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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 FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$3.1MEducation$1.3MArts & Culture$207kRecreation & Sports$193kFood & Nutrition$126kHuman Services$116kYouth Development$100kPhilanthropy$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $2k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $144k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$10.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$1,019,582
WINNETKA PARKS FOUNDATION$50,325
NORTHWESTERN MEDICINE - LAKE FOREST HOSPITAL$50,000
UNITING VOICES$34,000
TUTORING CHICAGO$20,000
SHIRLEY RYAN ABILITY LAB$20,000
NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK$15,000
YOUTH & FAMILY COUNSELING$15,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
OPERATION SMILE$10,000
READING POWER INC$10,000
BERNIE'S BOOK BANK$10,000
SAN PEDRO CATHOLIC CHURCH$1,000
BLOOD CANCER UNITED$1,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–25, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YOUTH & FAMILY COUNSELING: $15k → 8%YOUTH & FAMILY COUNSELING: $15k → 8%YOUTH & FAMILY COUNSELING: $15k → 8%YOUTH & FAMILY COUNSELING: $15k → 8%YOUTH & FAMILY COUNSELING: $15k → 8%YOUTH & FAMILY COUNSELING: $15k → 8%YOUTH & FAMILY COUNSELING: $15k → 8%YOUTH & FAMILY COUNSELING: $15k → 8%YOUTH & FAMILY COUNSELING: $10k → 8%BEACON PLACE: $25k → 8%BEACON PLACE: $25k → 8%BEACON PLACE: $20k → 8%FILL A HEART 4 KIDS: $10k → 8%FILL A HEART 4 KIDS: $10k → 8%FILL A HEART 4 KIDS: $5k → 8%FILL A HEART 4 KIDS: $5k → 8%FILL A HEART 4 KIDS: $5k → 8%EQUESTRIAN CONNECTION: $1k → 8%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

MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
IN
CT
VA
DC
AL
FL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.1M · 24 repeat orgs$214k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
17

Total granted

$5.1M
$162k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+13%

Still filing today

63%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

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HealthHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • JF
    JMU FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +68%
  • CC
    CHICAGO CHILDREN'S CHOIR
    8× · 2017–2025 · $207k · revenue +22%
  • RI
    REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
    9× · 2017–2025 · $160k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • WH
    WILLOW HOUSEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +38%
  • LC
    LAKE COUNTY HAVENgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +84%
  • JM
    JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
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
Gastro Intestinal Research Foundation Inc

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…

Health
2
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
3
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
4
Reading Partners

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…

Education
5
The Skylight Foundation

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…

Health
6
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

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…

Health
7
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
8
Springboard Collaborative

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…

Human Services
9
Chicago Public Education Fund

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.

Education
10
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation

Through philanthropy, empower current and future food and nutrition practitioners to optimize global health.

Health
11
The Mind Trust Inc

The mind trust strives to provide every student in indianapolis and beyond with access to an excellent education.

Education
12
Skills for Chicago

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…

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Good Sports Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 44 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
19/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2,138,580 · OtherLURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONLAKE FOREST HOSPITAL: $277,169 · OtherLAKE FOREST HOSPITALNORTHWESTERN MEDICINE - LAKE FOREST HOSPITAL: $207,500 · OtherNORTHWESTERN MEDICINE - LAKE FOREST HOSPITALACE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME: $113,000 · Other+20 more: $419,825 · Other+20 moreJMU FOUNDATION INC: $1,081,251 · EducationJMU FOUNDATION INC+3 more: $27,000 · EducationCHICAGO CHILDREN'S CHOIR: $206,500 · Arts & CultureTUTORING CHICAGO: $135,000 · Arts & CultureYOUTH & FAMILY COUNSELING: $130,000 · Human ServicesBEACON PLACE: $70,000 · Human ServicesFILL A HEART 4 KIDS: $35,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesREHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $160,000 · HealthMULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Health+2 more: $6,000 · HealthBERNIE'S BOOK BANK: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentGOOD SPORTS: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentREADING POWER INC: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $115,000 · Food & NutritionSLOW FOOD USA: $10,000 · Food & NutritionANNE SAXELBY LEGACY FUND: $6,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$3,156,074Education$1,108,251Arts & Culture$341,500Human Services$236,000Health$196,000Youth Development$150,000Food & Nutrition$131,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJMU FOUNDATION INC: $1,081,251 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetCHICAGO CHILDREN'S CHOIR: $206,500 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetREHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $160,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTUTORING CHICAGO: $135,000 over 9y, 3.2% of budgetYOUTH & FAMILY COUNSELING: $130,000 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $115,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBERNIE'S BOOK BANK: $100,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetOPERATION SMILE: $100,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBEACON PLACE: $70,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetWILLOW HOUSE: $50,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetSMILE TRAIN: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFILL A HEART 4 KIDS: $35,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetMULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGOOD SPORTS: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetREADING POWER INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLAKE COUNTY HAVEN: $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE KINDNESS CONNECTION: $10,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetSLOW FOOD USA: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEARN CHARTER SCHOOL NETWORK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEDOL FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetANNE SAXELBY LEGACY FUND: $6,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUESTRIAN CONNECTION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOLD ELM SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 JMU FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO CHILDREN'S CHOIR ↗
  • Who funds REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds TUTORING CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH & FAMILY COUNSELING ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds BERNIE'S BOOK BANK ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION SMILE ↗
  • Who funds BEACON PLACE ↗
  • Who funds WINNETKA PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WILLOW HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds SMILE TRAIN ↗
  • Who funds FILL A HEART 4 KIDS ↗
  • Who funds MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GOOD SPORTS ↗
  • Who funds READING POWER INC ↗
  • Who funds LAKE COUNTY HAVEN ↗
  • Who funds THE KINDNESS CONNECTION ↗
  • Who funds SLOW FOOD USA ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LEARN CHARTER SCHOOL NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds SEDOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ANNE SAXELBY LEGACY FUND ↗
  • Who funds STROKE AWARENESS OREGON ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED ↗

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.

Trustmark FoundationAbbVie FoundationThe Chicago Community…Baxter International …The Lake County Commu…John and Kathleen Sch…Helen V Brach Foundat…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Blackbaud Giving …Baird Foundation IncThe Gorter Family Fou…Rice Foundation
Trustmark FoundationIL19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 44 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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