· Private foundation
Buehler 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 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 $10k1 grant · $2k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $588k
- $250k+2 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $250,000 |
| DEPAUW UNIVERSITY | $250,000 |
| KENILWORTH UNION CHURCH | $200,000 |
| CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN | $110,000 |
| TUCSON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $106,000 |
| SOUTHERN ARIZONA AIDS FOUNDATION | $72,000 |
| LITERACY CONNECTS | $50,000 |
| MARY MOTHER OF GOD PARISH | $50,000 |
| LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO | $25,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $20,000 |
| THE VILLAGE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| NORTHFIELD TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
| HUNGER RESOURCE NETWORK | $10,000 |
| EDU4LIFE aka POWER OVER PREDATORS | $2,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +26% since the first grant, against -3% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 5 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $282k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Northwestern University3× · 2023–2025 · $750k · revenue +26%
DePauw University2× · 2024–2025 · $500k · revenue +3%
Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation3× · 2023–2025 · $162k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- DUDEPAW UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $250k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $130k
- TYThe YMCA of Metropolitan Chicagoone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -3%
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 organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
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…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
The Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, is an independent and separate nonprofit entity from the University of Illinois. Our mission is to encourage and administer private gifts and serve the UI System by working closely with…
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
Roosevelt university is an independent, non-profit, metropolitan university and national leader in educating socially conscious citizens for active and dedicated lives as leaders in their professions and their communities. the university's…
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
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…
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
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…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 46 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 Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds DePauw University ↗
- Who funds Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation ↗
- Who funds TMC HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NORTHFIELD TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds The YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago ↗
- Who funds LITERACY CONNECTS ↗
- Who funds Lyric Opera of Chicago ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds HUNGER RESOURCE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds EDU4LIFE ↗
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 · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Buehler Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Buehler Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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