· Private foundation
Draper and Kramer 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $4,085 |
| CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $3,420 |
| TOYS FOR TOTS | $3,415 |
| THE NIGHT MINISTRY | $1,970 |
| ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS | $1,725 |
| CHICAGO REFUGEE COALITION | $1,620 |
| DEBORAH'S PLACE | $1,535 |
| CAMP OUT FOR KIDS | $1,530 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $1,515 |
| CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $1,505 |
| CENTER ON HALSTED | $1,495 |
| HOPE FOR THE DAY | $1,495 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD FOOD PANTRIES | $1,478 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $1,470 |
| MARCH OF DIMES FOUNDATION | $1,470 |
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, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% 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 +38% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
65 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 46 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY8× · 2017–2025 · $79k · revenue +140%- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +40%
THE NIGHT MINISTRY6× · 2017–2025 · $13k · revenue +11%
Funded once
THE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $18k · revenue -54%- NTNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANKone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +12%
- LCLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Lawone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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.
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…
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…
Stanley manne children's research institute strives to generate new knowledge and advance the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of pediatric diseases.
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.
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION
We value excellence and innovation in clinical and basic research, coordinated and comprehensive patient care, ongoing physician education, and evidence-based child advocacy. our goal is to provide leadership in endeavors that promote the…
Chicago scholars is transforming the leadership landscape of our city by resolving the fundamental barriers to success for academically driven, first generation college students from under-resourced communities.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Mission - the institute of medicine of chicago is an independent non-profit organization of distinguished leaders in the health field who collaborate to improve the health of the public. drawing upon the expertise of a diverse membership…
We are dedicated to the health and well-being of all children. as the pediatric teaching facility for the northwestern university feinberg school of medicine, this commitment drives us to be a leader in: -pediatric health care delivery…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Camp Out for Kids. 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 34 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 — 1.0% 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.
97 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. 97 of the 121 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 GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds WEAR BLUE RUN TO REMEMBER ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP OUT FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds Chicago Refugee Coalition ↗
- Who funds COMIC RELIEF INC DBA COMIC RELIEF US ↗
- Who funds Andean Aid ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds DEBORAH'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR THE DAY ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood Food Pantries ↗
- Who funds Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Sudden Infant Death Services of Illinois ↗
- Who funds MAUI FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Chicago Loop Alliance Foundation ↗
- Who funds REFUGEEONE ↗
- Who funds The Anti-Cruelty Society ↗
- Who funds PULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds MISERICORDIA HOME ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL OVARIAN CANCER COALITION 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: AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Motorola Solutions Foundation · Baxter International Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Draper and Kramer 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.
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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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