· Private foundation
The Bruno and Sallie Pasquinelli Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $375k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION | $225,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS - CONSTITUTION LECTURE SERIES | $50,000 |
| CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $15,000 |
| THE GRADO CLINICS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| LYRICS OPERA OF CHICAGO | $10,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $5,000 |
| WTTW | $1,000 |
| WBEZ | $500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–22, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 4 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, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $286k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CSChicago Symphony Orchestra4× · 2021–2024 · $55k · revenue +15%
- LOLyric Opera of Chicago4× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +72%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGOone grant, 2020 · $3.2M
- UOUNIVERISTY OF ILLINOIS OUTPATIENT CARE CENTERone grant, 2022 · $1.0M
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS OUTPATIENT CARE CENTERone grant, 2022 · $24k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To inspire conservation leadership by connecting people with wildlife and nature.
The Kenneth C. Griffin Museum of Science and Industry (the Museum), a 501(c)(3) corporation, is the largest science museum in the Western hemisphere and home to thousands of artifacts. For 90 years, the Museum has been a premier…
The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…
The Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University ("The Auditorium"), an Illinois not-for-profit corporation, is committed to presenting the finest in international, cultural, community and educational programming to Chicago and to the…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The music institute of chicago ("music institute") leads people toward a lifelong engagement with music, by providing widely accessible resources for high quality music teaching, performing, and service activities.
Chicago sun-times serves the public interest by strengthening the well-being of our local communities and our democracy through independent local journalism.
To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.
Provide pediatric and subspecialty surgical, research, and educational services.
Our mission is to enhance the ability of our members to provide world class care to patients with digestive disorders and advance the profession through excellence and innovation based upon the pillars of patient care, education,…
Promoting excellence, education, professionalism and collegiality in the culinary profession
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Maks. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 20 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds SECOND HELPINGS INC ↗
- Who funds GRADO CLINICS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAKS ↗
- Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds The Cousteau Society Inc ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Bruno and Sallie Pasquinelli Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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