Illinois · Nonprofit
THE SANFILIPPO FOUNDATION
THE SANFILIPPO FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,500 to it, the largest being Festival of Children Foundation ($32,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $289k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $55k
- Net assets
- $5.2M
What The Sanfilippo Foundation does
Programs
Restoration and preservation:The Sanfilippo Foundation acquires, restores, preserves and makes available to the public for educational purposes antique music machines, phonographs, arcade and gambling machines, chandeliers, art glass, pipe organs, salon carousels, street and tower clocks,steam engines and other functional mechanical antiques.the collection cannot be a viable entity if the instruments are not in working condition to be able to teach others of their history and importance. Jasper sanfilippo has maderestoration a priority in his collection. As he gifted items to the foundation, the restoration shifted to the foundation's control. At The Sanfilippo Foundation restoration shop in barrington hills, experienced craftsman and historians work together to keep machines working and/or restore them to their original condition.
$105,240 spentFundraising efforts:The Sanfilippo Foundation offers charity groups opportunities to experience the collection for fund raising purposes, offers guided group-tours (40-guest minimum), and holds foundation sponsored events and concerts.in the year 2025, 77 guided tours were offered and the foundation sponsored 3 charity fundraising tours, 9 fundraising gala events, 4 convention visits, and 12 concerts for various charity organizations.
$105,240 spentPublic education:by allowing schools and other educational oriented groups access to these historical musical instruments, we will be passing on the history of this era of machines and hopefully we will give them an appreciation of their value and music. Various docents who have different backgrounds and knowledge of the history and mechanical workings of the machines give tours. Groups are given the history of the restoration and are able to see and hear the machines on display.
$52,619 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $5.4M to $5.2M (−3%).
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $8k → $10k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of THE SANFILIPPO FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
THE SANFILIPPO FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund THE SANFILIPPO FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 62% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
THE SANFILIPPO FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
THE SANFILIPPO FOUNDATION's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE SANFILIPPO FOUNDATION
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In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE SANFILIPPO FOUNDATION?
- THE SANFILIPPO FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,500 to it, the largest being Festival of Children Foundation ($32,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE SANFILIPPO FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $54,500 in grants to THE SANFILIPPO FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE SANFILIPPO FOUNDATION?
- Festival of Children Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $32,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE SANFILIPPO FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing