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The Turano Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k46 grants · $240k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $248k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $261k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CASA ITALIA | $135,000 |
| BIG SHOULDERS FOUNDATION | $75,500 |
| LOYOLA UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| NAZARETH ACADEMY | $35,000 |
| DUPAGE SENIOR CITIZENS CO | $30,000 |
| FENWICK HIGH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD FOOD PANTRIES | $20,000 |
| ROSELAND TRAINING CENTER | $15,000 |
| ST JOHN OF THE CROSS PARISH SCHOOLL | $15,000 |
| OUR LADY OF POMPEII | $15,000 |
| FRIENDS OF FISHER HOUSE ILLINOIS | $12,500 |
| SARAH'S CIRCLE | $10,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP HOUSING | $10,000 |
| ASCENSION ILLINOIS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MORTON 201 FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $444k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
89 repeat relationships — 54 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 11 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k 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
- CICasa Italia Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $380k · revenue +3% · 59% of their budget
- NFNeighborhood Food Pantries9× · 2017–2025 · $87k · revenue +89%
- SCSARAH'S CIRCLE9× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue +261%
Funded once
- TCTHE COMMUNITY HOUSEgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +38%
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSEone grant, 2024 · $10k
- IRILLINOIS RESTAURANT ASSOC SCHOLARSone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
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.
Providing academic support to children experiencing homelessness in Chicago and providing resources and services to families experiencing homelessness in Chicago.
Infant welfare society of chicago (iws) (d/b/a iws family health) provides quality medical, dental and behavioral health services for the health, physical and mental development of children and their families in the chicagoland community.
The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.
The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…
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…
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
To provide residential and rehabilitation services to clients with mental illnesses
House of Good Shepherd serves with love and compassion women and children affected by domestic violence by offering a safe place with opportunities for emotional, educational and spiritual growth, giving hope and continued support for a…
Provide community-based residential housing to adults with autism and/or severe developmental disabilities. also provide developmental training and other supports to this same population.
Our mission is to ensure that Chicago seniors and people with disabilities benefit from nutritious meal programs that improve their quality of life and maximize independence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Moms Inc and the most unlike its peers is Meals On Wheels. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
57 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. 57 of the 117 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 Casa Italia Inc ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood Food Pantries ↗
- Who funds SARAH'S CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FISHER HOUSE - ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds The Port Ministries ↗
- Who funds MARKLUND CHILDRENS HOME ↗
- Who funds SARAH'S INN ↗
- Who funds Kids In Danger ↗
- Who funds Illinois Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds Fellowship Housing Corporation ↗
- Who funds HOUSING FORWARD ↗
- Who funds A SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HEART OF PORTILLOS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds RAINBOWS FOR ALL CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Pickles Group Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BOULEVARD OF CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds Almost Home Kids ↗
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: 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
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 Turano 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.
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