· Private foundation
McGowan Gin Rosica Family Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of MCGOWAN GIN ROSICA FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOOD FOR GREATER ELGIN | $6,800 |
| BRAVEHEARTS THERAPEUTIC RIDING & ED | $6,300 |
| SUICIDE PREVENTION SERVICES | $6,300 |
| JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOC | $6,300 |
| BY THE HAND CLUB - 4 | $6,300 |
| WAYSIDE CROSS MINISTRIES | $6,300 |
| MUTUAL GROUND - 14 | $6,300 |
| LAZARUS HOUSE | $6,300 |
| NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK -8 | $6,300 |
| TURNING POINTE AUTISM FOUNDATION | $6,300 |
| SPIRITUS CHRISTI MENTAL HLTH CTR | $5,400 |
| AVON FREE LIBRARY | $5,050 |
| WHEATON ACADEMY | $2,000 |
| RENEW YOUTH DBA PARABLE | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 (FY17–25, $171k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of McGowan Gin Rosica Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 80% of the giving stays in IL; read by stated purpose it is 74% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- NINORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK8× · 2017–2025 · $46k · revenue +43%
- MGMUTUAL GROUND INC8× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +105%
- GHGADS HILL CENTER5× · 2017–2024 · $29k · revenue +96%
Funded once
- MCMARKLUND CHILDRENS HOMEone grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +20%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $7k
- MCMARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INCone grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +17%
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.
To assist children who have been victims of abuse
Arise chicago builds partnerships between faith communities and workers to fight workplace injustice through education, organizing, and advocating for public policy changes.
Children's services
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…
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…
The Foodbank's mission is to provide food, and develop awareness of and creative solutions for food insecurity. Annually, the Foodbank distributes approximately 9.5 million pounds of food to 130 food pantries, soup kitchens, children's…
The chicago children's advocacy center unites public, private, and community partners to ensure the safety, health, and well-being of abused children.
Cap services, inc.'s mission is to transform people and communities to advance social and economic justice.
Strive to improve the health and well being of migrant and seasonal farmworkers and other medically vulnerable populations by providing quality accessable, affordable, and culturally responsive health care within the community we serve.
Family & children services strengthens the safety and well being of children, individuals and families; accomplished by providing a comprehensive program of critical human services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa Central Social Services Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. 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 40 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
52 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. 52 of the 92 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
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 NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds MUTUAL GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds GADS HILL CENTER ↗
- Who funds MARIE WILKINSON FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds AURORA AREA INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR GREATER ELGIN INC ↗
- Who funds DEBORAH'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds TEEN NITE INC ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINTE AUTISM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAZARUS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SUICIDE PREVENTION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC D/B/A HESED HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SENECA PARK ZOO SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds STARBRIDGE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MAKING KANE COUNTY FIT FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds CASA CENTRAL SOCIAL SERVICES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MARKLUND CHILDRENS HOME ↗
- Who funds MARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Joseph Avenue Arts and Culture Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF THE HOLY CHILDHOOD I ↗
- Who funds JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CASA KANE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DREAM ON EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds ANDREW GOBCZYNSKI BIG HEART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds By The Hand Club For Kids ↗
- Who funds AVON FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY-PRALID INC ↗
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: Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley · Dunham Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Fox Valley United Way · Dunham Fund · The Bersted Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation · The Dupage Community Foundation
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 McGowan Gin Rosica Family Foundation Inc 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.
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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