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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.

$17M
Granted FY2024still arriving
62
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$8.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Philanthropy$43MInternational$17MEducation$13MArts & Culture$7.7MHealth$5.9MFood & Nutrition$5.5MScience & Tech$4.0MHuman Services$2.8MOther$0
02FY2024 · 62 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $536k
  • $50k–250k16 grants · $1.7M
  • $250k+16 grants · $15M
$50,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$49M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Feeding America$250,000
Direct Relief$250,000
Sesame Workshop$250,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CATHOLIC COUNCIL FOR THE SPANISH SPEAKING OF THE DIOCESE OF STOCKTON: $571k → 12%El Concilio California: $450k → 12%THE CATHOLIC COUNCIL FOR THE SPANISH SPEAKING OF THE DIOCESE OF STOCKTON: $445k → 12%The Catholic Council For The Spanish Speaking Of The Diocese Of Stockton: $445k → 12%CATHOLIC COUNCIL FOR THE SPANISH SPEAKING OF THE DIOCESE OF STOCKTON: $286k → 12%The Catholic Council For The Spanish Speaking Of The Diocese Of Stockto: $140k → 12%The Catholic Council For The Spanish Speaking Of The Diocese Of Stockto: $100k → 12%Youth & Family Counseling: $5k → 8%AMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS: $5k → 17%Youth & Family Counseling: $5k → 8%Cool Ministries: $5k → 8%Cool Ministries: $5k → 8%CENTER ON HALSTED: $3k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
MD
AZ
KS
AR
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 48% of Abbott Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Abbott Fundlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 13% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$59M · 97 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

97
55

Total granted

$59M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+15%

Still filing today

75%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $189k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureInternationalHealthFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UO
    University of the Pacific
    6× · 2019–2024 · $7.4M · revenue +26%
  • DIRECT RELIEF
    6× · 2019–2024 · $6.7M · revenue +67%
  • TJ
    THE JOFFREY BALLET
    6× · 2019–2024 · $4.5M · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • ES
    EASTER SEALS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue -20%
  • PU
    PROMOTORS UNIDAS PARA LA EDUCACION NACIONAL TECNOLOGIEAS SOSTENIBLES
    one grant, 2019 · $158k · revenue -95% · 38% of their budget
  • CU
    Community Unit School District No 60
    one grant, 2021 · $150k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
University of New Haven

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…

Education
3
Columbia College Chicago

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

Education
4
Lehigh University

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…

Education
5
The George Washington University

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…

Education
6
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
7
Furman University

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.

Education
8
Saint Xavier University

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…

Education
9
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
10
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
11
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

127 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
124/127
Grantees still filing
89/127
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $38,628,736 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INCROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $3,600,000 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC+3 more: $182,500 · PhilanthropyDIRECT RELIEF: $6,685,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEFCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $3,275,000 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR AS…INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $3,150,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL MEDI…AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $1,800,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDAT…PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $850,000 · InternationalThe Global FoodBanking Network: $805,000 · International+6 more: $701,500 · InternationalThe Global Fund: $3,334,000 · OtherThe Global FundEMERGENCY MEDICINE ASSOCIATION OF TANZANIA: $1,745,000 · OtherEMERGENCY MEDICINE …EMERGENCY FOOD BANK: $1,689,400 · OtherEMERGENCY FOOD BANKEASTERSEALS NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS: $900,000 · OtherIllinois Executive Mansion Association: $600,000 · OtherEL CONCILIO CALIFORNIA: $2,436,274 · OtherEL CONCILIO CALIFOR…ASIAN PACIFIC SELF-DEVELOPMENT: $1,145,000 · OtherASIAN PACIFIC SELF-…For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST): $700,000 · Other+81 more: $4,898,659 · Other+81 moreUniversity of the Pacific: $7,432,400 · EducationUniversity o…UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $2,135,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY O…Emory University: $1,040,000 · EducationEmory Univer…+25 more: $757,370 · Education+25 moreTHE JOFFREY BALLET: $4,500,000 · Arts & CultureSESAME WORKSHOP: $1,025,000 · Arts & CultureLyric Opera of Chicago: $782,140 · Arts & CultureFRANKLIN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA COSI COLUMBUS: $300,000 · Arts & Culture+11 more: $948,160 · Arts & CultureErie Family Health Center Inc: $1,390,000 · HealthRush University Medical Center: $1,100,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY MEDICAL CENTERS INC: $712,797 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $500,000 · Health+8 more: $279,334 · HealthFeeding America: $2,465,000 · Food & NutritionNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $360,000 · Food & NutritionAdelante Center for Entrepreneurship: $176,000 · Food & Nutrition+4 more: $162,500 · Food & Nutrition
Philanthropy$42,411,236International$17,266,500Other$17,448,333Education$11,364,770Arts & Culture$7,555,300Health$3,982,131Food & Nutrition$3,163,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $38,628,736 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetUniversity of the Pacific: $7,432,400 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $6,685,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE JOFFREY BALLET: $4,500,000 over 6y, 6.8% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $3,600,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $3,275,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $3,150,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetFeeding America: $2,465,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEL CONCILIO CALIFORNIA: $2,436,274 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $2,135,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $1,800,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEMERGENCY FOOD BANK: $1,689,400 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetErie Family Health Center Inc: $1,390,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetASIAN PACIFIC SELF-DEVELOPMENT: $1,145,000 over 5y, 27% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $1,100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $1,040,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSESAME WORKSHOP: $1,025,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $850,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Global FoodBanking Network: $805,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetLyric Opera of Chicago: $782,140 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY MEDICAL CENTERS INC: $712,797 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFor Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST): $700,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetIllinois Executive Mansion Association: $600,000 over 3y, 32% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $500,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Lake County: $410,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $360,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S BAKERY INC: $354,000 over 4y, 9.9% of budgetFRANKLIN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA COSI COLUMBUS: $300,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetEASTER SEALS INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC: $240,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetChicago Symphony Orchestra: $225,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BALTIMORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $200,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetAdelante Center for Entrepreneurship: $176,000 over 3y, 30% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO: $175,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCulver Educational Foundation: $175,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSUMMIT ACADEMY OIC: $160,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPROMOTORS UNIDAS PARA LA EDUCACION NACIONAL TECNOLOGIEAS SOSTENIBLES: $157,875 over 1y, 38% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $150,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSAN JOAQUIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEARTLINK: $150,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $137,160 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNorthwestern University: $108,332 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWINGS PROGRAM INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNTAIN TRAILS FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetGROWING HEALTHY PEOPLE: $80,000 over 3y, 20% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Baxter International …The Chicago Community…Trustmark FoundationAbbVie FoundationUnited Way of Lake Co…The Lake County Commu…The Grainger Foundati…Harold M & Adeline S …George M Eisenberg Fo…Jewish Federation of …The Blackbaud Giving …United Way Worldwide
Baxter International FoundationIL26.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Abbott Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Abbott Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 168 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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