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Craig J Umans Family Foundation at a glance

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Craig J Umans 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.

$216k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$145k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$752kHealth$17kFood & Nutrition$15kEducation$5kEmployment$3kHuman Services$2kReligion$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$500
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $215k
$70,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCATION$145,000
WRITERS THEATRE$70,000
BIG GREAT LAKES$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 53% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%HELP HOPE LIVE: $5k → 6%MAUI FOOD BANK: $2k → 9%GENEVA LAKE WATER SAFETY PATROL: $500 → 10%VFOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $2k → 8%BIG GREAT LAKES: $1k → 8%ERIKAS LIGHTHOUSE: $500 → 14%MAUI FOOD BANK: $1k → 9%THE TIME IS NOW TO HELP: $1k → 10%THE V FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $1k → 8%RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCATION: $145k → 8%NORTHWESTERN LURIE CANCER CARE: $5k → 14%THE V FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $1k → 8%RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCATION: $35k → 8%WTTW: $500 → 14%RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCATION: $35k → 8%WRITERS THEATRE: $70k → 14%RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCATION: $35k → 8%WRITERS THEATRE: $66k → 14%RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $30k → 8%WRITERS THEATRE: $47k → 14%RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCATION: $25k → 8%WRITERS THEATRE: $40k → 14%RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCATION: $25k → 8%WRITERS THEATRE: $30k → 14%RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCATION: $12k → 8%WRITERS THEATRE: $25k → 14%RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCATION: $10k → 8%WRITERS THEATRE: $25k → 14%RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCATION: $5k → 8%WRITERS THEATRE: $25k → 14%WRITERS THEATRE: $23k → 14%WRITERS THEATRE: $15k → 14%WRITERS THEATRE: $10k → 14%WRITERS THEATRE: $10k → 14%RABBI WENDI GEFFEN DISCRETIONARY FUND: $2k → 14%IL HOLOCAUST MUSEUM: $3k → 14%IL HOLOCAUST MUSEUM: $1k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ARCHDIOCESE OF CHG: $1k → 14%VIDYA GIRLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%VIDYA GIRLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%GREATER FOOD DEPOSITORY: $7k → 14%GREATER FOOD BANK: $2k → 14%GREATER FOOD DEPOSITORY: $1k → 14%GREATER CHICAGO FOOD BANK: $1k → 14%GREATER CHICAGO FOOD BANK: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$775k · 9 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
11

Total granted

$775k
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+35%

Still filing today

67%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureEducationHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionEmploymentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • WT
    Writers Theatre Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $391k · revenue +8%
  • RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $357k · revenue +53%
  • TV
    THE V FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2024 · $4k · revenue +216%

Funded once

  • NL
    NORTHWESTERN LURIE CANCER CARE
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • HI
    HELPHOPELIVE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +35%
  • GF
    GREATER FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Brightfocus Foundation

Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…

Health
2
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
3
Mila's Miracle Foundation

The mission of mila's miracle foundation is to find and fund paths to a cure for batten and other life-threatening neurological disorders. families in this community have been pivotal in raising the necessary funds and awareness. together,…

Health
4
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
5
The Broad Institute Inc

The mission of the broad institute is to propel progress in biomedicine, through research aimed at the understanding and treatment of disease and the dissemination of scientific knowledge to the scientific community to benefit the public.…

Health
6
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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7
Food Allergy Science Initiative Inc

To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.

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8
Dadiva Foundation
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9
International Myeloma Foundation

Dedicated to improving the quality of life of myeloma patients while working toward prevention and a cure.

Unclassified
10
Debbie's Dream Foundation

Debbie's dream foundation:curing stomach cancer is dedicated to raising awareness about stomach cancer, providing education, advocacy, and support internationally to patients, families, and caregivers affected by the disease, and advancing…

Human Services
11
Vasculitis Foundation

Building upon the collective strength of the vasculitis community, the vasculitis foundation supports, inspires and empowers individuals with vasculitis and their families through a wide range of education, research, clinical, and…

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12
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation

The lustgarten foundation is the largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research in the world. see schedule o.the lustgarten foundation is boldly leading the way through hope and innovation, turning fear into action through education…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The V Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Vidya Girls Education Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 21 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Writers Theatre Inc: $390,500 · Arts & CultureWriters Theatre IncRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $357,000 · Arts & CultureRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION+1 more: $500 · Arts & CultureGREATER FOOD DEPOSITORY: $8,000 · OtherNORTHWESTERN LURIE CANCER CARE: $5,000 · OtherIL HOLOCAUST MUSEUM: $3,500 · OtherGREATER CHICAGO FOOD BANK: $2,000 · OtherGREATER FOOD BANK: $2,000 · OtherRABBI WENDI GEFFEN DISCRETIONARY FUND: $1,800 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ARCHDIOCESE OF CHG: $1,000 · Other+1 more: $500 · OtherHELPHOPELIVE INC: $5,000 · HealthTHE V FOUNDATION: $4,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $1,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $1,000 · HealthErikas Lighthouse A Beacon of Hope for Adolescent Depression: $500 · HealthVidya Girls Education Foundation: $4,500 · EducationMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $3,000 · Food & NutritionMDRC: $2,000 · EmploymentTHE TIME IS NOW TO HELP INC: $1,000 · Housing & ShelterBiG Great Lakes: $1,000 · Religion
Arts & Culture$748,000Other$23,800Health$11,500Education$4,500Food & Nutrition$3,000Employment$2,000Housing & Shelter$1,000Religion$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWriters Theatre Inc: $390,500 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $357,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetHELPHOPELIVE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVidya Girls Education Foundation: $4,500 over 2y, 100% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMDRC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TIME IS NOW TO HELP INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBiG Great Lakes: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetErikas Lighthouse A Beacon of Hope for Adolescent Depression: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Craig J Umans Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Craig J Umans Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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