· Private foundation
Sam & Mary Palumbo Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $95k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $287k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $84k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF CHICAGO | $84,150 |
| ELMHURST UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| CHRIST THE KING JESUIT COLLEGE PREP | $25,000 |
| SAN MIGUEL SCHOOL CHICAGO | $15,000 |
| GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| RAY GRAHAM ASSOCIATION | $12,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $10,000 |
| ADULT AND TEEN CHALLENGE ILLINOIS | $10,000 |
| THE COMMUNITY HOUSE | $10,000 |
| BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $10,000 |
| CEDARVILLE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.
42 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 19 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, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $196k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- EUELMHURST UNIVERSITY6× · 2017–2024 · $181k · revenue +43%
Northwestern University6× · 2019–2024 · $75k · revenue +34%- MUMarquette University5× · 2017–2024 · $65k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- ECElmhurst College - ELSAone grant, 2023 · $30k
- UOUniversity of IL at UrbanaChampaignone grant, 2023 · $20k
- MSMichigan Stateone grant, 2022 · $15k
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.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
Xavier is a jesuit catholic university rooted in the liberal arts tradition. our mission is to educate each student intellectually, morally, and spiritually. we create learning opportunities through rigorous academic and professional…
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.
Roosevelt university is an independent, non-profit, metropolitan university and national leader in educating socially conscious citizens for active and dedicated lives as leaders in their professions and their communities. the university's…
How this is measured
67 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 67 of the 124 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 ELMHURST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds INFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINTE AUTISM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DEPAUL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds RAY GRAHAM ASSOCIATION FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES ↗
- Who funds BRADLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Wheaton College ↗
- Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DORDT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Lake Forest College ↗
- Who funds SAINT XAVIER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Cedarville University ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds EDGEWOOD UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER ↗
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: The Coleman Foundation Inc · Goldenberg Max Tw M G Foundation · The Dupage Community Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Circle of Service Foundation · Motorola Solutions Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Ernest Wentcher Educational Fund · Marquette Bank Education Foundation · Best Walter & Edith Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sam & Mary Palumbo Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sam & Mary Palumbo Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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