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Bjb 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
63% of Bjb Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to World Vision Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 8 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year Bjb Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $913k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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 · FY2017
- Under $10k3 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $355k
- $250k+2 grants · $501k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MISERICORDIA | $250,500 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $250,000 |
| BY THE HAND | $100,200 |
| FRANCISCAN OUTREACH | $75,000 |
| MARY SEAT OF WISDOM PARISH | $70,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $60,000 |
| CATHOLIC THEOLOGICAL UNION | $50,000 |
| ARCHDIOCESE OF CHICAGO | $12,500 |
| 4 EAGLE FOUNDATION - COMPASSION HOUSE | $12,000 |
| OLD ST PATRICK'S PARISH | $10,000 |
| ROBERT MCLAUGHLIN FAITH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FAMILY SERVICE CENTER | $7,031 |
| CATHOLIC EXTENSION | $5,000 |
| KEVIN'S SONG | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2017, 11 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2017 (too recent to call). Read against FY2017, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $340k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +680%- BTBy The Hand Club For Kids5× · 2017–2024 · $750k · revenue +54%
- CCCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago5× · 2020–2024 · $552k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- MUMISERICORDIA UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $300k · revenue +33%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES INCone grant, 2017 · $250k
- MUMidwestern Universityone grant, 2023 · $27k · revenue +7%
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.
The mission of misericordia home is to support children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities who choose our community by providing the highest quality residential, training, and employment services. we provide the…
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
We, mercy health system of chicago and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.mercy foundation is a member of mercy health system of chicago…
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…
For seniors who are unable to live alone, Catholic Charities provided fully licensed nursing home with a round-the-clock nursing staff. The Home offered physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, social services, pastoral…
The mission of franciscan communities inc. ("franciscan communities") is to celebrate life and serve with joy. (continued on schedule o).
In the tradition of the sisters of mercy, stella maris provides a comprehensive range of health and housing services for the compassionate care of the elderly, the sick and the dying.
We are a catholic, faith-based organization entrusted with advancing the life-enhancing senior care ministry of the benedictine sisters of duluth, minnesota. we witness to god's love by creating inclusive communities, supporting those we…
We are a catholic, faith-based organization entrusted with advancing the life-enhancing senior care ministry of the benedictine sisters of duluth, minnesota. we witness to god's love by creating inclusive communities, supporting those we…
The organization provides nursing and assisted care to individuals of all faiths regardless of ability to pay.
House of Good Shepherd serves with love and compassion women and children affected by domestic violence by offering a safe place with opportunities for emotional, educational and spiritual growth, giving hope and continued support for a…
St. anne home is a ministry of the felician sisters of north america dedicated to the continued healing mission of jesus christ by providing a continuum of care and supportive services to adults, their families, and their caregivers. st.…
How this is measured
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 37 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 WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds By The Hand Club For Kids ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WINGS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE ↗
- Who funds PADS TO HOPE DBA-JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME ↗
- Who funds Midwestern University ↗
- Who funds Angels for Hospice Foundation ↗
- Who funds ROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds REV ROBERT E MCLAUGHLIN FAITH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds All Things Through Christ Outreach Ministries ↗
- Who funds KEVINS SONG A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY EDUCATION ON DEPRESSION & SUICIDE ↗
- Who funds RORY BELLE FOUNDATION ↗
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: AbbVie Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bjb Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bjb Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Rowan University Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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