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Donna Van Eekeren 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $175k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+2 grants · $800k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Old Globe | $500,000 |
| LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO | $300,000 |
| San Diego State University Research Foundation | $50,000 |
| WHAMNOW INC | $35,000 |
| AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| San Diego Museum of Art | $25,000 |
| WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC | $25,000 |
| Chicago Public Media Inc | $25,000 |
| San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance | $20,000 |
| Chicago Academy of Sciences | $10,000 |
| The Chicago Lighthouse | $10,000 |
| City House Inc | $5,000 |
| Flossmoor Foundation for History and Arts Inc | $500 |
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 (FY20–25, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +8% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 6 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, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $570k 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
- LOLyric Opera of Chicago4× · 2022–2025 · $755k · revenue +3%
- WIWHAMNOW INC2× · 2022–2025 · $85k · revenue +59%
SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- AIACCESSCIRCLES INCone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -91%
- IPIllinois Philharmonic Orchestraone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +1%
- CSCHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATERone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +7%
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.
Mission: the mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community partnerships, and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as…
Chicago sun-times serves the public interest by strengthening the well-being of our local communities and our democracy through independent local journalism.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The chicago theatre group is committed to producing both classic and contemporary works giving full voice to a wide range of artists and visions. by dedicating itself to three guiding principles - quality, equity, and community - the…
Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.
To further the operatic art form by presenting ensemble performances of the highest quality in a varied repertoire of new as well as rarely performed and standard works, to ensure excellence of opera's future through its apprentice…
To excite, engage, and transform diverse audiences with the beauty and power of music.
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.
Operation of a nautical history museum.
The Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University ("The Auditorium"), an Illinois not-for-profit corporation, is committed to presenting the finest in international, cultural, community and educational programming to Chicago and to the…
To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Public Media Inc and the most unlike its peers is Foundation for the Preservation of Flossmoor History. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 20 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 Lyric Opera of Chicago ↗
- Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds WHAMNOW INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds OLD GLOBE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESSCIRCLES INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO ARTS PARTNERSHIPS IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds Foundation For The Preservation Of Flossmoor History ↗
- Who funds Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra ↗
- Who funds CITY HOUSE - DELRAY BEACH INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST INDIANA SYMPHONY SOCIETY 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: Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Donna Van Eekeren 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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