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Romo Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANAIKS LOVING LIBRARY | $25,000 |
| OUR LADY OF GRACE PARISH | $20,000 |
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 (FY18–23, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
10 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- NSNORTH SUBURBAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION5× · 2017–2021 · $100k · revenue +29%
- DUDEPAUL UNIVERSITY5× · 2017–2022 · $65k · revenue +25%
- LALESTER AND ROSALIE ANIXTER CENTER5× · 2017–2023 · $37k · revenue +4%
Funded once
FRACTURED ATLAS INCone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +5%- OLOUR LADY OF GRACEone grant, 2017 · $10k
- BOBARBARA OLSON CENTER OF HOPEone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -1%
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.
Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…
Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.
Improving health, healing people.
Northwestern memorial healthcare is an integrated healthcare system, consisting of multiple hospitals (including northwestern memorial hospital, an academic medical center) and networks of physicians and healthcare professionals, where the…
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…
We, loyola university health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.lumc is a member of loyola university health system and trinity…
Hispanocare's mission is to provide affordable, quality, bilingual, bicultural healthcare to chicago's latino community. an important part of our mission is to actively participate in community outreach. these outreach activities provide…
We, loyola university health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.loyola university health system is a member of trinity health.
We are an organization of caregivers who aspire to consistent, high standards of quality, cost-effectiveness and patient satisfaction. we seek to improve the health of the communities we serve by delivering a broad range of services with…
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
The mission of advocate health care is to serve the health needs of individuals, families and communities through a wholistic philosophy rooted in our fundamental understanding of human beings as created in the image of god.
As a member of sinai health system, mount sinai hospital medical center's mission is to improve the health of the individuals and communities it serves by providing comprehensive medical, surgical, pediatric, psychiatric, and intensive…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Advocate Charitable Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Loving Library. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 28 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 NORTH SUBURBAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DEPAUL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LESTER AND ROSALIE ANIXTER CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds LOVING LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Miami University Foundation ↗
- Who funds BARBARA OLSON CENTER OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS ENGAGEMENT AND LIFT PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds LEAVE NO VETERAN BEHIND ↗
- Who funds Arizonans for Children Inc ↗
- Who funds GREEK AMERICAN REHABILITATION AND CARE CENTRE ↗
- Who funds THE LATINO ALZHEIMERS AND MEMORY DISORDERS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE BASEBALL INC ↗
- Who funds IMD Guest House Foundation ↗
- Who funds CANCER AWARENESS THROUGH RESEARCH AND EDUCATION CARE ↗
- Who funds Foothills Caring Corps Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHBROOK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISERICORDIA HOME ↗
- Who funds CRAZY HORSE MEMORIAL 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.
Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · American Express Foundation · The Coleman Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Romo Family 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.
- The Baseball Inc — 1% of income from government
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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