· Private foundation
James Orlandini Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $210k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Refuge Ranch | $45,000 |
| Lutheran High School | $33,000 |
| Finding Hope | $28,952 |
| Individual grant recipient | $23,000 |
| Illinois Sheriff's Association | $20,000 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Illinois | $10,000 |
| Darts for Kids | $10,000 |
| Springfield YMCA Strong Kids | $10,000 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Central Illinois | $10,000 |
| Zion Lutheran School | $10,000 |
| Concordia High School | $10,000 |
| Compass for Kids Inc | $8,976 |
| Concordia University | $5,000 |
| Boy Scouts of America - Abraham Lincoln Council | $5,000 |
| St Joseph's Indian School | $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 (FY24–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
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.
21 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- RRREFUGE RANCH INC7× · 2019–2025 · $247k · revenue +133%
- ISILLINOIS SHERIFFS' ASSOCIATION7× · 2019–2025 · $141k · revenue +7%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS7× · 2019–2025 · $131k · revenue +152%
Funded once
- CICentral Illinois Foodbank Incone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +14%
- SPSPRINGFIELD PARKS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +155%
- ICIllinois Conservation Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +30%
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.
Raising funds for direct support of Southwest Chicago Christian School
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 Foundation was formed to be a vehicle to receive, manage, and distribute all private donations, restricted and unrestricted, for the benefit of the School District of Springfield R-12, Springfield, Missouri.
This foundation develops resources that enhance the quality of educaion for students following the mission of the sioux city community school disrict
To assist the rockford park district by securing philanthropic support on its behalf and enhancing awareness of the district's benefits to the community.
The Chicago Parks Foundation is a separate 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization that also serves as the strategic partner for the coordination of fundraising and charitable resources for the Chicago Park District.
To provide scholarships to Springdale students and grants to teachers.
Cultivating philanthropy to build better communities.
Public education on current public policy issues
The Starved Rock Country Community Foundation (SRCCF) is a grant-making public charity dedicated to improving the lives of people in LaSalle, Bureau and Putnam Counties. Our goal is to bring together the financial resources of individuals,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Illinois and the most unlike its peers is Share the Spirit Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 28 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 REFUGE RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds Rochester Schools Educational Foundation - Rochester Admin Cntr ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS SHERIFFS' ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY TEXAS ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds Compass for Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds Central Illinois Foodbank Inc ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Illinois Conservation Foundation ↗
- Who funds Springfield Public Schools Foundation ↗
- Who funds SHARE THE SPIRIT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PRINCE OF PEACE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
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: Levi Ray & Shoup Foundation · Green Family Charitable Foundation · United Way of Central Illinois Inc · M G Nelson Family Foundation · Community Foundation for the Land of Lincoln Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 James Orlandini 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.
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.