community development. nhs provides high-quality housing, lending, and educational opportunities and resources.
To reduce inter-generational poverty by promoting strategies that encourage racial and economic diversity in the housing market, primarily in the chicago area and nationally as well.
Providing interim housing for men, women and children, social services, homeless services, emergency shelter, and housing in chicago community for the homeless, poor and disadvantaged.
Providing academic support to children experiencing homelessness in Chicago and providing resources and services to families experiencing homelessness in Chicago.
The Chicago Refugee Coalition is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated ot the alleviation of human suffering through innovative partnerships, advocacy and community empowerment.
To provide additional supportive housing, social, health, and other human services to the indigent and special needs individuals of chicago's inner city population and transitioning the homeless to a life of self- sufficiency and stability.
Erie neighborhood house provides the most comprehensive support to immigrant and low-income families in chicago. our mission is to empower our communitylatinx immigrants alongside individuals and families of all backgroundsthrough…
Nhs' mission is to create opportunities for people to live in affordable homes, improve their lives, and strengthen their neighborhoods. nhs deploys a suite of products, services, and strategies to fulfill its mission, primarily…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections for the Homeless Inc and the most unlike its peers is Inherentance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
122 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. 122 of the 137 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 FOREFRONT ↗
- Who funds ALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY ↗
- Who funds MICHAEL REESE HEALTH TRUST ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds NEW MOMS INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO CARES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEXT STEPS NFP ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Inspiration Corporation ↗
- Who funds THE BOULEVARD OF CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds Renaissance Social Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Latinos Progresando ↗
- Who funds HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS IN SUBURBAN COOK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds The Cara Program ↗
- Who funds HOUSING OPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT ↗
- Who funds St Leonard's Ministries ↗
- Who funds Corporate Accountability Lab ↗
- Who funds SARAH'S CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds AMPT ADVANCING NONPROFITS ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD ACCESS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO FURNITURE BANK ↗
- Who funds SPANISH COALITION FOR HOUSING ↗
- Who funds ESPERANZA HEALTH CENTERS ↗
- Who funds THE RENAISSANCE COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Changing Lives ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS ↗
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: Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Pierce Family Charitable Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · All Chicago Making Homelessness History · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Circle of Service Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation · Helen V Brach Foundation · Chicago Foundation for Women
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 Cuore e Mani 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.
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.