· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Concordia High School | $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 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Illinois | $10,000 |
| Compass for Kids Inc | $8,976 |
| Boy Scouts of America - Abraham Lincoln Council | $5,000 |
| St Joseph's Indian School | $5,000 |
| Word Up of Central Illinois | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-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.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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,…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 28 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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization James Orlandini Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James Orlandini Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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