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D & R Legacy Fund at a glance

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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.

$545k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
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, FY2021 to 2024.

Health$600kHuman Services$380kArts & Culture$250kEducation$230kPublic Benefit$210kFood & Nutrition$100kRecreation & Sports$70k
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k10 grants · $240k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $305k
$30,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$6.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
University of Wisconsin Fondation$30,000
Planned Parenthood$30,000
Cradles to Crayons Chicago$25,000
The Ark$25,000
Friends of the Highwood Park Public Library$25,000
Bernie's Book Fund$20,000
Chicago Parks Foundation$10,000
Millennium Park Foundation$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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%North Shore Senior Center: $75k → 14%North Shore Senior Center: $75k → 14%North Shore Senior Center: $20k → 14%NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $20k → 14%Fill a Heart 4 Kids: $35k → 8%Fill a Heart 4 Kids: $35k → 8%Fill a Heart 4 Kids: $20k → 8%Cradles to Crayons Chicago: $25k → 14%Cradles to Crayons Chicago: $25k → 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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 15 repeat orgs$225k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +2% since the first grant, against -28% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
5

Total granted

$1.6M
$225k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
-28%

Still filing today

67%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsArts & CultureFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther
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

  • TT
    THE THRESHOLDS
    4× · 2021–2024 · $200k · revenue +38%
  • NS
    NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER
    4× · 2021–2024 · $190k · revenue +35%
  • HM
    HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • BM
    BANDWITH MUSIC LTDgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue +31%
  • TN
    THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -32%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE HIGHWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -28%
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
Plant Chicago Nfp

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.

Food & Nutrition
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 Historical Society

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Chicago Municipal Employee's Credit Union

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…

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5
Nourishing Hope

Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.

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6
Chicago Community Land Trust

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…

Housing & Shelter
7
True Chicago
Arts & Culture
8
Chicago Children's Museum

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Lincoln Park Zoological Society

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…

Animals
10
Chicago Tool Library Co

Provide equitable access to tools

Education
11
Children's Museum of Illinois

The operation of a children's museum.

Arts & Culture
12
Chicago Humanities Festival

To promote public appreciation, understanding and support of the humanities through festivals and educational programs.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Shore Senior Center; 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.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 20 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Planned Parenthood: $250,000 · OtherPlanned ParenthoodTHE THRESHOLDS: $200,000 · OtherTHE THRESHOLDSTRIANGLE RESIDENTIAL OPTIONS FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSERS INC: $150,000 · OtherTRIANGLE RESIDENTIAL OPTIONS FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSERS INCThe Ark: $120,000 · OtherThe ArkBernie's Book Fund: $80,000 · OtherBernie's Book FundFriends of the Highwood Park Public Library: $75,000 · OtherFriends of the Highwood Park Public LibraryFAMILY SERVICE OF LAKE COUNTY: $40,000 · Other+2 more: $20,000 · OtherNORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $190,000 · Human ServicesNORTH SHORE SENIOR C…FILL A HEART 4 KIDS: $90,000 · Human ServicesFILL A HEART 4 KIDSCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesCRADLES TO CRAYONS I…BANDWITH MUSIC LTD: $150,000 · Arts & CultureBANDWITH MUSIC …HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureHOLOCAUST MEMOR…UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationTHE NEWBERRY LIBRARY: $30,000 · EducationNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $100,000 · Food & NutritionCHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Recreation & SportsMILLENNIUM PARK FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF THE HIGHWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY: $25,000 · Environment
Other$935,000Human Services$330,000Arts & Culture$250,000Education$130,000Food & Nutrition$100,000Recreation & Sports$70,000Environment$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE THRESHOLDS: $200,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $190,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTRIANGLE RESIDENTIAL OPTIONS FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSERS INC: $150,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBANDWITH MUSIC LTD: $150,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFILL A HEART 4 KIDS: $90,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF LAKE COUNTY: $40,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHE NEWBERRY LIBRARY: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMILLENNIUM PARK FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HIGHWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY: $25,000 over 1y, 6.1% 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…D and R FundFirst Bank Chicago Fo…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Chicago Community TrustIL16.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 & R Legacy Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from D & R Legacy 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%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 & R Legacy Fund?

Find your warmest path to D & R Legacy 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 20 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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