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Boyle Family 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k33 grants · $621k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $420k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO | $100,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $70,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO - KOVLER DIABETES CENTER | $50,000 |
| ST ISAAC JOGUES CHURCH | $50,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $50,000 |
| ST JUDES CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $45,000 |
| ST JUDE OF THE LAKE CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $45,000 |
| LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| LYN TREECE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $30,000 |
| THE RETREAT | $30,000 |
| DEPAUL UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| POPE JOHN PAUL II PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $25,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $282k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 23% 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.
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 +26% since the first grant, against -38% for the ones you funded once.
72 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 10 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $108k 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
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO7× · 2018–2025 · $633k · revenue +17%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC8× · 2018–2025 · $338k · revenue +125%- LULOYOLA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM8× · 2018–2025 · $245k · revenue ×136
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO - CARDIA RESEARCHone grant, 2019 · $25k
- NMNORTHWESTERN MEDICINE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $20k
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LAFAYETTEone grant, 2018 · $17k
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.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
Northwestern memorial healthcare is an integrated healthcare system, consisting of multiple hospitals (including northwestern memorial hospital, an academic medical center) and networks of physicians and healthcare professionals, where the…
The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…
As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Joliet and the most unlike its peers is Society of St Vincent De Paul - Twin Cities. 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 47 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 98 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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds DEPAUL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LYN TREECE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TIPPECANOE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Madison Square Boys & Girls Club ↗
- Who funds MOUNDS PARK ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
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: United Way Worldwide · The Dupage Community Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Baird Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Chubb Charitable Foundation
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 Boyle 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.
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% 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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