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Cretors Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$490k
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$518kEnvironment$487kEducation$276kHealth$226kPhilanthropy$163kInternational$150kPublic Safety & Disaster$80kYouth Development$80kOther$0
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $315k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$6.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN$50,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$50,000
RAGDALE$50,000
CHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN$35,000
LEARN$25,000
RAVINIA FESTIVAL$20,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$20,000
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY$20,000
THE NIGHT MINISTRY$20,000
HIGHLAND PARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$15,000
LURIE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$10,000
OPERATION SMILE$10,000
FENIX FAMILY HEALTH CENTER$10,000
SARAH'S CIRCLE$10,000
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CYN COUNSELING CTR: $5k → 8%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $7k → 14%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $7k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $7k → 17%Innocence Project: $5k → 17%EQUESTRIAN CONNECTION: $7k → 8%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $20k → 14%FAMILY FOCUS: $10k → 14%FAMILY FOCUS INC: $5k → 14%Family Focus Inc: $5k → 14%FAMILY FOCUS INC: $5k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
WY
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
OK
FL
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 32 repeat orgs$348k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
34

Total granted

$1.7M
$238k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+19%

Still filing today

75%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalArts & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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

  • CH
    CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY
    6× · 2018–2024 · $423k · revenue +38%
  • LE
    Lawndale Educational and Regional Network Charter School
    3× · 2017–2020 · $110k · revenue +78%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $95k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +7%
  • LB
    LAKE BLUFF OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +46%
  • CU
    CAMFED USA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -19%
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
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
2
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.

Social Science
3
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
4
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
5
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
6
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
7
National Opinion Research Center

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…

Social Science
8
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management

Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.

—
9
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
10
The Common Application Inc

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…

Education
11
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
12
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partnership to End Addiction; 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.
04the grantee network

60 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. 60 of the 77 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/60
Grantees still filing
36/60
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RAGDALE: $360,000 · OtherRAGDALELEARN: $100,000 · OtherLEARNCHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN: $95,000 · OtherCHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMENAMERICAN RED CROSS: $80,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSHighland Park Community Foundation: $55,000 · OtherHighland Park Community Foundation+28 more: $261,000 · Other+28 moreCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $423,000 · EnvironmentCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL S…LAKE BLUFF OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · Environment+1 more: $14,000 · EnvironmentLawndale Educational and Regional Network Charter School: $110,000 · EducationLawndale E…TRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $50,000 · EducationTRUSTEES O…DEPAUL UNIVERSITY: $13,000 · EducationDEPAUL UNI…CHILDREN'S LITERACY INITIATIVE: $10,000 · EducationREACH OUT AND READ INC: $7,000 · Education+2 more: $11,250 · Education+2 moreRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $82,500 · Arts & CultureRAVINIA FE…CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO PU…ALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $29,000 · Arts & CultureALVIN AILE…STEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY: $25,000 · Arts & CultureSTEPPENWOL…EVANSTON ART CENTER: $10,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL CHILD ART FOUNDATION: $7,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $95,000 · InternationalMEDECINS …PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $17,000 · InternationalPALESTINE…RAINFOREST TRUST: $13,000 · InternationalRAINFORES…CAMFED USA FOUNDATION: $10,000 · InternationalCAMFED US…FEED THE CHILDREN INC: $10,000 · InternationalFEED THE …OPERATION SMILE INC: $10,000 · InternationalOPERATION…Best Buddies International Inc: $10,000 · InternationalBest Budd…International Rescue Committee INC: $8,000 · InternationalCORNERSTONE JAMAICA INC: $7,500 · International+1 more: $2,500 · InternationalFenix Family Health Center: $40,000 · HealthErie Family Health Foundation Inc: $20,000 · HealthTU NIDITO CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $20,000 · HealthORGANIZATION FOR AUTISM RESEARCH: $13,250 · HealthRandom Acts of Flowers: $13,250 · HealthPARTNERSHIP TO END ADDICTION: $7,000 · HealthCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $6,250 · HealthMETAVIVOR RESEARCH AND SUPPORT INC: $5,000 · HealthHELPHOPELIVE INC: $5,000 · HealthFAMILY FOCUS LEGACY: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE NIGHT MINISTRY: $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $19,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesEquestrian Connection NFP: $7,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY YOUTH NETWORK INC: $5,000 · Human Services
Other$951,000Environment$457,000Education$201,250Arts & Culture$198,500International$183,000Health$129,750Human Services$83,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $423,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetLawndale Educational and Regional Network Charter School: $110,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $95,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN: $95,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $82,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHighland Park Community Foundation: $55,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFenix Family Health Center: $40,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $35,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $29,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY FOCUS LEGACY: $25,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSTEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetErie Family Health Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTU NIDITO CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE NIGHT MINISTRY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $19,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $17,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $17,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNative American Heritage Association: $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetORGANIZATION FOR AUTISM RESEARCH: $13,250 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRandom Acts of Flowers: $13,250 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetRAINFOREST TRUST: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDEPAUL UNIVERSITY: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMFED USA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S LITERACY INITIATIVE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSARAH'S CIRCLE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVANSTON ART CENTER: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWOMEN EMPLOYED: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS CHICAGO: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCORNERSTONE JAMAICA INC: $7,500 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CHILD ART FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEquestrian Connection NFP: $7,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPARTNERSHIP TO END ADDICTION: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSafe Haven School: $6,250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $6,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget3ARTS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLINCOLN PARK COMMUNITY SERVICES: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMETAVIVOR RESEARCH AND SUPPORT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

The Chicago Community…John and Kathleen Sch…Arie and Ida Crown Me…AbbVie FoundationThe Grainger Foundati…Walder FoundationChicago Foundation fo…Northwestern Memorial…Lloyd a Fry FoundationPolk Bros Foundation …Circle of Service Fou…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
The Chicago Community TrustIL26.3× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 77 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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