· Private foundation
Chauncey and Marion D McCormick Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $543k
- $50k–250k34 grants · $2.7M
- $250k+3 grants · $965k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LITTLE TRAVERSE CONSERVANCY INC | $350,000 |
| DONORS TRUST | $322,500 |
| CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $292,500 |
| ALL CHICAGO | $200,000 |
| NOURISHING HOPE | $200,000 |
| CHICAGO CITY DAY SCHOOL | $150,000 |
| OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL | $150,000 |
| ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO | $150,000 |
| RECIPE FOR CHANGE | $100,000 |
| RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | $100,000 |
| VIZCAYA MUSEUM AND GARDENS TRUST INC | $95,000 |
| BRAVEHEARTS THERAPEUTIC RIDING & EDUCATION CENTER | $90,000 |
| THE BHUTAN FOUNDATION | $80,000 |
| THE ARTS CLUB OF CHICAGO | $80,000 |
| BALLET THEATER FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +32% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.
78 repeat relationships: 43 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 21 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BTBRAVEHEARTS THERAPEUTIC RIDING AND EDUCATIONAL CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $865k · revenue +45%
- TATHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO6× · 2020–2025 · $718k · revenue +32%
- TITHE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE4× · 2020–2024 · $620k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- JHJOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY - LYME INSTITUTEone grant, 2020 · $175k
- CCColumbia College Chicagoone grant, 2024 · $150k · revenue +7%
- VMVIZCAYA MUSEUM AND GARDENS TRUST INC - GENERAL OPERATINGone grant, 2021 · $150k
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 collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
To invest in america's finest artists and illuminate the value of artists to society.
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
Arts Midwest works collaboratively with private and public arts supporters to support, inform, and celebrate arts organizations and creative communities across the Midwest. Our mission is to build unprecedented opportunity across the…
To encourage, sponsor, and promote innovative work in the arts created and presented by individuals, groups, and organizations.
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
How this is measured
125 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 125 of the 177 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 CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR AFRICAN MEDICINE AND EDUC ↗
- Who funds BRAVEHEARTS THERAPEUTIC RIDING AND EDUCATIONAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Donors Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds THE TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc ↗
- Who funds FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VIZCAYA MUSEUM AND GARDENS TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US ↗
- Who funds SAFE REFUGE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds St Leonard's Ministries ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Little Traverse Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds NOURISHING HOPE ↗
- Who funds THE DEERING ESTATE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds READING BETWEEN THE LINES NFP ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR PAWS ↗
- Who funds The Bhutan Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEW DAY FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN HOSPITAL OF PARIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lyric Opera of Chicago ↗
- Who funds MONTECITO FIREFIGHTERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RECIPE FOR CHANGE ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE JACKSON CHANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY ↗
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 · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Peter E Haas Jr Family Fund · Reva and David Logan Foundation · Hobsonlucas Family Foundation · McNabb Foundation · The Poetry Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Chauncey and Marion D McCormick Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chauncey and Marion D McCormick Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Vizcaya Museum and Gardens Trust Inc: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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