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Koziol Family Foundation at a glance

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Koziol Family 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.

$39k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$75kArts & Culture$49kCommunity Improvement$27kEducation$23kHealth$15kYouth Development$12kReligion$12kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$182k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Salvation Army$15,000
The Salvation Army World Service Of$10,000
Block Club Chicago NFP$7,500
Chicago Council of the Navy League$6,000
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 (FY19–19, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Taller de Jose: $10k → 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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 14% of Koziol Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Koziol Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$159k · 7 repeat orgs$75k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
11

Total granted

$159k
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+37%

Still filing today

57%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
PhilanthropyInternationalYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitHealthEducationOther
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

  • RI
    Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
    3× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +31%
  • BC
    BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO NFP
    2× · 2023–2025 · $13k · revenue +42%
  • SS
    South Side Community Art Center
    3× · 2019–2021 · $11k · revenue +177%

Funded once

  • HM
    HOME MISSIONERS OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2024 · $12k
  • TD
    TALLER DE JOSEgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +37%
  • TS
    TEACH School and Tutors on Wheels
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
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
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
4
Borderless Magazine Nfp

Borderless magazine nfp is a chicago-based nonprofit news outlet that is reimagining local immigration journalism for a more just and equitable future. we provide free, local and state news coverage to english and spanish speakers.

Arts & Culture
5
True Chicago
Arts & Culture
6
Social Venture Partners Chicago Inc

Social venture partners chicago accelerates the positive community change championed by innovative non-profits through engaged investing to build their capacity and impact. the breadth, depth and willingness of our partners to engage with…

Philanthropy
7
Local Economic and Employment Development Council Inc

North Branch Works is a membership-supported nonprofit neighborhood organization that for more than three decades has promoted balanced, job-creating economic development along the North Branch of the Chicago River.

Employment
8
National Opinion Research Center

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…

Social Science
9
Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce

The chicagoland chamber of commerce combines the power of people, with our legacy of leadership and business advocacy, to drive a dynamic economy. we focus on delivering value for our members, making chicagoland a world-class place to live…

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10
Black Researchers Collective

The mission of the Black Researchers Collective is to advance racial equity by training and equipping communities with research tools to be more civically engaged and policy informed.

Community Improvement
11
Chicago Maritime Museum

Operation of a nautical history museum.

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12
The Bloc

Improving chicago's future by using the sport of boxing to provide resources and opportunities to chicago's youth and communities.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

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 18 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SALVATION ARMY: $42,500 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYChicago Council of the Navy League: $33,000 · OtherChicago Council of the Navy LeagueThe Salvation Army World Service Of: $22,500 · OtherThe Salvation Army World Service OfBUNKER LABS NFP INC: $22,000 · OtherBUNKER LABS NFP INCHOME MISSIONERS OF AMERICA: $12,000 · OtherHOME MISSIONERS OF AMERICASouth Side Community Art Center: $11,000 · OtherSouth Side Community Art CenterTEACH School and Tutors on Wheels: $10,000 · OtherTEACH School and Tutors on Wheels+3 more: $15,000 · Other+3 moreRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $15,000 · HealthBLOCK CLUB CHICAGO NFP: $12,500 · EducationWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 · InternationalFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $1,000 · InternationalTALLER DE JOSE: $10,000 · Human ServicesRole Model Movement Inc (NFP): $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentGREAT LAKES NAVAL MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyCHICAGO LIGHTS: $2,000 · Philanthropy
Other$168,000Health$15,000Education$12,500International$11,000Human Services$10,000Youth Development$10,000Philanthropy$7,000

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 budgetBUNKER LABS NFP INC: $22,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBLOCK CLUB CHICAGO NFP: $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSouth Side Community Art Center: $11,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTALLER DE JOSE: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRole Model Movement Inc (NFP): $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHIS ABLE VETERAN: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCHICAGO LIGHTS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $1,000 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.

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.

Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY12.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Koziol Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Koziol Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 18 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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