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Andrew Family Foundation
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k134 grants · $273k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $180k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $277k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHICAGO FOOD RESCUE | $127,300 |
| 412 FOOD RESCUE INC | $100,000 |
| THE RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF WESTERN MICHIGAN INC | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL GHOST RANCH FOUNDATION INC | $30,000 |
| SPREAD THE WORD NEVADA | $25,000 |
| THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC | $25,000 |
| COLLEGE OF WOOSTER | $22,700 |
| SPREAD THE WORD NEVADA | $17,500 |
| FIRST POINT VOLLEYBALL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SPREAD THE WORD NEVADA | $10,000 |
| DANCE INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON INC | $10,000 |
| ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH USA A CORP | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT NFP | $10,000 |
| COLLEGE OF WOOSTER | $8,900 |
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 (FY17–24, $202k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of Andrew Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 32% of the giving stays in IL; read by stated purpose it is 25% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +35% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
181 repeat relationships — 82 still active in FY2024, 99 since wound down; 40 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $233k 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
- RIREADING IN MOTION6× · 2017–2022 · $667k · revenue +12%
THE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER8× · 2017–2024 · $401k · revenue +17%- STSPREAD THE WORD NEVADA7× · 2017–2024 · $363k · revenue +119%
Funded once
- IFIMMOKALEE FAIR HOUSING ALLIANCE INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +550%
- JHJACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +107%
- HTHOGARES TERESA TODA CARMELITAS DE SAN JOSEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +52%
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 University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
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.
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…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Moms Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
314 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. 314 of the 384 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 READING IN MOTION ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER ↗
- Who funds SPREAD THE WORD NEVADA ↗
- Who funds 412 FOOD RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds KNOX COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds First Point Volleyball Foundation ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds Chicago Food Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES WESTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN ↗
- Who funds Southwest Chicago Christian School Association ↗
- Who funds CAFE MOMENTUM ↗
- Who funds IMMOKALEE FAIR HOUSING ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW MOMS INC ↗
- Who funds ELITE YOUTH TOUR ↗
- Who funds FOOD RECOVERY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds POMONA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds INTONATION MUSIC WORKSHOP ↗
- Who funds VALLEY YOUTH THEATRE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL GHOST RANCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE DESERT CHORALE ↗
- Who funds LAWNDALE CHRISTIAN LEGAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds JACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
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: NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · Wynn Resorts Foundation · Engelstad Family Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Dr Scholl Foundation · Afc Public Foundation · Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation · Joseph & Bessie Feinberg 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 Andrew Family 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.
- Farm Aid Inc — 100% of income from government
- Osamequin Farm Inc — 18% of income from government
- Mill City Grows Inc — 7% of income from government
- Coalition for African Americans in the Performing Arts — 6% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Jackson Health Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Dolphin Research Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rollins College — 0% of income from government
- Guadalupe Center 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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