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Cretors Family 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $315k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $50,000 |
| CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN | $50,000 |
| RAGDALE | $50,000 |
| CHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN | $35,000 |
| LEARN | $25,000 |
| RAVINIA FESTIVAL | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $20,000 |
| THE NIGHT MINISTRY | $20,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $20,000 |
| HIGHLAND PARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| THE TREVOR PROJECT | $10,000 |
| CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA | $10,000 |
| ERIE FAMILY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PALESTINE CHILDRENS RELIEF FUND | $10,000 |
| LURIE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $83k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% 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.
32 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 9 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k 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
- CHCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY6× · 2018–2024 · $423k · revenue +38%
- LELawndale Educational and Regional Network Charter School3× · 2017–2020 · $110k · revenue +78%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $95k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- TOTRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTAone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +7%
- LBLAKE BLUFF OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +46%
- CUCAMFED USA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -19%
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.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
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A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
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Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
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The elizabeth glaser pediatric aids foundation (egpaf) is a proven leader in the fight against pediatric hiv/aids and has reached over 33 million pregnant women with services to prevent transmission of hiv to their babies. to date, egpaf…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partnership to End Addiction and the most unlike its peers is Lake Bluff Open Lands Association. 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 35 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
60 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. 60 of the 77 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 CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Lawndale Educational and Regional Network Charter School ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN ↗
- Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Highland Park Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds Fenix Family Health Center ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds ALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY FOCUS LEGACY ↗
- Who funds STEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds Erie Family Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LAKE BLUFF OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TU NIDITO CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds Native American Heritage Association ↗
- Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds ORGANIZATION FOR AUTISM RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds Random Acts of Flowers ↗
- Who funds RAINFOREST TRUST ↗
- Who funds DEPAUL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMFED USA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S LITERACY INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds SARAH'S CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science ↗
- Who funds FEED THE CHILDREN INC ↗
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 · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · AbbVie Foundation · The Grainger Foundation Inc · Walder Foundation · Chicago Foundation for Women · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
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 Cretors Family Foundation 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.
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% 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.