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D and R Charitable Fund

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.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
53
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.

Health$809kEducation$765kPublic Benefit$715kArts & Culture$636kPhilanthropy$625kInternational$300kAnimals$280kHuman Services$240kOther$0
02FY2024 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k35 grants · $757k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $697k
$20,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF METRO CHICAGO$150,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA$125,000
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$100,000
LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$100,000
CAF AMERICA$72,450
MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & INDUSTRY$50,000
DOVETAIL PROJECT$50,000
TUCSON BOTANICAL GARDEN$50,000
ERIE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER$40,000
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY$40,000
SONORAN INSTITUTE$35,000
KIDS ABOVE ALL$30,000
LINCOLN PARK ZOO$30,000
POSSE FOUNDATION$30,000
CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS$30,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%EXCEPTIONAL MINDS: $15k → 14%IMMIGRANT LEGAL SERVICES: $5k → 8%EXCEPTIONAL MINDS: $10k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL MINDS: $10k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL MINDS: $10k → 14%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $10k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $5k → 17%NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $20k → 14%PEACE HOUSE: $5k → 5%PEACE HOUSE: $5k → 5%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $10k → 17%YMCA OF GREATER NEW YORK: $10k → 17%PEACE HOUSE: $5k → 5%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $5k → 17%CHRISTOPHER HOUSE: $10k → 14%CHRISTOPHER HOUSE: $8k → 14%CHRISTOPHER HOUSE: $8k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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IL
MI
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CA
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DC
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.3M · 52 repeat orgs$898k to everyone else

52 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
13

Total granted

$4.3M
$760k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+35%

Still filing today

79%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $138k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • JU
    JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
    3× · 2021–2023 · $475k · revenue +33%
  • CS
    Chicago Symphony Orchestra
    2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +56%
  • EF
    Erie Family Health Center Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $150k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $450k
  • LC
    LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO
    one grant, 2021 · $125k
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -4%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Columbia College Chicago

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

Education
2
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.

Education
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
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
5
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
6
Children's Museum of Oak Park

To spark curiosity and creativity in all young children through positive, play-based learning experiences.

Arts & Culture
7
Kipp Chicago Schools

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…

Education
8
Lyric Opera of Chicago

We believe in the life-changing, transformational, revelatory power of great art and opera. Lyric Opera of Chicago exists to provide a broad, deep, and relevant cultural service to the Chicago region and the nation, and to advance the…

Arts & Culture
9
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
10
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
11
University of Chicago

The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.

Education
12
Alternatives Inc

Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Theatre Group Inc and the most unlike its peers is Immigrant Legal Services. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Environmental Conservation …Policy Research and AdvocacyDevelopmental Disabilities …Animal Rescue and ShelterPublic Library OperationsAffordable Housing Developm…Senior Support ServicesFood Banks and PantriesHealth Access Advocacy and …Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 47 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%4%<5yr13%4%5–10yr18%11%10–20yr15%18%20–35yr14%20%35–55yr22%44%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%1%<5yr13%0%5–10yr18%7%10–20yr15%18%20–35yr14%22%35–55yr22%51%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/57
the rest of the field
12%
8,891/72,302

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.

04the grantee network

56 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. 56 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/56
Grantees still filing
44/56
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $450,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $300,000 · OtherLURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITALLURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO — $125,000 · OtherKids Above All Illinois — $120,000 · OtherSTART EARLY — $100,000 · OtherWITS - WORKING IN THE SCHOOLS — $100,000 · OtherLawrence Hall — $100,000 · OtherTUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS — $100,000 · OtherInternational Neighborhood Collaborative — $125,000 · Other+39 more — $1,106,050 · Other+39 moreJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $475,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH UNITED FUN…CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $232,450 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOU…JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $150,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION…Teach for America Inc — $250,000 · EducationTeach for Amer…THE CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS — $120,000 · EducationTHE CHICAGO HI…THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC — $120,000 · EducationTHE POSSE FOUN…Erikson Institute — $100,000 · EducationErikson Instit…THE SONORAN INSTITUTE INC — $55,000 · EducationTHE SONORAN IN…North Chicago Community Partners — $40,000 · EducationNorth Chicago …The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $30,000 · EducationKenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry — $200,000 · Arts & CultureKenneth C Gr…Chicago Symphony Orchestra — $200,000 · Arts & CultureChicago Symp…CHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC — $80,000 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO THEA…MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC — $76,000 · Arts & CultureMERIT SCHOOL…Tucson Symphony Society — $50,000 · Arts & CultureTucson Symph…Erie Family Health Center Inc — $150,000 · HealthACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK — $60,000 · HealthPlanned Parenthood of Illinois — $25,000 · HealthAMERICAN AUTOIMMUNE RELATED DISEASES ASSOCIATION — $20,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEASTERN PA — $20,000 · HealthPeople's Health Clicnic — $10,000 · Health+2 more — $12,500 · HealthLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $120,000 · AnimalsSHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY — $100,000 · AnimalsAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · AnimalsNuzzles & Co — $10,000 · AnimalsGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $160,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$2,626,050Philanthropy$857,450Education$715,000Arts & Culture$606,000Health$297,500Animals$280,000Food & Nutrition$165,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $475,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $250,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $232,450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry — $200,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetChicago Symphony Orchestra — $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $160,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetErie Family Health Center Inc — $150,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Neighborhood Collaborative — $125,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $120,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS — $120,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetKids Above All Illinois — $120,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC — $120,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSTART EARLY — $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY — $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetErikson Institute — $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS — $100,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetLawrence Hall — $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC — $80,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSARAH'S CIRCLE — $77,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC — $76,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS — $70,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK — $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SONORAN INSTITUTE INC — $55,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLEGAL AID CHICAGO — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTucson Symphony Society — $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEXCEPTIONAL MINDS — $45,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNorth Chicago Community Partners — $40,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe Amerind Foundation Inc — $40,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Illinois — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTOPHER HOUSE — $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMOUNTAINLANDS COMMUNITY HOUSING ASSOCIAT — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN AUTOIMMUNE RELATED DISEASES ASSOCIATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUnited States Ski Team Foundation — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEASTERN PA — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTIAN CENTER OF PARK CITY — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPeace House Inc — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLucky Project — $15,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

D and R FundThe Chicago Community…AbbVie FoundationPark City Community F…Dr Scholl FoundationMightycause Charitabl…Polk Bros Foundation …United Way of Metropo…Patrick and Anna M Cu…Lloyd a Fry FoundationSorenson Legacy Found…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
D and R FundIL26.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: D and R Fund · The Chicago Community Trust · AbbVie Foundation · Park City Community Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Patrick and Anna M Cudahy Fund · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Sorenson Legacy 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 D and R Charitable Fund 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to D and R Charitable Fund?

Find your warmest path to D and R Charitable Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 77 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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