· Private foundation
Custom Cares Charities
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k30 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ISSA CHARITIES | $36,679 |
| INDIVIDUALS-DETAILS UPON REQUEST | $28,150 |
| OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP | $5,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| THE VINEYARD CHURCH OF AURORA | $1,000 |
| VINEYARD AURORA LITTLE FOOD PANTRY | $1,000 |
| JUVINILE JUSTICE INITIATIVE | $750 |
| MISERICORDIA HEART OF MERCY | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $500 |
| ERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE | $500 |
| OPERATION SUPPORT OUR TROOPS | $500 |
| CRU INNER CITY | $500 |
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 (FY20–25, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against -17% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IGIndividual grant recipient7× · 2017–2023 · $147k
- SRST RITA OF CASCIA HIGH SCHOOL CORPORATION2× · 2019–2020 · $71k
- ENERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE2× · 2020–2025 · $66k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- AIADOG INCone grant, 2021 · $10k
- ASA SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +7%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $6k
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 GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…
Founded by Augie Nieto, Augies Quest to Cure ALS is the unwavering force driving breakthroughs in ALS research, defying limitations, and empowering hope for a future without this devastating disease.
The aids foundation of chicago mobilizes communities to create equity and justice for people living with and vulnerable to hiv and related chronic disease.
To provide initial research funding to brilliant, investigative scientists with new ideas to cure arthritis and related autoimmune diseases.
The organization's mission is to accelerate research efforts to improve diagnosis, to optimize treatment, and to cure multiple sclerosis.
To fund cystic fibrosis research, provide educational and personal support, and to spread awareness of cystic fibrosis, a life-threatening genetic disease.
The foundation for sarcoidosis research (fsr) is the leading international organization dedicated to finding a cure for sarcoidosis and improving care for sarcoidosis patients through research, education, and support. since its…
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
Cures Within Reach leverages the speed, safety and cost-effectiveness of testing approved therapies for new indications/diseases without effective treatment driving more treatments quicker to more patients.
The organization is a partnership of world leaders in als research and care focused on expediting breakthrough treatments and ultimately a cure for als while providing resources and equipment to those living with the disease now. the team…
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 58 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 ERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ISSA Charities ↗
- Who funds A SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IN SEARCH OF A CURE ↗
- Who funds OLD IRVING PARK COMMUNITY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds RORY DAVID DEUTSCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WALTER & CONNIE PAYTON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RADCLIFFE'S YOUTH SPORTS ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds CROSS-LINES COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds The Juvenile Justice Initiative Attn Elizabeth Clarke ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds JESSE WHITE FOUNDATION LTD ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
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: AbbVie Foundation · Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Motorola Solutions Foundation · Greater Horizons · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Custom Cares Charities funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Custom Cares Charities. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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