· Private foundation
Jocarno Fund
Its FY2024 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 FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k68 grants · $153k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAF AMERICA | $24,840 |
| GARFIELD PARK CONSERVATORY ALLIANCE | $8,000 |
| WITTENBERG UNIVERSITY | $6,000 |
| CAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA | $6,000 |
| LIBERTY'S PROMISE | $5,000 |
| WILDLANDS NETWORK | $5,000 |
| MIT SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE & PLANNING | $5,000 |
| FIRST TEE OF LAKE ERIE | $5,000 |
| RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION | $4,500 |
| CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $4,500 |
| GLOBAL WITNESS FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| DANNY BUTLER MEMORIAL FUND | $4,000 |
| WRITER'S THEATRE | $3,500 |
| PROMEDICA FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC | $3,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $64k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
91 repeat relationships — 62 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- LPLIBERTY'S PROMISE4× · 2021–2024 · $36k · revenue +7%
- GPGARFIELD PARK CONSERVATORY ALLIANCE4× · 2021–2024 · $31k · revenue +93%
- FMFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY4× · 2021–2024 · $26k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- TGTHE GREATER TOLEDO COMMUNITYone grant, 2021 · $6k
- RMRAW MATERIAL MUSIC AND MEDIAone grant, 2023 · $5k
- YUYALE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $4k
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.
Lincoln park zoo is dedicated to connecting people with nature by providing a free, family-oriented wildlife experience in the heart of chicago and by advancing the highest quality of animal care, horticulture, education, science and…
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
To inspire conservation leadership by connecting people with wildlife and nature.
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
To spark curiosity and creativity in all young children through positive, play-based learning experiences.
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.
The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Chicago Lighthouse for People Who Are Blind Or Visually Impaired and the most unlike its peers is Sp Jermain Historical Golf Foundation. 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 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
96 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. 96 of the 138 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 LIBERTY'S PROMISE ↗
- Who funds GARFIELD PARK CONSERVATORY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds CAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds Wild Earth Society Incorporated ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WITTENBERG COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL WITNESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROMEDICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE DANNY BUTLER MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST TEE OF LAKE ERIE ↗
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds SANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Writers Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds LEGACY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LANDMARKS PRESERVATION COUNCIL OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE GREEN BAY TRAIL ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CONNECTING KIDS TO MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds AIA CHICAGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TOLEDO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PARKS ↗
- Who funds Inspiration Corporation ↗
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 · Toledo Community Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Mark S Feldstein and Sandra a Feldstein · The O-I Charities Foundation · Motorola Solutions Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Hylant Family Foundation Inc · Promedica Health System Inc · John Henry Eldred Jr Foundation · Dr Scholl 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 Jocarno Fund 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation — 4% 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.