· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
| S SUBURBAN REC ASSOC | $500 |
| GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE | $500 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $500 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SO AZ | $500 |
| HOMEBOYS INDUSTRIES | $250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $250 |
| MORNINGSTAR MISSION MINISTRIES | $250 |
| ONE LOVE GLOBAL WELLNESS | $250 |
| RAINBOWS FOR ALL CHILDREN | $250 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
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
How this is measured
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 Associationgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $250 · revenue +32%
- CRCAREER RESOURCE CENTER INCone grant, 2019 · $250 · revenue -86%
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 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.
How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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.
- Who funds Crisis Assistance Ministry ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds MORNING STAR MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds RAINBOWS FOR ALL CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds SURVIVOR EMPOWERMENT CENTER 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Tony Derosa Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tony Derosa Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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