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The Turano Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$748k
Granted FY2025still arriving
65
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$135k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$437kArts & Culture$422kHealth$405kHuman Services$378kYouth Development$285kHousing & Shelter$187kFood & Nutrition$184kReligion$137kOther$0
02FY2025 · 65 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k46 grants · $240k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $248k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $261k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%KEEPING FAMILIES COVERED: $5k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD FOOD PANTRIES: $20k → 7%NEIGHBORHOOD FOOD PANTRIES: $13k → 7%MARKLUND: $10k → 7%NEIGHBORHOOD FOOD PANTRIES: $10k → 7%NEIGHBORHOOD FOOD PANTRIES: $9k → 7%NEIGHBORHOOD FOOD PANTRIES: $8k → 7%NEIGHBORHOOD FOOD PANTRIES: $8k → 7%MARKLUND: $8k → 7%NEIGHBORHOOD FOOD PANTRIES: $8k → 7%MARKLUND: $8k → 7%NEIGHBORHOOD FOOD PANTRIES: $8k → 7%MARKLUND: $7k → 7%NEIGHBORHOOD FOOD PANTRIES: $6k → 7%MARKLUND: $6k → 7%MARKLUND: $5k → 7%MARKLUND: $5k → 7%RAINBOWS FOR ALL CHILDREN: $5k → 14%MARKLUND: $4k → 7%MARKLUND: $4k → 7%RAINBOWS FOR ALL CHILDREN: $5k → 14%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $4k → 14%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $4k → 14%THE COMMUNITY HOUSE: $15k → 7%ALMOST HOME KIDS: $5k → 7%HEART OF PORTILLOS FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%HEART OF PORTILLOS FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%HEART OF PORTILLOS FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%HEART OF PORTILLOS FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%HEART OF PORTILLOS FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%SARAHS INN: $8k → 14%SARAHS INN: $6k → 14%SARAHS INN: $6k → 14%SARAHS INN: $6k → 14%SARAHS INN: $6k → 14%SARAHS INN: $5k → 14%SARAHS INN: $5k → 14%NEW MOMS: $5k → 14%THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE: $5k → 14%JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME: $5k → 14%PORT MINISTRIES: $10k → 14%THE PORT MINISTRIES: $8k → 14%THE PORT MINISTRIES: $8k → 14%THE PORT MINISTRIES: $8k → 14%THE PORT MINISTRIES: $8k → 14%THE PORT MINISTRIES: $6k → 14%THE PORT MINISTRIES: $5k → 14%OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS: $8k → 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

IL
WI
NY
IN
OH
RI
CA
VA
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 89 repeat orgs$115k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

89
17

Total granted

$2.6M
$52k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+38%

Still filing today

47%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k 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
Human ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterHealthYouth DevelopmentArts & 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

  • CI
    Casa Italia Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $380k · revenue +3% · 59% of their budget
  • NF
    Neighborhood Food Pantries
    9× · 2017–2025 · $87k · revenue +89%
  • SC
    SARAH'S CIRCLE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue +261%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE COMMUNITY HOUSEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +38%
  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • IR
    ILLINOIS RESTAURANT ASSOC SCHOLARS
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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
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
2
Chicago Heightening Opportunity and Potential for

Providing academic support to children experiencing homelessness in Chicago and providing resources and services to families experiencing homelessness in Chicago.

Education
3
Infant Welfare Society of 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.

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4
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

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.

Education
5
Goodwill Industries of Northern Il and Wi Stateline Area Inc

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.…

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6
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
7
A Better Chicago

A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.

Human Services
8
Nourishing Hope

Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.

—
9
Depaul Community Services Inc

To provide residential and rehabilitation services to clients with mental illnesses

Health
10
House of the Good Shepherd

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…

Human Services
11
Rimland Services Nfp

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.

Human Services
12
Meals On Wheels Chicago

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.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Moms Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

57 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. 57 of the 117 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/57
Grantees still filing
41/57
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BIG SHOULDERS FOUNDATION: $220,500 · OtherBIG SHOULDERS FOUNDATIONNAZARETH ACADEMY: $98,650 · OtherNAZARETH ACADEMYDUPAGE SENIOR CITIZENS CO: $80,000 · OtherDUPAGE SENIOR CITIZENS COFENWICK HIGH SCHOOL: $60,800 · OtherROSELAND TRAINING CENTER: $51,000 · OtherST JOHN OF THE CROSS PARISH SCHOOLL: $50,000 · Other+67 more: $861,966 · Other+67 moreNeighborhood Food Pantries: $87,000 · Human ServicesNeighborhood Food …The Port Ministries: $56,000 · Human ServicesThe Port Ministrie…MARKLUND CHILDRENS HOME: $54,000 · Human ServicesMARKLUND CHILDRENS…SARAH'S INN: $47,000 · Human ServicesSARAH'S INNTHE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHICAGO LIGHTH…THE HEART OF PORTILLOS FUND INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE HEART OF PORTI…RAINBOWS FOR ALL CHILDREN INC: $20,500 · Human ServicesAlmost Home Kids: $18,500 · Human ServicesBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $16,500 · Human ServicesTHE COMMUNITY HOUSE: $15,000 · Human ServicesJoliet Area Community Hospice Corp: $15,000 · Human Services+12 more: $64,200 · Human Services+12 moreCasa Italia Inc: $380,000 · Arts & CultureCasa Italia IncSARAH'S CIRCLE: $63,000 · Housing & ShelterFellowship Housing Corporation: $28,200 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING FORWARD: $26,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE BOULEVARD OF CHICAGO INC: $19,500 · Housing & ShelterVILLA ST BENEDICT: $5,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $2,500 · Housing & ShelterLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $60,000 · EducationIllinois Institute of Technology: $30,000 · EducationCornell University: $12,000 · EducationMORTON 201 FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationCHICAGO COLLEGIATE INC: $9,500 · EducationNorth Central College: $8,500 · Education+2 more: $4,500 · EducationLOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $60,000 · HealthA SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION: $25,500 · HealthL'ARCHE CHICAGO INC: $13,400 · HealthOak Park River Forest Infant Welfare S: $12,500 · HealthHIPPOCRATIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF FISHER HOUSE - ILLINOIS INC: $59,000 · Public Benefit
Other$1,422,916Human Services$443,700Arts & Culture$380,000Housing & Shelter$144,200Education$134,500Health$116,400Public Benefit$59,000

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 budgetCasa Italia Inc: $380,000 over 9y, 59% of budgetNeighborhood Food Pantries: $87,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetSARAH'S CIRCLE: $63,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF FISHER HOUSE - ILLINOIS INC: $59,000 over 9y, 3.4% of budgetThe Port Ministries: $56,000 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetMARKLUND CHILDRENS HOME: $54,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSARAH'S INN: $47,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetKids In Danger: $42,433 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetIllinois Institute of Technology: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFellowship Housing Corporation: $28,200 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHOUSING FORWARD: $26,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetA SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION: $25,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $25,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HEART OF PORTILLOS FUND INC: $25,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS: $21,500 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetRAINBOWS FOR ALL CHILDREN INC: $20,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetPickles Group Inc: $20,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTHE BOULEVARD OF CHICAGO INC: $19,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAlmost Home Kids: $18,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $16,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS INC: $15,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY HOUSE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJoliet Area Community Hospice Corp: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetL'ARCHE CHICAGO INC: $13,400 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetOak Park River Forest Infant Welfare S: $12,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCornell University: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SAIL TRAINING ASSOCIATION dba TALL SHIPS AMERICA: $11,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLEARBROOK: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMORTON 201 FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCHICAGO COLLEGIATE INC: $9,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMALE MOGUL INITIATIVE INC NFP: $8,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetNorth Central College: $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGirl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW MOMS INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOPPORTUNITY KNOCKS INCORPORATED: $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetST MARYS SERVICES: $7,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPADS TO HOPE DBA-JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME: $7,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHoward Area Community Center: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAGING CARE CONNECTIONS: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKEEPING FAMILIES COVERED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVILLA ST BENEDICT: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJANE ADDAMS RESOURCE CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOAVES & FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUR PASSION 1ST: $4,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetLawrence Hall: $3,500 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 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 CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
  • Who funds THE HEART OF PORTILLOS FUND INC ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

George M Eisenberg Fo…The Chicago Community…United Way of Metropo…Helen V Brach Foundat…WP & HB White Foundat…The Service Club of C…The Dupage Community …AbbVie FoundationWestlake Health Found…Oberweiler FoundationBlowitz-Ridgeway Foun…Good Heart Work Smart…
George M Eisenberg Foundation for CharitiesIL46.7× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Turano Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Turano Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Turano Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Turano Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 117 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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