· Private foundation
Bayer 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $83k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $225k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $390k
- $250k+2 grants · $650k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRANCIS W PARKER SCHOOL | $400,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $162,000 |
| MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORY ART | $127,500 |
| ANTI-CRUELTY SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA | $50,000 |
| TROY HIGH SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| ILLINOIS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER | $25,000 |
| LURIE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $25,000 |
| SUSAN G KOMEN 3 DAY | $20,000 |
| COMMIT 2 CHANGE | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $97k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.
59 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 7 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUniversity of Michigan7× · 2017–2024 · $600k · revenue +202% · 49% of their budget
- FWFrancis W Parker School5× · 2019–2024 · $520k · revenue +36%
- CPCHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC3× · 2022–2024 · $130k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- COCHIKAMING OPEN LANDSone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +17%
- WJWORLD JEWISH CONGRESSone grant, 2022 · $50k
- TFTEMPLER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
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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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The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION
To help conquer cancer and other diseases through the application of biostatistical principles and innovative data management methods.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.
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How this is measured
82 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. 82 of the 129 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 University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds Francis W Parker School ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds CHIKAMING OPEN LANDS ↗
- Who funds COMMIT-2-CHANGE ↗
- Who funds The Anti-Cruelty Society ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GLAAD INC ↗
- Who funds Boca Raton Regional Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITING VOICES ↗
- Who funds IMERMAN ANGELS ↗
- Who funds Brothers for Life ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds WINGS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Clayco Foundation ↗
- Who funds NILES ATHLETIC BOOSTERS CLUB ↗
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: Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Kovler Family Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bayer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bayer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Feeding South Florida Inc: 5% of income from government
- The Camp Airy & Camp Louise Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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