· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Elkhorn Food Pantry Inc | $3,500 |
| Patrick Grange Memorial Foundation | $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 |
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 (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 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.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
CASTING FOR RECOVERY5× · 2021–2025 · $15k · revenue +32%
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
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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Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.
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How this is measured
34 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. 34 of the 69 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Nicholas D Sergi Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nicholas D Sergi Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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