· Private foundation
Charles W & Patrica S Bidwill Foundati
Its FY2024 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of CHARLES W & PATRICA S BIDWILL FOUNDATI’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $449k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $687k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THRIVE SCHOLARS | $200,000 |
| BANDWITH MUSIC LTD | $160,000 |
| MYCHALS LEARNING PLACE | $77,000 |
| MOMENTUM | $50,000 |
| BIG SHOULDERS | $50,000 |
| IRISH AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP | $50,000 |
| ST IGNATIUS COLLEGE PREP | $50,000 |
| CRISTO REY ST MARTIN | $50,000 |
| MIDTOWN EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| FRANK LENTZ FOUNDATION | $37,000 |
| ARRUPE COLLEGE OF LOYOLA | $30,000 |
| PROVIDENCE ST MEL SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| LEO HIGH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| COME TO BELIEVE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| FIVER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $230k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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 +35% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $209k 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
- TSTHRIVE SCHOLARS5× · 2019–2024 · $240k · revenue +152%
- BMBANDWITH MUSIC LTD3× · 2022–2024 · $230k · revenue +31%
- MLMYCHALS LEARNING PLACE8× · 2017–2024 · $177k · revenue +201%
Funded once
- STSISTER THEA BOWMAN BLACK CATHOLIC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +65%
- SCSOUTH CENTRAL SCHOLARS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $5k
- RVRANCHIN' VETSone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -4%
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.
To equip all students in grades six through twelve with the academic skills, intellectual habits and character traits to succeed in the college of their choice, strenghten their communities and change the world.
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
Tutoring chicago delivers the power of education through one-to-one tutoring.
Chicago scholars is transforming the leadership landscape of our city by resolving the fundamental barriers to success for academically driven, first generation college students from under-resourced communities.
The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…
Thrive chicago's mission is to prepare chicago's youth for a vibrant future by aligning efforts and outcomes from cradle to career.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
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's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
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…
Achieving international impact through world-class research and education in fundamental computer science and information technology.
Founded to educate and inspire gifted and precocious learners who require special social, emotional, executive function and academic supports to realize their high potential, in the greater new york city area, for students grades 1 through…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Thrive Scholars and the most unlike its peers is Sister Thea Bowman Black Catholic Educational 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 39 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 38 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 Midtown-Metro Achievement Centers ↗
- Who funds THRIVE SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds BANDWITH MUSIC LTD ↗
- Who funds MYCHALS LEARNING PLACE ↗
- Who funds PEDIATRIC THERAPY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Rosies House A Music Academy for Children Inc ↗
- Who funds Providence St Mel School ↗
- Who funds THE IRISH AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds FRANK LENTZ FOUNDATION LTD ↗
- Who funds FIVER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC ↗
- Who funds GLENWOOD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds COME TO BELIEVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LUMEN CHRISTI INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN HEART RANCH ↗
- Who funds SISTER THEA BOWMAN BLACK CATHOLIC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE CONNECTOR ↗
- Who funds RANCHIN' VETS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES ↗
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 · Hfs Chicago Scholars · WP & HB White Foundation · Helen V Brach Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Cuneo Foundation · Irish Fellowship Educational & Cultural Foundation · Fred J Brunner Foundation · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation · Robert R McCormick 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 Charles W & Patrica S Bidwill Foundati 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.
- National Center for Children and Families — 2% 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.