· Private foundation
The Denicolo Family Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| FARMWORKER & LANDSCAPER ADVOCACY PROJECT | $50,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $12,336 |
| LYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| LAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION | $7,240 |
| NORTHWESTERN LAKE FOREST HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR | $4,150 |
| ORCHARD VILLAGE | $3,420 |
| HIGHLAND PARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| SPIRIT OF 67 FOUNDATION | $300 |
| LAKE FOREST HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $295 |
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 (FY21–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
8 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 3 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, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k 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
- FAFARMWORKER AND LANDSCAPER ADVOCACY PROJECT6× · 2017–2024 · $155k · revenue +913%
- LFLAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION7× · 2017–2024 · $84k · revenue +420%
- LSLYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- FAFDMAS ALLIANCEone grant, 2021 · $20k
- LFLake Forest Police Foundation Incone grant, 2022 · $16k · revenue +21%
- HCHIPPOCRATIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +73%
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.
The Chicago Parks Foundation is a separate 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization that also serves as the strategic partner for the coordination of fundraising and charitable resources for the Chicago Park District.
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 mission of the forest preserve foundation is to engage in protecting and restoring the treasured natural habitats within the forest preserve of cook county and to enhance outdoor experiences of all communities.we will do this by…
To expand equitable health care and healthy living in Cook County and champion solutions through funding, education and advocacy.
The Organization facilitates and informs the development of and advocacy for responsible policies improving the food sovereignty of Chicago residents as they have power and control to determine culturally appropriate, nutritionally sound…
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.
Lake Michigan is one of Wisconsin's greatest assets, and its water is critical to the state's future. The Fund for Lake Michigan is here to help sustain the Lake on behalf of the people and places that depend on it. Our goal is to have a…
Plant Chicago's mission is to cultivate local circular economies. We envision a paradigm shift in production, consumption, and waste driven at the local level, generating equity and economic opportunity for all residents.
The mission of the Foundation is to dramatically improve the lives of people living with peripheral neuropathy. It is focused on discovering more effective treatment options and finding a cure for peripheral neuropathy. The Foundation…
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…
The organization's mission is to provide funds for programs, facilities and events for the lake forest parks and recreation department which fall ouside the city of lake forest's budget.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Meals On Wheels. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
17 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. 17 of the 31 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.
- Who funds FARMWORKER AND LANDSCAPER ADVOCACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds LAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds LYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lake Forest Police Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FIBROUS DYSPLASIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIPPOCRATIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Spirit of 67 Foundation ↗
- Who funds ORCHARD VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds PAWS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds THE LAKE FOREST LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Highland Park Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds INFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds LAKE FOREST HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · The Kathleen B and Charles R Walgreen III Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Denicolo Family Foundation Inc 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.