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Tony's Charitable Foundation

Caring for and curing the future of chicagoland.

$58k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

Health$70kPhilanthropy$50kArts & Culture$35kRecreation & Sports$13kPublic Benefit$8kInternational$8kHuman Services$6kEducation$6k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 3 grants below total $19,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $58,122 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $38,622 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$6,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$812k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BERWYN CITY HALL$8,000
BEACON PLACE DONATION$6,000
SAINT VIATOR HIGH SCHOOL$5,500
02The need
03

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:

Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BEACON PLACE DONATION: $6k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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
The Laugeni Family Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Staten Island University Hospital Foundation

The mission of staten island university hospital's foundation is to achieve philanthropic relationships for support and endowment, providing highest quality care, services and state of the art equipment. philanthropy has played an…

Health
3
The Cigna Group Foundation
Education
4
The Caruso Family Foundation
Philanthropy
5
L Suzio Family Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Us Bank Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Washington Square Health Foundation
8
Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation
Human Services
9
Lurie Children's Surgical Foundation Inc

Provide pediatric and subspecialty surgical, research, and educational services.

10
The Anthony & Catherine Fusco Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Loyola University Health System

We, loyola university health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.loyola university health system is a member of trinity health.

Health
12
United Health 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.

04the grantee network

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WESTERN UNION FOUNDATION — $50,000 · EducationWESTERN UNION FOUNDATIONSAINT VIATOR HIGH SCHOOL WORK STUDY NFP — $5,500 · EducationSAINT VIATOR HIGH SCHOOL WORK ST…ALEXIAN BROTHERS HEALTH SYSTEM — $50,000 · HealthALEXIAN BROTHERS HEALTH SYSTE…Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans — $25,000 · Arts & CultureJoint Civic Committe…Casa Italia Inc — $10,000 · Arts & CultureCasa Italia IncNIASHF (NATIONAL ITALIAN AMERICAN SPORTS HALL OF FAME) — $12,500 · OtherNIASHF (NAT…BERWYN PARK DISTRICT — $8,000 · OtherBERWYN PARK…ANTHONY RIZZO FAMILY FOUNDATION — $20,000 · PhilanthropyANTHONY RIZ…UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $7,500 · InternationalThe Beacon Place NFP — $6,000 · Human Services
Education$55,500Health$50,000Arts & Culture$35,000Other$20,500Philanthropy$20,000International$7,500Human Services$6,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetALEXIAN BROTHERS HEALTH SYSTEM — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN UNION FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJoint Civic Committee of Italian Americans — $25,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetANTHONY RIZZO FAMILY FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

AbbVie FoundationIL13.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: AbbVie Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher 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 organization 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    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, FY2025

    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.

    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Tony's Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Tony's Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 10 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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