· Private foundation
AbbVie Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k34 grants · $798k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $582k
- $250k+23 grants · $46M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The University of Chicago Medicine | $15,000,000 |
| AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC | $11,357,716 |
| Health Leads | $3,000,000 |
| Points of Light Foundation | $2,591,700 |
| Scholarship America Inc | $2,082,269 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,050,000 |
| Partners In Health | $1,400,000 |
| YourCause Holdings LLC | $1,182,284 |
| The Heart of America Foundation | $1,100,000 |
| Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc | $750,000 |
| E4E Relief | $600,000 |
| Direct Relief | $500,000 |
| North Chicago Community Partners | $500,000 |
| Community Health | $500,000 |
| Innovation Development Institute Inc | $475,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $14.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% 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 38% of AbbVie Foundation’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. Read by recipient address, 30% of the giving stays in IL; read by stated purpose it is 24% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 +40% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
1508 repeat relationships — 53 still active in FY2025, 1455 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.3M 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
University of Chicago8× · 2017–2024 · $21M · revenue +56%
DIRECT RELIEF9× · 2017–2025 · $16M · revenue +94%- POPOINTS OF LIGHT FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $13M · revenue +57%
Funded once
- NCNorth Chicago Community Unit Schoolone grant, 2024 · $1.5M
- NCNorth Chicago CUSD 187one grant, 2019 · $1.2M
- AAANSWER ALSone grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +24% · 44% of their budget
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.
Uniting communities to alleviate hunger.
A higher educational institution, providing both undergraduate and graduate degrees.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of family medicine.
the organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the UCSF Foundation.
See schedule ouniversity of new haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts & professional education.
To advance the rights and opportunities of children and youth worldwide.
Improve the lives of people with cancer and their families through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.
Furman university is an institution of higher education providing distinctive undergraduate education emphasizing an engaged approach combining classroom learning with real world experiences and self-discovery.
To improve patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice.
Georgetown university is one of the world's leading academic and research institutions. established in 1789, georgetown is the nation's oldest catholic and jesuit university.
The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…
To advance professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Rose. 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 32 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 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
1371 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. 1371 of the 2,000 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds POINTS OF LIGHT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE INTERNATIONAL PEDIATRIC AIDS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds HEART OF AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds North Chicago Community Partners ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY REACH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS ↗
- Who funds BERNIE'S BOOK BANK ↗
- Who funds HEALTH LEADS INC ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KABOOM INC ↗
- Who funds HEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Providence St Mel School ↗
- Who funds The Beacon Place NFP ↗
- Who funds JERSEY CARES INC ↗
- Who funds MAP International Inc ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY LAKE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL HEALTH CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
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: The Lake County Community Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation · First Bank Chicago Foundation · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · Trustmark Foundation · The Service Club of Chicago · Cme Group Community Foundation F/K/A Nymex Foundation · The Allergan Foundation · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · Baxter International Foundation · Andrew and Alice Fischer Charitable Trust
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 AbbVie 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Families for Depression Awareness Inc — 8% of income from government
- Jersey Cares Inc — 6% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Fairleigh Dickinson University — 2% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 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.