· Private foundation
Fitzgerald Brothers Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JUDE'S CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSP | $8,000 |
| DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY OF ST VINCENT | $8,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $8,000 |
| SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS | $6,000 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD MANOR | $6,000 |
| ST MARY OF PROVIDENCE SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| AFRICAN SISTERS EDUCATION COLLABORA | $6,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF FL | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF COLLIER CO | $5,000 |
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, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 21% 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.
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.
30 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +145%- SGSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $29k · revenue +24%
- GSGOOD SHEPHERD MANOR INC7× · 2019–2025 · $21k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- SJST JOHN THE EVANGELIST CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $5k
- DODAUGHTERS OF CHARITY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL NAPLES FLone grant, 2018 · $5k
- SJST JOSEPH'S RESIDENCE FOR THE ELDERone grant, 2019 · $4k
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.
Dog rescue
Our mission is to offer an enriched lifestyle to seniors by providing 5-star quality care for those lives are entrusted to us.
A small No Kill Rescue and Sanctuary for unwanted, homeless, abused, neglected, blind, deaf, disabled, medically dependent, special needs and unadoptable dogs and puppies.
At apollo's pals sanctuary rehabilitation and adoption inc., we are driven by the enduring love and gentle spirit of our namesake, apollo a faithful companion who brought unwavering comfort and joy to our family. in his honor, we dedicate…
St. Anne's Guest Home, a Catholic Health Care Facility, embraces residents of all faiths, genders, and races in creating an environment of living the gospel message through providing services, regardless of financial status, to maintain…
To remove the "no pets allowed" sign on the doors of domestic violence shelters. women should not have to choose between leaving their abuser and leaving their pets behind to be abused.
Faithful to the spirit of the congregation of the daughters of mary, sancta maria nursing facility's mission is to witness christ's compassion, caring and love, reflecting the catholic church's role in the continuation of christ's healing…
MISSION - ST. JUDE HOUSE, Inc. (St. Jude House) IS a family violence prevention center and shelter; our mission is TO CELEBRATE LIFE AND SERVE WITH JOY. Vision - St. Jude House is a catalyst in Northwest Indiana for the prevention,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Good Shepherd Manor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Project Dynamo Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 36 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 ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GABRIEL HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD MANOR INC ↗
- Who funds Casa Jacinta y Francisco ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR PALATINE ST JOSEPHS HOME FOR THE ELDERLY ↗
- Who funds PROJECT DYNAMO INC ↗
- Who funds RANGE MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Golden PAWS Assistance Dogs Inc ↗
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.
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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 Fitzgerald Brothers Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
- Golden Paws Assistance Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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