· Private foundation
Benjamin Benedict Greenfield Foundation Inc
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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of BENJAMIN BENEDICT GREENFIELD FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $99k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BY THE HAND CLUB FOR KIDS | $15,000 |
| SARAH'S CIRCLE | $10,000 |
| SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN | $8,000 |
| THE BOULEVARD | $7,500 |
| ROSELAND CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES | $7,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF CHICAGO | $7,000 |
| Breakthrough Urban Ministries | $7,000 |
| PEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY TREASURE CHEST | $7,000 |
| NATIONAL KIDNEY FDN | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| TWIST OUT CANCER | $5,000 |
| SKYART | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| NEW MOMS | $5,000 |
| THE PEOPLE'S MUSIC SCHOOL | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $149k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 95% 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.
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 +52% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 6 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- BTBy The Hand Club For Kids9× · 2017–2025 · $147k · revenue +54%
- SCSARAH'S CIRCLE9× · 2017–2025 · $75k · revenue +261%
- POPediatric Oncology Treasure Chest9× · 2017–2025 · $59k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- IHINTERFAITH HOUSEone grant, 2021 · $7k
- SGSUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIESone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -14%
- T4TEAM 44 PEDIATRIC CANCER FDNone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
Thrive chicago's mission is to prepare chicago's youth for a vibrant future by aligning efforts and outcomes from cradle to career.
Providing academic support to children experiencing homelessness in Chicago and providing resources and services to families experiencing homelessness in Chicago.
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
Child Link provides foster care, family counseling, and therapy services to Chicago area adolescents who are at risk of homelessness. Child Link also refers adolescents to other agencies that are able to provide additional resources and…
Tutoring and mentoring programs for inner city youth.
To provide high-quality early learning and out-of-school time enrichment in under-resourced neighborhoods to holistically support children of all ages, their families, and their communities.
Friends of the children - chicago has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…
Tutoring chicago delivers the power of education through one-to-one tutoring.
Midtown-Metro Achievement Centers, through its Midtown Center for boys and Metro Achievement Center for girls, helps close the achievement gap for Chicago's urban youth ages eight through eighteen.
To empower youth in Chicago and beyond to become forces of positive change in their communities by embracing the goodness that surrounds them.
JCFS Chicago services and programs support wellbeing for children, teens, adults and families regardless of race, culture, religion, disability, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, or…
Chicago childrens museum is a place where families and caregivers with infants and children are encouraged to create, explore, and discover together through play. the museum features three vibrant floors of exhibits and activities that…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Moms Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chicago Hope Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 49 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 By The Hand Club For Kids ↗
- Who funds SARAH'S CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds SkyArt NFP ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds NEW MOMS INC ↗
- Who funds THE MIRACLE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE TEEN CENTER NFP ↗
- Who funds Childrens Oncology Services Inc ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER WE COPE ↗
- Who funds TWIST OUT CANCER ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS ↗
- Who funds CURT'S CAFE ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds SERTOMA CENTRE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds The People's Music School ↗
- Who funds Stand Together Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Forgotten Initiative ↗
- Who funds Providence St Mel School ↗
- Who funds CARPE VENTUS ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds The Musical Arts Institute ↗
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 · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Greater Chicago Food Depository · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · AbbVie Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Service Club of Chicago
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 Benjamin Benedict Greenfield Foundation Inc 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.
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.