· Private foundation
Richard and Gina Santori Charitable 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AURORA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| WAUBONSEE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $8,500 |
| AOPA FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,500 |
| LEWIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE RURAL EDUCATION OF CAMBODIA INC | $4,515 |
| CHICAGO AREA CHAPTER OF THE NINETY-NINES | $3,000 |
| COLLEGE OF DUPAGE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| ST STEPHEN KING OF HUNGARY ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION | $500 |
| UNLIMITED CHANCE RANCH | $500 |
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 (FY24–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against -21% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 6 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, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
- TATHE AOPA FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $48k · revenue +85%
- WCWAUBONSEE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue +29%
- LULewis University8× · 2017–2024 · $28k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- RCRush Copley Foundationone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -21%
- QOQUEEN OF APOSTLES PARISHone grant, 2024 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $1k
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.
Scholarships and financial assistance to promote educational opportunities at kankakee community college
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
To educate men & women to lead responsible lives by means of a curriculum grounded in liberal arts learning and complemented and extended by professional and practical experience, through the total academic and co-curricular experience,…
To enable student success.
The foundation's mission is to advance opportunities for quality educational services in nebraska-based institutions.
The Foundation was created to assist in the promotion, development and enhancement of the financial resources for Washburn University of Topeka, as well as to receive and hold in trust any assets given in benefit of the University.
Receive donations for dmacc.
The purpose of the university of central arkansas foundation, inc. is to further the goals of the university of central arkansas by securing and carefully managing private funds for the support of the university.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
To help students achieve their educational goals and make education more accessible to the communities that it serves by working with the college to provide scholarships and funding for special projects.
To provide for education, scholarships and other charitable purposes related to the culinary profession
The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is College of Dupage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Illinois Shotokan Karate Booster Cl. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 19 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 Rush Copley Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE AOPA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WAUBONSEE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lewis University ↗
- Who funds WORLD ASSISTANCE FOR CAMBODIA INC ↗
- Who funds AURORA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS SHOTOKAN KARATE BOOSTER CL ↗
- Who funds The Rural Education of Cambodia Inc ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF DUPAGE FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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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 Richard and Gina Santori Charitable 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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