Illinois · Private foundation
The Turano Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $748k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 65
- Grants FY2025
- 56
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $135,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 40 to 66
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $14M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations The Turano Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 65 | $748k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 56 | $538k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 59 | $298k | 8% |
| FY2022 | 66 | $257k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 57 | $235k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 56 | $187k | 27% |
| FY2019 | 48 | $157k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 40 | $137k | 10% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Casa Italia Inc | $380,000 | 9 | 59% |
| Neighborhood Food Pantries | $87,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Sarah's Circle | $63,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Fenwick High School | $60,800 | 8 | n/a |
| Loyola University Medical Center | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Loyola University of Chicago | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Friends of Fisher House - Illinois Inc | $59,000 | 9 | 3% |
| The Port Ministries | $56,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Marklund Childrens Home | $54,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Roseland Training Center | $51,000 | 9 | n/a |
Show all 63 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 54 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Turano Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 55 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Helen V Brach Foundation · WP & HB White Foundation · The Service Club of Chicago · The Dupage Community Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Westlake Health Foundation · Oberweiler Foundation · Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation · Good Heart Work Smart Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Turano Foundation
- How much does The Turano Foundation give?
- The Turano Foundation reported 65 grants totaling $747,900 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 40 and 66 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Turano Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (16%), Arts & Culture (16%), Health (15%).
- Who are The Turano Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Casa Italia Inc ($380k), Neighborhood Food Pantries ($87k), Sarah's Circle ($63k).
- Does The Turano Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Turano Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Turano Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities, The Chicago Community Trust, United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc.
- Where is The Turano Foundation based?
- The Turano Foundation is based in IL.
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