· Private foundation
Bryan Cressey and Iliana Sweis Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $136k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ABOVE BEYOND FAMILY RECOVERY CENTER | $1,400,786 |
| AVOCET POLYMER TECHNOLOGIES INC | $260,000 |
| HEALTHSPERIEN | $50,000 |
| LAKE FOREST ACADEMY | $30,000 |
| UIC DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY | $30,000 |
| CHICAGO INSTITUTE FOR REBT | $28,000 |
| HARVARD LAW SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $12,500 |
| GATEWAY FOR CANCER RESEARCH | $10,000 |
| RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL WOMAN'S BOA | $5,000 |
| REVIVE CENTER FOR HOUSING AND HEALI | $5,000 |
| PCRM INC | $5,000 |
| LINCOLN PARK CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| H FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $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 (FY19–25, $211k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 7 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $356k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TATHE ADLER PLANETARIUM6× · 2019–2024 · $160k · revenue +14%
NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC5× · 2019–2024 · $120k · revenue +67%- LFLAKE FOREST ACADEMY5× · 2020–2025 · $95k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- CCCRESSEY CARES CHARITABLE FUNDone grant, 2019 · $200k
- GFGREENLIGHT FUND INCone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +3%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF IL COLLEGE OF MEDICINone grant, 2022 · $50k
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.
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How this is measured
40 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. 40 of the 68 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 THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ADLER PLANETARIUM ↗
- Who funds REVIVE CENTER FOR HOUSING AND HEALING ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREENLIGHT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE FOREST ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY FOR CANCER RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds BARRINGTON CHILDRENS CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLENWOOD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds D4C CARES INC ↗
- Who funds SELECT MEDICAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Face the Future Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER ↗
- Who funds STREETWISE ↗
- Who funds HOPE THROUGH HEALING HANDS ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IN DEFENSE OF ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds IMERMAN ANGELS ↗
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: The Chicago Community Trust · Butler Family Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bryan Cressey and Iliana Sweis Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bryan Cressey and Iliana Sweis Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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