Ohio · 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.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,019,582
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 17
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $10.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Damico Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 14 | $1.3M | 21% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $553k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $468k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $473k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $658k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $443k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $475k | 41% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $467k | 20% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jmu Foundation Inc | $1,081,251 | 5 | 1% |
| Chicago Children's Choir | $206,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago | $160,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Tutoring Chicago | $135,000 | 9 | 3% |
| Youth & Family Counseling | $130,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Northern Illinois Food Bank | $115,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Bernie's Book Bank | $100,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Operation Smile | $100,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Beacon Place | $70,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Winnetka Parks Foundation | $50,325 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Damico Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
About Damico Family Foundation
- How much does Damico Family Foundation give?
- Damico Family Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $1,265,907 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Damico Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (59%), Education (25%), Arts & Culture (4%).
- Who are Damico Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Jmu Foundation Inc ($1.1M), Chicago Children's Choir ($207k), Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ($160k).
- Does Damico Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Damico Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Damico Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Trustmark Foundation, AbbVie Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust.
- Where is Damico Family Foundation based?
- Damico Family Foundation is based in OH.
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