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The Denicolo Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$195k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Employment$155kHealth$106kEnvironment$85kFood & Nutrition$59kPublic Safety & Disaster$16kEducation$13kHuman Services$9kAnimals$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$360k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ORCHARD VILLAGE: $3k → 14%ORCHARD VILLAGE: $3k → 14%ORCHARD VILLAGE: $3k → 14%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$376k · 8 repeat orgs$180k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
19

Total granted

$376k
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+68%

Still filing today

75%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k 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
EducationEnvironmentHealthFood & NutritionEmploymentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • FA
    FARMWORKER AND LANDSCAPER ADVOCACY PROJECT
    6× · 2017–2024 · $155k · revenue +913%
  • LF
    LAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $84k · revenue +420%
  • LS
    LYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • FA
    FDMAS ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • LF
    Lake Forest Police Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $16k · revenue +21%
  • HC
    HIPPOCRATIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +73%
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.

1
Chicago Parks Foundation

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.

Recreation & Sports
2
Gastro Intestinal Research Foundation Inc

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…

Health
3
Forest Preserve Foundation Inc

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…

Environment
4
North Shore Health Care Foundation

To expand equitable health care and healthy living in Cook County and champion solutions through funding, education and advocacy.

Health
5
Chicago Food Policy Action Council

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…

Food & Nutrition
6
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management

Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.

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7
Fund for Lake Michigan Inc

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…

Environment
8
Plant Chicago Nfp

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.

Food & Nutrition
9
The Foundation for Peripheral Neuropathy

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…

Health
10
Woods Fund of Chicago
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11
Lincoln Park Zoological Society

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…

Animals
12
Friends of Lake Forest Parks & Rec Foundation

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.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 31 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FARMWORKER AND LANDSCAPER ADVOCACY PROJECT: $155,000 · EmploymentFARMWORKER AND LANDSCAPER ADVOC…Individual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFDMAS ALLIANCE: $20,000 · OtherFDMAS ALLIANCELITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $7,950 · OtherSpirit of 67 Foundation: $9,532 · OtherSpirit of 67 FoundationORCHARD VILLAGE: $8,920 · Other+17 more: $30,130 · Other+17 moreLAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION: $84,470 · EnvironmentLAKE FOREST OPEN …+1 more: $260 · EnvironmentMEALS ON WHEELS: $54,626 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WH…+1 more: $1,500 · Food & NutritionLYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE FIBROUS DYSPLASIA FOUNDATION: $16,000 · HealthHIPPOCRATIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · HealthLake Forest Police Foundation Inc: $16,000 · Crime & Legal
Employment$155,000Other$176,532Environment$84,730Food & Nutrition$56,126Housing & Shelter$40,000Health$31,000Crime & Legal$16,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFARMWORKER AND LANDSCAPER ADVOCACY PROJECT: $155,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetLAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION: $84,470 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS: $54,626 over 4y, 12% of budgetLYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetLake Forest Police Foundation Inc: $16,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTHE FIBROUS DYSPLASIA FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetHIPPOCRATIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetSpirit of 67 Foundation: $9,532 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetORCHARD VILLAGE: $8,920 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS CHICAGO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAKE FOREST LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetHighland Park Community Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS CHICAGO: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF CHICAGO: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE FOREST HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $295 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $260 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.

The Chicago Community…The Kathleen B and Ch…Dr Scholl FoundationAbbVie FoundationBaird Foundation IncMorgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
The Chicago Community TrustIL18.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Denicolo Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Denicolo Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 31 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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