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Debicki 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $309k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $620k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SECOND SENSE | $100,000 |
| ANN AND ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO | $75,000 |
| THE MISSION OF OUR LADY OF MERCY INC | $75,000 |
| AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE | $55,400 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF CHICAGO | $55,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC | $55,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $55,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| HAVE DREAMS | $50,000 |
| DEPAUL UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| PROJECT HOPE | $35,000 |
| THE INTERNATIONAL EYE FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $35,000 |
| CARE | $35,000 |
| ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $208k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 60% 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.
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.
33 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- SSSECOND SENSE5× · 2020–2024 · $500k · revenue +1%
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago5× · 2020–2024 · $370k · revenue +28%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $270k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- DLDISABILITY LEADgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +82%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $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 Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
SRAlab is dedicated to providing the best patient outcomes through the highest-quality clinical care, translational research, scientific discovery and education.
Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…
We are chicago's jesuit, catholic university - a diverse community seeking god in all things and working to expand knowledge in the service of humanity through learning, justice, and faith.
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…
The Arc of Illinois is committed to empowering persons with disabilities to achieve full participation in community life through informed choices.
Endeavor Health Clinical Operations follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."
Stanley manne children's research institute strives to generate new knowledge and advance the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of pediatric diseases.
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
Provide pediatric and subspecialty surgical, research, and educational services.
To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).
Living Well Disability Services transforms the lives of people impacted by disabilities through the delivery of exceptional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago and the most unlike its peers is Ordinary Towards Extraordinary Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 37 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 SECOND SENSE ↗
- Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HAVE DREAMS ↗
- Who funds AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL EYE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds DEPAUL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds KESHET ↗
- Who funds The YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds Honor Flight Chicago Corp ↗
- Who funds The Brenen Hornstein Autism Research & Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds ASPIRITECH NFP ↗
- Who funds Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago ↗
- Who funds Ordinary Towards Extraordinary Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LADDER UP (F/K/A CITY-WIDE TAX ASSISTANCE PROGRAM) ↗
- Who funds DISABILITYIN ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY LEAD ↗
- Who funds Special Children's Charities ↗
- Who funds CPA ENDOWMENT FUND OF ILLINOIS ↗
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: AbbVie Foundation · Motorola Solutions Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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 Debicki 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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