· Private foundation
Damico Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $2k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $144k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $1,019,582 |
| WINNETKA PARKS FOUNDATION | $50,325 |
| NORTHWESTERN MEDICINE - LAKE FOREST HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| UNITING VOICES | $34,000 |
| SHIRLEY RYAN ABILITY LAB | $20,000 |
| TUTORING CHICAGO | $20,000 |
| NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK | $15,000 |
| YOUTH & FAMILY COUNSELING | $15,000 |
| OPERATION SMILE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| READING POWER INC | $10,000 |
| BERNIE'S BOOK BANK | $10,000 |
| SAN PEDRO CATHOLIC CHURCH | $1,000 |
| BLOOD CANCER UNITED | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $236k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k 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
- JMJAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC5× · 2018–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +68%
- UVUNITING VOICES8× · 2017–2025 · $207k · revenue +22%
- RIRehabilitation Institute of Chicago9× · 2017–2025 · $160k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- WHWILLOW HOUSEgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +38%
- TLTHE LAKE COUNTY HAVENgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +84%
- JMJAMES MADISON UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $15k
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.
The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…
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…
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
To ensure that every student can become a confident, independent, and lifelong reader by partnering with schools and communities to provide personalized, evidence-based literacy support and individualized instruction. the organization…
At The Skylight Foundation, we believe that quality mental health care is a basic human right and not a privilege. Therefore, we would like to eliminate the barriers to affordable mental healthcare and aim to make therapy available for…
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
Thrive chicago's mission is to prepare chicago's youth for a vibrant future by aligning efforts and outcomes from cradle to career.
Springboard collaborative combines targeted student instruction with parent training in an incentivized system that closes the literacy gap, by transferring the summer from a barrier into a springboard for financially disadvantaged…
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
Through philanthropy, empower current and future food and nutrition practitioners to optimize global health.
The mind trust strives to provide every student in indianapolis and beyond with access to an excellent education.
See schedule othe mission of skills is to stand as a life-changing employment resource connecting underrepresented job seekers to employers with opportunities across industries. we do this by building multi-level, trusted relationships…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Good Sports Inc and the most unlike its peers is Stroke Awareness Oregon. 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 33 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 44 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 JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITING VOICES ↗
- Who funds Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds TUTORING CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds YOUTH AND FAMILY COUNSELING ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds BERNIE'S BOOK BANK ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds The Beacon Place NFP ↗
- Who funds WINNETKA PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILLOW HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds FILL A HEART 4 KIDS ↗
- Who funds GOOD SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds READING POWER INC ↗
- Who funds THE LAKE COUNTY HAVEN ↗
- Who funds Lawndale Educational and Regional Network Charter School ↗
- Who funds THE KINDNESS CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SLOW FOOD USA INC ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Special Education District of Lake County ↗
- Who funds ANNE SAXELBY LEGACY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds STROKE AWARENESS OREGON ↗
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: Trustmark Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Baxter International Foundation · The Lake County Community Foundation · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · Helen V Brach Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Baird Foundation Inc · The Gorter Family Foundation · Rice 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 Damico 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.
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.