· Private foundation
Chang 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST PAUL'S UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST | $45,000 |
| SIIM EDUCATION & RESEARCH FUND | $5,000 |
| MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC | $5,000 |
| RSNA RESEARCH & EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| LADIES OF VIRTUE | $2,000 |
| HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO | $1,500 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY PHILLIPS BROOKS HOUSE | $1,000 |
| UCAN CHICAGO | $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 (FY17–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 21% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +72% since the first grant, against +45% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MSMERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC9× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue +113%
- RSRadiological Society of North America Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $48k · revenue +25%
- SVSOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS CHICAGO INC8× · 2017–2024 · $43k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- SRSIIM RESEARCH & EDUCATION FUNDone grant, 2021 · $5k
- WSWEST SIDE JUSTICE CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +100%
- RCRIVER CITY COMMUNITY CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
To enrich the lives of our community through dance education and performance while developing Chicago's native talent pool in a welcoming environment that celebrates multiculturalism & ethnic diversity.
Chicago Sinfonietta is a professional orchestra dedicated to modeling and promoting diversity, inclusion, and both racial and cultural equity in the arts through the universal language of symphonic music. Our core values are built around…
Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
Presenting free high-quality classical music performances and music education experiences in the Chicago metropolitan area for people of all ages and degrees of musical awareness so they can experience how music enriches life.
Pegasus Theatre Chicago is a professional theater approaching 45 years of supporting Chicagos diverse community by producing accessible, socially relevant theatre and promoting the development of new artists for the stage. Our mission is…
To present high quality arts programming and musical performances that will educate, enrich and improve the quality of life for the diverse Chicago cultural communities and beyond.
Live Free Illinois is a statewide organization partnering with over 120 congregations and directly impacted individuals to build safer more equitable communities across Illinois. Operating at the intersection of criminal justice reform and…
The chicago high school for the arts (chiarts) develops the next generation of diverse, artistically promising scholar-artists through intensive pre-professional training in the arts, combined with a comprehensive college preparatory…
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 23 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 MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds Radiological Society of North America Inc ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds SHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW ↗
- Who funds LADIES OF VIRTUE ↗
- Who funds STEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT ↗
- Who funds INCLUSIVE COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds MY JOYFUL HEART NFP ↗
- Who funds ALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE JUSTICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds UCAN ↗
- Who funds OLYMPIA FIELDS COUNTRY CLUB HISTORIC LANDMARK PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC ↗
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 · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Chang Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chang Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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