· Private foundation
Alphawood Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k77 grants · $2.1M
- $50k–250k39 grants · $3.0M
- $250k+8 grants · $2.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOAS (SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES) | $732,580 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $522,122 |
| LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND - MIDWEST REGION | $325,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO INSTITUTE OF POLITICS | $300,000 |
| NIJC NFP | $275,200 |
| AIDS FOUNDATION OF CHICAGO | $275,000 |
| JOFFREY BALLET | $250,000 |
| GROW GREATER ENGLEWOOD | $250,000 |
| LEGAL AID CHICAGO | $200,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF ILLINOIS | $175,000 |
| LANDMARKS ILLINOIS | $140,000 |
| PRESERVATION CHICAGO | $135,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE PARKS | $130,000 |
| CENTER ON HALSTED | $125,000 |
| INVISIBLE INSTITUTE | $125,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
144 repeat relationships: 101 still active in FY2025, 43 since wound down; 23 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AFAIDS Foundation of Chicago5× · 2021–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +17%
- HBHoward Brown Health Center5× · 2021–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +2%
- TJTHE JOFFREY BALLET5× · 2021–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +215%
Funded once
THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $7.5M · revenue -32%- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF ILLINOISone grant, 2023 · $150k
- CPCHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $125k · revenue +15%
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.
Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.
The Chicago Cultural Alliances mission is to connect, promote, and support centers of cultural heritage for a more inclusive Chicago. We are an active consortium of 50 cultural heritage museums, centers, and historical societies that…
To promote public appreciation, understanding and support of the humanities through festivals and educational programs.
Pegasus Theatre Chicago is a professional theater approaching 45 years of supporting Chicagos diverse community by producing accessible, socially relevant theatre and promoting the development of new artists for the stage. Our mission is…
Latino Union works to defend the rights and dignity of contingent workers, including the right to immigrate, work, live free of oppression and violence, and provide for oneself and one's family.
Seeks to address the traumas of police violence and institutionalized racism through access to healing and wellness services, trauma-informed resources, and community connection. The Center is a part of and supports a movement to end all…
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
To cultivate a growing international culture of listening.
The chicago high school for the arts (chiarts) develops the next generation of diverse, artistically promising scholar-artists through intensive pre-professional training in the arts, combined with a comprehensive college preparatory…
Cinema/Chicago, the non-profit 501(c)(3) presenting organization of the Chicago International Film Festival, enriches the community through year-round programming devoted to international and independent cinema. We strengthen communication…
To achieve parity in economic opportunity for people of color by advancing multiracial leadership in corporate governance, expanding the talent pipline for executive-level management, and growing minority businesses.
Lawndale is a multidisciplinary contemporary art center that engages Houston communities with exhibitions and programs that explore the aesthetic, critical, and social issues of our time.See Schedule O for continuation.For over 40 years,…
How this is measured
169 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. 169 of the 203 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 BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AIDS Foundation of Chicago ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Howard Brown Health Center ↗
- Who funds THE JOFFREY BALLET ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds NIJC NFP ↗
- Who funds LANDMARKS PRESERVATION COUNCIL OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds Center on Halsted ↗
- Who funds Invisible Institute ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood of Illinois ↗
- Who funds The National Public Housing Museum ↗
- Who funds UNITY TEMPLE RESTORATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Inc ↗
- Who funds BEYOND LEGAL AID ↗
- Who funds BENTON INSTITUTE FOR BROADBAND & SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FOUR FREEDOMS PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRATION EQUALITY ↗
- Who funds Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University Inc ↗
- Who funds Center for Tax and Budget Accountability ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PARKS ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds GROW GREATER ENGLEWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds GLESSNER HOUSE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds SERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH OUTLOOK ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO WOMEN IN TRADES ↗
- Who funds GERBER-HART LIBRARY & ARCHIVES ↗
- Who funds IntuitCenter for IntuitiveOutsider Art ↗
- Who funds SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
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: Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Field Foundation of Illinois · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Chicago Foundation for Women · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Joyce Foundation · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Walder Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Alphawood Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alphawood Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Society for the Preservation of Maryland Antiquities Inc: 50% of income from government
- Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
- University of Maryland Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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