· Private foundation
Leopardo Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| EQUAL HOPE | $5,000 |
| NEAR SOUTH PLANNING BOARD | $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 |
| FSHD SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| MAGNIFICENT MILE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $2,500 |
| CORE EL CENTRO INCORPORATED | $1,500 |
| SALUTE INC | $1,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc5× · 2017–2022 · $130k · revenue +33%
- BCBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC5× · 2017–2023 · $37k · revenue +4%
HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC5× · 2018–2024 · $33k · revenue +261%
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
139 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 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.
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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 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 ESPERANZA HEALTH CENTERS ↗
- Who funds GOFUNDMEORG ↗
- Who funds CORPORATE CLIMATE ALLIANCE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Leopardo Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Leopardo Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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