· Private foundation
The Vitale Family Foundation Inc
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $210k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY | $25,000 |
| ACADEMY FOR URBAN SCHOOL LEADERSHIP | $25,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA INC | $25,000 |
| LEADERSHIP GREATER CHICAGO INC | $25,000 |
| MUSIC AND DANCE THEATER CHICAGO INC | $25,000 |
| INGENUITY INCORPORATED CHICAGO | $15,000 |
| A BETTER CHICAGO | $10,000 |
| SURGE INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| WINGS PROGRAM INC | $10,000 |
| UCAN | $10,000 |
| CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS | $10,000 |
| INGENUITY INCORPORATED CHICAGO | $10,000 |
| LEADERSHIP GREATER CHICAGO INC | $10,000 |
| MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC | $7,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $293k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.
31 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 3 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IIIllinois Institute of Technology6× · 2017–2024 · $400k · revenue +27%
- MAMUSIC AND DANCE THEATER CHICAGO INC8× · 2017–2025 · $314k · revenue +66%
- TATHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO7× · 2017–2024 · $293k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- GAGLENWOOD ACADEMYone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -23%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGOone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +23%
Family Focusgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +158%
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.
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.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…
To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.
The chicago high school for the arts (chiarts) develops the next generation of diverse, artistically promising scholar-artists through intensive pre-professional training in the arts, combined with a comprehensive college preparatory…
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 music institute of chicago ("music institute") leads people toward a lifelong engagement with music, by providing widely accessible resources for high quality music teaching, performing, and service activities.
We believe in the life-changing, transformational, revelatory power of great art and opera. Lyric Opera of Chicago exists to provide a broad, deep, and relevant cultural service to the Chicago region and the nation, and to advance the…
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.
We are chicago's jesuit, catholic university - a diverse community seeking god in all things and working to expand knowledge in the service of humanity through learning, justice, and faith.
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
How this is measured
43 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. 43 of the 49 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
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- Who funds UCAN ↗
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- Who funds WINGS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds SURGE INSTITUTE ↗
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- Who funds Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY FOR URBAN SCHOOL LEADERSHIP ↗
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- Who funds Family Focus ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP 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.
Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation · Finnegan Family Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Frank Family Foundation · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation · Fulk Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Vitale Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Vitale Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- The Bottom Line Inc: 0% of income from government
- Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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