· Private foundation
Dik Edward & Evelyn Fam Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $175k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CRISIS CENTER FOR SOUTH SUBURBIA | $50,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF | $50,000 |
| SALEM CHILDRENS HOME | $35,000 |
| ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'S | $20,000 |
| NIGHT MINISTRY | $20,000 |
| MOODY BIBLE INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO | $20,000 |
| CAMP QUALITY USA INC | $20,000 |
| COUNTRY DOCTOR COMMUNITY CLINIC | $10,000 |
| PACIFIC GARDEN MISSION | $10,000 |
| PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH OF NEW LENOX | $10,000 |
| CRADLE SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| MORNING STAR MISSION MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| GARY SINISE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BRAVEHEARTS THERAPEUTIC RIDING | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% 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
- CCCrisis Center for South Suburbia9× · 2017–2025 · $343k · revenue +126%
THE NIGHT MINISTRY9× · 2017–2025 · $295k · revenue +11%- SCSALEM CHILDREN'S HOME INC9× · 2017–2025 · $203k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2017 · $40k
- USUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONSone grant, 2021 · $13k
- FTFRANKFORT TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRYone grant, 2021 · $12k
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.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
Provide affordable, high-quality health services and remove inequities to improve the lives of all.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
Ronald mcdonald house charities of greater cincinnati offers a community of compassion, support and the comforts of home to families with critically ill children, steps away from the medical care they need.
Rock river valley blood center, in partnership with our community, is dedicated to providing safe, high value blood products and services to people in need.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
Engaging the community to end hunger
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
Children's services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Womens Christian Association of Seattle-King County-Snohomish County and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 54 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 Crisis Center for South Suburbia ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds SALEM CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP QUALITY USA INC ↗
- Who funds MORNING STAR MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE ROOTS COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Chicago White Sox Charities Inc ↗
- Who funds The Cradle Society ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICES FOUNDATION OF NEW LENOX TOWNSHIP ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SEATTLE-KING COUNTY-SNOHOMISH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
- Who funds HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds BRAVEHEARTS THERAPEUTIC RIDING AND EDUCATIONAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds REST HAVEN ILLIANA CHRISTIAN CONVALESCENT HOME ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds FEED THE CHILDREN INC ↗
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: Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Chicago Community Trust · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Dik Edward & Evelyn Fam 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.
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% 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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