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Gallo Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$344k
Granted FY2025still arriving
47
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$118k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$400kHuman Services$327kEmployment$282kPhilanthropy$276kHousing & Shelter$115kYouth Development$109kEducation$91kReligion$66kOther$0
02FY2025 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k41 grants · $112k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $64k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $168k
$2,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
MARWEN$5,000
VIATOR HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY$5,000
UNITED HELP UKRAINE$5,000
CHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$5,000
GIRLS IN THE GAME$5,000
WASTE SHED$5,000
02The need
03

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MINNEAPOLIS AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER: $2k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%NORTHWEST COMPASS INC: $5k → 14%NORTHWEST COMPASS INC: $5k → 14%BETHANY HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY: $5k → 14%CHICAGO FURNITURE BANK: $3k → 14%CHICAGO FURNITURE BANK: $3k → 14%CHICAGO FURNITURE BANK: $3k → 14%CHICAGO FURNITURE BANK: $1k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IA
PA
CA
UT
MD
AR
DC
FL
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 46 repeat orgs$389k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
46

Total granted

$1.8M
$349k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+14%

Still filing today

48%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthInternationalEducationAnimalsArts & CultureOther
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

  • RW
    REVOLUTION WORKSHOP
    6× · 2020–2025 · $261k · revenue +764%
  • RI
    Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
    6× · 2020–2025 · $114k · revenue +27%
  • University of Chicago
    2× · 2024–2025 · $70k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • VC
    VARIOUS CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS
    one grant, 2019 · $160k
  • TB
    THE BRIDGE YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICESgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +45%
  • ER
    EVANSTON REBUILDING WAREHOUSE
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +19%
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
A Better Chicago

A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.

Human Services
2
Chicago Refugee Coalition

The Chicago Refugee Coalition is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated ot the alleviation of human suffering through innovative partnerships, advocacy and community empowerment.

Human Services
3
Chicago Heightening Opportunity and Potential for

Providing academic support to children experiencing homelessness in Chicago and providing resources and services to families experiencing homelessness in Chicago.

Education
4
Illinois Community for Displaced Immigrants

Serving recently arrived migrants and asylum seekers in the Chicagoland area and is committed to upholding the dignity and human rights of immigrants.

Human Services
5
Live Free Chicago

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…

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6
Chicago United for Equity

Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.

Civil Rights
7
Greater Chicago Food Depository

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…

Food & Nutrition
8
Chicago Votes

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,…

Civil Rights
9
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
10
Gastro Intestinal Research Foundation Inc

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…

Health
11
Arise Chicago

Arise chicago builds partnerships between faith communities and workers to fight workplace injustice through education, organizing, and advocating for public policy changes.

Employment
12
True Chicago
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Compass Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

52 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. 52 of the 112 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/52
Grantees still filing
29/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOLY FAMILY HOME FOR OUR FAMILIES C: $278,500 · OtherHOLY FAMILY HOME FOR OUR FAMILIES CJOURNEYS: $201,000 · OtherJOURNEYSLURIE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $175,200 · OtherLURIE CHILDRENS HOSPITALVARIOUS CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS: $159,831 · OtherVARIOUS CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONSASCENSION IL FOUNDATION: $110,000 · OtherASCENSION IL FOUNDATIONMARWEN: $56,500 · Other+80 more: $610,239 · Other+80 moreREVOLUTION WORKSHOP: $260,500 · EmploymentREVOLUTION WOR…HIRE360: $20,000 · EmploymentHIRE360+1 more: $1,000 · EmploymentRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $114,197 · HealthTHE CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA FOUNDATION: $6,000 · Health+3 more: $1,781 · HealthUniversity of Chicago: $70,000 · EducationBRADLEY UNIVERSITY: $17,700 · Education+2 more: $3,000 · EducationFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $30,000 · InternationalThe Global FoodBanking Network: $15,000 · InternationalCONCERN WORLDWIDE (US) INC: $6,000 · InternationalNOVA UKRAINE: $5,000 · International+1 more: $1,000 · InternationalALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterDEBORAH'S PLACE: $25,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $1,000 · Housing & ShelterUnited Help Ukraine Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST COMPASS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCHICAGO FURNITURE BANK: $8,605 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 · Human ServicesBethany House of Hospitality: $5,000 · Human ServicesMinneapolis American Indian Center: $2,000 · Human Services
Other$1,591,270Employment$281,500Health$121,978Education$90,700International$57,000Housing & Shelter$51,000Human Services$40,605

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetREVOLUTION WORKSHOP: $260,500 over 6y, 8.4% of budgetRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $114,197 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS IN THE GAME NFP: $37,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetNEW MISSION SYSTEMS INC: $32,112 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDEBORAH'S PLACE: $25,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BRIDGE YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetEVANSTON REBUILDING WAREHOUSE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKENNETH YOUNG CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRADLEY UNIVERSITY: $17,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Global FoodBanking Network: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $10,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Help Ukraine Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetNORTHWEST COMPASS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSNOW CITY ARTS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCHICAGO YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHICAGO FURNITURE BANK: $8,605 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCONCERN WORLDWIDE (US) INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAFE HAVEN: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetViator House of Hospitality: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNOVA UKRAINE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBethany House of Hospitality: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE WASTESHED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSTAND UP TO CANCER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMinneapolis American Indian Center: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMidtown-Metro Achievement Centers: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTFK Chicago Voyagers: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetASSISI ANIMAL FOUNDATION: $1,400 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEveryone Reading Illinois: $1,031 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARFAN FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDESIGNS FOR DIGNITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHICAGO: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMidwest Young Artists: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBVL BOXING SOLUTIONS NFP: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPRIMATES INCORPORATED: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAITH FEEDS FOOD PANTRY INC: $511 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE IGNITES CHICAGO: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMezcla Media Collective LTD: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $250 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.

  • 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 ALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds DEBORAH'S PLACE ↗
  • Who funds THE BRIDGE YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds EVANSTON REBUILDING WAREHOUSE ↗
  • Who funds KENNETH YOUNG CENTER ↗
  • Who funds HIRE360 ↗
  • Who funds BRADLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds The Global FoodBanking Network ↗
  • Who funds SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds United Help Ukraine Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST COMPASS INC ↗
  • Who funds SNOW CITY ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO YOUTH PROGRAMS 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Chicago Community…Circle of Service Fou…Polk Bros Foundation …John D and Catherine …United Way of Metropo…Motorola Solutions Fo…Helen V Brach Foundat…Dr Scholl FoundationRobert R McCormick Fo…Arie and Ida Crown Me…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…AbbVie Foundation
The Chicago Community TrustIL38.7× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 112 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home