· Private foundation
Couri Family Foundation
Its FY2022 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 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k7 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ONE WORLD SURGERY | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $10,000 |
| BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE OF ILLINOIS | $3,000 |
| CRISTO REY JESUIT HS | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| CHRIST THE KING JESUIT COLLEGE PREP | $2,000 |
| WTTW | $1,000 |
| HYDE PARK DAY SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.
16 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2022, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 86% 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
- OWONE WORLD SURGERY6× · 2017–2022 · $80k · revenue +67%
- HIHOPE IGNITES CHICAGO5× · 2017–2022 · $39k · revenue +45%
- CFCONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC4× · 2018–2021 · $12k · revenue +277%
Funded once
- AFAID FOR WOMEN INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +256%
- TCTHE CHICAGO ACADEMY FOR THE ARTSgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +42%
- EIEMPOWER ILLINOISone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -99%
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 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…
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…
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…
To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.
The Institute for the International Education of Students (IES) blends the best elements of foreign higher education with American University requirements and encourages students to explore the unique elements of foreign countries.…
Providing academic support to children experiencing homelessness in Chicago and providing resources and services to families experiencing homelessness in Chicago.
Erie neighborhood house provides the most comprehensive support to immigrant and low-income families in chicago. our mission is to empower our communitylatinx immigrants alongside individuals and families of all backgroundsthrough…
To connect Black students with resources and opportunities that strengthen the necessary skills to succeed as they advance to, through, and beyond college.
Tutoring chicago delivers the power of education through one-to-one tutoring.
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
Arise chicago builds partnerships between faith communities and workers to fight workplace injustice through education, organizing, and advocating for public policy changes.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 28 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 ONE WORLD SURGERY ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds AID FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds CONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds EMPOWER ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds FOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOIN HANDS ESL ↗
- Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Alain Locke Charter School ↗
- Who funds EVANSTON SCHOLARS ↗
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 · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · AbbVie Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Couri Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Couri Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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