· Private foundation
Abbott Fund
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $536k
- $50k–250k16 grants · $1.7M
- $250k+16 grants · $15M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| American Online Giving Foundation Inc | $7,965,870 |
| The Global Fund | $1,667,000 |
| University Of The Pacific | $1,100,000 |
| The Joffrey Ballet | $600,000 |
| Erie Family Health Center Inc | $500,000 |
| El Concilio California | $450,000 |
| University Of Minnesota Foundation | $390,000 |
| The Emergency Food Bank | $370,000 |
| Feeding America | $300,000 |
| Emergency Medicine Association Of Tanzania | $300,000 |
| Asian Pacific Self-Development And Residential Association | $300,000 |
| Direct Relief | $250,000 |
| The Joffrey Ballet | $250,000 |
| Feeding America | $250,000 |
| Sesame Workshop | $250,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $2.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 48% of Abbott Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
97 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2024, 53 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $189k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- UOUniversity of the Pacific6× · 2019–2024 · $7.4M · revenue +26%
DIRECT RELIEF6× · 2019–2024 · $6.7M · revenue +67%- TJTHE JOFFREY BALLET6× · 2019–2024 · $4.5M · revenue +81%
Funded once
- ESEASTER SEALS INCone grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue -20%
- PUPROMOTORS UNIDAS PARA LA EDUCACION NACIONAL TECNOLOGIEAS SOSTENIBLESone grant, 2019 · $158k · revenue -95% · 38% of their budget
- CUCommunity Unit School District No 60one grant, 2021 · $150k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
127 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 127 of the 168 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds University of the Pacific ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds THE JOFFREY BALLET ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds EL CONCILIO CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Erie Family Health Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ASIAN PACIFIC SELF-DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds SESAME WORKSHOP ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Global FoodBanking Network ↗
- Who funds Lyric Opera of Chicago ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MEDICAL CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) ↗
- Who funds Illinois Executive Mansion Association ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Lake County ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S BAKERY INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA COSI COLUMBUS ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds THE BALTIMORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Adelante Center for Entrepreneurship ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Baxter International Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Trustmark Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · United Way of Lake County Inc · The Lake County Community Foundation · The Grainger Foundation Inc · Harold M & Adeline S Morrison Family Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · United Way Worldwide
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 Abbott Fund 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.
- Jersey Battered Women's Service Inc — 40% of income from government
- The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc — 33% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Simmons University — 1% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
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.