· Private foundation
The Zucaro Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of The Zucaro Family Foundation Inc’s FY2022 grant dollars went to Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year The Zucaro Family Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 13 organizations, $590k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $589k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VANGUARD CHARITABLE | $47,000 |
| THE JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $24,500 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY USA | $23,500 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE RMHC OF CHICAGOLAND & NORTHWEST INDIANA INC | $23,500 |
| MARYVILLE ACADEMY ATTN DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT | $23,500 |
| ASSUMPTION CATHOLIC CHURCH | $23,500 |
| ST MARTHA CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $23,500 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $23,500 |
| THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL CHICAGO | $23,500 |
| CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION | $23,500 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL | $23,500 |
| LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR | $23,500 |
| HOOVER INSTITUTION DEVELOPMENT OFFICE | $23,500 |
| BOYS TOWN | $23,500 |
| ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO | $23,500 |
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 (FY17–21, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of The Zucaro Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +61% since the first grant, against +43% for those funded once.
34 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2021, 23 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2021, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $283k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1D5× · 2017–2021 · $47k · revenue +49%
- TATHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO5× · 2017–2021 · $33k · revenue +45%
- FFFather Flanagan's Boys' Home5× · 2017–2021 · $29k · revenue +40%
Funded once
Chicago Zoological Societygraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +43%- ARAnn Robert H Lurie Childrens Hospitone grant, 2017 · $2k
- TMThe Museum of Science Industryone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
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To be the trusted partner in all healthcare decisions and to improve health by providing highly accessible, world-class care and services.
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How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 51 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 THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
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- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ROCKFORD COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Zucaro Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Zucaro Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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