· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| AMPT ADVANCING NONPROFITS | $50,000 |
| FOREFRONT | $50,000 |
| MICHAEL REESE HEALTH TRUST | $35,000 |
| NEW MOMS INC | $27,500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - CHICAGO | $27,500 |
| INSPIRATION CORPORATION | $27,500 |
| MICHAEL REESE HEALTH TRUST | $25,000 |
| CROSSROADS FUND | $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 |
| FOREFRONT | $22,492 |
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 (FY17–24, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Cuore e Mani Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +72% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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…
How this is measured
122 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. 122 of the 137 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 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 FOOD ACCESS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO FURNITURE BANK ↗
- Who funds SPANISH COALITION FOR HOUSING ↗
- Who funds ESPERANZA HEALTH CENTERS ↗
- Who funds Center for Changing Lives ↗
- Who funds THE RENAISSANCE COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds IGNITE ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cuore e Mani Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cuore e Mani Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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