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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.

$83k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$164kFood & Nutrition$136kHealth$96kYouth Development$68kEducation$37kReligion$31kHousing & Shelter$31kRecreation & Sports$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,400
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOOD FOR GREATER ELGIN$6,800
WAYSIDE CROSS MINISTRIES$6,300
SUICIDE PREVENTION SERVICES$6,300
JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOC$6,300
TURNING POINTE AUTISM FOUNDATION$6,300
BRAVEHEARTS THERAPEUTIC RIDING & ED$6,300
MUTUAL GROUND - 14$6,300
BY THE HAND CLUB - 4$6,300
NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK -8$6,300
LAZARUS HOUSE$6,300
SPIRITUS CHRISTI MENTAL HLTH CTR$5,400
AVON FREE LIBRARY$5,050
WHEATON ACADEMY$2,000
RENEW YOUTH DBA PARABLE$1,000
BENET ACADEMY$1,000
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SHELTERING WINGS: $240 → 15%SHELTERING WINGS: $240 → 5%JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOC: $6k → 14%LAZARUS HOUSE: $6k → 8%EPILEPSY-PRALID INC: $5k → 14%HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES - 4: $5k → 14%LAZARUS HOUSE: $6k → 8%FOCUS ON THE CHILDREN - 3: $5k → 11%TURNING POINTE AUTISM FOUNDATION: $6k → 7%TURNING POINTE AUTISM FOUNDATION: $6k → 7%360 YOUTH SERVICES - 2: $5k → 7%MUTUAL GROUND - 13: $7k → 8%GADS HILL CENTER - 7: $7k → 14%MARIE WILKINSON FOOD PANTRY: $7k → 8%GADS HILL CENTER - 7: $6k → 14%GADS HILL CENTER - 7: $6k → 14%GADS HILL CENTER - 5: $5k → 14%MUTUAL GROUND - 14: $6k → 8%GADS HILL CENTER - 5: $5k → 14%MUTUAL GROUND - 12: $6k → 8%MARIE WILKINSON FOOD PANTRY: $6k → 8%MUTUAL GROUND - 13: $6k → 8%MARIE WILKINSON FOOD PANTRY: $6k → 8%CASA CENTRAL SOCIAL SERVICES CORP: $5k → 14%ERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $5k → 14%HESED HOUSE: $5k → 8%HESED HOUSE: $5k → 8%MUTUAL GROUND INC: $5k → 8%MUTUAL GROUND - 11: $5k → 8%CASA CENTRAL SOCIAL SERVICES CORP: $3k → 14%MARIE WILKINSON FOOD PANTRY: $5k → 8%MARIE WILKINSON FOOD PANTRY: $500 → 8%MUTUAL GROUND - 14: $500 → 8%HESED HOUSE: $500 → 8%MARKLUND CHILDREN'S HOME: $7k → 8%HESED HOUSE: $500 → 8%MARIE WILKINSON FOOD PANTRY: $500 → 8%MARIE WILKINSON FOOD PANTRY: $500 → 8%MUTUAL GROUND INC: $500 → 8%HESED HOUSE: $100 → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
MN
IL
MI
NY
IN
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
GA
FL
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 5% of McGowan Gin Rosica Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 80% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 74%.

McGowan Gin Rosica Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.8% directed abroad (not shown)
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$484k · 38 repeat orgs$149k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +36% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
45

Total granted

$484k
$125k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+36%

Still filing today

58%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
Human ServicesEducationFood & NutritionHealthYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitOther
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

  • NI
    NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK
    8× · 2017–2025 · $46k · revenue +43%
  • MG
    MUTUAL GROUND INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +105%
  • GH
    GADS HILL CENTER
    5× · 2017–2024 · $29k · revenue +96%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $7k
  • MC
    MARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC
    one grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +17%
  • MC
    MARKLUND CHILDRENS HOME
    one grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +20%
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
Childrens Advocacy Center of East Central Illinois

To assist children who have been victims of abuse

Crime & Legal
2
Arise Chicago

Arise chicago builds partnerships between faith communities and workers to fight workplace injustice through education, organizing, and advocating for public policy changes.

Employment
3
United Children's Services of Bennington County Inc

Children's services

Human Services
4
Nourishing Hope

Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.

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5
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
6
Goodwill Industries of Northern Il and Wi Stateline Area Inc

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.…

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7
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
8
Central Illinois Foodbank Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
9
Chicago Children's Advocacy Center

The chicago children's advocacy center unites public, private, and community partners to ensure the safety, health, and well-being of abused children.

Crime & Legal
10
Cap Services Inc

Cap services, inc.'s mission is to transform people and communities to advance social and economic justice.

Human Services
11
Community Health Partnership of Illinois

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.

Health
12
Family & Children Services Inc

Family & children services strengthens the safety and well being of children, individuals and families; accomplished by providing a comprehensive program of critical human services.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa Central Social Services Corporation; 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.
05the grantee network

52 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. 52 of the 92 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/52
Grantees still filing
38/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BRAVEHEARTS THERAPEUTIC RIDING & ED: $50,585 · OtherBRAVEHEARTS THERAPEUTIC RIDING & EDBY THE HAND CLUB - 4: $24,835 · OtherBY THE HAND CLUB - 4WAYSIDE CROSS MINISTRIES: $18,200 · OtherWAYSIDE CROSS MINISTRIESPATRICK PLACE: $13,250 · OtherRIVER VALLEY COMMUNITY CHURCH: $11,245 · OtherBY THE HAND CLUB - 2: $10,750 · OtherSTARBRIDGE SERVICES INC: $10,550 · OtherSENECA PARK ZOO SOCIETY: $10,750 · Other+50 more: $144,283 · Other+50 moreMUTUAL GROUND INC: $35,235 · Human ServicesMUTUAL GROUND INCGADS HILL CENTER: $28,535 · Human ServicesGADS HILL CENTERMARIE WILKINSON FOOD PANTRY INC: $24,435 · Human ServicesMARIE WILKINSON FOOD PANTRY IN…LAZARUS HOUSE: $12,650 · Human ServicesLAZARUS HOUSETURNING POINTE AUTISM FOUNDATION: $12,650 · Human ServicesTURNING POINTE AUTISM FOUNDATI…PUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC D/B/A HESED HOUSE: $11,100 · Human ServicesPUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELT…CASA CENTRAL SOCIAL SERVICES CORPORATION: $7,500 · Human ServicesMARKLUND CHILDRENS HOME: $6,635 · Human ServicesJUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $6,300 · Human Services+7 more: $25,480 · Human Services+7 moreNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $45,585 · Food & NutritionNORTHERN ILLINOIS…AURORA AREA INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY: $22,350 · Food & NutritionAURORA AREA INTER…FOOD FOR GREATER ELGIN INC: $19,485 · Food & NutritionFOOD FOR GREATER …MAKING KANE COUNTY FIT FOR KIDS: $10,000 · Food & NutritionMAKING KANE COUNT…+1 more: $750 · Food & NutritionROCHESTER SCHOOL OF THE HOLY CHILDHOOD I: $6,350 · EducationAURORA UNIVERSITY: $4,780 · Education826CHI INC: $3,500 · EducationAURORA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $2,100 · EducationWHEATON ACADEMY: $2,000 · Education+2 more: $1,000 · EducationTEEN NITE INC: $13,900 · Youth DevelopmentDREAM ON EDUCATION: $5,550 · Youth DevelopmentDEBORAH'S PLACE: $17,935 · Housing & ShelterSUICIDE PREVENTION SERVICES INC: $11,300 · HealthCancer Action Inc DBA Cancer Support Community Rochester: $500 · Health+1 more: $400 · Health
Other$294,448Human Services$170,520Food & Nutrition$98,170Education$19,730Youth Development$19,450Housing & Shelter$17,935Health$12,200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $45,585 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMUTUAL GROUND INC: $35,235 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetGADS HILL CENTER: $28,535 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMARIE WILKINSON FOOD PANTRY INC: $24,435 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetAURORA AREA INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY: $22,350 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD FOR GREATER ELGIN INC: $19,485 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDEBORAH'S PLACE: $17,935 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTEEN NITE INC: $13,900 over 6y, 19% of budgetLAZARUS HOUSE: $12,650 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTURNING POINTE AUTISM FOUNDATION: $12,650 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSUICIDE PREVENTION SERVICES INC: $11,300 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC D/B/A HESED HOUSE: $11,100 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSENECA PARK ZOO SOCIETY: $10,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTARBRIDGE SERVICES INC: $10,550 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAKING KANE COUNTY FIT FOR KIDS: $10,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetCASA CENTRAL SOCIAL SERVICES CORPORATION: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $6,635 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARKLUND CHILDRENS HOME: $6,635 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJoseph Avenue Arts and Culture Alliance Inc: $6,400 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetROCHESTER SCHOOL OF THE HOLY CHILDHOOD I: $6,350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $6,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASA KANE COUNTY: $5,750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDREAM ON EDUCATION: $5,550 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetANDREW GOBCZYNSKI BIG HEART FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetBy The Hand Club For Kids: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAVON FREE LIBRARY: $5,050 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEPILEPSY-PRALID INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget360 YOUTH SERVICES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCAMERON COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFOCUS ON THE CHILDREN: $5,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetAURORA UNIVERSITY: $4,780 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCompassion International Incorporated: $3,846 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAID FOR WOMEN INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLatinos Progresando: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWHEATON ACADEMY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWARRIOR YOUTH ATHLETICS INC: $1,450 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PLUS ME PROJECT: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCancer Action Inc DBA Cancer Support Community Rochester: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS 4 SCIENCE: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCAREER TRANSITIONS CENTER OF CHICAGO: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVNA Health Care: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTERING WINGS INC: $240 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTERING WINGS CENTER FOR WOMEN INC: $240 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.

  • 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 LAZARUS HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds TURNING POINTE AUTISM FOUNDATION ↗
  • 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 MARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MARKLUND CHILDRENS HOME ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Dunham FoundationNorthwestern Memorial…The Chicago Community…United Way of Metropo…George M Eisenberg Fo…United Way of Greater…Fox Valley United WayDunham FundThe Bersted FoundationRochester Area Commun…The Dupage Community …
Community Foundation of the Fox River ValleyIL36× affinity15 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 McGowan Gin Rosica Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McGowan Gin Rosica Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to McGowan Gin Rosica Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 92 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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