· Private foundation
The Chomicz Family 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AVE MARIA SCHOOL OF LAW | $2,000 |
| MERCY HOMES | $1,500 |
| CRU | $1,000 |
| HOLY APOSTLE ORTHODOX CHURCH | $500 |
| CTU | $500 |
| THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO | $340 |
| OUR LADY MT CARMEL PARISH | $250 |
| CATO INSTITUTE | $100 |
| ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE | $100 |
| HILLSIDE COLLEGE | $100 |
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 (FY23–23, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those 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 +50% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 9 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, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AMAVE MARIA SCHOOL OF LAW3× · 2023–2025 · $5k · revenue +32%
- VFVOLKMAN FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $2k · revenue +63%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $1k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- SXSAINT XAVIER UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +26%
- MJMIDWEST JESUITS PETER TABER SPONSRSHIPone grant, 2023 · $3k
- DDDriehaus Design Initiativeone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -36%
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
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…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 40 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 PAW PAW LAKE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AVE MARIA SCHOOL OF LAW ↗
- Who funds SAINT XAVIER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Driehaus Design Initiative ↗
- Who funds VOLKMAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Richard H Driehaus Museum ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ST DISMAS ↗
- Who funds THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
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: The Chicago Community 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 The Chomicz Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Chomicz Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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