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Tony Derosa Foundation
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OUR LADY OF TEPEYAC HIGH SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| ST THOMAS OF CANTERBURY SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| LOYOLA ACADEMY | $1,500 |
| CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY | $1,500 |
| CARDINAL JOSEPH BERNARDIN SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $500 |
| S SUBURBAN REC ASSOC | $500 |
| GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE | $500 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SO AZ | $500 |
| ONE LOVE GLOBAL WELLNESS | $250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
| RAINBOWS FOR ALL CHILDREN | $250 |
| ST MARY CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $250 |
| THE NIGHT MINISTRY | $250 |
| HOMEBOYS INDUSTRIES | $250 |
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 (FY19–25, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 25% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
Crisis Assistance Ministry7× · 2019–2025 · $11k · revenue +6%- MSMORNING STAR MISSION MINISTRIES INC5× · 2021–2025 · $2k · revenue +9%
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY5× · 2019–2025 · $2k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- SJST JOSEPH HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $1k
- SWSouth West Special Recreation Associationone grant, 2024 · $250 · revenue +8%
- CRCAREER RESOURCE CENTER INCone grant, 2019 · $250 · revenue -86%
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.
The Foodbank's mission is to provide food, and develop awareness of and creative solutions for food insecurity. Annually, the Foodbank distributes approximately 9.5 million pounds of food to 130 food pantries, soup kitchens, children's…
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.…
The Organization's mission is to assist shut-ins, usually the elderly, by delivering hot, nutritious and low-cost meals to them in their homes.
Live Free Illinois is a statewide organization partnering with over 120 congregations and directly impacted individuals to build safer more equitable communities across Illinois. Operating at the intersection of criminal justice reform and…
Goodwill provides exceptional opportunities for people facing employment barriers.
To partner with the community to eliminate poverty and create social change through advocacy and essential services.
Empowering people with disabilities by providing services that promote independence, equality and intergration, enhancing their quality of life.
Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…
Administering an array of critical, intensive therapeutic interventions and/or facilitation services to emotionally and behaviorally disturbed clients for whom DCFS is legally responsible in order to stabilize their traditional or home of…
Serving recently arrived migrants and asylum seekers in the Chicagoland area and is committed to upholding the dignity and human rights of immigrants.
To assist children who have been victims of abuse
Conflict resolution and violence prevention assistance to at-risk populations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ctf Illinois and the most unlike its peers is South West Special Recreation Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 23 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 Crisis Assistance Ministry ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds MORNING STAR MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds SURVIVOR EMPOWERMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RAINBOWS FOR ALL CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds AID FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds South West Special Recreation Association ↗
- Who funds CTF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds CAREER RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
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: AbbVie Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Tony Derosa 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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