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· Public charity
TONY'S CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
Caring for and curing the future of chicagoland.
$132k
Granted FY2022
2
Grants
2
Communities
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2022.
Health$50kEducation$50kArts & Culture$35kPhilanthropy$20kInternational$8kOther$13k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
foster italian
2020
italian
2021
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2022
cancer
2025
studentsstudy
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2022 · 2 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$853k
Total assets
Largest grants
- ANTHONY RIZZO FOUNDATION$20,000
- JOINT CIVIC COMMITTEE$10,000
02The need
04
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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 11%. 71% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
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.
1
Staten Island University Hospital Foundation
The mission of siuh foundation is to achieve philanthropic relationships for support and endowment, pro- viding the highest quality care, services and state-of-the-art equip.
Health
2
The Laugeni Family Foundation
Philanthropy
3
University of Wisconsin Medical
University of Wisconsin Medical Foundation (UWMF) supports the teaching, research and service missions of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health by promoting the delivery of excellent and innovative patient care…
Health
4
Union for International Cancer Control
The Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) unites and supports the cancer community to reduce the global cancer burden, to promote greater equity, and to ensure that cancer control continues to be a priority in the world health and…
Health
5
United Hospital Fund of New York
Working to build an effective and equitable health care system for every new yorker. (see sch. o)
Health
6
Children's Hospital of Chicago Faculty Practice Plan Inc
Children's hospital of chicago faculty practice plan, inc. ("fpp") engages in charitable activities to support the clinical, research and educational programs of ann & robert h. lurie's children's hospital of chicago and its affiliate…
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7
Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare - Foundation for St Francis and Franklin Inc
To actively seek and invest charitable support for ascension st. francis hospital, inc., so that they may improve the health and well-being of all the people in the communities they serve.
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8
United Cancer Front a Corporation
Health
9
Lucerna Fund
Arts & Culture
10
L Suzio Family Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Uc Healthcare System
Uc healthcare system is the sole member of uc health, llc and is responsible for facilitating interaction, cooperation and communication between the various entities that make up the uc health system to ensure a superior academic medical…
Health
12
Uvmc Foundation
Philanthropy
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alexian Brothers Health System and the most unlike its peers is Western Union Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Health$50,000Education$50,000Arts & Culture$35,000Philanthropy$20,000Other$12,500International$7,500
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.
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.
Arthur J Gallagher FoundationIL12.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 organisation TONY'S CHARITABLE 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: JOINT CIVIC COMMITTEE - ITALIAN AMERICAN.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~49 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.7× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 362550020 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on JOINT CIVIC COMMITTEE - ITALIAN AMERICAN, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 49 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 20% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Tony's Charitable Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Tony's Charitable Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines