· Private foundation
Bill Nygren 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 $10k9 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $203k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $205,000 |
| STRIDES FOR PEACE | $135,000 |
| TRI-COUNTY COUNCIL FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC | $135,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CHICAGO | $100,000 |
| SW MICHIGAN REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| BENTON HARBOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP | $100,000 |
| EMERGE INNOVATION HUB | $75,000 |
| MOSAIC CCDA | $50,000 |
| HARBOR COUNTY MISSION | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BERRIEN COUNTY TRAILS | $50,000 |
| MERCY HOME FOR BOYS & GIRLS | $50,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO | $50,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $25,000 |
| VIDA VALIENTE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATESSW MICHIGAN | $25,000 |
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, $535k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
45 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 6 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $227k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CICOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO5× · 2018–2023 · $390k · revenue +121%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN4× · 2018–2021 · $360k · revenue +161%
- BBBIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO7× · 2018–2024 · $350k · revenue +17%
Funded once
University of Chicagoone grant, 2022 · $350k · revenue +22%- AFAMERICAN FUND FOR CHARITIESone grant, 2017 · $223k
- 3D30 DAY FUND INC (BARSTOOL FUND)one grant, 2020 · $100k
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.
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
Thrive chicago's mission is to prepare chicago's youth for a vibrant future by aligning efforts and outcomes from cradle to career.
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
The chicago bar foundation brings the legal community together through advocacy, funding, and innovation to improve access to justice for people in need and to make the legal system more fair, equitable, and effective.
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…
To achieve parity in economic opportunity for people of color by advancing multiracial leadership in corporate governance, expanding the talent pipline for executive-level management, and growing minority businesses.
To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.
Arise chicago builds partnerships between faith communities and workers to fight workplace injustice through education, organizing, and advocating for public policy changes.
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
To enhance the quality of the chicago metropolitan area's future leaders in whom the community will vest responsibility for its well being.
The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…
How this is measured
44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 44 of the 82 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 UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds STRIDES FOR PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY COUNCIL FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC (D/B/A FLOWERS EARLY LEARNING) ↗
- Who funds Lawndale Educational and Regional Network Charter School ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN FUND FOR CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds HARBOR COUNTRY MISSION ↗
- Who funds BENTON HARBOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds EMERGE INNOVATION HUB ↗
- Who funds Pine Cay Project ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BERRIEN COUNTY TRAILS ↗
- Who funds MOSAIC CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Springboard Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP ↗
- Who funds THE AVENUE FAMILY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY SHELTER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds DANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds READINESS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF BERRIEN AND CASS INC ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Vida Valiente Foundation ↗
- Who funds GROWTH WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds ONE ACRE FUND ↗
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: Berrien Community Foundation Inc · Whirlpool Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Fettig Family Foundation · The McLoughlin Family Foundation · United Way of Southwest Michigan · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Degroot Family Foundation · The Marzke Family Foundation · Cme Group Foundation · 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bill Nygren Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bill Nygren Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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