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The Cellini Family Fund Trust Co William F Cellini Jr at a glance

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The Cellini Family Fund Trust Co William F Cellini Jr

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$21k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$233kEducation$66kArts & Culture$44kHealth$31kYouth Development$18kCrime & Legal$14kCommunity Improvement$12kEnvironment$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FABRETTO$6,960
ABRAHAM LINCOLN ASSOCIATION$6,000
HOOGLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS$2,500
THE UNITY LAB$2,000
ST PATRICKS SCHOOL$1,000
RUSSELL C PAGE CHARITABLE TRUST$1,000
GO FUND ME$435
INNOCENCE PROJECT$270
MARINE VETS MC CENTRAL IL$200
JUNIOR LEAGUE$100
ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$50
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE UNITY LAB: $2k → 14%CALAHAN FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $3k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $2k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $270 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
IL
NY
MA
CA
UT
MD
NM
DC
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of The Cellini Family Fund Trust Co William F Cellini Jr’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 30% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 24%.

The Cellini Family Fund Trust Co William F Cellini Jrlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$388k · 28 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
37

Total granted

$388k
$61k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+25%

Still filing today

54%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureInternationalEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • IC
    INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP
    5× · 2019–2023 · $170k · revenue +33%
  • HC
    HOOGLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC
    3× · 2017–2024 · $12k · revenue +73%
  • EW
    ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP
    4× · 2017–2023 · $8k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • WL
    WORLD LEARNING INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +82%
  • BC
    BizLeadhers Corp
    one grant, 2018 · $9k · revenue -97%
  • THE ARMAND HAMMER UNITED WORLD COLLEGE OF THE AMER
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +5%
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.

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University of Illinois Alumni Association

The mission of the university of illinois alumni association is to enhance and advance the relationship between the university of illinois at urbana-champaign (the university) and all its alumni; to inspire lifelong loyalty and pride among…

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2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
Center for International Policy Inc

The center for international policy is a woman-led, progressive, independent nonprofit center for research, education, and advocacy working to advance a more peaceful, just, and sustainable u.s. approach to foreign policy. through…

International
4
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
5
Claremont Lincoln University

Delivers affordable, accessible, and relevant higher education programs.

Education
6
Webster University

Founded in 1915, webster is a private non-profit and global university that is committed to delivering high-quality learning experiences that transform students for global citizenship and individual excellence.

Education
7
International Women's Forum Inc

The mission of the international women's forum is to advance women's leadership worldwide. iwf takes direct action to achieve our mission in three important ways. connect: our convenings provide networking and cutting-edge content…

Education
8
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
9
Leadership Greater Chicago

To enhance the quality of the chicago metropolitan area's future leaders in whom the community will vest responsibility for its well being.

Public Benefit
10
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
11
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
12
International Leadership Association Inc

International leadership association (ila) is organized for educational purposes to serve as a global network for all those who practice, study, and teach leadership. the ila's mission is to advance leadership knowledge and practice for a…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lincoln Presidential Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Kazickas Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 70 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/39
Grantees still filing
25/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP: $170,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUPGirl Rising: $12,076 · InternationalGirl RisingWORLD LEARNING INC: $10,000 · International+3 more: $3,565 · InternationalFABRETTO CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $50,245 · OtherFABRETTO CHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONHSHS ST JOHNS FOUNDATION: $20,200 · OtherHSHS ST JOHNS FOUNDATIONST PATRICKS SCHOOL: $15,549 · OtherST PATRICKS SCHOOLFABRETTO: $11,420 · OtherFABRETTOINNOCENCE PROJECT: $8,788 · OtherWIKIMEDIA: $8,704 · OtherFAIRVIEW YOUTH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC: $6,349 · Other+40 more: $43,775 · Other+40 moreHOOGLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $12,150 · Arts & CultureCREATIVE TIME INC: $9,500 · Arts & CultureABRAHAM LINCOLN ASSOCIATION: $6,980 · Arts & CultureSpringfield Art Association of Edwards Place: $2,520 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $2,050 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION: $21,670 · EducationTHE ARMAND HAMMER UNITED WORLD COLLEGE OF THE AMER: $5,000 · EducationUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $2,500 · Education+1 more: $100 · EducationBizLeadhers Corp: $9,357 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN SPRINGFIELD INC: $2,500 · Community ImprovementMINDS MATTER OF NYC INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $5,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $70 · Youth DevelopmentENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP: $8,130 · Environment
International$195,641Other$165,030Arts & Culture$33,200Education$29,270Community Improvement$11,857Youth Development$10,070Environment$8,130

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 budgetINTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP: $170,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLINCOLN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION: $21,670 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHOOGLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $12,150 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGirl Rising: $12,076 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD LEARNING INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCREATIVE TIME INC: $9,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP: $8,130 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetABRAHAM LINCOLN ASSOCIATION: $6,980 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetDRUG POLICY ALLIANCE: $5,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $5,012 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARMAND HAMMER UNITED WORLD COLLEGE OF THE AMER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINDS MATTER OF NYC INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSpringfield Art Association of Edwards Place: $2,520 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDOWNTOWN SPRINGFIELD INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREENPEACE INC: $2,068 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID: $2,065 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE LAND OF LINCOLN INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITY LAB: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE OF SPRINGFIELD AND SANGAMON COUNTY: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pharmacy Gallery & Art Space: $1,050 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetDowntown Springfield Heritage Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetOLD STATE CAPITOL FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDGAR FELLOWS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELIJAH ILES HOUSE FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCalahan Foundation Nfp: $500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKAZICKAS FAMILY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAND OF LINCOLN HONOR FLIGHT INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDANA-THOMAS HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLYNN UNIVERSITY INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCompass for Kids Inc: $70 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.

Levi Ray & Shoup Foun…Community Foundation …Aa Harvey FoundationM G Nelson Family Fou…Green Family Charitab…The Goldman Sachs Cha…United Way of Central…Ncrc Community Develo…Charities Aid Foundat…Tides FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…The Pfizer Foundation…
Levi Ray & Shoup FoundationIL26.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Levi Ray & Shoup Foundation · Community Foundation for the Land of Lincoln Inc · Aa Harvey Foundation · M G Nelson Family Foundation · Green Family Charitable Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · United Way of Central Illinois Inc · Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Tides Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc

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 The Cellini Family Fund Trust Co William F Cellini Jr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cellini Family Fund Trust Co William F Cellini Jr. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 39%
  • World Learning Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Lynn University Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 70 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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