· Private foundation
Fitzgerald Family Foundation Inc
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $138k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $260k
- $250k+1 grant · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASCENSION ILLINOIS FOUNDATION | $400,000 |
| ASCENSION ILLINOIS FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| RIVERVIEW CENTER | $60,000 |
| ROYAL FAMILY KIDS COOK & LAKE COUNTIES INC | $50,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP HOUSING INC | $25,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP HOUSING INC | $25,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP HOUSING INC | $22,000 |
| YOUTH HAVEN | $20,000 |
| YOUTH HAVEN | $20,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP HOUSING INC | $15,000 |
| RIVERVIEW CENTER | $10,500 |
| SAFE HAVEN HUMANE SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| YOUTH HAVEN | $5,000 |
| ROYAL FAMILY KIDS COOK & LAKE COUNTIES INC | $5,000 |
| SAFE HAVEN HUMANE SOCIETY | $2,500 |
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 (FY19–24, $187k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +119% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k 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
- FHFellowship Housing Corporation6× · 2019–2024 · $374k · revenue +216%
- YHYOUTH HAVEN INC3× · 2022–2024 · $180k · revenue +149%
- FFFostering Futures Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $105k · revenue +86%
Funded once
- ABAlexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospitalone grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue -19%
- WCWILLOW CREEK COMMUNITY CHURCH INCone grant, 2019 · $66k
- ACAlexian Center for Mental Healthone grant, 2020 · $55k
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.
Shelter's mission is to end the cycle of child abuse by providing a comprehensive network of support to children, their families, and our community to create safe, health, and nurturing homes.
The chicago children's advocacy center unites public, private, and community partners to ensure the safety, health, and well-being of abused children.
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,…
The mission of the lightways hospice and serious illness care is to provide comprehensive, holistic, community based support services and care for terminally ill persons, their caregivers and loved ones without regard to economic status,…
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.
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago's purpose is to partner with mission-driven people and organizations across Cook and Lake counties and to witness a message of mercy and hope to a world in need through service.
Saint Anthony Hospital (SAH) lives out the loving ministry of Jesus Christ by offering health, healing, and hope to the families of our community, regardless of a patient's ability to pay. SAH is a subsidiary corporation of Saint Anthony…
House of Good Shepherd serves with love and compassion women and children affected by domestic violence by offering a safe place with opportunities for emotional, educational and spiritual growth, giving hope and continued support for a…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.
Caritas family solutions strengthens the social and emotional well-being of individuals and families in order to create healthy relationships, loving homes and strong communities.
We provide quality healthcare to all members of our community, including the uninsured, underinsured and homeless. Our comprehensive services are Affordable, Accessible and Appropriate. Our team of professionals is here to care for you and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Honor Flight Chicago Corp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 34 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 Fellowship Housing Corporation ↗
- Who funds Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital ↗
- Who funds YOUTH HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds Fostering Futures Inc ↗
- Who funds Riverview Center Inc ↗
- Who funds FOR THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GALENA TERRITORY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAFE HAVEN ↗
- Who funds Festival of Children Foundation ↗
- Who funds ST ALEXIUS MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Elea Institute ↗
- Who funds A SALUTE TO OUR HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds Honor Flight Chicago Corp ↗
- Who funds Tyler's Justice Center for Children ↗
- Who funds The YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR OUR COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN 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.
Open a dossier: AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc — 2% of income from government
- Youth Haven 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.