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Baskin Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
81
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$700k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Public Benefit$4.1MArts & Culture$2.8MCrime & Legal$768kEducation$715kHuman Services$352kReligion$288kInternational$277kYouth Development$260kOther$0
02FY2024 · 81 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k36 grants · $94k
  • $10k–50k37 grants · $881k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $425k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
$10,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$6.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOUNDATION FOR NATIONAL PROGRESS$700,000
FOUNDATION FOR NATIONAL PROGRESS$600,000
FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES$75,000
RESTORE JUSTICE FOUNDATION$75,000
RESTORE JUSTICE FOUNDATION$75,000
THE POINT MAGAZINE$75,000
FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES$75,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$50,000
ROUNDHOUSE TRUST$47,222
NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH MUSIC$42,650
THE COLLEGE AND COMMUNITY$40,000
Individual grant recipient$40,000
REFUGEEONE$40,000
CHICAGO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM$35,000
UCSF FOUNDATION$32,400
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $522k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $10k → 6%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $10k → 6%WORKING CREDIT NFP: $60k → 14%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $10k → 6%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $10k → 6%WORKING CREDIT NFP: $60k → 14%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $5k → 6%WORKING CREDIT NFP: $50k → 14%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $5k → 6%COALITION ON HOMELESS: $5k → 10%UNION SETTLEMENT: $15k → 17%UNION SETTLEMENT: $15k → 17%UNION SETTLEMENT: $15k → 17%INSPIRATION CORPORATION: $10k → 14%INSPIRATION CORPORATION: $5k → 14%YOUNG CENTER: $1k → 14%NEW MOMS: $20k → 14%NEW MOMS: $15k → 14%NEW MOMS: $15k → 14%SAFE FAMILIES: $15k → 14%URBAN INITIATIVES INC: $40k → 14%URBAN INITIATIVES INC: $40k → 14%URBAN INITIATIVES INC: $40k → 14%URBAN INITIATIVES INC: $40k → 14%CHICAGO HOPE: $1k → 14%CHICAGO FURNITURE BANK: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NH
WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
MS
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.3M · 59 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

59 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
69

Total granted

$9.3M
$659k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+1%

Still filing today

83%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $351k 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
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesInternationalCivil RightsCrime & LegalOther

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

  • TC
    The Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress
    5× · 2020–2024 · $3.9M · revenue +67%
  • FH
    FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +29%
  • TP
    THE POINT MAGAZINE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $374k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • TR
    THE ROGER BALDWIN FOUNDATION OF ACLU INC
    one grant, 2020 · $70k · revenue -3%
  • RT
    ROUNDHOUSE TRUSTQ
    one grant, 2020 · $45k
  • NF
    NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH MUSICQ
    one grant, 2020 · $40k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
2
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.

Social Science
3
Junior Achievement of Chicago

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy

International
4
A Better Chicago

A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.

Human Services
5
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
6
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
7
Public Narrative

Public narrative teaches journalists and non-profit organizations to tell better stories in order to fulfill our missions to support a free and informed press, and to ensure that non-profit and neighborhood voices are heard, and are part…

Education
8
Center for International Policy Inc

The center for international policy is a woman-led, progressive, independent nonprofit center for research, education, and advocacy working to advance a more peaceful, just, and sustainable u.s. approach to foreign policy. through…

International
9
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
10
Kipp Chicago Schools

The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…

Education
11
Reader Institute for Community Journalism Inc

Reader institute for community journalism, inc. (ricji) is organized and operated to educate, advance, and inform public discourse through local, independent journalism in the greater chicago metropolitan area. ricji operates and publishes…

Arts & Culture
12
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Illinois Humanities Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hands of Mothers formerly Manos de Madres. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPolicy Research and AdvocacyPregnancy Support ServicesIndependent K-12 SchoolsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Youth Sports ProgramsElementary Literacy TutoringJewish Community Organizati…Cancer Support ServicesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Dance Arts OrganizationsCommunity Arts CentersChristian Missionary Organi…Community College Foundatio…Environmental Conservation …Food Banks and PantriesLocal History MuseumsImmigrant Worker SupportCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr16%32%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr13%49%35–55yr16%6%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/105
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,460

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.

04the grantee network

104 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. 104 of the 161 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
104/104
Grantees still filing
62/104
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

The Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress — $3,857,000 · Public BenefitThe Center for Investigative Reporting formr…CHICAGO MEDIA PROJECT — $185,303 · Public Benefit+1 more — $30,000 · Public BenefitFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC — $1,616,091 · Arts & CultureFACING HISTORY & OURSELV…Chicago Children's Museum — $150,000 · Arts & CultureChicago Children's Museu…THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION — $133,932 · Arts & CultureTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDAT…URBAN GATEWAYS — $75,750 · Arts & Culture+19 more — $256,519 · Arts & Culture+19 moreROUNDHOUSE TRUST — $175,284 · OtherROUNDHOUSE TRUSTREFUGEE EDUCATION UK (FORMERLY REFUGEE SUPPORT NETWORK) — $80,000 · OtherNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH MUSIC — $72,650 · OtherTHE ROGER BALDWIN FOUNDATION OF ACLU INC — $70,000 · OtherInternational Rescue Committee INC — $163,000 · OtherInternational Rescue C…JOHN HOWARD ASSOCIATION — $101,030 · OtherTHE MARSHALL PROJECT INC — $81,000 · OtherTHE COLLEGE AND COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP INC — $80,000 · Other+89 more — $1,205,534 · Other+89 moreTHE POINT MAGAZINE — $374,000 · EducationTHE POINT…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $151,200 · EducationUNIVERSIT…ACADEMY FOR GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL — $75,000 · EducationACADEMY F…826LA — $75,000 · Education826LARE-IMAGINING MIGRATION INC — $50,000 · EducationRE-IMAGIN…MIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION — $44,149 · Education+15 more — $71,804 · Education+15 moreWorking Credit NFP — $170,000 · Human ServicesURBAN INITIATIVES INC — $160,000 · Human ServicesNEW MOMS INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesUNION SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION INC — $45,000 · Human Services+6 more — $48,190 · Human ServicesRESTORE JUSTICE FOUNDATION — $353,000 · Civil Rights+3 more — $9,225 · Civil RightsREFUGEEONE — $220,000 · ReligionJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC — $66,525 · Religion
Public Benefit$4,072,303Arts & Culture$2,232,292Other$2,028,498Education$841,153Human Services$523,190Civil Rights$362,225Religion$286,525

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress — $3,857,000 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC — $1,616,091 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetTHE POINT MAGAZINE — $374,000 over 5y, 25% of budgetRESTORE JUSTICE FOUNDATION — $353,000 over 5y, 22% of budgetREFUGEEONE — $220,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetCHICAGO MEDIA PROJECT — $185,303 over 4y, 7.8% of budgetWorking Credit NFP — $170,000 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $163,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN INITIATIVES INC — $160,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $151,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Children's Museum — $150,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION — $133,932 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN HOWARD ASSOCIATION — $101,030 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetTHE MARSHALL PROJECT INC — $81,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COLLEGE AND COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP INC — $80,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetURBAN GATEWAYS — $75,750 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetACADEMY FOR GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL — $75,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budget826LA — $75,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetTHE ROGER BALDWIN FOUNDATION OF ACLU INC — $70,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC — $66,525 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSTORYCORPS INC — $60,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW — $59,363 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST — $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNEW MOMS INC — $50,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRE-IMAGINING MIGRATION INC — $50,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC — $50,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetUNION SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION — $44,149 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $43,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK — $30,606 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCONSTRUCTIVE DIALOGUE INSTITUTE INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetARCHIPELAGO BOOKS INC — $28,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $27,046 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNOURISHING HOPE — $26,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE 19TH NEWS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JOFFREY BALLET — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLINCOLN PARK CONSERVANCY — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetIMPACT FOR EQUITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe National Public Housing Museum — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPERSPECTIVES CHARTER SCHOOLS — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN — $16,182 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChicago Humanities Festival — $16,100 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRO ROMERO — $15,383 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOMENS GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT FUND — $15,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetHANDS OF MOTHERS formerly MANOS de MADRES — $15,000 over 2y, 20% of budget
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.

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.

John D and Catherine …Polk Bros Foundation …The Chicago Community…Lloyd a Fry FoundationField Foundation of I…Circle of Service Fou…Joseph & Bessie Feinb…Arie and Ida Crown Me…Robert R McCormick Fo…The Joyce FoundationWeinbergnewton Family…The Kellcie Fund
John D and Catherine T Macarthur FoundationIL43.5× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · Circle of Service Foundation · Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Robert R McCormick Foundation · The Joyce Foundation · Weinbergnewton Family Foundation · The Kellcie Fund

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 Baskin 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
30report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 161 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

Source object · view filing

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines