· Private foundation
Daniel P Haerther Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k52 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $143k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.7M
- $250k+1 grant · $460k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHEDD AQUARIUM | $460,000 |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $166,667 |
| DE LASALLE INSTITUTE | $154,650 |
| DEPAUL PREP COLLEGE | $148,300 |
| HOLY TRINITY HIGH SCHOOL | $148,250 |
| ST PATRICK HIGH SCHOOL | $148,100 |
| MOTHER MCAULEY HIGH SCHOOL | $148,100 |
| TRINITY HIGH SCHOOL | $148,100 |
| BROTHER RICE HIGH SCHOOL | $140,895 |
| MORTON ARBORETUM | $125,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $100,000 |
| HIGHSIGHT | $100,000 |
| CHICAGO JESUIT ACADEMY | $52,500 |
| ARRUPE COLLEGE OF LOYOLA UNIVERSITY | $51,000 |
| THE RESURRECTION PROJECT | $50,000 |
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, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
75 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 28 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k 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
- SASHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +67%
- TMTHE MORTON ARBORETUM8× · 2017–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +26%
The Trustees of Princeton University8× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +5%
Funded once
- TPTRUSTEE PLEDGESone grant, 2022 · $45k
- HJHIGH JUMPgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +90%
- DVDomestic Violence Outreachone grant, 2018 · $19k
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 mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Providence st. mel school is an independent, private school whose mission is to provide a high-quality, college preparatory education to students from preschool through grade 12. the school primarily targets students on chicago's west side.
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.
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.
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
It is the school's mission to provide its students with a rigorous and innovative educational program that embraces diversity of people, cultures and ideas. latin inspires its students to lead lives of purpose and excellence.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
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…
To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is High Jump and the most unlike its peers is Domestic Violence Outreach. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 143 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 SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE MORTON ARBORETUM ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds The Resurrection Project ↗
- Who funds HFS CHICAGO SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds Lawrence Hall ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds HIGHSIGHT ↗
- Who funds MARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH JUMP ↗
- Who funds Domestic Violence Outreach ↗
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 · WP & HB White Foundation · Irish Fellowship Educational & Cultural Foundation · The Cuneo Foundation · LINK Unlimited Scholars · Hfs Chicago Scholars · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 P Haerther Charitable Trust 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.
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% 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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