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Albert J and Claire R Speh Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Albert J and Claire R Speh Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$182k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$593kYouth Development$510kHuman Services$266kCommunity Improvement$56kArts & Culture$42kHealth$29kPhilanthropy$19kRecreation & Sports$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $166k
$3,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$7.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BY THE HAND CLUB FOR KIDS$45,000
TARGET HOPE$40,000
COLLEGE POSSIBLE$25,000
MERCY HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS$21,325
ONE FAMILY ILLINOIS$20,000
THE BRIDGE TEEN CENTER$15,000
SLO COUNTY RECOVERY CENTER REQUEST$4,442
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA MARIA$3,000
GOLDEN WOLVES SPORTS ASSOCIATION$2,698
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION$1,552
SINSHEIMER ELEMENTARY$1,000
JALOPY THEATER$1,000
BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS$532
PACIFIC WILDLIFE CARE$515
SAVE THE CHILDREN$511
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $40k → 14%FOSTER PROGRESS: $20k → 14%FOSTER PROGRESS: $327 → 14%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $40k → 14%ONE FAMILY ILLINOIS: $20k → 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

MN
IL
NY
CT
CA
CO
MO
MD
DC
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 32 repeat orgs$290k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
33

Total granted

$1.4M
$239k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+20%

Still filing today

44%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationAnimalsHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • BT
    By The Hand Club For Kids
    4× · 2019–2025 · $200k · revenue +37%
  • TH
    Target Hope
    5× · 2017–2025 · $155k · revenue +57%
  • NN
    NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS
    2× · 2017–2019 · $45k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • CA
    CHILDREN'S ADVANCEMENT NETWORK
    one grant, 2019 · $48k
  • CC
    CHICAGO COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2019 · $40k
  • SI
    SCRIPTED INC DBA CODE NATION
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -97%
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
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
2
Thrive Chicago Nfp

Thrive chicago's mission is to prepare chicago's youth for a vibrant future by aligning efforts and outcomes from cradle to career.

Human Services
3
Kipp Chicago Schools

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…

Education
4
Girls On the Run - Chicago Inc

The organization is a nonprofit after school program that uses the power of running to teach girls, 3rd-8th grade, critical social emotional learning skills.

Recreation & Sports
5
Illinois Network of Charter Schools

The illinois network of charter schools (incs) advocates for the improvement of public education by leveraging the charter school model as a catalyst to transform lives and communities.

Education
6
Advocates for Illinois Children

Improve the lives of children in illinois by bringing about significant changes in public policies and programs for children through research, policy analysis and advocacy, public education and community outreach.

Human Services
7
Children's Advocates for Change

Children's advocates for change was organized to improve the lives of children in illinois by bringing about significant changes public policies and programs for children through research, policy analysis and advocacy, public education and…

Human Services
8
Chicago Votes

Chicago Votes is a non-partisan, non-profit organization building a more inclusive democracy by putting power in the hands of young Chicagoans. We're engaging and developing a new generation of leaders by opening the doors of government,…

Civil Rights
9
Students Run Chicago
Health
10
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.

Education
11
Tutoring Chicago

Tutoring chicago delivers the power of education through one-to-one tutoring.

Arts & Culture
12
Ampt Advancing Nonprofits

Advancing Nonprofits is committed to strengthening the organizational health and support long-term development of small nonprofits on Chicagos west and south sides while prioritizing Black- and Latine-led community organizations.…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc; the most unlike its peers is Joeys Food Fight. 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

35 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. 35 of the 74 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
23/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

By The Hand Club For Kids: $200,000 · OtherBy The Hand Club For KidsMERCY HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS: $88,420 · OtherMERCY HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLSCARE PACKAGE COALTION: $71,000 · OtherCARE PACKAGE COALTIONIndividual grant recipient: $62,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBOTTOM LINE - CHICAGO: $55,000 · OtherBOTTOM LINE - CHICAGOCHILDREN'S ADVANCEMENT NETWORK (CAN): $48,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S ADVANCEMENT NETWORK (CAN)STANDUP FOR KIDS - CHICAGO: $42,612 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $42,354 · OtherCHICAGO COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $40,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MID CENTRAL COAST: $29,537 · Other+43 more: $184,147 · Other+43 moreUrban Prep Academies: $295,000 · EducationUrban Prep AcademiesTarget Hope: $155,000 · EducationTarget HopeNOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS: $45,000 · EducationNOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLSCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $25,000 · EducationSCRIPTED INC DBA CODE NATION: $20,000 · EducationNEW LEADERS INC: $20,000 · EducationYoung Mens Educational Network: $20,000 · Education+3 more: $10,518 · EducationTHE NIGHT MINISTRY: $80,000 · Human ServicesFoster Progress: $20,327 · Human ServicesONE FAMILY ILLINOIS: $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDGE TEEN CENTER NFP: $27,500 · Youth DevelopmentGULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $7,000 · Arts & CultureALTERNATIVES INC: $10,000 · HealthANGELMAN SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC: $3,120 · HealthTIDES FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC: $4,980 · PhilanthropyMUST: $2,500 · Philanthropy
Other$863,570Education$590,518Human Services$120,327Youth Development$27,500Arts & Culture$22,000Health$13,120Philanthropy$12,480

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUrban Prep Academies: $295,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetBy The Hand Club For Kids: $200,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTarget Hope: $155,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetTHE NIGHT MINISTRY: $80,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRIDGE TEEN CENTER NFP: $27,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFoster Progress: $20,327 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetSCRIPTED INC DBA CODE NATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEW LEADERS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALTERNATIVES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS IN THE GAME NFP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJoeys Food Fight: $5,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC: $4,980 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANGELMAN SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC: $3,120 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMUST: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSanta Cruz Mountains Trail Stewardship: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLOUIS F SINSHEIMER ELEMENTARY PTA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetChicago Zoological Society: $677 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO AUTISM NETWORK: $518 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetILLINOIS POLICE ASSOCIATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Urban Prep Academies ↗
  • Who funds By The Hand Club For Kids ↗
  • Who funds Target Hope ↗
  • Who funds THE NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds THE BRIDGE TEEN CENTER NFP ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
  • Who funds Foster Progress ↗
  • Who funds ONE FAMILY ILLINOIS ↗
  • Who funds SCRIPTED INC DBA CODE NATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW LEADERS INC ↗
  • Who funds Young Mens Educational Network ↗
  • Who funds GULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
  • Who funds Chicago Area Mountain Bikers Inc ↗
  • Who funds District 57 Education Foundation ↗
  • Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS IN THE GAME NFP ↗
  • Who funds Joeys Food Fight ↗

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 FoundationRobert R McCormick Fo…Polk Bros Foundation …United Way of Metropo…Motorola Solutions Fo…The Chicago Community…Invest for Kids IncImc Chicago Charitabl…Arie and Ida Crown Me…Circle of Service Fou…Salesforce FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…
AbbVie FoundationIL19.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: AbbVie Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Motorola Solutions Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Invest for Kids Inc · Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Circle of Service Foundation · Salesforce Foundation · Silicon Valley Community 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 Albert J and Claire R Speh Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Albert J and Claire R Speh Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Gulfshore Playhouse Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 74 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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