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Bluespruce Foundation
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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+2 grants · $783k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Edward and Jennifer Magnus Schwab Charitable Fund | $396,614 |
| Hurd Family Donor Advised Fund | $386,615 |
| WINGS Program Inc | $50,000 |
| Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation | $25,000 |
| Northwestern University | $25,000 |
| Second Stage Theater | $10,000 |
| ChadTough Defeat DIPG Foundation | $10,000 |
| Chicago Historical Society | $10,000 |
| Stanford University Development Services | $10,000 |
| Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation | $10,000 |
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center | $5,000 |
| Aspen Valley Health Foundation | $5,000 |
| Independence Pass Foundation | $5,000 |
| Aspen Education Foundation | $5,000 |
| Injustice Watch | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +24% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 8 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k 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
- WPWINGS PROGRAM INC6× · 2020–2025 · $300k · revenue +122%
- AEASPEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2025 · $181k · revenue +79%
Northwestern University5× · 2021–2025 · $125k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- MGMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM HOME CARE INCone grant, 2022 · $25k
- SOSTANFORD ONLINE HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL FUNDone grant, 2022 · $10k
- TATHE ASPEN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +31%
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.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
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 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 organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
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.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
See Disclosure Above.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc and the most unlike its peers is Injustice Watch Nfp. 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 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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 42 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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds WINGS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation ↗
- Who funds Injustice Watch NFP ↗
- Who funds Aspen Football ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds LEAD THE WAY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mary Meyer School ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THREE FIRES COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #127 ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE HAYMARKET OPERA COMPANY NFP ↗
- Who funds ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DANA-FARBER INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEHEALTH COMMUNITY VNA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE PASS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAKESIDE PRIDE MUSIC ENSEMBLES INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEHEALTH HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE ↗
- Who funds HENRY SCHUELER 41 & 9 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR 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: The Chicago Community Trust · Chubb Charitable Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Bluespruce 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% 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.
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