· Private foundation
Abra Prentice Foundation Inc
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
- $10k–50k10 grants · $285k
- $50k–250k29 grants · $2.5M
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHELBURNE FARMS | $250,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & POLICY CENTER | $200,000 |
| PUBLIC BROADCASTING SYSTEMS FOUNDATION | $175,000 |
| CHICAGO JESUIT ACADEMY | $166,750 |
| DANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $150,000 |
| FRANCISCAN OUTREACH | $150,000 |
| THE WETLANDS INITIATIVE | $125,000 |
| COMPASS TO CARE | $100,000 |
| CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN | $100,000 |
| NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION | $100,000 |
| FOOD RUNNERS | $100,000 |
| WTTW | $100,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $100,000 |
| RECIPE FOR CHANGE | $75,000 |
| SARAH'S CIRCLE | $75,000 |
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, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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 +41% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 4 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k 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
SHELBURNE FARMS6× · 2019–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +257%- DMDANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND6× · 2019–2024 · $825k · revenue +93%
- ELENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST6× · 2019–2024 · $700k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- MGMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALone grant, 2022 · $250k
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +38%
- TNTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +91%
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.
Our mission is to ensure that Chicago seniors and people with disabilities benefit from nutritious meal programs that improve their quality of life and maximize independence.
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
At legal aid chicago, we work together to provide high quality civil legal aid to people living in poverty and other vulnerable groups.through advocacy, education, collaboration, and litigation we empower individuals, protect fundamental…
Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…
Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.
Volunteers of america of illinois partners with the people we serve to create transformational and lasting change in their lives through programs that support, empower, and transform.
Goodwill provides exceptional opportunities for people facing employment barriers.
Chh honors every person's right to a home and health care, by bridging the housing and health care systems, to improve the lives of chicagoans experiencing homelessness.
Arise chicago builds partnerships between faith communities and workers to fight workplace injustice through education, organizing, and advocating for public policy changes.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections for the Homeless Inc and the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 59 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 SHELBURNE FARMS ↗
- Who funds DANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST ↗
- Who funds COMPASS TO CARE ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds SARAH'S CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER OF CONCERN ↗
- Who funds NEW MOMS INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds RECIPE FOR CHANGE ↗
- Who funds THE WETLANDS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD RUNNERS ↗
- Who funds GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHICAGO RIVER ↗
- Who funds TUTORING CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds GLENWOOD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Lava Mae ↗
- Who funds THE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION ↗
- Who funds CONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds THE KIDS EQUIPMENT NETWORK NFP ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ZACHARIAS SEXUAL ABUSE CENTER ↗
- Who funds OLD IRVING PARK COMMUNITY CLINIC ↗
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: AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Dr Scholl Foundation · The a Montgomery Ward Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Pelino Charitable Foundation · Rice Foundation · Andrew and Alice Fischer Charitable Trust · WP & HB White Foundation · Enchanted Backpack · Lavin Family Foundation
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 Abra Prentice Foundation Inc 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.
- Shelburne Farms — 3% 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.
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