· Private foundation
G L Vitale Family Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CARL SANDBURG COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| GALESBURG COMMUNITY ARTS CTR | $25,000 |
| FISH FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 0% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +137% since the first grant, against +42% for those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2026, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GPGalesburg Public Library Foundation3× · 2021–2023 · $150k · revenue +16%
- GCGALESBURG COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER INC2× · 2025–2026 · $75k · revenue +903%
- CSCARL SANDBURG COLLEGE FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +137%
Funded once
- KCKNOX COLLEGEone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +16%
- YOYMCA OF KNOX COUNTYone grant, 2024 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $50k
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.
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.
To maintain and enhance the quality of life by developing friends and funds for support of the educational, cultural, and service goals of southwestern illinois college. the foundation promotes excellence by securing gifts for special…
To promote the arts and provide an information system for and about the arts.
The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…
To foster and encourage private philanthropic giving to improve communities of the Southern Illinois Region by connecting charitable donors with worthy causes and to build endowment funds that will support those worthy causes in perpetuity.
The Foodbank's mission is to provide food, and develop awareness of and creative solutions for food insecurity. Annually, the Foodbank distributes approximately 9.5 million pounds of food to 130 food pantries, soup kitchens, children's…
To help students achieve their educational goals and make education more accessible to the communities that it serves by working with the college to provide scholarships and funding for special projects.
Our mission is to maximize independence for individuals with disabilities through choice, advocacy and service access.
Scholarships and financial assistance to promote educational opportunities at kankakee community college
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
Cultivating philanthropy to build better communities.
To promote economic and community development and enhancement in northwest illinois.
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…
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 13 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Galesburg Public Library Foundation ↗
- Who funds GALESBURG COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KNOX COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GALESBURG COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CASA OF WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds CARL SANDBURG COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FISH FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds WHY NOT NOW INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN ILLINOIS WORKS INC ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization G L Vitale Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from G L Vitale Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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