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Aldridge Gives 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 FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k58 grants · $121k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $246k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $383k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D | $142,500 |
| USO | $115,000 |
| ANN AND ROBERT LURIE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| BEAVERS CHARITABLE TRUST | $50,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $31,379 |
| BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK | $27,250 |
| SPECIAL CHILDRENS CHARITIES | $26,815 |
| YOUTH & FAMILY COUNSELING | $25,000 |
| ACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF AMERICA | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| BUCKS FOR BURN CAMP | $20,920 |
| MOVEMBER FOUNDATION | $20,394 |
| THE LEADERS INSTITUTE LLC | $12,900 |
| LITTLE CITY FOUNDATION | $11,000 |
| THE OSCAR MIKE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $92k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% 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 +4% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 49 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, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $434k 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
MDRC2× · 2023–2024 · $150k · revenue +6%
BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC3× · 2023–2025 · $61k · revenue +4%- USUNITED SUICIDE SURVIVORS INTERNATIONAL INC2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1D - ILLINOIS CHAPTERone grant, 2024 · $145k
- TCTHE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCESone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -12%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2024 · $8k
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.
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
Chicago scholars is transforming the leadership landscape of our city by resolving the fundamental barriers to success for academically driven, first generation college students from under-resourced communities.
To provide opportunity for individuals with disability to live a healthy lifestyle through physical activity, research, advocacy and health promotion.
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…
We value excellence and innovation in clinical and basic research, coordinated and comprehensive patient care, ongoing physician education, and evidence-based child advocacy. our goal is to provide leadership in endeavors that promote the…
Provide pediatric and subspecialty surgical, research, and educational services.
Friends of the children - chicago has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…
Goodwill industries of metropolitan chicago, inc. ("goodwill-chicago") is a nonstock, not-for-profit illinois corporation, whose sole member is goodwill industries of southeastern wisconsin, inc. ("goodwill"), a wisconsin nonstock,…
To deliver exceptional value to our members through industry leadership, superior services, and innovative programs.
Start early advances quality early learning for families with children, before birth through their earliest years, to help close the opportunity gap.
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
Stanley manne children's research institute strives to generate new knowledge and advance the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of pediatric diseases.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Lake County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Beavers Charitable Trust. 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 25 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
69 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. 69 of the 122 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 MDRC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds ACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds BEAVERS CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds MOVEMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Special Children's Charities ↗
- Who funds THE OSCAR MIKE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED SUICIDE SURVIVORS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ACADEMY OF CONSTRUCTION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds LITTLE CITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY METRO MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO WOMEN IN TRADES ↗
- Who funds ROCHELLE LITTLE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds OPENLANDS ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity Orange County NC Inc ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTHBUILD LAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PERSPECTIVES CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds YOU RUN THIS TOWN FOUNDATION ↗
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: United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Baxter International Foundation · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · Trustmark Foundation · Usg Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Allstate Foundation · Motorola Solutions Foundation · Aldridge Family Foundation Inc
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 Aldridge Gives 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.
- 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.
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