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Carnahan 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALTUS ACADEMY | $18,000 |
| MARILLAC ST VINCENT | $5,000 |
| CLASSICAL MUSIC CHICAGO | $2,500 |
| ST ANTHONY'S CHURCH | $1,000 |
| MISERICORDIA | $1,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKE | $1,000 |
| HARBOR ARTS | $500 |
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 (FY19–23, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 93% 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.
23 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 3 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; $3k 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
- MPMETROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL6× · 2019–2024 · $160k · revenue +6%
- AAALTUS ACADEMY2× · 2024–2025 · $34k · revenue +246%
- TBTHE BOTTOM LINE INC2× · 2019–2020 · $10k · revenue +38%
Funded once
Northwestern Universitygraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +34%- GLGREAT LAKES ACADEMY INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +1%
- TOTHE OAKS WOMEN'S CLUB INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +138%
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.
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…
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
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…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
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.
Aamc leads & serves the academic medicine community to improve the health of people everywhere.
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…
We value excellence and innovation in clinical and basic research, coordinated and comprehensive patient care, ongoing physician education, and evidence-based child advocacy. our goal is to provide leadership in endeavors that promote the…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Illinois Arts Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. 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 41 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) — 2% 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.
46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 66 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 COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN ↗
- Who funds ALTUS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds THE BOTTOM LINE INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds MARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN EMPLOYED ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT ↗
- Who funds THE OAKS WOMEN'S CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS ARTS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Classical Music Chicago ↗
- Who funds Almost Home Kids ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds SUM NFP ↗
- Who funds FACIAL PAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds International Association for Spelling as Communication ↗
- Who funds The Anti-Cruelty Society ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BAPTIST MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES ↗
- Who funds VIGILANT TORCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOFFREY BALLET ↗
- Who funds ALMA CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHIKAMING OPEN LANDS ↗
- Who funds THE THRESHOLDS ↗
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 · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Xxxxx1008 · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Irving Harris Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Chauncey and Marion D McCormick Family Foundation · The Pierce Family 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 Carnahan 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 Bottom Line Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 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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