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Nicholas D Sergi 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $42k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Bridge Food & Diaper Bank Inc | $42,026 |
| Cal's Angels | $8,640 |
| University of Chicago | $5,000 |
| Southern Lakes Evangelical Free Church | $4,615 |
| Casting for Recovery | $3,605 |
| Near South Planning Board | $3,600 |
| Patrick Grange Memorial Foundation | $3,500 |
| Elkhorn Food Pantry Inc | $3,500 |
| Elkhorn Area High School Scholarship Foundation | $3,000 |
| Special Olympics of Illinois | $2,750 |
| Elmhurst Memorial Hospital Foundation | $2,587 |
| Dare2Tri | $2,500 |
| Elkhorn Area School District | $2,020 |
| Love for Liam Foundation | $1,561 |
| LAZ Parking Charitable Foundation Inc | $800 |
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 (FY20–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
23 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 11 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, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
CASTING FOR RECOVERY5× · 2021–2025 · $15k · revenue +25%
University of Chicago2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue +15%- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS4× · 2021–2025 · $9k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- SLSouthern Lakes Churchone grant, 2023 · $85k
- SLSOUTHERN LAKE CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $40k
- WCWALWORTH COUNTY FOOD DIAPER BANKone grant, 2022 · $30k
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.
The foundation is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to honoring the lives of our fallen heroes. the foundation provides support and assistance to the families of chicago police officers who were killed or catastrophically injured in…
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…
The aids foundation of chicago mobilizes communities to create equity and justice for people living with and vulnerable to hiv and related chronic disease.
Champion humanitarian & patient-centered roles for pathologists. connect those in need to the specialized, life savings skills of pathologists. confer training & awards to residents.
Provide pediatric and subspecialty surgical, research, and educational services.
The chicago bar foundation brings the legal community together through advocacy, funding, and innovation to improve access to justice for people in need and to make the legal system more fair, equitable, and effective.
Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.
The mission shall be to provide fundraising, advocacy, and advisory support for cancer research at the comprehensive cancer center at the university of chicago.
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…
Offer crisis intervention, supportive counseling and comprehensive referral services to surviving family members throughout chicago following homicide; provide training in sensitive and effective communication with and treatment of…
The mission of the Foundation is to dramatically improve the lives of people living with peripheral neuropathy. It is focused on discovering more effective treatment options and finding a cure for peripheral neuropathy. The Foundation…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Lyon Family 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 34 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 69 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 WALWORTH COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PATRICK GRANGE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION NFP ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds CASTING FOR RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds THE LYON FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds DARE2TRI PARATRIATHLON CLUB ↗
- Who funds ELKHORN AREA HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FOU ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE FOX RIVER VALLEY ↗
- Who funds NEAR SOUTH PLANNING BOARD ↗
- Who funds ELKHORN FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds LAZ CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE-A-PET INC ↗
- Who funds KESHET ↗
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: Kunes Family Foundation · Motorola Solutions Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Walworth County · Leopardo Charitable Foundation · Pentair Foundation · Usg Foundation Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
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 Nicholas D Sergi 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.
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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