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D and R Fund at a glance

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D and R Fund

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.1M
Granted FY2021
4
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2021.

Health$2.2MEducation$1.8MArts & Culture$1.1MPhilanthropy$825kPublic Benefit$360kHuman Services$325kFood & Nutrition$250kEnvironment$205kOther$0
02FY2021 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
  • $250k+3 grants · $850k
$300,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$300,000
ACCESS LIVING$300,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA$250,000
NEWBERRY LIBRARY$200,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $170k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%EXCEPTIONAL MINDS: $10k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL MINDS: $5k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL MINDS: $5k → 14%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $5k → 17%EXCEPTIONAL MINDS: $5k → 14%FULFILLMENT FUND: $5k → 14%FULFILLMENT FUND: $5k → 14%FILL A HEART 4 KIDS: $5k → 8%FULFILLMENT FUND: $5k → 14%NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $25k → 14%NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $25k → 14%NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $25k → 14%NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $25k → 14%CHRISTOPHER HOUSE: $10k → 14%CHRISTOPHER HOUSE: $10k → 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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.6M · 38 repeat orgs$655k to everyone else

38 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2021, 34 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
24

Total granted

$6.6M
$655k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+39%

Still filing today

71%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthAnimalsOther
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

  • AL
    Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago
    5× · 2017–2021 · $600k · revenue +25%
  • JU
    JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
    2× · 2018–2019 · $350k · revenue +34%
  • GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY
    4× · 2017–2020 · $250k · revenue +140%

Funded once

  • RI
    REHAB INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
    one grant, 2017 · $200k
  • UW
    UNITED WAY
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • UE
    URBAN EDUCATION INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
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
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
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
Columbia College Chicago

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

Education
4
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
5
Children's Museum of Oak Park

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

Arts & Culture
6
Junior Achievement of Chicago

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy

International
7
The University of Chicago Charter School Corporation

To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.

Education
8
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
9
The Chicago Scholars Foundation

Chicago scholars is transforming the leadership landscape of our city by resolving the fundamental barriers to success for academically driven, first generation college students from under-resourced communities.

Education
10
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.

—
11
Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce

The chicagoland chamber of commerce combines the power of people, with our legacy of leadership and business advocacy, to drive a dynamic economy. we focus on delivering value for our members, making chicagoland a world-class place to live…

—
12
A Better Chicago

A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago; the most unlike its peers is El Puente De Williamsburg Inc. 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

44 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. 44 of the 64 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/44
Grantees still filing
32/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $750,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODAccess Living of Metropolitan Chicago: $600,000 · OtherAccess Living of Metropolitan ChicagoLURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO: $425,000 · OtherLURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGOREHAB INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $200,000 · OtherREHAB INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO+36 more: $1,470,000 · Other+36 moreTeach for America Inc: $750,000 · EducationTeach for America IncTHE NEWBERRY LIBRARY: $500,000 · EducationTHE NEWBERRY LIBRARYTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 · EducationTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INCTHE CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: $120,000 · EducationTHE CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL F…Erikson Institute: $110,000 · EducationErikson Institute+6 more: $120,000 · Education+6 moreFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $800,000 · Arts & CultureFIELD MUSEUM OF …CHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO THEATRE …Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry: $100,000 · Arts & CultureKenneth C Griffi…MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $66,000 · Arts & CultureMERIT SCHOOL OF …+1 more: $15,000 · Arts & CultureJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $350,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH UNI…JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $325,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FED…GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $250,000 · Food & NutritionCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $200,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE HIGHWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY: $15,000 · EnvironmentErie Family Health Center Inc: $120,000 · HealthACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK: $55,000 · Health
Other$3,445,000Education$1,720,000Arts & Culture$1,081,000Philanthropy$700,000Food & Nutrition$250,000Environment$215,000Health$175,000

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 budgetFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $800,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $750,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAccess Living of Metropolitan Chicago: $600,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetTHE NEWBERRY LIBRARY: $500,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $350,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $325,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $250,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetErie Family Health Center Inc: $120,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: $120,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetErikson Institute: $110,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLawrence Hall: $110,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSTART EARLY: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKids Above All Illinois: $100,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $100,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetKenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $95,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $80,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $66,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $60,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF LAKE COUNTY: $55,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK: $55,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAccelerate Institute: $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCIVIC CONSULTING ALLIANCE: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Neighborhood Collaborative: $25,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetEXCEPTIONAL MINDS: $25,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAUTOMOTIVE MENTORING GROUP INC: $20,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetEL PUENTE DE WILLIAMSBURG INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSARAH'S CIRCLE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHRISTOPHER HOUSE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNorth Chicago Community Partners: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFULFILLMENT FUND: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HIGHWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY: $15,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIVE LIKE BLAINE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetACCESS MAMMOTH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFILL A HEART 4 KIDS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHIGH JUMP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRASSROOT SOCCER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER: $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.

  • Who funds FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago ↗
  • Who funds THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Erie Family Health Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds Erikson Institute ↗
  • Who funds Lawrence Hall ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds START EARLY ↗
  • Who funds Kids Above All Illinois ↗
  • Who funds NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF LAKE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds ACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds Accelerate Institute ↗
  • Who funds CIVIC CONSULTING ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds International Neighborhood Collaborative ↗

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…D and R Charitable Fu…Dr Scholl FoundationPolk Bros Foundation …United Way of Metropo…John and Kathleen Sch…Lloyd a Fry FoundationRobert R McCormick Fo…Circle of Service Fou…AbbVie FoundationJewish Federation of …The Gorter Family Fou…
The Chicago Community TrustIL28.5× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · D and R Charitable Fund · Dr Scholl Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Gorter Family Foundation

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 D and R Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from D and R Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report 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
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to D and R Fund?

    Find your warmest path to D and R 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 64 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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