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Aon 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.

$2.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
39
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$5.2MPublic Safety & Disaster$2.5MEducation$1.4MCommunity Improvement$614kHealth$506kArts & Culture$374kEmployment$262kYouth Development$261kOther$0
02FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $364k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+2 grants · $750k
$44,109
Median grant
10
States reached
$50k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN RED CROSS GREATER CHICAGO CHAPTER$500,000
UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO$250,000
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC$166,924
WORLD BUSINESS CHICAGO$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC$100,000
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC$75,725
FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES INC$75,000
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC$71,114
ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY$70,000
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC$67,415
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC$64,413
NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP CORPORATION$62,115
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC$57,989
AMERICAN IRELAND FUND$56,000
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC$53,092
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PARTNERSHIP WITH NATIVE AMERICANS: $25 → 14%ARTISTS CREATING TOGETHER INC: $500 → 11%LINUS PROJECT: $50 → 8%FAMILY VALUES AT WORK A MULTI-STATE CONSORTIUM: $25 → 17%CONCERTS FOR A CAUSE INC: $500 → 5%CHILDRENS HOME ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS: $10k → 14%ONE SIMPLE WISH: $500 → 11%UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL: $100 → 14%HIGH PLAINS HELPING HANDS INC: $100 → 9%CONTENTMENT FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $190 → 14%MARKLUND CHILDRENS HOME: $50 → 8%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $150 → 14%HESED HOUSE INC: $200 → 8%CHILDRENS HOME ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS: $10k → 14%BEAR BE A RESOURCE FOR CPS KIDS: $1k → 16%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $50 → 14%ASPIRITECH NFP: $500 → 8%WAINWRIGHT HOUSE INC: $1k → 9%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN INC: $250 → 16%DHARMA PROJECT INC: $200 → 13%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $100 → 11%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $500k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE: $75 → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF GREATER CHICAGO: $500k → 14%AMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS: $50k → 17%AMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS: $50k → 17%MISERICORDIA HOME: $25 → 14%AMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS: $50k → 17%AMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS: $50k → 17%AMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS: $50k → 17%AMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS: $10k → 17%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHICAGOLAND AND NORTHWEST INDIANA: $800 → 14%CHILDRENS HOME & AID SOCIETY FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%CHILDRENS HOME & AID SOCIETY FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%CHILDRENS HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILLINOIS: $25k → 14%BRIGHTPOINT: $15k → 14%CHILDRENS HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILLINOIS: $10k → 14%CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $500 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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NH
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
DE
KS
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 38% of Aon Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Aon Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.2M · 37 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

37 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
218

Total granted

$6.2M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+29%

Still filing today

76%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsArts & CultureInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    2× · 2020–2022 · $1.0M · revenue +38%
  • WB
    WORLD BUSINESS CHICAGO
    5× · 2020–2024 · $500k · revenue +58%
  • NM
    National Merit Scholarship Corporation
    5× · 2020–2024 · $309k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • AR
    AMERICAN RED CROSS OF ILLINOIS
    one grant, 2021 · $500k
  • BI
    BUILD INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue +162%
  • University of Chicago
    one grant, 2022 · $45k · revenue +22%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
3
University of New Haven

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…

Education
4
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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6
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
7
National Opinion Research Center

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…

Social Science
8
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
9
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
10
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
11
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
12
United States Naval Institute

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Battalion. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

232 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. 232 of the 273 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
29
Early backer (in before they grew)
228/232
Grantees still filing
171/232
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $3,933,187 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INCUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $1,177,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC+7 more: $88,725 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN RED CROSS GREATER CHICAGO CHAPTER: $1,000,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS GREA…AMERICAN RED CROSS OF ILLINOIS: $500,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS OF I…BUILD INC: $200,000 · OtherBUILD INCUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO DIVINITY SCHOOL: $90,000 · OtherTHE COMMERCIAL CLUB FOUNDATION: $90,000 · Other+92 more: $482,150 · Other+92 moreAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,000,100 · Human ServicesAmerican Nati…AMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS: $260,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN CORP…CHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL: $50,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S HOME AND AID SOCIETY FOUNDATI: $50,000 · Human Services+15 more: $37,340 · Human ServicesNational Merit Scholarship Corporation: $309,220 · EducationNational Mer…ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK: $250,000 · EducationST JOHN'S UN…University of Notre Dame du Lac: $202,300 · EducationUniversity o…ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $140,000 · EducationST LOUIS UNI…University of Chicago: $45,000 · Education+30 more: $268,733 · Education+30 moreWORLD BUSINESS CHICAGO: $500,000 · Community ImprovementVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $770 · Community ImprovementRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $300,000 · HealthPartnership for Cures: $30,000 · HealthVAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthRush University Medical Center: $20,000 · Health+23 more: $36,492 · HealthFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $300,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $40,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $11,591 · Arts & Culture
Philanthropy$5,198,912Other$2,362,150Human Services$1,397,440Education$1,215,253Community Improvement$520,770Health$411,492Arts & Culture$351,591

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $3,933,187 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $1,177,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,000,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD BUSINESS CHICAGO: $500,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetNational Merit Scholarship Corporation: $309,220 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $300,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS: $260,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK: $250,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $202,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBUILD INC: $200,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $140,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMERCIAL CLUB FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $75,725 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS): $56,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $50,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO: $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME AND AID SOCIETY FOUNDATI: $50,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKettering University: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPartnership for Cures: $30,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetACADEMY FOR URBAN SCHOOL LEADERSHIP: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRADLEY UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFONTBONNE UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORKING IN THE SCHOOLS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCHINA FOLK HOUSE RETREAT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetJUILLIARD SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONTENTMENT FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMICHIGAN COUNCIL OF WOMEN IN TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE FILOMEN M DAGOSTINO GREENBERG MUSIC SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMONA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAURORA UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPurdue Research Foundation: $8,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Ch Robinson Worldwide…Motorola Solutions Fo…AbbVie FoundationPwc Foundation IncJohn D and Catherine …Polk Bros Foundation …The Sidley Austin Fou…Patrick G and Shirley…The Chicago Community…Baxter International …Arthur J Gallagher Fo…Assurant Foundation
Ch Robinson Worldwide FoundationSD19.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Motorola Solutions Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Pwc Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Sidley Austin Foundation · Patrick G and Shirley W Ryan Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Baxter International Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Assurant Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Aon Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Aon Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Horizons for Homeless Children: 21% of income from government
  • Youthbuild Boston Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: 1% of income from government
  • Wilton Library Association Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
37report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Aon Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Aon Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 273 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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