· Private foundation
Daniel P Haerther Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| TRINITY HIGH SCHOOL | $148,100 |
| MOTHER MCAULEY 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 |
| OFFICE OF HUMAN DIGINITY | $50,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 143 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Daniel P Haerther Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Daniel P Haerther Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Daniel P Haerther Charitable Trust?
Find your warmest path to Daniel P Haerther Charitable Trust 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.
Play a game based on Daniel P Haerther’s filings →