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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.

$818k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$400k
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, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$1.2MPhilanthropy$550kHousing & Shelter$427kReligion$405kHuman Services$305kRecreation & Sports$250kEducation$135kYouth Development$114kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $138k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $260k
  • $250k+1 grant · $400k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%A Salute to Our Heros: $2k → 8%HONOR FLIGHT CHICAGO: $1k → 14%SHLTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $100 → 10%YMCA OF METRO CHICAGO: $500 → 14%YOUTH HAVEN: $60k → 10%Partners for Our Community: $500 → 14%YOUTH HAVEN: $25k → 10%YOUTH HAVEN: $25k → 10%YOUTH HAVEN: $20k → 10%YOUTH HAVEN: $20k → 10%YOUTH HAVEN: $15k → 10%YOUTH HAVEN: $10k → 10%YOUTH HAVEN: $5k → 10%JourneyCare: $3k → 14%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.
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 10 repeat orgs$605k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +119% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
20

Total granted

$2.8M
$532k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+119%
+8%

Still filing today

60%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsHealthOther
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

  • FH
    Fellowship Housing Corporation
    6× · 2019–2024 · $374k · revenue +216%
  • YH
    YOUTH HAVEN INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $180k · revenue +149%
  • FF
    Fostering Futures Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $105k · revenue +86%

Funded once

  • AB
    Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue -19%
  • WC
    WILLOW CREEK COMMUNITY CHURCH INC
    one grant, 2019 · $66k
  • FT
    FOR THE CHILDRENgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $55k · revenue +95%
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
Shelter Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
2
Chicago Children's Advocacy Center

The chicago children's advocacy center unites public, private, and community partners to ensure the safety, health, and well-being of abused children.

Crime & Legal
3
St Jude House Inc

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,…

Housing & Shelter
4
Joliet Area Community Hospice Corp

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,…

Human Services
5
Center for Housing and Health

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.

Housing & Shelter
6
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago

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.

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7
Saint Anthony Hospital

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…

Health
8
House of the Good Shepherd

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…

Human Services
9
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
10
Lakeside Community Committee

To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.

Human Services
11
Christian Social Services of Illinois

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.

Human Services
12
Echo Community Health Care Inc

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 34 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)
21/21
Grantees still filing
16/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ASCENSION ILLINOIS FOUNDATION: $1,185,000 · OtherASCENSION ILLINOIS FOUNDATIONAlexian Bros Foundation: $404,705 · OtherAlexian Bros FoundationAmita Health Foundation: $275,000 · OtherAmita Health FoundationAlexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital: $250,000 · OtherAlexian Brothers Behavioral Health HospitalAmita Health Golf Classic: $225,000 · OtherAmita Health Golf Classic+12 more: $189,626 · Other+12 moreFellowship Housing Corporation: $374,000 · Housing & ShelterFellowship Hou…SHELTER INC: $52,500 · Housing & ShelterSHELTER INC+1 more: $100 · Housing & ShelterYOUTH HAVEN INC: $180,010 · Human Services+6 more: $6,625 · Human ServicesFostering Futures Inc: $105,000 · Youth DevelopmentFestival of Children Foundation: $8,000 · Youth DevelopmentRiverview Center Inc: $70,500 · EducationEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationGALENA TERRITORY FOUNDATION: $14,500 · EducationFOR THE CHILDREN: $55,000 · Recreation & SportsSAFE HAVEN: $9,430 · Animals
Other$2,529,331Housing & Shelter$426,600Human Services$186,635Youth Development$113,000Education$110,000Recreation & Sports$55,000Animals$9,430

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFellowship Housing Corporation: $374,000 over 6y, 5.2% of budgetAlexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital: $250,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTH HAVEN INC: $180,010 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetFostering Futures Inc: $105,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetRiverview Center Inc: $70,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetFOR THE CHILDREN: $55,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetSHELTER INC: $52,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGALENA TERRITORY FOUNDATION: $14,500 over 4y, 14% of budgetSAFE HAVEN: $9,430 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetST ALEXIUS MEDICAL CENTER: $3,579 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetElea Institute: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA SALUTE TO OUR HEROES INC: $2,025 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetHonor Flight Chicago Corp: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTyler's Justice Center for Children: $647 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

AbbVie FoundationThe Chicago Community…The Blackbaud Giving …Gs Donor Advised Phil…Natl Christian Charit…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…
AbbVie FoundationIL16.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Youth Haven Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 34 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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