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Leopardo Charitable Foundation
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COVENANT LIVING COMMUNITIES AND SERVICES | $20,000 |
| ONE ON ONE | $15,000 |
| THE YMCA OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO | $15,000 |
| HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ERIE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC | $7,500 |
| NEAR SOUTH PLANNING BOARD | $5,000 |
| EQUAL HOPE | $5,000 |
| BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC | $3,200 |
| US GREEN BUILDING COUNCIL - ILLINOIS | $3,100 |
| WILLIAM RAINEY HARPER COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| LET IT BE US | $2,500 |
| MAGNIFICENT MILE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $2,500 |
| FSHD SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| CORE EL CENTRO INCORPORATED | $1,500 |
| SALUTE INC | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $143k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% 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.
75 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 68 since wound down; 11 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, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k 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
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc5× · 2017–2022 · $130k · revenue +33%
- BCBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC5× · 2017–2023 · $37k · revenue +4%
- CSCHICAGO SPORTS SUMMIT FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2023 · $37k · revenue +53% · 28% of their budget
Funded once
- WIWestern Illinois University Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +41%
- NCNorthwest Community Hospitalone grant, 2019 · $46k · revenue +16%
- ARANTHONY RIZZO FAMILY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $25k · 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.
Provide pediatric and subspecialty surgical, research, and educational services.
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…
The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…
We value excellence and innovation in clinical and basic research, coordinated and comprehensive patient care, ongoing physician education, and evidence-based child advocacy. our goal is to provide leadership in endeavors that promote the…
The elmhurst memorial healthcare group follows the mission of endeavor health (f/k/a ns-ee holdings). the mission of endeavor health is to "help everyone in our communities be their best." central to this mission is a commitment to…
We are dedicated to the health and well-being of all children. as the pediatric teaching facility for the northwestern university feinberg school of medicine, this commitment drives us to be a leader in: -pediatric health care delivery…
The primary purpose of the chicago home for incurables, ("the home"), is to provide financial support to the university of chicago for the operation of patient care facilities and funding of research of incurable diseases at the university…
To optimize philanthropy in support of the mission and future of the children's hospital of chicago medical center.
Edward Hospital follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."
We, mercy health system of chicago and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.mercy foundation is a member of mercy health system of chicago…
Chh honors every person's right to a home and health care, by bridging the housing and health care systems, to improve the lives of chicagoans experiencing homelessness.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections for the Homeless Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nicholas D Sergi 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 31 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
139 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 139 of the 208 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Western Illinois University Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds Northwest Community Hospital ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO SPORTS SUMMIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Roosevelt University ↗
- Who funds ANTHONY RIZZO FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WILL COUNTY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds COVENANT LIVING COMMUNITIES AND SERVICES ↗
- Who funds The YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago ↗
- Who funds Rush Copley Foundation ↗
- Who funds Erie Family Health Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON ↗
- Who funds ONE ON ONE ↗
- Who funds The Village of Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds Greater Horizons ↗
- Who funds Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest ↗
- Who funds GOFUNDMEORG ↗
- Who funds ESPERANZA HEALTH CENTERS ↗
- Who funds CORPORATE CLIMATE ALLIANCE INCORPORATED ↗
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: United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Motorola Solutions Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Baxter International Foundation · Skender Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Helen V Brach Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group
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 Leopardo Charitable 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.
- Warrior Canine Connection Inc — 5% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% 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.
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