· Private foundation
Beatrice P Delany Char Tr Xxxxx7003
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $115k
- $10k–50k64 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k30 grants · $2.4M
- $250k+5 grants · $4.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $1,850,000 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $1,750,000 |
| THE NIGHT MINISTRY | $600,000 |
| CROSSROADS | $315,000 |
| BIG SHOULDERS FUND | $315,000 |
| RUMC ROAD HOME PROJECT | $200,000 |
| PETOSKEY HARBOR SPRINGSCOMMUNITY FND | $150,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CHICAGO | $132,500 |
| SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| WESTERM GOLF ASSOCIATION | $100,000 |
| RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | $100,000 |
| CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $100,000 |
| SHIRLEY RYAN ABILITY LAB | $100,000 |
| TENACITY INC | $100,000 |
| BARNABAS CENTER INC | $95,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $3.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
114 repeat relationships — 98 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 24 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $675k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- IIIllinois Institute of Technology5× · 2020–2024 · $6.5M · revenue +9%
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $4.3M · revenue +36%
CROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +117%
Funded once
- ISILLINOIS ST ANDREWS SOCIETYone grant, 2020 · $50k
- SCST CHRYSOSTOM'S EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $25k
- CHCHICAGO HOPE ACADEMYone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -58%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
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…
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
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.
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.
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
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.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is After School Matters Inc and the most unlike its peers is Someone Elses Child Inc. 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.
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 45 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
82 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. 82 of the 160 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Illinois Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Big Shoulders Fund ↗
- Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds TENACITY INC ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago Medical Center ↗
- Who funds BARNABAS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds Splinter Art and Community Fund ↗
- Who funds THE SERVICE CLUB OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BRAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Fenix Family Health Center ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER ↗
- Who funds ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds SONGS BY HEART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Helen V Brach Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Dr Scholl Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · WP & HB White Foundation · The Service Club of Chicago · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation
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 Beatrice P Delany Char Tr Xxxxx7003 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.
- Utec Inc — 46% of income from government
- Sherrill House Inc — 31% of income from government
- New England Aquarium Corporation — 12% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Crossroads for Kids Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.