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Diamond Family 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.

$335k
Granted FY2019
49
Grants FY2019
8
States reached
$142k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$266kInternational$252kPhilanthropy$98kCommunity Improvement$93kHealth$56kSocial Science$50kReligion$33kArts & Culture$31kOther$0
02FY2019 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k41 grants · $84k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $109k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $142k
$2,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS$142,200
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY$35,000
AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY COUNCIL$17,300
JUF$13,000
CARA$12,710
Individual grant recipient$11,100
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL$10,000
COLUMBIA COLLEGE$10,000
SPERTUS INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP$8,500
ERIKSON INSTITUTE$6,000
DIGESTIVE HEALTH FOUNDATION$6,000
HOLOCAUST MUSEUM$5,000
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION$4,180
RANCHO MIRAGE WRITERS FESTIVAL$4,000
FRIENDS OF ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCES$4,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–19, $950) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BEYOND LEGAL AID: $250 → 14%BE ALRIGHT: $500 → 14%BE ALRIGHT: $200 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
NY
MA
CA
MO
TN
NC
DC
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$533k · 26 repeat orgs$233k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2019, 5 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
35

Total granted

$533k
$168k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+56%

Still filing today

69%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
EducationInternationalHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther

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

  • AF
    AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY COUNCIL
    2× · 2017–2019 · $32k · revenue +11%
  • TC
    The Cara Program
    3× · 2017–2019 · $29k · revenue +116%
  • MC
    MEMORY CARE HOME SOLUTIONS
    2× · 2017–2018 · $15k · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $65k
  • CC
    CHICAGO COUNCIL
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • UO
    U OF C LAW SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $20k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.

Social Science
2
Chicago Public Education Fund

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.

Education
3
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
4
Saint Xavier University

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…

Education
5
University of Chicago

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.

Education
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
7
Illinois College

Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…

Education
8
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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9
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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10
Loyola University of Chicago

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.

Education
11
University of New Haven

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…

Education
12
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc and the most unlike its peers is Be Alright. 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 35 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr14%6%5–10yr18%17%10–20yr17%23%20–35yr15%25%35–55yr16%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr18%7%10–20yr17%11%20–35yr15%14%35–55yr16%66%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/54
the rest of the field
15%
6,600/44,457

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.

04the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 90 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/49
Grantees still filing
37/49
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HARRIS SCHOOL — $70,000 · OtherHARRIS SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient — $65,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE HARRIS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY — $30,000 · OtherTHE HARRIS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICYIndividual grant recipient — $21,925 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHICAGO COUNCIL — $20,000 · OtherU OF C LAW SCHOOL — $20,000 · OtherJUF — $13,000 · Other+54 more — $142,083 · Other+54 moreTHE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS — $206,480 · InternationalTHE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL…AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY COUNCIL — $32,300 · InternationalAMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY COUNC…+4 more — $11,400 · InternationalBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $100,000 · EducationBRANDEIS UNIVERSITYColumbia College Chicago — $20,000 · EducationColumbia College Ch…BEACON ACADEMY A MONTESSORI HIGH SCHOOL — $13,700 · EducationBEACON ACADEMY A MO…RANCHO MIRAGE WRITERS FESTIVAL — $8,000 · EducationWOLCOTT SCHOOL — $7,375 · EducationErikson Institute — $6,000 · Education+7 more — $10,550 · Education+7 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $82,500 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FE…+2 more — $1,000 · PhilanthropyThe Cara Program — $29,210 · EmploymentMEMORY CARE HOME SOLUTIONS — $15,000 · HealthRehabilitation Institute of Chicago — $5,000 · HealthEVAN JOSEPH GERSTEIN FOUNDATION — $1,000 · HealthThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $10,000 · Arts & CultureGRANT PARK ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION — $3,590 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $2,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$382,008International$250,180Education$165,625Philanthropy$83,500Employment$29,210Health$21,000Arts & Culture$16,090

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS — $206,480 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $82,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY COUNCIL — $32,300 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetThe Cara Program — $29,210 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetColumbia College Chicago — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORY CARE HOME SOLUTIONS — $15,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBEACON ACADEMY A MONTESSORI HIGH SCHOOL — $13,700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDIGESTIVE HEALTH FOUNDATION — $12,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSPERTUS INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP — $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRANCHO MIRAGE WRITERS FESTIVAL — $8,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBulletin of the Atomic Scientists — $7,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWOLCOTT SCHOOL — $7,375 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetErikson Institute — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRehabilitation Institute of Chicago — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO CARES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLANDMARKS PRESERVATION COUNCIL OF ILLINOIS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC — $4,180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKHAN ACADEMY INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRANT PARK ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION — $3,590 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNOURISHING HOPE — $3,072 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SECURITY AN ILLINOIS NOT FOR PROFIT CORPORATION — $2,500 over 1y, 10% of budgetILLINOIS NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONE MILLION DEGREES — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetO'NEIL FAMILY FOUNDATION — $1,800 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetEASTER SEALS INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Children's Charities — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDEMOCRACY 21 — $1,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetEVAN JOSEPH GERSTEIN FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF GREATER CHICAGO — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEAR NORTH MONTESSORI SCHOOL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA — $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBE ALRIGHT — $700 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetLooking Out Foundation — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMY KROUSE ROSENTHAL FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOMENS GLOBAL EDUCATION PROJECT — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY — $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO — $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PEACE SCHOOL — $100 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

The Chicago Community…Jewish Federation of …John D and Catherine …Jarvis FoundationMills Family Charitab…Arkes Family Foundati…Kovler Family Foundat…Jewish Communal FundArie and Ida Crown Me…Circle of Service Fou…Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…
The Chicago Community TrustIL25.9× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Jarvis Foundation · Mills Family Charitable Foundation · Arkes Family Foundation · Kovler Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Circle of Service Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic 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 Diamond Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Diamond Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Diamond Family Foundation 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 90 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $186k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2019, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

Source object · view filing

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