· Private foundation
D & R Legacy 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k10 grants · $240k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $305k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Thresholds | $100,000 |
| TROSA | $80,000 |
| North Shore Senior Center | $75,000 |
| Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center | $50,000 |
| Fill a Heart 4 Kids | $35,000 |
| Northern Illinois Food Bank | $30,000 |
| Planned Parenthood | $30,000 |
| University of Wisconsin Fondation | $30,000 |
| Friends of the Highwood Park Public Library | $25,000 |
| Cradles to Crayons Chicago | $25,000 |
| The Ark | $25,000 |
| Bernie's Book Fund | $20,000 |
| Millennium Park Foundation | $10,000 |
| Chicago Parks 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 (FY21–24, $330k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +2% since the first grant, against -28% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TTTHE THRESHOLDS4× · 2021–2024 · $200k · revenue +38%
- NSNORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER4× · 2021–2024 · $190k · revenue +35%
- HMHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- BMBANDWITH MUSIC LTDgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue +31%
- TNTHE NEWBERRY LIBRARYone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -32%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE HIGHWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -28%
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.
Plant Chicago's mission is to cultivate local circular economies. We envision a paradigm shift in production, consumption, and waste driven at the local level, generating equity and economic opportunity for all residents.
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
The Chicago History Museum strives to be a destination for learning, inspiration, and civic engagement. Through dynamic exhibitions, tours, programs, digital resources, and special events, the Museum connects people to Chicago's history…
To give members the ability to control their financial destiny by providing members with the means to satisfy their needs for financial services in a comfortable family-like environment. in doing so, the credit union strives to maintain…
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
The mission of the chicago community land trust (cclt) is to provide and sustain quality, affordable homeownership opportunities and a community of support for working families and individuals in chicago and to preserve these opportunities…
Chicago childrens museum is a place where families and caregivers with infants and children are encouraged to create, explore, and discover together through play. the museum features three vibrant floors of exhibits and activities that…
Lincoln park zoo is dedicated to connecting people with nature by providing a free, family-oriented wildlife experience in the heart of chicago and by advancing the highest quality of animal care, horticulture, education, science and…
Provide equitable access to tools
The operation of a children's museum.
To promote public appreciation, understanding and support of the humanities through festivals and educational programs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Shore Senior Center and the most unlike its peers is The Thresholds. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 20 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 THE THRESHOLDS ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE RESIDENTIAL OPTIONS FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSERS INC ↗
- Who funds BANDWITH MUSIC LTD ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds FILL A HEART 4 KIDS ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF LAKE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds MILLENNIUM PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HIGHWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
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 · D and R Fund · First Bank Chicago Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 & R Legacy 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.
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% 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.
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