· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Community Health | $500,000 |
| Direct Relief | $500,000 |
| North Chicago Community Partners | $500,000 |
| Innovation Development Institute Inc | $475,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 38% of AbbVie Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 30% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 24%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.
1507 repeat relationships: 53 still active in FY2025, 1454 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
1369 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. 1369 of the 2,000 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
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- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization AbbVie Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from AbbVie Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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