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Malinski Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$305k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Animals$490kHealth$198kFood & Nutrition$180kRecreation & Sports$170kPublic Safety & Disaster$140kArts & Culture$137kHuman Services$48kEnvironment$47kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $121k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $140k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$6.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Twin Lakes Rescue Squad$80,000
Aquanuts Water Shows Inc$60,000
Tunnels to Towners Foundation$30,000
PAWS Chicago$30,000
Illinois Club for Catholic Women$20,000
Mercy Home for Boys Girls$15,500
Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra$15,000
Ballet Palm Beach$10,000
Lake Forest High School Boosters Cl$5,000
Have Dreams$5,000
Nicklaus Children's Health Care Fou$5,000
Northwestern Memorial Foundation$5,000
Benedictine Sisters of Chicago$5,000
Equestrian Connection$5,000
Fill A Heart 4 Kids$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 62% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Dan Green's Touch A Life Heal a Heart: $3k → 10%Honor Flight: $5k → 7%Fill A Heart 4 Kids: $5k → 8%Fill A Heart 4 Kids: $5k → 8%Equestrian Connection: $5k → 8%Misericordia Foundation: $5k → 14%Blue Island Citizens for Persons with Developmental Disabilities (Mercy Hom: $25k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
WI
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CA
VA
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 17 repeat orgs$339k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +80% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
21

Total granted

$1.2M
$267k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+80%
+42%

Still filing today

59%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureAnimalsPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsEducationOther

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

  • PC
    PAWS CHICAGO
    4× · 2021–2024 · $250k · revenue +84%
  • GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY
    3× · 2020–2022 · $175k · revenue +17%
  • AW
    AQUANUT WATER SHOWS INC
    2× · 2021–2024 · $160k · revenue +123% · 71% of their budget

Funded once

  • BC
    BLUE CAP FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $80k · revenue -20% · 56% of their budget
  • THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +8%
  • BI
    BLUE ISLAND CITIZENS FOR PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +41%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Gilda's Club Chicago

To ensure that all people impacted by cancer are empowered by knowledge, strengthened by action, and sustained by community.

Health
2
Thrive Chicago Nfp

Thrive chicago's mission is to prepare chicago's youth for a vibrant future by aligning efforts and outcomes from cradle to career.

Human Services
3
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
4
Chicago Blend Group Inc

Creating a more inclusive venture capital and entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Community Improvement
5
Big Brothers-Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago

Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite and empower the promise of youth. we nurture children, strengthen communities and believe that inherent in every child is the ability to succeed and thrive in life.

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6
Chicago Family Health Center Inc

Chicago family health center will promote health, work to prevent disease and provide treatment through the delivery of quality, accessible primary healtcare that is culturally sensitive, affordable, and responsive to community and…

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7
Illinois Business Alliance

The illinois business alliance is a nonprofit, member-driven business league that exists to improve illinois' business climate and promote the common economic interests of its members.

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8
Invest for Kids Inc

To raise funds that will benefit Chicago-area children's charities. The accomplishment of this mission is through an annual conference that raises money by presenting ideas from an elite group of successful investment managers.

Human Services
9
Children's Advocates for Change

Children's advocates for change was organized to improve the lives of children in illinois by bringing about significant changes public policies and programs for children through research, policy analysis and advocacy, public education and…

Human Services
10
Chicago Canine Rescue Foundation

Chicago canine rescue foundation finds permanent homes for homeless dogs in our community with a specific emphasis on assisting the most vulnerable animals, who without our help, would have no other options. while in our care, they are…

Animals
11
Block Club Chicago Nfp

Block club chicago is a nonprofit news organization dedicated to delivering reliable, nonpartisan and essential coverage of chicago's diverse neighborhoods.

Education
12
Kipp Chicago Schools

The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Twin Lakes Vol Fire Dept and Rescue Squad. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr13%9%5–10yr18%15%10–20yr15%38%20–35yr14%15%35–55yr22%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%2%5–10yr18%3%10–20yr15%59%20–35yr14%16%35–55yr22%19%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/35
the rest of the field
12%
8,891/72,324

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.

04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 46 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
24/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Twin Lakes Rescue Squad — $155,000 · OtherTwin Lakes Rescue SquadMISSION OF OUR LADY OF MERCY — $30,500 · OtherMISSION OF OUR LADY OF MERCYAuquanuts Water Shows Inc — $30,000 · OtherAuquanuts Water Shows IncTunnels to Towners Foundation — $30,000 · OtherTunnels to Towners FoundationBENEDICTINE SISTERS OF CHICAGO — $27,500 · OtherBENEDICTINE SISTERS OF CHICAGOILLINOIS CLUB FOR CATHOLIC WOMEN — $20,000 · OtherBLUE ISLAND CITIZENS FOR PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES INC — $25,000 · OtherTHE BILGRAV SCHOOL INC — $20,000 · Other+23 more — $149,500 · Other+23 morePAWS CHICAGO — $250,000 · AnimalsPAWS CHICAGOChicago Zoological Society — $75,000 · AnimalsChicago Zoological Socie…+1 more — $10,000 · AnimalsTWIN LAKES VOL FIRE DEPT AND RESCUE SQUAD — $140,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTWIN LAKES VOL…THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE BREAST CAN…GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $175,000 · Food & NutritionGREATER CHIC…AQUANUT WATER SHOWS INC — $160,000 · Recreation & SportsAQUANUT WATE…+1 more — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsCHICAGO YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS — $45,000 · Arts & CultureBallet Palm Beach Inc — $25,000 · Arts & CultureIRISH AMERICAN HERITAGE CENTER — $14,150 · Arts & CultureNORTHBROOK HOCKEY LEAGUE — $5,000 · Arts & CultureBLUE CAP FOUNDATION INC — $80,000 · PhilanthropyKATESWELL (FKA - PHILANSTAGRAM) — $5,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $2,500 · Philanthropy
Other$487,500Animals$335,000Public Safety & Disaster$190,000Food & Nutrition$175,000Recreation & Sports$165,000Arts & Culture$89,150Philanthropy$87,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPAWS CHICAGO — $250,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $175,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAQUANUT WATER SHOWS INC — $160,000 over 2y, 71% of budgetTWIN LAKES VOL FIRE DEPT AND RESCUE SQUAD — $140,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetBLUE CAP FOUNDATION INC — $80,000 over 1y, 56% of budgetChicago Zoological Society — $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS — $45,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetBallet Palm Beach Inc — $25,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetBLUE ISLAND CITIZENS FOR PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BILGRAV SCHOOL INC — $20,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetILLINOIS CLUB FOR CATHOLIC WOMEN — $20,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetIRISH AMERICAN HERITAGE CENTER — $14,150 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY — $11,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLEAD INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFILL A HEART 4 KIDS — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVESTED INTEREST IN K9S INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHAVE DREAMS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPAWS FOR PATRICK — $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHONOR FLIGHT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLAKE FOREST HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB — $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetKATESWELL (FKA - PHILANSTAGRAM) — $5,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEquestrian Connection NFP — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHBROOK HOCKEY LEAGUE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Lake County — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRE-VOLV — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMISERICORDIA FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BENJAMIN PRIVATE SCHOOL INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Baxter International …AbbVie FoundationTrustmark FoundationThe Chicago Community…Baird Foundation IncCharities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…The Pfizer Foundation…The Blackbaud Giving …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…
Baxter International FoundationIL18.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baxter International Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Trustmark Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Baird Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Malinski Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Lead Inc — 2% of income from government
  • The Bilgrav School Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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