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Comer Science & Education Foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $215k
- $250k+2 grants · $600k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GARY COMER YOUTH CENTER | $300,000 |
| NETWORK FOR YOUNG ADULT SUCCESS | $300,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM | $147,879 |
| SOUTH SHORE DRILL TEAM | $66,667 |
| CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| CHAMPS MALE MENTORING | $5,000 |
| OPERATION NEIGHBORHOOD SAFETY | $5,000 |
| DO FOR SELF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT 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 (FY17–21, $159k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 5% 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.
24 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 2 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; $149k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GCGARY COMER YOUTH CENTER INC7× · 2017–2024 · $13M · revenue +88% · 52% of their budget
- NFNetwork For Young Adult Success6× · 2019–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +75% · 65% of their budget
- NNNOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS3× · 2017–2019 · $367k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- BIBITWISE INDUSTRIES INCone grant, 2023 · $2.4M
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2022 · $646k
- EAEMBRACE AND SHIFT INCone grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue -85% · 45% of their budget
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.
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.
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.
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
Thrive chicago's mission is to prepare chicago's youth for a vibrant future by aligning efforts and outcomes from cradle to career.
To provide high-quality early learning and out-of-school time enrichment in under-resourced neighborhoods to holistically support children of all ages, their families, and their communities.
To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
The chicagoland chamber of commerce combines the power of people, with our legacy of leadership and business advocacy, to drive a dynamic economy. we focus on delivering value for our members, making chicagoland a world-class place to live…
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 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…
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.
How this is measured
28 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. 28 of the 56 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 GARY COMER YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Network For Young Adult Success ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds EMBRACE AND SHIFT INC ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds THE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEENS TAKE ON CLIMATE INC ↗
- Who funds CHAMPS MALE MENTORING PROGRAM - CHIRISE ↗
- Who funds The YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO COOK WORKFORCE PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds LADDER UP (F/K/A CITY-WIDE TAX ASSISTANCE PROGRAM) ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP GREATER CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds The Cara Program ↗
- Who funds THE MORGRIDGE INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds XCHANGE CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS ↗
- Who funds La Rabida Children's Hospital ↗
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 · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Motorola Solutions Foundation · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Comer Science & Education Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Comer Science & Education Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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