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Romo Family Foundation at a glance

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Romo Family 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.

$101k
Granted FY2023
6
Grants FY2023
5
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

93% of Romo Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Romo Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $101k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

12
’17
10
’18
7
’19
7
’20
4
’21
2
’22
6
’23
2
’24
3
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$137kReligion$112kHuman Services$110kHealth$52kArts & Culture$37kCommunity Improvement$25kHousing & Shelter$8kPhilanthropy$4kOther$0
02FY2023 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $90k
$20,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OUR LADY OF GRACE PARISH$40,000
FRACTURED ATLAS INC$30,000
MIAMI UNIVERSITY$20,000
LESTER AND ROSALIE ANIXTER CENTER$7,500
ARIZONANS FOR CHILDREN INC$2,500
THE BASEBALL INC$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BARBARA OLSON CENTER OF HOPE: $10k → 15%FOOTHILLS CARING CORPS INC: $1k → 11%ARIZONANS FOR CHILDREN INC: $3k → 11%MISERICORDIA HOME: $500 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$414k · 11 repeat orgs$109k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
14

Total granted

$414k
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+47%

Still filing today

73%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • NS
    NORTH SUBURBAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2017–2021 · $100k · revenue +29%
  • DU
    DEPAUL UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2017–2022 · $65k · revenue +25%
  • LA
    LESTER AND ROSALIE ANIXTER CENTER
    5× · 2017–2023 · $37k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • BO
    BARBARA OLSON CENTER OF HOPE
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -1%
  • OL
    OUR LADY OF GRACE
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • HE
    HOMELESS ENGAGEMENT AND LIFT PARTNERSHIP INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +240%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
University of Chicago Medical Center

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…

Health
2
Honorhealth

Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.

Health
3
Northern Arizona Healthcare Corporation

Improving health, healing people.

Health
4
Hispano Care Inc

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…

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5
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
6
The Chicago Home for Incurables

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…

Health
7
Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group

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…

Health
8
Saint Xavier University

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…

Education
9
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
11
Loyola University Medical Center

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…

Health
12
Advocate Health Care Network

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Advocate Charitable Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 29 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
18/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $437,847 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC+1 more: $3,500 · PhilanthropyOUR LADY OF GRACE PARISH: $131,500 · OtherOUR LADY OF GRACE PARISHNORTH SUBURBAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $100,000 · OtherNORTH SUBURBAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN A…MIAMI UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · OtherMIAMI UNIVERSITY+12 more: $44,950 · Other+12 moreDEPAUL UNIVERSITY: $65,000 · EducationMiami University Foundation: $10,000 · EducationLESTER AND ROSALIE ANIXTER CENTER: $36,500 · Housing & ShelterHOMELESS ENGAGEMENT AND LIFT PARTNERSHIP INC: $7,500 · Housing & ShelterFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHBROOK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $2,650 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $250 · Arts & CultureLOVING LIBRARY: $25,000 · Community ImprovementTHE LATINO ALZHEIMERS AND MEMORY DISORDERS ALLIANCE: $12,000 · HealthIMD Guest House Foundation: $1,900 · HealthCANCER AWARENESS THROUGH RESEARCH AND EDUCATION CARE: $1,000 · HealthADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $550 · Health
Philanthropy$441,347Other$326,450Education$75,000Housing & Shelter$44,000Arts & Culture$32,900Community Improvement$25,000Health$15,450

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $437,847 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH SUBURBAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $100,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetDEPAUL UNIVERSITY: $65,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLESTER AND ROSALIE ANIXTER CENTER: $36,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOVING LIBRARY: $25,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetTHE LATINO ALZHEIMERS AND MEMORY DISORDERS ALLIANCE: $12,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBARBARA OLSON CENTER OF HOPE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHOMELESS ENGAGEMENT AND LIFT PARTNERSHIP INC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNORTHBROOK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $2,650 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetGREEK AMERICAN REHABILITATION AND CARE CENTRE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArizonans for Children Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BASEBALL INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIMD Guest House Foundation: $1,900 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFoothills Caring Corps Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANCER AWARENESS THROUGH RESEARCH AND EDUCATION CARE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISERICORDIA HOME: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRAZY HORSE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Arizona Community Fou…American Express Foun…The Coleman Foundatio…The Chicago Community…Charities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodMorgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…
Arizona Community FoundationAZ14.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Romo Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Romo Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Baseball Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Romo Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Romo Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home