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Daniel and Gloria Kearney Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Daniel and Gloria Kearney Foundation

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.

$185k
Granted FY2024still arriving
68
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Benefit$460kHealth$196kPhilanthropy$150kArts & Culture$91kYouth Development$51kEnvironment$28kEducation$22kInternational$18kOther$0
02FY2024 · 68 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k65 grants · $95k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $90k
$1,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CIVIC FEDERATION$35,000
CLEVELAND CLINIC$30,000
NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$25,000
THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO$6,000
O'CONNOR SCHOLARSHIP FUND$5,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF WESTCHESTER$5,000
COMPASSION CARE ALS$5,000
SALEM HOSPITAL$5,000
OPENLANDS$5,000
WORLD BUSINESS CHICAGO$5,000
MIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION$3,500
MCLEAN HOSPITAL$2,500
LINCOLN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION$2,500
WRITERS THEATRE$2,500
FEEDING AMERICA$2,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SPUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%TOUCHSTONE FARM: $500 → 7%TOUCHSTONE FARM: $250 → 7%TOUCHSTONE FARM: $500 → 7%COMPASSIONATE CARE ALS: $1k → 8%TOUCHSTONE FARM: $500 → 7%EDITH DODGE MEMORIAL FUND INC: $250 → 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $300 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
ID
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CA
UT
MD
DC
HI
TX
FL
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$912k · 62 repeat orgs$154k to everyone else

62 repeat relationships: 52 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

62
39

Total granted

$912k
$133k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+31%

Still filing today

65%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther
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

  • TC
    THE CIVIC FEDERATION
    5× · 2017–2024 · $245k · revenue +11%
  • O
    OPENLANDS
    6× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +166%
  • TA
    THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
    4× · 2019–2024 · $14k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +28%
  • CW
    CHILDREN'S WISCONSIN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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
Columbia College Chicago

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

Education
2
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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5
Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University Inc

The Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University ("The Auditorium"), an Illinois not-for-profit corporation, is committed to presenting the finest in international, cultural, community and educational programming to Chicago and to the…

Arts & Culture
6
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
7
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
8
Chicago Theatre Group Inc

The chicago theatre group is committed to producing both classic and contemporary works giving full voice to a wide range of artists and visions. by dedicating itself to three guiding principles - quality, equity, and community - the…

Arts & Culture
9
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
10
Museum of American Finance

Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…

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11
Music Institute of Chicago

The music institute of chicago ("music institute") leads people toward a lifelong engagement with music, by providing widely accessible resources for high quality music teaching, performing, and service activities.

Arts & Culture
12
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Museum of Contemporary Art; the most unlike its peers is Marblehead Female Humane Society 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

72 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 72 of the 119 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/72
Grantees still filing
46/72
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CIVIC FEDERATION: $245,000 · OtherTHE CIVIC FEDERATIONCIVIC FEDERATION OF CHICAGO: $135,000 · OtherCIVIC FEDERATION OF CHICAGONORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $90,000 · OtherNORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONCLEVELAND CLINIC: $85,000 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINICCHILDREN'S WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S WISCONSIN FOUNDATIONBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF WESTCHESTER: $40,000 · Other+66 more: $166,250 · Other+66 moreWIREPOINTS CORP: $70,000 · Public BenefitLyric Opera of Chicago: $11,000 · Arts & CultureWriters Theatre Inc: $10,300 · Arts & CultureTHE JOFFREY BALLET: $4,750 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $4,000 · Arts & CultureMARBLEHEAD MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $4,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $3,500 · Arts & CulturePEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC: $3,400 · Arts & CulturePARLANCE CHAMBER CONCERTS INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureROCKPORT MUSIC INC: $2,750 · Arts & CultureCAPE ANN MUSEUM INC: $2,500 · Arts & Culture+14 more: $11,295 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $50,086 · HealthRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $4,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $2,500 · Health+4 more: $2,250 · HealthTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $14,300 · EducationADVANCE ILLINOIS NFP: $7,000 · EducationMIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationLINCOLN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION: $2,500 · EducationCHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Education+4 more: $2,750 · EducationTHE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS: $13,500 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $6,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $4,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE PARKS: $7,250 · Recreation & SportsNorthwestern University: $3,500 · Recreation & SportsLINCOLN PARK CONSERVANCY: $3,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$811,250Public Benefit$70,000Arts & Culture$60,495Health$58,836Education$33,550International$23,500Recreation & Sports$14,250

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CIVIC FEDERATION: $245,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetWIREPOINTS CORP: $70,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $50,086 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPENLANDS: $15,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $14,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS: $13,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLyric Opera of Chicago: $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWriters Theatre Inc: $10,300 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE PARKS: $7,250 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetADVANCE ILLINOIS NFP: $7,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD BUSINESS CHICAGO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JOFFREY BALLET: $4,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARBLEHEAD MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN PARK CONSERVANCY: $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC: $3,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARBLEHEAD CONSERVANCY INC: $3,250 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetPARLANCE CHAMBER CONCERTS INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTOMORROW'S HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetPARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROCKPORT MUSIC INC: $2,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCAPE ANN MUSEUM INC: $2,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO'S GREEN CITY MARKET PROGRAM: $2,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLINCOLN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSummit Land Conservancy: $2,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTOUCHSTONE FARM INC: $1,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGOLD COAST NEIGHBORS ASSOCIATION: $1,345 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGOLDTHWAIT RESERVATION INC: $1,300 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR OCEANA COUNTY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCompassionate Care ALS Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEWBERRY LIBRARY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Architecture Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 THE CIVIC FEDERATION ↗
  • Who funds WIREPOINTS CORP ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds OPENLANDS ↗
  • Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds THE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS ↗
  • Who funds Lyric Opera of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds Writers Theatre Inc ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PARKS ↗
  • Who funds ADVANCE ILLINOIS NFP ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds MIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds WORLD BUSINESS CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds THE JOFFREY BALLET ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
  • Who funds Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
  • Who funds MARBLEHEAD MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds MARBLEHEAD CONSERVANCY INC ↗

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.

Dr Scholl FoundationEssex County Communit…Ge Aerospace Foundati…C Gary and Virginia G…Lavin Family Foundati…Fulk Family Foundatio…Institution for Savin…Eastern Bank Foundati…Motorola Solutions Fo…Boston Foundation IncJohn D and Catherine …The Chicago Community…
Dr Scholl FoundationIL15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dr Scholl Foundation · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · C Gary and Virginia Gerst Foundation · Lavin Family Foundation · Fulk Family Foundation Inc · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Motorola Solutions Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust

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 Daniel and Gloria Kearney Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Daniel and Gloria Kearney Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Cape Ann Museum Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Rockport Music Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Montserrat College of Art Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Cabot Performing Arts Center Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Peabody Essex Museum Inc: 3% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.

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 119 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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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home