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David & Lisette Eisendrath Foundation at a glance

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David & Lisette Eisendrath Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$26k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$89kHealth$66kFood & Nutrition$57kYouth Development$33kArts & Culture$16kHousing & Shelter$13kEducation$5k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$288k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY$6,000
MOTHERS TRUST FOUNDATION$3,000
MANO A MANO$3,000
YOUTH ON THEIR OWN$3,000
GRATEFUL GIRLS INC$2,000
ST JOSEPHS FOOD PANTRY$2,000
WAUCONDA ISLAND LAKE FOOD PANTRY$2,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF IL$2,000
MUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION$2,000
PEOPLES MUSIC SCHOOL$1,000
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 (FY17–25, $104k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $4k → 15%GRATEFUL GIRLS INC: $2k → 17%MOTHERS TRUST FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $1k → 14%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $3k → 15%JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSN: $1k → 14%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $3k → 15%JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSN: $1k → 14%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $3k → 15%WAUCONDA ISLAND LAKE FOOD PANTRY: $2k → 14%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $3k → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $3k → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $2k → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $2k → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $2k → 15%COMMUNITY YOUTH NETWORK: $4k → 8%COMMUNITY YOUTH NETWORK: $3k → 8%COMMUNITY YOUTH NETWORK: $3k → 8%COMMUNITY YOUTH NETWORK: $3k → 8%COMMUNITY YOUTH NETWORK: $3k → 8%COMMUNITY YOUTH NETWORK: $3k → 8%HOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD: $2k → 14%MUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION: $3k → 14%MUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION: $2k → 14%MUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION: $2k → 14%MUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION: $2k → 14%MUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION: $2k → 14%MUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION: $2k → 14%CHRISTIAN OUTREACH OF LUTHERANS: $500 → 8%MUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION: $2k → 14%CHRISTIAN OUTREACH OF LUTHERANS: $500 → 8%MUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION: $2k → 14%JEWISH CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES: $4k → 14%MOTHERS TRUST FOUNDATION: $4k → 8%JEWISH CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 14%MOTHERS TRUST FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%JEWISH CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 14%MOTHERS TRUST FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%MOTHERS TRUST FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%MOTHERS TRUST FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%MOTHERS TUST FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%WAUCONDA ISLAND LAKE FOOD PANTRY: $2k → 8%WAUCONDA ISLAND LAKE FOOD PANTRY: $2k → 8%MUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION: $2k → 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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$255k · 25 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +114% since the first grant, against +63% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
10

Total granted

$255k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+114%
+63%

Still filing today

80%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentEducationArts & CultureOther
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

  • GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $34k · revenue +140%
  • YO
    YOUTH ON THEIR OWN
    9× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +138%
  • ML
    MUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +121%

Funded once

  • WP
    WALKERS POINT YOUTH FAMILY CENTE
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
  • JC
    JEWISH CHILD FAMILY SERVICES
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • KO
    KIDS OFF THE BLOCK INC
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +63%
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
Live Free Chicago

Live Free Illinois is a statewide organization partnering with over 120 congregations and directly impacted individuals to build safer more equitable communities across Illinois. Operating at the intersection of criminal justice reform and…

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2
Child Link Inc

Child Link provides foster care, family counseling, and therapy services to Chicago area adolescents who are at risk of homelessness. Child Link also refers adolescents to other agencies that are able to provide additional resources and…

Human Services
3
Children's Home & Aid Society of Ill

Founded in 1883, brightpoint (formerly known as children's home & aid) is a leading statewide organization supporting families so children can thrive.

Human Services
4
Chicago Children's Advocacy Center

The chicago children's advocacy center unites public, private, and community partners to ensure the safety, health, and well-being of abused children.

Crime & Legal
5
Alternatives Inc

Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…

Health
6
The Network Advocating Against Domestic Violence

The Network is a group of 40+ member organizations dedicated to improving the lives of those impacted by gender-based violence through education, public policy and advocacy, and connecting community members with direct service providers.…

Human Services
7
Association House of Chicago

Association house's mission is to advance each person's full participation in the life of their families, communities, and society. since 1899, we have served a vibrant, multicultural community. we used a trauma informed, culturally…

Human Services
8
Nourishing Hope

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

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9
Ywca Metropolitan Chicago

The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.

Human Services
10
Childrens Advocacy Center of East Central Illinois

To assist children who have been victims of abuse

Crime & Legal
11
Youth Service Bureau

The Youth Service Bureau provides services to at-risk youth who are, or are at risk of becoming, runaway, abused, neglected and/or homeless. Services are also available for their family members.

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12
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Ann & robert h. lurie children's hospital of chicago is dedicated to the health and well-being of all children. as the pediatric teaching facility for northwestern university feinberg school of medicine, this commitment drives us to be a…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northern Illinois Food Bank; the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. 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

25 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. 25 of the 37 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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
23/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $25,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH ON THEIR OWNMUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION: $18,500 · Human ServicesMUJERES LATINAS EN ACCIONMothers Trust Foundation: $18,500 · Human ServicesMothers Trust FoundationCOMMUNITY YOUTH NETWORK INC: $18,500 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY YOUTH NETWORK INCJewish Child and Family Services: $9,500 · Human ServicesJewish Child and Family ServicesWauconda-Island Lake Food Pantry Inc: $6,000 · Human ServicesWauconda-Island Lake Food Pantry Inc+4 more: $7,500 · Human Services+4 moreMANO A MANO: $21,500 · OtherMANO A MANOHoward Brown Health Center: $18,000 · OtherHoward Brown Health CenterPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF IL: $8,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF ILPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $6,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $6,000 · OtherGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORYST JOSEPHS FOOD PANTRY: $5,000 · OtherST JOSEPHS FOOD PANTRYJEWISH CHILD FAMILY SERVICES VIR: $5,000 · OtherJEWISH CHILD FAMILY SERVICES VIRLAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER: $3,500 · Other+10 more: $19,000 · Other+10 moreGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $33,500 · Food & NutritionGREATER CHICAGO F…NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $9,000 · Food & NutritionNORTHERN ILLINOIS…PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $9,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $3,000 · HealthLa Rabida Children's Hospital: $2,000 · HealthTHE LAKE COUNTY HAVEN: $11,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE EVOLVED NETWORK NFP: $9,000 · EducationPRAIRIE CROSSING CHARTER SCHOOL: $500 · EducationThe People's Music School: $6,000 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$103,500Other$92,000Food & Nutrition$42,500Health$14,000Housing & Shelter$11,000Education$9,500Arts & Culture$6,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $33,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $25,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION: $18,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMothers Trust Foundation: $18,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY YOUTH NETWORK INC: $18,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHoward Brown Health Center: $18,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAKE COUNTY HAVEN: $11,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetJewish Child and Family Services: $9,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EVOLVED NETWORK NFP: $9,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe People's Music School: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWauconda-Island Lake Food Pantry Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetLAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOAK LEYDEN DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBERNIE'S BOOK BANK: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLa Rabida Children's Hospital: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS OFF THE BLOCK INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGRATEFUL GIRLS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHouse of the Good Shepherd: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetImpacting Veterans Lives Inc dba Midwest Veterans Closet: $1,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOOL MINISTRIES: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPRAIRIE CROSSING CHARTER SCHOOL: $500 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 GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH ON THEIR OWN ↗
  • Who funds MUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION ↗
  • Who funds Mothers Trust Foundation ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY YOUTH NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds Howard Brown Health Center ↗
  • Who funds THE LAKE COUNTY HAVEN ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Child and Family Services ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds THE EVOLVED NETWORK NFP ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds The People's Music School ↗
  • Who funds Wauconda-Island Lake Food Pantry Inc ↗
  • Who funds LAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds OAK LEYDEN DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds BERNIE'S BOOK BANK ↗
  • Who funds La Rabida Children's Hospital ↗
  • Who funds KIDS OFF THE BLOCK INC ↗
  • Who funds GRATEFUL GIRLS INC ↗
  • Who funds House of the Good Shepherd ↗
  • Who funds Impacting Veterans Lives Inc dba Midwest Veterans Closet ↗
  • Who funds COOL MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds PRAIRIE CROSSING CHARTER SCHOOL ↗

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.

AbbVie FoundationGeorge M Eisenberg Fo…Northwestern Memorial…Circle of Service Fou…United Way of Metropo…John D and Catherine …The Chicago Community…United Way of Lake Co…John and Kathleen Sch…Helen V Brach Foundat…Trustmark FoundationLloyd a Fry Foundation
AbbVie FoundationIL20× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: AbbVie Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Circle of Service Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Lake County Inc · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · Helen V Brach Foundation · Trustmark Foundation · Lloyd a Fry 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 David & Lisette Eisendrath Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David & Lisette Eisendrath Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 37 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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