· Private foundation
Angell Family Foundation Co Nancy Angell Babendir
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES | $50,000 |
| ORPHANS OF THE STORM ANIMAL SHELTER | $50,000 |
| JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO | $50,000 |
| NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR EDUCATION FUND | $10,000 |
| GIVENKIND | $10,000 |
| ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT & REFUGE RIGHTS | $10,000 |
| CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING | $5,000 |
| JCFS CHICAGO | $2,500 |
| HAVE DREAMS ADVANCING AUTISM SERVICES | $2,500 |
| PADS LAKE COUNTY | $2,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FED OF AMERICA | $2,500 |
| FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| SHARSHERET | $2,500 |
| MARGARET'S VILLAGE | $2,500 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSTIY | $2,500 |
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 (FY21–22, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +40% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 7 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO7× · 2019–2025 · $295k · revenue +57%
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES6× · 2020–2025 · $247k · revenue +211%- OOORPHANS OF THE STORM4× · 2022–2025 · $53k · revenue +44%
Funded once
EXPERIENCE CAMPSgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +137%- OHOUR HOUSE THERAPY COLLECTIVEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +189%
- ADALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +25%
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.
Provide community-based residential housing to adults with autism and/or severe developmental disabilities. also provide developmental training and other supports to this same population.
Jewish Family Service is a nonprofit social service organization that supports people of all faiths as they navigate through lifes's challenges - illness, aging , finanical uncertainty, mental health concerns, family problems, or personal…
JCFS Chicago services and programs support wellbeing for children, teens, adults and families regardless of race, culture, religion, disability, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, or…
Our mission is to strengthen and heal families and individuals from all walks of life through clinical service, education and research.
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
We partner with children and adults with disabilities and their families so they may live more meaningful, healthy, and independent lives in their homes and communities.
House of Good Shepherd serves with love and compassion women and children affected by domestic violence by offering a safe place with opportunities for emotional, educational and spiritual growth, giving hope and continued support for a…
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.…
Serving recently arrived migrants and asylum seekers in the Chicagoland area and is committed to upholding the dignity and human rights of immigrants.
Provides person-centered and inclusive services to children and adults with and without disabilities that includes securing employment, connecting to necessary supportive services, accessing housing and participating fully as contributing…
Women donors network advances a just, equitable, and sustainable world through the power of philanthropy, women's leadership, and collective and individual action.
To improve the quality of life for families challenged by alzheimer's disease or another dementia, through services tailored to meet individual needs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Somerville Homeless Coalition Inc and the most unlike its peers is Our House Therapy Collective. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 36 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 JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds ORPHANS OF THE STORM ↗
- Who funds GIVE N KIND ↗
- Who funds MARGARETS VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds EXPERIENCE CAMPS ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE THERAPY COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Highland Park Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds SOMERVILLE HOMELESS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds Determined to Rise Animal Foundation ↗
- Who funds GREENHOUSE17 INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds PADS Lake County Inc ↗
- Who funds Sharsheret Inc ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Storycatchers ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Imagine Englewood If NFP ↗
- Who funds WEST DEERFIELD TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY ↗
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: The Chicago Community Trust · Network for Good · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Angell Family Foundation Co Nancy Angell Babendir 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Somerville Homeless Coalition Inc — 31% of income from government
- Sharsheret Inc — 4% 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.