· Private foundation
Mike and Dorothy Vondra Foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $192k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY SCHOOL NAPLES | $130,200 |
| NAPLES PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $61,632 |
| HIPPOCRATIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUND | $20,000 |
| GOLISANO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF | $16,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| COMMUNITY SCHOOL NAPLES | $11,800 |
| AMERICA SCORES | $10,000 |
| BARRINGTON AREA CONSERVATION TRUST | $10,000 |
| SPECIAL CHILDREN'S CHARITIES | $5,000 |
| MARCH OF DIMES | $3,500 |
| CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION OF WILL & | $3,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| CHICAGO CITY COUNCIL CAUCUS FOUNDAT | $2,500 |
| THREE FIRES COUNCIL | $2,500 |
| ST CHARLES COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION | $1,250 |
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 (FY18–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 64% 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
28 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 4 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF NAPLES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $978k · revenue +53%- NPNAPLES PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC4× · 2022–2025 · $161k · revenue +12%
- KFKENNEDY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2021 · $22k · revenue +182%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $40k
- IAIllinois Asphalt Pavement Associationone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +14%
- PHPROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $17k · revenue ×13
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.
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How this is measured
33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 72 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
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 COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds NAPLES PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BARRINGTON AREA CONSERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds KENNEDY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Illinois Asphalt Pavement Association ↗
- Who funds SEAL-NSW FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds GOLISANO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THEATREZONEINC ↗
- Who funds BARTLETT HANOVER PARK SPORTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Special Children's Charities ↗
- Who funds AMERICA SCORES ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds METAVIVOR RESEARCH AND SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds Big Shoulders Fund ↗
- Who funds CASA KANE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BAPS CHARITIES INC ↗
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: Collier Community Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · United Way Worldwide · Edward Jones Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mike and Dorothy Vondra Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mike and Dorothy Vondra Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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