· Private foundation
The Sammann 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $108k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $66k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTH SUBURBAN EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH | $66,000 |
| FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN | $35,000 |
| FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN | $15,000 |
| CASA LAKE COUNTY INC | $12,730 |
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $12,500 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $12,500 |
| NORTH SUBURBAN EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH | $10,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $10,000 |
| BUILD INCORPORATED | $5,000 |
| FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF LAKE COUNTY INC | $5,000 |
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $5,000 |
| FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| K-LOVE INC | $5,000 |
| ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO | $2,500 |
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 (FY24–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
14 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- FMFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC2× · 2024–2025 · $120k · revenue +7%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches2× · 2024–2025 · $13k · revenue +3%
- SFSAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE2× · 2024–2025 · $5k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- TFTHE FAMILY SERVICE CENTER OF WILMETTE GLENVIEW NORTHBROOK AND KENILWORTHone grant, 2024 · $100 · revenue +17%
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.
Children's services
The chicago children's advocacy center unites public, private, and community partners to ensure the safety, health, and well-being of abused children.
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
Provide pediatric and subspecialty surgical, research, and educational services.
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
Lutheran child and family services of illinois (agency) is a nonprofit statewide social service agency whose mission is to attract, develop, mobilize, and prvoide resources to improve the well-being of children, individuals, families,…
Helping chicagoland's at-risk children and their families build, achieve and sustain better lives.
Friends of the children - chicago has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…
Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
We partner with families to help children with special health care needs live a great life.
Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite and empower the promise of youth. we nurture children, strengthen communities and believe that inherent in every child is the ability to succeed and thrive in life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 28 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 FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds CASA LAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF LAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds BUILD INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S RELIEF INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC OF THE BAROQUE ↗
- Who funds Care and Share Inc ↗
- Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ↗
- Who funds SKOKIE COUNTRY CLUB EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CIVIC LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds SAVING TINY HEARTS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds The Foundation United ↗
- Who funds ORPHANS OF THE STORM ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY SERVICE CENTER OF WILMETTE GLENVIEW NORTHBROOK AND KENILWORTH ↗
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 · National Philanthropic Trust · AbbVie Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 organization The Sammann 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 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.