· Private foundation
Gallo Family Foundation
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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k41 grants · $112k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $64k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $168k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REVOLUTION WORKSHOP | $118,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $50,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY HOME FOR OUR FAMILIES C | $22,500 |
| SHIRLEY RYAN ABILITYLAB | $21,070 |
| ASCENSION IL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTHERN FOX V | $8,000 |
| WDSRA FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| NEW MISSION SYSTEMS | $5,556 |
| CHICAGO ALDERMANIC BLACK CAUCUS SCH | $5,000 |
| MISERICORDIA | $5,000 |
| YMCA | $5,000 |
| NORTHWEST COMPASS INC | $5,000 |
| UNITED HELP UKRAINE | $5,000 |
| VIATOR HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY | $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 (FY22–25, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
46 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- RWREVOLUTION WORKSHOP6× · 2020–2025 · $261k · revenue +764%
- RIRehabilitation Institute of Chicago6× · 2020–2025 · $114k · revenue +27%
University of Chicago2× · 2024–2025 · $70k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- VCVARIOUS CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONSone grant, 2019 · $160k
- KYKENNETH YOUNG CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +107%
- ABALEXIAN BROTHERS CENTER FOR MENTALone grant, 2020 · $20k
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.
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
The Chicago Refugee Coalition is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated ot the alleviation of human suffering through innovative partnerships, advocacy and community empowerment.
Providing academic support to children experiencing homelessness in Chicago and providing resources and services to families experiencing homelessness in Chicago.
Serving recently arrived migrants and asylum seekers in the Chicagoland area and is committed to upholding the dignity and human rights of immigrants.
Live Free Illinois is a statewide organization partnering with over 120 congregations and directly impacted individuals to build safer more equitable communities across Illinois. Operating at the intersection of criminal justice reform and…
Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.
The greater chicago food depository is the nonprofit food bank serving cook county. our mission - is to end hunger. we believe food is a basic human right. to achieve our mission, we work in partnership with a network of community-based…
Chicago Votes is a non-partisan, non-profit organization building a more inclusive democracy by putting power in the hands of young Chicagoans. We're engaging and developing a new generation of leaders by opening the doors of government,…
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.
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…
Arise chicago builds partnerships between faith communities and workers to fight workplace injustice through education, organizing, and advocating for public policy changes.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Compass Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chicago Cred Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
52 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. 52 of the 112 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 REVOLUTION WORKSHOP ↗
- Who funds Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds GIRLS IN THE GAME NFP ↗
- Who funds NEW MISSION SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds DEBORAH'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds ALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY ↗
- Who funds HIRE360 ↗
- Who funds KENNETH YOUNG CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds EVANSTON REBUILDING WAREHOUSE ↗
- Who funds BRADLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Global FoodBanking Network ↗
- Who funds SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SNOW CITY ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds United Help Ukraine Inc ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST COMPASS INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO YOUTH PROGRAMS 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: The Chicago Community Trust · Circle of Service Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Motorola Solutions Foundation · Helen V Brach Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · AbbVie Foundation
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 Gallo Family Foundation 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% 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.