· Private foundation
Sebastian Family 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, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $245k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $355k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DIOCESE OF JOLIET PARISH | $100,000 |
| DIOCESE OF JOLIET PARISH | $100,000 |
| NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL | $55,000 |
| CINCINNATI CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| GREENWOOD PROJECT | $50,000 |
| BENET ACADEMY | $45,000 |
| MONTINI CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| SAINT BENEDICTINE SOCIETY | $30,000 |
| ANNUNCIATION BYZANTINE CATHOLIC CHURCH | $25,000 |
| ST ISAAC JOGUES CHURCH | $25,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHWESTERN OHIO | $25,000 |
| CATHOLIC SHRINE OF MARIAPOCH | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| BLOOD CANCER UNITED OHIO RIVER VALLEY REGION | $10,000 |
| VANDERBILT 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 (FY19–25, $450k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 91% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 11% of Sebastian Family Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 56% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 43%.
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 +27% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
53 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 46 since wound down; 12 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, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $402k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GPGREENWOOD PROJECT7× · 2019–2025 · $210k · revenue ×15
- MHMISERICORDIA HOME6× · 2019–2024 · $150k · revenue +60%
- DMDISMAS MINISTRY INC6× · 2019–2024 · $110k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- SMSt Mary Gostyn Catholic Churchone grant, 2019 · $30k
- UOUniversity of Cincinnati Centerone grant, 2019 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $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 international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
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.
A global nonprofit biomedical research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
See schedule ocri is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing cancer immunotherapy through scientific discovery and global collaboration. since 1953, cri has funded research that deepens understanding of the immune system and its…
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…
To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 78 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 GREENWOOD PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MISERICORDIA HOME ↗
- Who funds DISMAS MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds Guadalupe Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR HAITI INC ↗
- Who funds RETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds New Wave Feminists ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sebastian Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sebastian Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hope for Haiti Inc: 0% of income from government
- Guadalupe Center Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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