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Ventana Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$183k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
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 FY20172024.

Education$1.5MHuman Services$1.1MArts & Culture$761kAnimals$478kReligion$210kFood & Nutrition$151kHealth$122kInternational$78kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $59k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$6.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JOFFREY BALLET$50,000
JOHN G SHEDD AQUARIUM$50,000
ONE GOAL$25,000
MESSIAH LUTHERAN CHURCH$18,500
ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO$15,000
ROCK PRAIRIE MONTESSORI SCHOOL$7,314
FORWARD MOMENTUM CHICAGO$5,000
SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS$5,000
TUCSON CONQUISTADOES FDN$5,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MADONNA MISSION: $500 → 14%MADONNA MISSION: $100 → 14%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $15k → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $10k → 15%JOURNEY CARE: $2k → 14%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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
PA
CA
CO
VA
AZ
NC
TX

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 edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.3M · 26 repeat orgs$117k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +64% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
26

Total granted

$4.3M
$107k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+16%

Still filing today

50%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationAnimalsHuman ServicesHealthReligionOther

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

  • CR
    CRISTO REY NETWORK
    6× · 2017–2022 · $550k · revenue +211%
  • SA
    SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $478k · revenue +67%
  • O
    ONEGOAL
    7× · 2017–2024 · $254k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • AH
    Agrace HospiceCare Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue -8%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF PENSYLVANIA
    one grant, 2017 · $24k
  • NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -11%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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 Adler Planetarium

The adler planetarium ('adler') is a not-for-profit cultural institution whose mission is to connect people to the universe and each other under the sky we all share. it aspires to be the world's premier center for engaging in astronomy…

Arts & Culture
2
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
Chicago Opera Theater

Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.

Arts & Culture
5
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
6
Lookingglass Theatre Company

Lookingglass theatre company is a national leader in the creation and presentation of innovative, cutting-edge theatrical work. lookingglass interweaves movement, circus arts and narrative in original and captivating ways. guided by an…

Arts & Culture
7
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
8
University of Chicago

The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.

Education
9
Chicago Historical Society

The Chicago History Museum strives to be a destination for learning, inspiration, and civic engagement. Through dynamic exhibitions, tours, programs, digital resources, and special events, the Museum connects people to Chicago's history…

Arts & Culture
10
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
11
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
12
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Theatre Group Inc and the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%36%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%32%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr16%64%20–35yr13%2%35–55yr16%30%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/28
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,537

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 55 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
19/27
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COMM FD OF SOUTHERN AZ — $955,000 · OtherCOMM FD OF SOUTHERN AZUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA — $601,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONAMESSIAH LUTHERAN CHURCH — $203,500 · OtherMESSIAH LUTHERAN CHURCHJOFFREY BALLET OF CHICAGO — $200,000 · OtherJOFFREY BALLET OF CHICAGOCASA DE SAN MIGUEL — $150,000 · OtherCASA DE SAN MIGUELIndividual grant recipient — $102,000 · Other+28 more — $420,501 · Other+28 moreCRISTO REY NETWORK — $550,000 · EducationCRISTO REY NETW…THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO — $40,000 · EducationTHE ART INSTITU…+2 more — $3,500 · EducationSHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY — $478,000 · AnimalsSHEDD AQUARI…+2 more — $251 · AnimalsTHE JOFFREY BALLET — $152,500 · Arts & CultureTHE JOFFR…KOHL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC — $120,000 · Arts & CultureKOHL CHIL…TRAVERSE CITY FILM FESTIVAL — $55,000 · Arts & CultureTRAVERSE …FORWARD MOMENTUM CHICAGO — $25,000 · Arts & CultureFORWARD M…+4 more — $6,500 · Arts & CultureONEGOAL — $254,000 · Youth DevelopmentAgrace HospiceCare Foundation Inc — $30,000 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $10,000 · HealthYOUTH ON THEIR OWN — $25,000 · Human ServicesElea Institute — $2,000 · Human Services+1 more — $600 · Human Services
Other$2,632,501Education$593,500Animals$478,251Arts & Culture$359,000Youth Development$254,000Health$40,000Human Services$27,600

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 budgetCRISTO REY NETWORK — $550,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetSHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY — $478,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetONEGOAL — $254,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE JOFFREY BALLET — $152,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetKOHL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC — $120,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTRAVERSE CITY FILM FESTIVAL — $55,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAgrace HospiceCare Foundation Inc — $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFORWARD MOMENTUM CHICAGO — $25,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetYOUTH ON THEIR OWN — $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSTART EARLY — $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS TUCSON — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTucson Conquistadores Foundation — $7,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetROCK PRAIRIE MONTESSORI INC — $7,314 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation) — $6,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART TUCSON — $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTUCSON MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORIC BLOCK INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetElea Institute — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMadonna Mission — $600 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $151 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $100 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.

  • Who funds CRISTO REY NETWORK
  • Who funds SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY
  • Who funds ONEGOAL
  • Who funds THE JOFFREY BALLET
  • Who funds KOHL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC
  • Who funds TRAVERSE CITY FILM FESTIVAL
  • Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
  • Who funds Agrace HospiceCare Foundation Inc
  • Who funds FORWARD MOMENTUM CHICAGO
  • Who funds YOUTH ON THEIR OWN
  • Who funds START EARLY
  • Who funds SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS TUCSON
  • Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY
  • Who funds Tucson Conquistadores Foundation
  • Who funds ROCK PRAIRIE MONTESSORI INC
  • Who funds The Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation)
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART TUCSON
  • Who funds University of Arizona Foundation
  • Who funds TUCSON MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORIC BLOCK INC
  • Who funds Elea Institute

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.

The Chicago Community TrustIL15× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Ventana 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.

    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 55 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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