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· Private foundation
THE FOSCO FAMILY FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$20k
Granted FY2025
7
Grants
2
Communities
$5k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of THE FOSCO FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
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2019
—
2020
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2021
chicagoart
2022
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2023
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2024
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2025
education
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2025 · 7 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$198k
Total assets
Largest grants
- CHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION$5,000
- CENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION$5,000
- GIVING UNIV OF CHGO EDUCATION$5,000
- WBEZ-CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA$2,500
- PAUL HODGES SOCIETY$1,000
- NORTH LAWNDALE COLLEGE PREP HS$500
- ANN&ROBT LURIE CHILD HOSPITAL FD$500
02The need
04
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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 12%. 55% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
48%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$122k · 5 repeat orgs$134k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +139% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
5
12
Total granted
$122k
$119k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+139%
+9%
Still filing today
40%
58%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Arts & CultureEducationHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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
- NANSU ART MUSEUM4× · 2020–2023 · $62k
- CPCHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $22k · revenue +139%
- AARTADIA3× · 2017–2020 · $22k
Funded once
- MCMAYO CLINICgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +29%
- ARANDERSON RANCH ARTS CEone grant, 2018 · $5k
- ARANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +29%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Columbia College Chicago
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Education
2
Chicago Shakespeare Theater
To create vivid, entertaining theatrical experiences that invigorate and engage people of all ages and identities by illuminating the complexity, ambiguity, and wonder of our world.
Arts & Culture
3
The Frick Collection
The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.
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4
Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts
With funding, services, and advocacy, ArtsWave fuels a more vibrant economy and connected community through the arts.
Arts & Culture
5
Contemporary Arts Center
To provide public access to contemporary art. The Contemporary Arts Center is a multi-disciplinary arts center that is dedicated to the presentation, production, and promotion of the arts of our time.
Arts & Culture
6
The Contemporary Arts Center
The CAC is a lab for understanding ourselves, others, and the world around us through the experience and creation of all contemporary art forms.
Arts & Culture
7
National Gallery of Art
The National Gallery of Art serves the nation by welcoming all people to explore and experience art, creativity, and our shared humanity.
Arts & Culture
8
Currier Gallery of Art
Focused on art, centered in community, committed to inspire.
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9
University of Chicago
The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.
Education
10
Cleveland Museum of Art
To provide a collection of artwork representing achievement of individuals and civilizations, past and present, for the benefit of the public.
Arts & Culture
11
The Detroit Institute of Arts
The dia creates experiences that help each visitor find personal meaning in art.
Arts & Culture
12
Great Lakes Center for the Arts
Educate and serve all in northern michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.
Arts & Culture
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Artists Coalition and the most unlike its peers is Mayo Clinic. 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
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$118,400Health$100,000Recreation & Sports$22,000Arts & Culture$13,700Education$1,500
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 MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds THREEWALLS ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO ARTISTS COALITION ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA GRAND OPERA ↗
- Who funds ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
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.
The Chicago Community TrustIL12.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organisation THE FOSCO 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CHICAGO ARTISTS COALITION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~2 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 510136854 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on CHICAGO ARTISTS COALITION, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to The Fosco Family Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Fosco Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines