How much does Drw Foundation give?

Drw Foundation reported 36 grants totaling $3,161,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 49 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Drw Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (48%), Employment (12%), Science & Tech (8%).

Who are Drw Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Noble Network of Charter Schools ($3.3M), California Institute of Technology ($1.3M), Code Platoon Nfp ($891k).

Does Drw Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Drw Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Drw Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Circle of Service Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation.

Drw Foundation

Drw Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Drw 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.

$3.2M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$750k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$7.8MEmployment$1.9MScience & Tech$1.3MHuman Services$954kYouth Development$708kFood & Nutrition$614kRecreation & Sports$477kHealth$423kOther$0

02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k2 grants · $10k
$10k–50k13 grants · $350k
$50k–250k19 grants · $1.8M
$250k+2 grants · $1.0M

$50,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.9M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY	$750,000
NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS	$285,000
CODE PLATOON	$200,000
GREENWOOD PROJECT	$150,000
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO	$121,500
OWLS LACROSSE	$110,000
THE BLOC	$100,000
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC	$100,000
BEAT THE STREETS CHICAGO	$100,000
BOTTOM LINE	$100,000
CHICAGO TECH ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL	$100,000
KIDS FIRST CHICAGO FOR EDUCATION	$100,000
METROSQUASH NFP	$85,000
NOURISHING HOPE DBA LAKEVIEW PANTRY	$75,000
AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS	$75,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $2.0M) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$15M · 61 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

61 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$15M

$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%

+10%

Still filing today

89%

58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

NN
NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS
9× · 2017–2025 · $3.3M · revenue +47%
CP
CODE PLATOON NFP
8× · 2018–2025 · $891k · revenue +290%
GP
GREENWOOD PROJECT
5× · 2021–2025 · $701k · revenue +17%

Funded once

NM
NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
one grant, 2020 · $200k
AI
ACCION INTERNATIONALgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +385%
LP
LAKEVIEW PANTRY
one grant, 2022 · $100k

How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Kipp Chicago Schools

The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…

Education

Junior Achievement of Chicago

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy

International

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

Tutoring Chicago

Tutoring chicago delivers the power of education through one-to-one tutoring.

Arts & Culture

Chicago Collegiate Inc

To equip all students in grades six through twelve with the academic skills, intellectual habits and character traits to succeed in the college of their choice, strenghten their communities and change the world.

Education

Alternatives Inc

Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…

Health

Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education

The University of Chicago Charter School Corporation

To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.

Education

AI4ALL

Ai4all's mission is to ensure that the next generation of ai leaders reflects humanity. ai4all is transforming the pipeline of ai practitioners who will shape ai for the benefit of humanity.

Youth Development

Thrive Chicago Nfp

Thrive chicago's mission is to prepare chicago's youth for a vibrant future by aligning efforts and outcomes from cradle to career.

Human Services

Chicago United

To achieve parity in economic opportunity for people of color by advancing multiracial leadership in corporate governance, expanding the talent pipline for executive-level management, and growing minority businesses.

Philanthropy

The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids First Chicago for Education; the most unlike its peers is Rosamary Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

103 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 103 of the 139 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

100/103

Grantees still filing

69/103

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$7,366,486Human Services$2,038,374Other$3,280,212Employment$1,207,170Recreation & Sports$881,035Youth Development$805,914Community Improvement$447,689

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Circle of Service FoundationIL32.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Circle of Service Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Cme Group Community Foundation F/K/A Nymex Foundation · Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Finnegan Family Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Fulk Family Foundation Inc · Motorola Solutions Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Drw Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Drw Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

28report 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

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

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By state

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