· Private foundation
Bertaud 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CARMEL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $10,200 |
| CRISTO REY | $7,600 |
| FILL A HEART 4 KIDS | $3,800 |
| MATTHIAS ACADEMY | $3,800 |
| ZACHARIAS (SEXUAL ABUSE CENTER) | $2,600 |
| ST JOSEPH CHURCH | $2,500 |
| ALL ARE WELCOME SOCIAL SERVICES INC | $2,500 |
| LAKE COUNTY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER | $2,500 |
| BEACON PLACE | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $92k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- MAMATTHIAS ACADEMY CORPORATION3× · 2019–2024 · $16k · revenue ×27
- TBThe Beacon Place NFP7× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +40%
- ZSZACHARIAS SEXUAL ABUSE CENTER5× · 2019–2024 · $14k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- CRCristo Rey St Martin College Prepone grant, 2017 · $10k
- CLCHRISTIAN LEAGUE FOR THE HANDICAPPED DBA INSPIRATION MINISTRIESgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $9k · revenue +64%
- GPGIGIS PLAYHOUSE INCone grant, 2018 · $6k
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.
To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.
Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.
Empowering individuals with developmental disabilities and their families through advocacy and the coordination of service options
To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…
To build prosperous communities by serving local families and individuals in pursuit of self-reliance.
North suburban legal aid clinic's mission is to provide accessible, quality, equitable, free legal services in the areas of domestic violence, housing, and immigration to give low-income, at-risk community members access to justice and the…
To be a trauma-informed environment where partners collaboratively investigate child abuse, families receive support and advocacy, and most importantly, the child's words are always heard.
To foster stronger communities by providing individuals with accessible, professional counseling and mental health care that empowers them to thrive
Family service of lake county provides counseling, education, and support services to strenghten individuals and families in need to succeed in school, at work, in relationships, and within our community.
Serving recently arrived migrants and asylum seekers in the Chicagoland area and is committed to upholding the dignity and human rights of immigrants.
To empower people with disabilities to lead self-directed lives as valued members of the community.
Chicago Workers' Collaborative's mission is to promote full employment and equality for the lowest wage-earners, primarily temporary staffing workers, in the Chicago region through leadership and skills training, critical assistance and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youthbuild Lake County Inc and the most unlike its peers is All Are Welcome Social Services 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 26 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
18 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. 18 of the 30 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 ALL ARE WELCOME SOCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MATTHIAS ACADEMY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds The Beacon Place NFP ↗
- Who funds ZACHARIAS SEXUAL ABUSE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Cristo Rey St Martin College Prep ↗
- Who funds SERENITY HOUSE OF LIBERTYVILLE ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN LEAGUE FOR THE HANDICAPPED DBA INSPIRATION MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE LAKE COUNTY HAVEN ↗
- Who funds International Neighborhood Collaborative ↗
- Who funds FILL A HEART 4 KIDS ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Waukegan To College NFP ↗
- Who funds Lake County Childrens Advocacy Center ↗
- Who funds YOUTHBUILD LAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH LAWNDALE EMPLOYMENT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds KEEPING FAMILIES COVERED ↗
- Who funds PADS Lake County Inc ↗
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: Trustmark Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Baxter International Foundation · United Way of Lake County Inc · The Lake County Community Foundation · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · United Way Worldwide · Vivo Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Healthcare Foundation of Northern Lake County
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 Bertaud 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.
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.