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The Fosco Family Foundation at a glance

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The Fosco 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.

$20k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$123kHealth$101kRecreation & Sports$22kEducation$7kPublic Benefit$3kReligion$1k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$143k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION$5,000
CHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION$5,000
GIVING UNIV OF CHGO EDUCATION$5,000
WBEZ-CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA$2,500
PAUL HODGES SOCIETY$1,000
ANN&ROBT LURIE CHILD HOSPITAL FD$500
NORTH LAWNDALE COLLEGE PREP HS$500
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 55% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%MAYO CLINIC: $100k → 9%ARTADIA: $10k → 20%OPPORTUNITY EDUCATION FAMILY CTRE: $1k → 11%ATLANTIC CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $1k → 12%NSU ART MUSEUM: $22k → 13%FLORIDA GRAND OPERA: $1k → 15%ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CE: $5k → 6%CHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION: $17k → 14%ARTADIA: $10k → 20%CENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION: $5k → 11%NSU ART MUSEUM: $20k → 13%ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER: $4k → 6%CHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%ARTADIA: $2k → 20%NSU ART MUSEUM: $10k → 13%NORTH LAWNDALE COLLEGE PREP HS: $500 → 14%NSU ART MUSEUM: $10k → 13%CHICAGO ARTISTS COALITION: $1k → 14%ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $500 → 14%CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: $1k → 14%WBEZ-CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA: $3k → 14%ANN&ROBT LURIE CHILD HOSPITAL FD: $500 → 14%SMART MUSEUM OF ART: $6k → 14%SMART MUSEUM OF ART: $4k → 14%SMART MUSEUM OF ART: $4k → 14%PAUL HODGES SOCIETY: $1k → 14%GIVING UNIV OF CHGO EDUCATION: $5k → 14%THREEWALLS: $1k → 14%HYDE PARK KENWOOD INTERFAITH COUN: $1k → 14%THREEWALLS: $1k → 14%MIKVA CHALLENGE: $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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$122k · 5 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +29% for those 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
11

Total granted

$122k
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+29%

Still filing today

60%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • NA
    NSU ART MUSEUM
    4× · 2020–2023 · $62k
  • CP
    CHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $22k · revenue 0%
  • AI
    ARTCOUNCIL INC DBA ARTADIA
    3× · 2017–2020 · $22k · revenue +118%

Funded once

  • AR
    ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CE
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • AR
    ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +29%
  • MC
    MIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +25%
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 Art Department

Cultivates new and emerging Chicago artists, and aims to benefit artists by exploring art and learning. Through exhibitions, artist residencies, classes/workshops and community building, we are dedicated to cultivating new voices, ideas,…

Arts & Culture
2
Chicago Opera Theater

Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.

Arts & Culture
3
The Chicago Academy for the Arts

The chicago academy for the arts transforms emerging artists through a curriculum and culture which connect intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, and creativity to impart the skills to lead and collaborate across diverse communities.

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4
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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5
The Arts Club of Chicago

The arts club of chicago was formed as a means to encourage, foster, and develop higher standards of arts craftsmanship, and to maintain the city of chicago facility for the housing of galleries and exhibitions open to the public and free…

Arts & Culture
6
3ARTS Inc

Founded in 1912, with a history centered on women artists, 3Arts, Inc. (the Organization) is an Illinois not-for-profit organization that supports artists working in the performing, teaching, and visual arts in the Chicago metropolitan…

Arts & Culture
7
Chicago Public Art Group

Chicago public art group brings artists and communities together to produce high-quality public art, extending and transforming the tradition of collaborative, community-involved public artwork.

Arts & Culture
8
International Academy of Fine Art

The florence acadamy of art was founed in 1991 by daniel graves (see schedule o for details).

International
9
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
10
Atlanta Contempory Art Center Inc

Dedicated to the creation, presentation and advancement of contemporary art through its exhibitions, educational programming and studio art program.

Arts & Culture
11
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
12
Lookingglass Theatre Company

Lookingglass theatre company is a national leader in the creation and presentation of innovative, cutting-edge theatrical work. lookingglass interweaves movement, circus arts and narrative in original and captivating ways. guided by an…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Art Institute of Chicago; the most unlike its peers is Threewalls. 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

13 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. 13 of the 23 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAYO CLINIC: $100,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICNSU ART MUSEUM: $62,400 · OtherNSU ART MUSEUMSMART MUSEUM OF ART: $14,000 · OtherSMART MUSEUM OF ARTANDERSON RANCH ARTS CE: $5,000 · OtherANDERSON RANCH ARTS CEGIVING UNIV OF CHGO EDUCATION: $5,000 · OtherGIVING UNIV OF CHGO EDUCATION+6 more: $5,500 · Other+6 moreCHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION: $22,000 · Recreation & SportsCHICAGO P…ARTCOUNCIL INC DBA ARTADIA: $21,500 · PhilanthropyARTCOUNCI…CENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER: $3,500 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureThreewalls: $2,000 · Arts & CultureChicago Artists Coalition: $1,200 · Arts & CultureATLANTIC CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureFLORIDA GRAND OPERA INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureMIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION: $2,500 · EducationTHE CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: $1,000 · EducationTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $500 · Education
Health$100,000Other$91,900Recreation & Sports$22,000Philanthropy$21,500Arts & Culture$16,200Education$4,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAYO CLINIC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION: $22,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetARTCOUNCIL INC DBA ARTADIA: $21,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThreewalls: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetChicago Artists Coalition: $1,200 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTIC CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFLORIDA GRAND OPERA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $500 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.

Metzner Family Founda…The Chicago Community…National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Metzner Family FoundationIL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Metzner Family Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Fosco Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Fosco Family Foundation. 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%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Atlantic Center for the Arts Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Center for Creative Education: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 23 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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