· Private foundation
Snow Foundation
Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
97% of Snow Foundation’s FY2022 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Snow Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 11 organizations, $8k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St Lawrence Foundation | $1,000 |
| Celebration Child Care | $1,000 |
| Our House of Hope | $500 |
| PADS Lake County | $500 |
| Ill Restaurant Asso Ed Foudation | $500 |
| St Lawrence Church | $500 |
| Glenkirk Foundation | $500 |
| Hope Food Pantry | $500 |
| Lambs Farm Foundation | $500 |
| American Red Cross | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $300 |
| Little Brothers | $300 |
| Wounded Warrior Project | $300 |
| Salvation Army | $300 |
| Special Olympics Illinois | $200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 14% of its 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 +73% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TLTHE LAMBS FARM INC2× · 2021–2022 · $1k · revenue +73%
- PLPADS Lake County Inc2× · 2021–2022 · $1k · revenue +94%
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS2× · 2021–2022 · $500 · revenue +34%
Funded once
- CCCelebration Child Careone grant, 2021 · $1k
- SLSt Lawrence Foundationone grant, 2021 · $1k
- IRIll Restaurant Asso Ed Foudationone grant, 2021 · $500
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.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Lincoln park zoo is dedicated to connecting people with nature by providing a free, family-oriented wildlife experience in the heart of chicago and by advancing the highest quality of animal care, horticulture, education, science and…
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
To provide opportunity for individuals with disability to live a healthy lifestyle through physical activity, research, advocacy and health promotion.
The mission of goodwill industries of southeastern wisconsin, inc. ("goodwill") is: connecting people to work. preparing people for life. goodwill is dedicated to creating collective community impact through (continued on schedule o)
To empower people with special needs to become self-sufficient through the power of work.
Our organization's mission is to raise awareness for and provide physical aid and support to disabled us military veterans. our program covers a crucial gap in the industry-a veteran operated organization, that can assist veterans with…
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…
Living Well Disability Services transforms the lives of people impacted by disabilities through the delivery of exceptional services.
With our partners, we work to improve health and create a better health care system so that people and communities will flourish.
To maintain economic vitality and quality of life in lake county, illinois by creating and retaining quality jobs, stimulating capital investment, pursuing economic diversity and improving the county's business climate.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 25 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds THE LAMBS FARM INC ↗
- Who funds PADS Lake County Inc ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MainStreet Libertyville Inc ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds WARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR RAINFOREST NATIONS SECRETARIAT ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Snow Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Snow Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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