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The Vitale Family Foundation

Name: The Vitale Family Foundation grants, 2022–2025
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License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

79
grants reported: $1.6M
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $10,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Illinois Institute of Technology2 grants · $350,000
Chicago Council On Global Affairs4 grants · $200,000
President and Fellows of Harvard College3 grants · $150,000
Art Institute of Chicago4 grants · $130,000
Music and Dance Theater Chicago4 grants · $100,000
Ingenuity Incorporated Chicago6 grants · $84,000
Court Theatre Fund4 grants · $74,000
Leadership Greater Chicago5 grants · $70,000
A Better Chicago4 grants · $50,000
Teach for America-Chicago2 grants · $50,000

Giving over time

$221,000

2022

$190,250

2023

$883,000

2024

$288,000

2025

Grant history

All 79 reported grants, largest first.

$250,000
Illinois Institute of Technology · Chicago, IL · 2024
Payment to Presidential Chair of innovation
$175,000
Chicago Council On Global Affairs · Chicago, IL · 2024
The abc campaign (150k) and annual dues (25k)
$100,000
Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
Scholarship Fund
$100,000
Illinois Institute of Technology · Chicago, IL · 2024
Scheduled commitment for Vitale Presidential chair
$50,000
President and Fellows of Harvard College · Boston, MA · 2025
Pledges fund
$50,000
President and Fellows of Harvard College · Boston, MA · 2024
Charitable Event
$50,000
President and Fellows of Harvard College · Boston, MA · 2024
In respect to pledges
$29,000
Ingenuity Incorporated Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2023
Charitable Event
$25,000
Academy for Urban School Leadership · Chicago, IL · 2025
General & Unrestricted
$25,000
Leadership Greater Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2025
Celebrate Leaders 2025 fund
$25,000
Museum of Science and Industry · Chicago, IL · 2025
Charitable Event
$25,000
Music and Dance Theater Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2025
Charitable Event
$25,000
Teach for America · Chicago, IL · 2025
General & Unrestricted
$25,000
Leadership Greater Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
Celebrate Leaders
$25,000
Music and Dance Theater Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
Charitable Event
$25,000
Court Theatre Fund · Chicago, IL · 2023
The Gospel at Colonus production sponsorship
$25,000
Music and Dance Theater Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2023
Charitable Event
$25,000
Teach for America-Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2023
General & Unrestricted
$25,000
Court Theatre Fund · Chicago, IL · 2022
General & Unrestricted
$25,000
Music and Dance Theater Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2022
Manual Cinema programing and general purposes
$25,000
Teach for America-Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2022
General & Unrestricted
$20,000
Surge Institute · Chicago, IL · 2024
Ascension
$20,000
A Better Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2022
General & Unrestricted
$20,000
Hand in Hand of Glynn · Brunswick, GA · 2022
General & Unrestricted
$17,000
Court Theatre Fund · Chicago, IL · 2024
Charitable Event
$15,000
Ingenuity Incorporated Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2025
Tapestry Program
$15,000
Ingenuity Incorporated Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
Tapestry
$10,000
A Better Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2025
General & Unrestricted
$10,000
Chicago Council On Global Affairs · Chicago, IL · 2025
Charitable Event
$10,000
Ingenuity Incorporated Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2025
Annual fund
$10,000
Leadership Greater Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2025
Annual fund
$10,000
Surge Institute · Chicago, IL · 2025
General & Unrestricted
$10,000
Ucan · Chicago, IL · 2025
Leadership Awards fund
$10,000
Wings Program · Palatine, IL · 2025
Charitable Event
$10,000
A Better Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
General & Unrestricted
$10,000
Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
Annual gift to the School of the Art Institute
$10,000
Ymca of Metropolitan Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
Pledge
$10,000
A Better Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2023
General & Unrestricted
$10,000
Chicago Council On Global Affairs · Chicago, IL · 2023
Glad Program
$10,000
City Year · Chicago, IL · 2023
Ripples of Hope
$10,000
Ucan · Chicago, IL · 2023
Annual youth leadership
$10,000
Ymca of Metropolitan Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2023
Play On
$10,000
Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2022
General & Unrestricted
$10,000
Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2022
For the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
$10,000
Educators for Excellence · New York, NY · 2022
Chicago Chapter
$10,000
Ingenuity Incorporated Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2022
Equity in arts education
$10,000
Ucan · Chicago, IL · 2022
Leadership program
$10,000
Wings Program · Palatine, IL · 2022
Charitable Event
$10,000
Ymca of Metropolitan Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2022
Recent money raise
$7,500
Merit School of Music · Chicago, IL · 2025
Charitable Event
$7,000
Court Theatre Fund · Chicago, IL · 2025
General & Unrestricted
$5,000
Advance Illinois Nfp · Chicago, IL · 2025
General & Unrestricted
$5,000
City Year · Chicago, IL · 2025
Ripples of Hope fund
$5,000
Chicago Council On Global Affairs · Chicago, IL · 2024
Charitable Event
$5,000
City Year · Chicago, IL · 2024
Ripples of Hope
$5,000
Ingenuity Incorporated Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
General & Unrestricted
$5,000
The Bottom Line · Boston, MA · 2024
General & Unrestricted
$5,000
University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
General & Unrestricted
$5,000
Advance Illinois Nfp · Chicago, IL · 2023
Celebrating 15 Years of Advancing Illinois Public Education
$5,000
Leadership Greater Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2023
Celebrating leaders
$5,000
Surge Institute · Chicago, IL · 2023
General & Unrestricted
$5,000
University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2023
Crown School
$5,000
University of Chicago Graduate School of Business · Chicago, IL · 2023
General & Unrestricted
$5,000
Writers Theatre · Glencoe, IL · 2023
Charitable Event
$5,000
Advance Illinois Nfp · Chicago, IL · 2022
General & Unrestricted
$5,000
Family Focus · Chicago, IL · 2022
General & Unrestricted
$5,000
Leadership Greater Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2022
To celebrate leaders
$5,000
Surge Institute · Chicago, IL · 2022
General & Unrestricted
$5,000
University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2022
crown family fund at crown family school of social work, policy and practice
$5,000
University of Chicago Graduate School of Business · Chicago, IL · 2022
General & Unrestricted
$3,500
Field Museum of Natural History · Chicago, IL · 2025
Founders Council fund
$3,500
Field Museum of Natural History · Chicago, IL · 2023
Founders Council
$2,500
Field Museum of Natural History · Chicago, IL · 2022
General & Unrestricted
$2,500
Writers Theatre · Glencoe, IL · 2022
General & Unrestricted
$1,250
Anderson Ranch Arts Foundation · Snowmass Vlg, CO · 2023
Department of Photography and New Media
$1,000
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
General & Unrestricted
$1,000
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2023
General & Unrestricted
$1,000
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2022
General & Unrestricted
$500
Porchlight Music Theatre Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2023
General & Unrestricted

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.