· Private foundation
Armstrong Family Foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE NIGHT MINISTRY | $8,000 |
| ALTUS ACADEMY | $8,000 |
| MAFFA REDEMPTION PROJECT | $8,000 |
| SAINTS FAITH AND HOPE CHARITY CHURCH | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| YMCA OF NORTHERN UTAH | $1,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| RECYCLE UTAHPARK CITY CONSERVATION ASSOCATION | $500 |
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 (FY17–25, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% 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.
13 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MRMAAFA Redemption Project3× · 2023–2025 · $17k · revenue +50%
- AAALTUS ACADEMY3× · 2023–2025 · $10k · revenue +79%
MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $9k · revenue +121%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $5k
- AJA JUST HARVESTone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +21%
- CCTUone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.
We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.
To promote and encourage development, awareness, and appreciation of the art of chamber music and its role in our culture through education programs, chamber music performances, and sponsorshop of the fischoff chamber music competition.
Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…
The minnesota orchestra mission is to enrich, inspire and serve our community as an enduring symphony orchestra internationally recognized for its artistic excellence.
Northwestern memorial healthcare is an integrated healthcare system, consisting of multiple hospitals (including northwestern memorial hospital, an academic medical center) and networks of physicians and healthcare professionals, where the…
The Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University ("The Auditorium"), an Illinois not-for-profit corporation, is committed to presenting the finest in international, cultural, community and educational programming to Chicago and to the…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The music institute of chicago ("music institute") leads people toward a lifelong engagement with music, by providing widely accessible resources for high quality music teaching, performing, and service activities.
How this is measured
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 36 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
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 NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds MAAFA Redemption Project ↗
- Who funds ALTUS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds A JUST HARVEST ↗
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Christian Association Of Northern Utah ↗
- Who funds A PRECIOUS CHILD INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER AUBURN GRESHAM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GLEN VIEW CLUB SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ANGEL HEART ↗
- Who funds CITY OF CHICAGO PIPE BAND ↗
- Who funds SHELBURNE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Writers Theatre Inc ↗
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: The Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Armstrong Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Armstrong Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Shelburne Museum Inc: 9% of income from government
How this is measured
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