· Private foundation
Romana 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 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 $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $66k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - COLUMBIA | $38,012 |
| ST CATHERINE OF SIENA | $17,623 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE | $10,300 |
| BARRINGTON YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES | $8,020 |
| ACMS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| NOTRE DAME REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL | $2,221 |
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, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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
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 +28% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DFDERMATOLOGY FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $19k · revenue +28%
- CUCreighton University3× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +45%
- BYBARRINGTON YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- SCST CATHERINE OF SIENA SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $24k
- BCBARRINGTON CHILDRENS CHARITIESone grant, 2018 · $18k · revenue -60%
- KOKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Fr McGivney Council #8002one grant, 2024 · $14k
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.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Our mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for individuals and committees through premier educational programs, innovative research and extraordinary patient care.
Children's physicians delivers the highest quality pediatric primary care while supporting education and research.
Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
Edward-Elmhurst Healthcare follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."
Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…
Edward Hospital follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."
See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.
To represent the interests of dermatologists and their patients. to influence and be a credible resource for public and private entities related to all policies and regulations that have the potential to affect the delivery of dermatologic…
NORTHWEST COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE follows the mission of Endeavor Health. The mission of Endeavor Health is to "help everyone in our communities be their best." Central to this mission is a commitment to providing clinical programs and…
To assure that dermatologists have access to the highest quality education, research and innovations in the field, and that patients and the public have access to the highest quality medical and surgical dermatologic care and to…
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 30 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 AMERICAN COLLEGE OF MOHS SURGERY INC ↗
- Who funds DERMATOLOGY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BARRINGTON CHILDRENS CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds Creighton University ↗
- Who funds KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Fr McGivney Council #8002 ↗
- Who funds SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds BARRINGTON YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Northwest Community Hospital ↗
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Romana Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Romana Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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