· Private foundation
Burt 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $304k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF ILLINOIS | $50,000 |
| RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | $50,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $45,000 |
| ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO | $42,500 |
| COLEMAN ADVOCATES | $39,133 |
| BAKER DEMONSTRATION SCHOOL | $37,500 |
| HOMEY | $30,000 |
| EVANSTON ANIMAL SHELTER ASSOCATION | $30,000 |
| STRIDES FOR PEACE | $30,000 |
| FROM THE HEART PRODUCTIONS | $20,000 |
| SYNERGY SCHOOL | $16,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $13,000 |
| THE FIELD | $7,500 |
| TIDES FOUNDATION | $5,867 |
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, $145k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +24% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 9 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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
- TATHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO5× · 2021–2025 · $122k · revenue +43%
- UPUnity Preschool4× · 2020–2023 · $100k · revenue +13%
- PCProject Commotion5× · 2020–2024 · $96k · revenue +108%
Funded once
- FFFULCRUM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $50k
Family Focusgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $45k · revenue +158%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $38k
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.
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
See Schedule ODeans for Impact supports educator-preparation programs to bring the science of learning into teaching practice; partners with policymakers to ensure pathways into teaching are accessible, practice-based, and…
PILI engages, inspires and empowers those advancing equal access to justice.
See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.
To achieve parity in economic opportunity for people of color by advancing multiracial leadership in corporate governance, expanding the talent pipline for executive-level management, and growing minority businesses.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Movement Voter Fund and the most unlike its peers is Msc Foundation. 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 32 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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 12% 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.
51 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. 51 of the 92 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 THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Unity Preschool ↗
- Who funds Project Commotion ↗
- Who funds BAKER DEMONSTRATION SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds LEAP INC ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood of Illinois ↗
- Who funds STRIDES FOR PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds Coleman Children and Youth Services dba Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds SYNERGY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Family Focus ↗
- Who funds EVANSTON ANIMAL SHELTER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds From The Heart Productions ↗
- Who funds 626 LANDMARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FULCRUM CENTER ↗
- Who funds NOURISHING HOPE ↗
- Who funds LEAP Innovations ↗
- Who funds FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ELLA BAKER CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds MOVEMENT VOTER FUND ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE GENERATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE PERFORMANCE ZONE 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 · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Tides Foundation · The California Endowment · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors Foundation · Tides Center
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 Burt 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.
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% 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.