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The Lazzara Family Foundation at a glance

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The Lazzara 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.

$155k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$358kHealth$328kArts & Culture$125kFood & Nutrition$74kReligion$65kHuman Services$63kPublic Safety & Disaster$35kEmployment$35kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $105k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EVANS SCHOLAR FOUNDATION$50,000
CHICAGO CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS$25,000
WELLNESS HOUSE$20,000
DYNAMIC CONNECTIONS$15,000
ACE INSTITUTE$15,000
OUR LADY OF PEACE CHURCH$10,000
HOPE CREST$10,000
SCLERODERMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION$10,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DOWNERS GROVE AREA FISH: $4k → 7%LITTLE FRIENDS: $25k → 7%HOPE CREST: $10k → 14%ALMOST HOME CHICAGO: $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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
NY
IN
CT
CA
MD
AZ
TN
FL
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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$685k · 16 repeat orgs$385k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
22

Total granted

$685k
$260k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+8%

Still filing today

44%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationReligionFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther
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

  • HH
    HINSDALE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $100k · revenue +178%
  • VA
    VITAMIN ANGEL ALLIANCE INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $50k · revenue +69%
  • CP
    CHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • SX
    SAINT XAVIER UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $38k · revenue +8%
  • BS
    Big Shoulders Fund
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -14%
  • LF
    LITTLE FRIENDS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +26%
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
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
2
Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group

Northwestern memorial healthcare is an integrated healthcare system, consisting of multiple hospitals (including northwestern memorial hospital, an academic medical center) and networks of physicians and healthcare professionals, where the…

Health
3
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Ann & robert h. lurie children's hospital of chicago is dedicated to the health and well-being of all children. as the pediatric teaching facility for northwestern university feinberg school of medicine, this commitment drives us to be a…

Health
4
Loyola University Medical Center

We, loyola university health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.lumc is a member of loyola university health system and trinity…

Health
5
Northwestern Memorial HealthCare

We are an organization of caregivers who aspire to consistent, high standards of quality, cost-effectiveness and patient satisfaction. we seek to improve the health of the communities we serve by delivering a broad range of services with…

Health
6
Center for Housing and Health

Chh honors every person's right to a home and health care, by bridging the housing and health care systems, to improve the lives of chicagoans experiencing homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
7
The Chicago Home for Incurables

The primary purpose of the chicago home for incurables, ("the home"), is to provide financial support to the university of chicago for the operation of patient care facilities and funding of research of incurable diseases at the university…

Health
8
Lurie Children's Surgical Foundation Inc

Provide pediatric and subspecialty surgical, research, and educational services.

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9
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
10
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
11
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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12
Children's Hospital of Chicago Medical Center

We are dedicated to the health and well-being of all children. as the pediatric teaching facility for the northwestern university feinberg school of medicine, this commitment drives us to be a leader in: -pediatric health care delivery…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Little Friends Inc; the most unlike its peers is Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemeth Leisrael) Inc. 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

29 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. 29 of the 47 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
20/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOCIETY OF THE LITTLE FLOWER: $100,000 · OtherSOCIETY OF THE LITTLE FLOWERMOTHER MCAULEY HIGH SCHOOL: $70,000 · OtherMOTHER MCAULEY HIGH SCHOOLUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $70,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientEVANS SCHOLAR FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherEVANS SCHOLAR FOUNDATIONACE INSTITUTE: $25,000 · OtherNATIONAL SEPT 11 MEMORIAL & MUSEUM: $25,000 · OtherST CECILIA CONGREGATION: $25,000 · OtherCHICAGO CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherCATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherST MARY'S COLLEGE: $20,000 · Other+13 more: $100,000 · Other+13 moreHINSDALE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $100,000 · HealthHINSDALE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIO…MAYO CLINIC: $70,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $35,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH…GUILDHAUS: $25,000 · HealthGUILDHAUSHealthwell Foundation: $20,000 · HealthHealthwell FoundationWellness House: $20,000 · HealthWellness HouseScleroderma Research Foundation: $10,000 · Health+1 more: $2,500 · HealthSAINT XAVIER UNIVERSITY: $38,000 · EducationSAINT XAV…DYNAMIC CONNECTIONS: $25,000 · EducationDYNAMIC C…Big Shoulders Fund: $25,000 · EducationBig Shoul…UCLA FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationUCLA FOUN…VITAMIN ANGEL ALLIANCE INC: $50,000 · Food & NutritionNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $20,000 · Food & NutritionLITTLE FRIENDS INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesHOPE CHEST INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesDOWNERS GROVE AREA FISH INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesAlmost Home Chicago Inc: $2,500 · Human ServicesMATTHIAS ACADEMY CORPORATION: $2,500 · Human ServicesCHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Arts & CultureSupport Our Aging Religious Inc: $20,000 · ReligionFAMILY PROMISE - GREATER PHOENIX: $5,000 · Religion
Other$600,000Health$282,500Education$98,000Food & Nutrition$70,000Human Services$44,000Arts & Culture$35,000Religion$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHINSDALE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVITAMIN ANGEL ALLIANCE INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT XAVIER UNIVERSITY: $38,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDYNAMIC CONNECTIONS: $25,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetBig Shoulders Fund: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE FRIENDS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGUILDHAUS: $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetHealthwell Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSupport Our Aging Religious Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWellness House: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNY HELMETS TO HARDHATS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE CHEST INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetScleroderma Research Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASA LAKE COUNTY INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE - GREATER PHOENIX: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOWNERS GROVE AREA FISH INC: $4,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetZeldas Kitchen Witches: $2,500 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMATTHIAS ACADEMY CORPORATION: $2,500 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.

  • Who funds HINSDALE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds VITAMIN ANGEL ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds SAINT XAVIER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds DYNAMIC CONNECTIONS ↗
  • Who funds Big Shoulders Fund ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE FRIENDS INC ↗
  • Who funds GUILDHAUS ↗
  • Who funds Healthwell Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds Support Our Aging Religious Inc ↗
  • Who funds Wellness House ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds NY HELMETS TO HARDHATS INC ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOPE CHEST INC ↗
  • Who funds Scleroderma Research Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CASA LAKE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗

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…Arthur J Gallagher Fo…American Endowment Fo…The Pfizer Foundation…Raymond James Charita…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…The Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…Paypal Charitable Giv…
The Chicago Community TrustIL15.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving 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 Lazzara Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lazzara Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 47 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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