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John Joseph Sigstein Foundation Inc at a glance

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John Joseph Sigstein Foundation Inc

Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$9.5M
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$9.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

Religion$9.8MCrime & Legal$135kHuman Services$134kEmployment$65kHousing & Shelter$52kEducation$34kArts & Culture$29kYouth Development$21kOther$0
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$9,525,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OUR LADY OF VICTORY MISSIONARY$9,525,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–21, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RISE UP INDUSTRIES: $25k → 11%FAMILY CENTERED SERVICES: $8k → 9%THE UPPER ROOM RECOVERY COMMUNITY: $12k → 13%MADONNA MISSION: $25k → 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

IL
MI
OR
IN
CA
CO
NM
TX
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.

3%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$324k · 9 repeat orgs$9.9M to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2022, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
23

Total granted

$324k
$395k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+55%

Still filing today

56%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22
Human ServicesCrime & LegalCivil RightsEmploymentCommunity ImprovementEducationOther
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

  • CA
    Court Appointed Special Advocates
    2× · 2020–2021 · $40k · revenue +41%
  • A1
    ASCENT 121 INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $30k · revenue +32%
  • ARISE CHICAGO
    2× · 2020–2021 · $25k · revenue +303%

Funded once

  • IM
    ICM MISSIONARY SISTERS
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • CE
    CASA ESPERANZA PROJECTgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +75%
  • IC
    INTERFAITH COMMIUNITY FOR DETAINED
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
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
Casa de Esperanza

Casa is a refuge, providing protection and education for people caught in the cylces of domestic violence, sexual assault and child assault. Casa is a healing community where women and children can receive the nurturing and support…

Human Services
2
Consejo Counseling & Referral Service

Consejo brings healing, health, and hope to communities through holistic, culturally, and linguistically competent behavioral health services and advocacy.

Health
3
Tu Casa Incorporated

To support healthy violence-free lives and relationships for all children and adults in the San Luis Valley by providing crisis intervention services advocacy and counseling for victims and survivors of domestic and sexual violence.

—
4
Rancho San Antonio Boys Home Inc

Rancho San Antonio commits to being an anti-racist organization that continues to review systemic policies and procedures through an equitable lens, provide a culturally responsive staff training program to educate our teams, continue…

Human Services
5
Casa Esperanza Inc

To empower individuals and families to recover from addiction, trauma, mental illness and other chronic medical conditions; overcome homelessness; and achieve health and wellness through comprehensive, integrated care.

Health
6
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Cook County

CASA of Cook County's vision is to protect abused and neglected children by providing them in court, a safe and permanent home, and an opportunity to grow, learn and thrive.

Crime & Legal
7
Casa Serena

Residential alcohol and drug treatment.

Health
8
House of Hope

Treating substance use disorders, rebuilding lives, strengthening families, and empowering women.

—
9
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Bastrop Count

The organization recruits, trains, and supervises volunteers who provide advocacy services to child victims removed by the state from homes because of abuse or neglect

Civil Rights
10
Center for Community Solutions

The mission is to end relationship and sexual violence by being a catalyst for caring communities and social justice. the vision is for all people to live full, free, expressive, and empowered lives in a safe, healthy, vibrant, and…

Health
11
Casa Childrens Intervention Services Inc

Provide a voice in a court for abused and neglected children through volunteer court and appointed advocates.

Civil Rights
12
Court Appointed Special Advocates First Judicial District

The mission of casa, first judicial district is to support and promote volunteer advocacy so that children and youth from santa fe, rio arriba, and los alamos counties who are trauma-impacted or system-involved can be safe, have permanent…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ascent 121 Inc; the most unlike its peers is Harmony Hope & Healing. 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

15 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. 15 of the 33 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OUR LADY OF VICTORY MISSIONARY: $9,511,365 · OtherOUR LADY OF VICTORY MISSIONARY+20 more: $422,730 · OtherASCENT 121 INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesRise Up Industries: $25,000 · Human ServicesHANNAH'S HOUSE INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesMadonna Mission: $24,631 · Human ServicesHOMEWARD ALLIANCE INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesUPPER ROOM RECOVERY COMMUNITY INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY CENTERED SERVICES INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesCONTIGO IMMIGRANT JUSTICE: $45,000 · Crime & LegalCourt Appointed Special Advocates: $40,225 · Civil RightsCASA ESPERANZA PROJECT: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterARISE CHICAGO: $25,000 · EmploymentA VILLAGE FOR ONE: $21,426 · Youth Development
Other$9,934,095Human Services$139,631Crime & Legal$45,000Civil Rights$40,225Housing & Shelter$25,000Employment$25,000Youth Development$21,426

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCONTIGO IMMIGRANT JUSTICE: $45,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocates: $40,225 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetASCENT 121 INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetHarmony Hope & Healing: $28,900 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetCASA ESPERANZA PROJECT: $25,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetRise Up Industries: $25,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetARISE CHICAGO: $25,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetHANNAH'S HOUSE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetMadonna Mission: $24,631 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetA VILLAGE FOR ONE: $21,426 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTALITHA KOUM INSTITUTE: $18,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetHOMEWARD ALLIANCE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUPPER ROOM RECOVERY COMMUNITY INC: $12,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetFAMILY CENTERED SERVICES INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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 CONTIGO IMMIGRANT JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds Court Appointed Special Advocates ↗
  • Who funds ASCENT 121 INC ↗
  • Who funds Harmony Hope & Healing ↗
  • Who funds CASA ESPERANZA PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds Rise Up Industries ↗
  • Who funds ARISE CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds HANNAH'S HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds Madonna Mission ↗
  • Who funds A VILLAGE FOR ONE ↗
  • Who funds TALITHA KOUM INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds HOMEWARD ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds UPPER ROOM RECOVERY COMMUNITY INC ↗
  • Who funds MANA DE ALBUQUERQUE ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY CENTERED SERVICES 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.

Enterprise Holdings F…The Blackbaud Giving …Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Natl Christian Charit…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Enterprise Holdings FoundationMO10.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 John Joseph Sigstein Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John Joseph Sigstein Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 33%
  • A Village for One: 33% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report 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.
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How do I get to John Joseph Sigstein Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to John Joseph Sigstein Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 33 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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