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Bcmr Gledhill Foundation at a glance

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Bcmr Gledhill 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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$480k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Education$3.1MAnimals$800kHealth$461kArts & Culture$335kScience & Tech$200kYouth Development$75kHuman Services$50kHousing & Shelter$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $810k
  • $250k+1 grant · $480k
$100,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO$480,000
SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY$200,000
CHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND$150,000
NAACP LEGAN DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND$100,000
HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FUND$100,000
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD$100,000
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC$60,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$50,000
INGENUITY$50,000
CIVIC CONSULTING ALLIANCE$25,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–23, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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%SHOWER UP: $25k → 10%CENTER ON HALSTED: $25k → 14%CENTER ON HALSTED: $25k → 14%A BETTER CHICAGO: $25k → 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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 9 repeat orgs$575k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
3

Total granted

$3.1M
$300k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+43%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $275k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesAnimalsHealthOther
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

  • Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
    3× · 2023–2025 · $941k · revenue +4%
  • SA
    SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY
    4× · 2022–2025 · $800k · revenue +7%
  • CP
    CHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND
    6× · 2020–2025 · $675k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -7%
  • AB
    A Better Chicagograduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +43%
  • SU
    Shower Upgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +75%
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
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
2
The University of Chicago Charter School Corporation

To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.

Education
3
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
4
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.

Education
5
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
6
Loyola University of Chicago

We are chicago's jesuit, catholic university - a diverse community seeking god in all things and working to expand knowledge in the service of humanity through learning, justice, and faith.

Education
7
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
8
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
9
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
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
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.

—
12
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities in Schools of Chicago; the most unlike its peers is Shower Up. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BROWN UNIVERSITY: $2,500,000 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERSITYCHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $675,000 · EducationCHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCAT…President and Fellows of Harvard College: $300,100 · EducationPresident and Fellows…University of Chicago: $170,000 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoYouth Guidance: $50,000 · EducationCIVIC CONSULTING ALLIANCE: $50,000 · EducationSHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $800,000 · AnimalsSHEDD AQUARIUM SO…LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $200,000 · AnimalsLINCOLN PARK ZOOL…Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $940,983 · HealthAnn & Robert H L…NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $145,000 · Arts & CultureINGENUITY INCORPORATED CHICAGO: $50,000 · Arts & CultureNAACP LEGAN DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND: $100,000 · OtherHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FUND: $100,000 · OtherCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO: $25,000 · OtherCenter on Halsted: $50,000 · Human ServicesA Better Chicago: $25,000 · Human ServicesShower Up: $25,000 · Human Services
Community Improvement$2,500,000Education$1,245,100Animals$1,000,000Health$940,983Arts & Culture$445,000Other$225,000Human Services$100,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $2,500,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $940,983 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $800,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $675,000 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $300,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $200,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $170,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $145,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYouth Guidance: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINGENUITY INCORPORATED CHICAGO: $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCIVIC CONSULTING ALLIANCE: $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCenter on Halsted: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetA Better Chicago: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetShower Up: $25,000 over 1y, 3.3% 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.

Robert R McCormick Fo…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
Robert R McCormick FoundationIL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Robert R McCormick Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Bcmr Gledhill Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bcmr Gledhill Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.

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 18 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
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By state
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