· Private foundation
Anne & Mead Montgomery 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 $10k7 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OAKTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $22,000 |
| PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK | $15,000 |
| NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER | $13,000 |
| SHIRLEY RYAN ABILITY LAB | $7,500 |
| EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION | $5,500 |
| CHRIST CHURCH WINNETKA | $3,000 |
| DANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| STAG FOUNDATION | $850 |
| SKOKIE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $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 (FY17–24, $73k) 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 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.
23 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 4 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, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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
- NSNORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $73k · revenue +38%
- RIRehabilitation Institute of Chicago8× · 2017–2024 · $50k · revenue +31%
- DMDANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND8× · 2017–2024 · $11k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD COLUMBIA WILLAMone grant, 2022 · $4k
- PPPlanned Parenthood of Illinoisone grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue -8%
THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +243%
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.
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The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Provide post-secondary education leading to a baccalaureate degree. Program service expenditures are made in conjunction with the operation of a liberal arts college spread over 107 acres with approximately 63 educational and support…
Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Stag Foundation. 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 43 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 5% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 42 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 NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds The Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation) ↗
- Who funds OAKTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds DANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds THE BUDDY PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER WELLNESS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Writers Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood of Illinois ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS ↗
- Who funds Mountain Rescue Aspen Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds STAG Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WINNETKA PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASPEN VALLEY SKISNOWBOARD CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ALTA INC ↗
- Who funds St Leonard's Ministries ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds NEW TRIER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESTERN GOLF ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Chicago Community Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Anne & Mead Montgomery 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.
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.