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Silvio B Troianello Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

Silvio B Troianello Trust

$15k
Granted FY2021
3
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Food & Nutrition$80kCrime & Legal$71kEducation$42kEmployment$20kCivil Rights$10kArts & Culture$10kYouth Development$8kRecreation & Sports$5kOther$0
02FY2021 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$6,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MONARCH AWARDS FOUNDATION$7,000
THE TERRELL BOSLEY ANTI VIOLENCE AS$6,000
TRUE BELIEVERS COMMUNITY CONNECTION$2,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $15k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $15k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $10k → 17%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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$198k · 6 repeat orgs$51k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +135% since the first grant, against +44% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2021, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
8

Total granted

$198k
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+135%
+44%

Still filing today

83%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
Food & NutritionHuman ServicesCrime & LegalEmploymentCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther
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

  • GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $80k · revenue +140%
  • TI
    THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $40k · revenue +135%
  • SL
    SERVICE LEAGUE OF CRYSTAL LAKE INC
    2× · 2017–2020 · $20k · revenue +135%

Funded once

  • TC
    The Cara Programgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +116%
  • RENAISSANCE THEATERWORKS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +44%
  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +78%
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
Roosevelt University

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…

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2
True Chicago
Arts & Culture
3
Equality Dream Team

Provide resources and tools to help african american youth from underserved communities aged 14-24 achieve economic sustainability through education, career, and workforce development.

Education
4
Teach St Louis

Founded In 2018, Teach St. Louis (formerly St. Louis Teacher Residency) launched to improve teacher quality and retention in St. Louis, a city where 40% of new teachers exit the classroom in their first three years. Teach St. Louis…

Education
5
University of Chicago

The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.

Education
6
The Chicago Network Inc

In furtherance of its charitable and educational goals, the Network's activities consist primarily of providing educational opportunities for its members and the public on issues related to the advancement of women in the workplace. As the…

Community Improvement
7
Dominican University

Dominican University provides instruction to students seeking an Associates, Undergraduate or Graduate degree (some doctorate and certificates), and administers all of its programs without discrimination of race, color, gender, religion,…

Education
8
Global Talent Lab Inc

Gtl is dedicated to researching the role of talent in innovation and frontier science, particularly focusing on individuals from less privileged backgrounds who face barriers to realizing their potential. through research projects and…

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9
The Family Institute

Our mission is to strengthen and heal families and individuals from all walks of life through clinical service, education and research.

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10
Advantage Testing Foundation

Our mission is to advance the academic and professional aspirations of underrepresented students of modest means, thereby expanding our nation's leadership pool. we provide educational tutoring, standardized test preparation and academic…

Education
11
Technologists Aspiring through Servant Leadership

TASL is a 501c3 non-profit organization that has been preparing aspiring technologists including veterans to be employable in our global digital economy since 2019. Through our partnership with CompTIA we provide instructor-led training…

Youth Development
12
Human Rights and Business Award Foundation
Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwestern University; the most unlike its peers is The Terrell Bosley Anti-Violence. 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

12 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. 12 of the 16 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $79,670 · Food & NutritionGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORYTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCENCE PROJ…Monarch Awards Foundation Inc: $19,500 · OtherMonarch Awards Foundat…THE MONARCH FOUNDATION: $8,000 · OtherTHE MONARCH FOUNDATIONAABA LAW FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherAABA LAW FOUNDATIONGARY METHODIST CHURCH: $2,500 · OtherANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $5,120 · OtherANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUENorthwestern University: $5,000 · OtherNorthwestern Universit…TRUE BELIEVERS COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS: $2,000 · OtherNORTH SOUTH FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Other+2 more: $1,300 · OtherTHE TERRELL BOSLEY ANTI-VIOLENCE: $30,500 · Crime & LegalTHE TERRELL B…The Cara Program: $20,000 · EmploymentThe Cara …SERVICE LEAGUE OF CRYSTAL LAKE INC: $20,000 · Community ImprovementSERVICE L…RENAISSANCE THEATERWORKS INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Food & Nutrition$79,670Human Services$40,000Other$50,420Crime & Legal$30,500Employment$20,000Community Improvement$20,000Arts & Culture$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $79,670 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TERRELL BOSLEY ANTI-VIOLENCE: $30,500 over 5y, 37% of budgetThe Cara Program: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSERVICE LEAGUE OF CRYSTAL LAKE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetMonarch Awards Foundation Inc: $19,500 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetRENAISSANCE THEATERWORKS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $5,120 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUE BELIEVERS COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNORTH SOUTH FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPACTT Learning Center: $1,000 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.

The Chicago Community…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Chicago Community TrustIL12.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Silvio B Troianello Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Silvio B Troianello Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    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 16 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2022) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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