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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.

$3.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Education$2.6MFood & Nutrition$2.6MEnvironment$2.2MArts & Culture$1.7MHousing & Shelter$1.7MHealth$1.7MPhilanthropy$942kHuman Services$935kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k10 grants · $285k
  • $50k–250k29 grants · $2.5M
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$55,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$55M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY$100,000
COMPASS TO CARE$100,000
WTTW$100,000
FOOD RUNNERS$100,000
NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION$100,000
CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN$100,000
SARAH'S CIRCLE$75,000
RECIPE FOR CHANGE$75,000
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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%COVENANT HOUSE: $50k → 17%HUMANITARIAN SERVICE PROJECT: $20k → 7%DREAMS ARE POSSIBLE: $25k → 11%COVENANT HOUSE: $25k → 17%HUMANITARIAN SERVICE PROJECT: $5k → 7%HUMANITARIAN SERVICE PROJECT: $5k → 7%KIDS EQUIPMENT NETWORK: $30k → 7%KIDS EQUIPMENT NETWORK: $30k → 7%KIDS EQUIPMENT NETWORK: $25k → 7%KIDS EQUIPMENT NETWORK: $25k → 7%KIDS EQUIPMENT NETWORK: $25k → 7%KIDS EQUIPMENT NETWORK: $23k → 7%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $250k → 14%THE CENTER OF CONCERN: $55k → 14%THE CENTER OF CONCERN: $55k → 14%THE CENTER OF CONCERN: $55k → 14%THE CENTER OF CONCERN: $55k → 14%THE CENTER OF CONCERN: $55k → 14%THE CENTER OF CONCERN: $50k → 14%NEW MOMS: $75k → 14%NEW MOMS: $75k → 14%NEW MOMS: $50k → 14%NEW MOMS: $50k → 14%NEW MOMS: $30k → 14%NEW MOMS: $25k → 14%LYDIA HOME ASSOCIATION: $25k → 14%LYDIA HOME ASSOCIATION: $25k → 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

VT
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
VA
DC
LA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15M · 48 repeat orgs$855k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +38% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
6

Total granted

$15M
$655k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+38%

Still filing today

75%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k 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
Human ServicesEnvironmentArts & CultureHealthHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalOther
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

  • SHELBURNE FARMS
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +50%
  • DM
    DANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    6× · 2019–2024 · $825k · revenue +93%
  • EL
    ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST
    6× · 2019–2024 · $700k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • MG
    MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2022 · $250k
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +38%
  • TN
    THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +91%
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
Meals On Wheels Chicago

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.

Food & Nutrition
2
Nourishing Hope

Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.

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3
Goodwill Industries of Northern Il and Wi Stateline Area Inc

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.…

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4
A Better Chicago

A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.

Human Services
5
American Water Works Association

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.

Public Benefit
6
Legal Aid Chicago

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…

Crime & Legal
7
Alternatives Inc

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…

Health
8
Homeward Bound Inc

Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.

Human Services
9
Volunteers of America of Illinois

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.

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10
Goodwill Industries of Southeastern Michigan Inc

Goodwill provides exceptional opportunities for people facing employment barriers.

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11
Center for Housing and Health

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.

Housing & Shelter
12
Arise Chicago

Arise chicago builds partnerships between faith communities and workers to fight workplace injustice through education, organizing, and advocating for public policy changes.

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections for the Homeless Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/43
Grantees still filing
33/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PUBLIC BROADCASTING SYSTEMS FOUNDATION: $950,000 · OtherPUBLIC BROADCASTING SYSTEMS FOUNDATIONDANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $825,000 · OtherDANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUNDFIDELITY CHARITABLE (DONOR ADVISED FUND): $662,216 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE (DONOR ADVISED FUND)ST CHRYSOTOM'S CHURCH & DAY SCHOOL: $650,000 · OtherST CHRYSOTOM'S CHURCH & DAY SCHOOLTHE SALVATION ARMY: $570,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYFRANCISCAN OUTREACH: $430,000 · OtherFRANCISCAN OUTREACHCHICAGO JESUIT ACADEMY: $396,750 · OtherFOOD RUNNERS: $295,000 · OtherRECIPE FOR CHANGE: $300,000 · OtherGS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC: $280,000 · Other+20 more: $2,187,500 · Other+20 moreSHELBURNE FARMS: $1,575,000 · EnvironmentSHELBURNE FARMSENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST: $700,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND PO…CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $360,000 · EnvironmentCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SO…NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $300,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVAT…THE WETLANDS INITIATIVE: $300,000 · EnvironmentTHE WETLANDS INITIATIVEWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $150,000 · EnvironmentTHE AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM: $300,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE CHICAGO RIVER: $250,000 · Arts & CultureTUTORING CHICAGO: $245,000 · Arts & CultureMERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $235,000 · Arts & CultureWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER OF CONCERN: $325,000 · Human ServicesNEW MOMS INC: $305,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $250,000 · Human ServicesTHE KIDS EQUIPMENT NETWORK NFP: $157,950 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE: $75,000 · Human ServicesLYDIA HOME ASSOCIATION: $50,000 · Human Services+2 more: $55,000 · Human ServicesCOMPASS TO CARE: $540,000 · HealthTHE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP: $195,000 · HealthFREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION: $170,000 · HealthOLD IRVING PARK COMMUNITY CLINIC: $125,000 · HealthHOPE FOR THE DAY: $95,000 · HealthGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $350,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS: $275,000 · Food & NutritionSARAH'S CIRCLE: $395,000 · Housing & ShelterCONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $170,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$7,546,466Environment$3,385,000Arts & Culture$1,230,000Human Services$1,217,950Health$1,125,000Food & Nutrition$625,000Housing & Shelter$565,000

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 budgetSHELBURNE FARMS: $1,575,000 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetDANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $825,000 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST: $700,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetCOMPASS TO CARE: $540,000 over 6y, 22% of budgetFRANCISCAN OUTREACH: $430,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetSARAH'S CIRCLE: $395,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $360,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $350,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER OF CONCERN: $325,000 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetNEW MOMS INC: $305,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $300,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetRECIPE FOR CHANGE: $300,000 over 6y, 17% of budgetTHE WETLANDS INITIATIVE: $300,000 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetTHE AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM: $300,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetFOOD RUNNERS: $295,000 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetGS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC: $280,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS: $275,000 over 5y, 70% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHICAGO RIVER: $250,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTUTORING CHICAGO: $245,000 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetMERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $235,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetGLENWOOD ACADEMY: $227,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetLava Mae: $210,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetTHE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP: $195,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS: $170,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION: $170,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $170,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE KIDS EQUIPMENT NETWORK NFP: $157,950 over 6y, 27% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOLD IRVING PARK COMMUNITY CLINIC: $125,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetZACHARIAS SEXUAL ABUSE CENTER: $125,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING INC: $110,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE FOR THE DAY: $95,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PITTSBURGH: $80,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLYDIA HOME ASSOCIATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDREAMS ARE POSSIBLE: $25,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetST JOSEPH SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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 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 NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds RECIPE FOR CHANGE ↗
  • Who funds THE WETLANDS INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds FOOD RUNNERS ↗
  • Who funds GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHICAGO RIVER ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • 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 OLD IRVING PARK COMMUNITY CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds ZACHARIAS SEXUAL ABUSE CENTER ↗

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.

AbbVie FoundationThe Chicago Community…Dr Scholl FoundationThe a Montgomery Ward…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…United Way of Metropo…The Pelino Charitable…Rice FoundationAndrew and Alice Fisc…WP & HB White Foundat…Enchanted BackpackLavin Family Foundati…
AbbVie FoundationIL22× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Abra Prentice Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Abra Prentice Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Shelburne Farms: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to Abra Prentice Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Abra Prentice Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 59 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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