· 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 73% of DANIEL AND GLORIA KEARNEY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k65 grants · $95k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| OPENLANDS | $5,000 |
| SALEM HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| WORLD BUSINESS CHICAGO | $5,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF WESTCHESTER | $5,000 |
| COMPASSION CARE ALS | $5,000 |
| MIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| LINCOLN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| MCLEAN HOSPITAL | $2,500 |
| WRITERS THEATRE | $2,500 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $2,000 |
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 (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. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- TCTHE CIVIC FEDERATION5× · 2017–2024 · $245k · revenue +11%
- OOPENLANDS6× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +166%
- TATHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO4× · 2019–2024 · $14k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +28%
- CWCHILDREN'S WISCONSIN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $50k
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERSone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
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)
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…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Museum of Contemporary Art and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
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 39 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
72 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. 72 of the 119 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 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 WORLD BUSINESS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds MIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE JOFFREY BALLET ↗
- Who funds Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds MARBLEHEAD MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MARBLEHEAD CONSERVANCY INC ↗
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: 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
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 Daniel and Gloria Kearney Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- 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
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.