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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.
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 $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $350k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.8M
- $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
| 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 |
| BOTTOM LINE | $100,000 |
| CHICAGO TECH ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| THE BLOC | $100,000 |
| KIDS FIRST CHICAGO FOR EDUCATION | $100,000 |
| EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC | $100,000 |
| BEAT THE STREETS CHICAGO | $100,000 |
| METROSQUASH NFP | $85,000 |
| AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS | $75,000 |
| COLLEGE POSSIBLE | $75,000 |
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, $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 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 +35% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- NNNOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS9× · 2017–2025 · $3.3M · revenue +47%
- CPCODE PLATOON NFP8× · 2018–2025 · $891k · revenue +448%
- GPGREENWOOD PROJECT5× · 2021–2025 · $701k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- NMNORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $200k
- AIACCION INTERNATIONALgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +385%
FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INCone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +4%
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.
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…
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
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.
Tutoring chicago delivers the power of education through one-to-one tutoring.
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.
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…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.
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.
Thrive chicago's mission is to prepare chicago's youth for a vibrant future by aligning efforts and outcomes from cradle to career.
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids First Chicago for Education and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 27 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 5% 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.
103 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. 103 of the 139 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 NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds CODE PLATOON NFP ↗
- Who funds GREENWOOD PROJECT ↗
- Who funds KIDS FIRST CHICAGO FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO TECH ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds METROSQUASH NFP ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOTTOM LINE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BLOC ↗
- Who funds Outreach with Lacrosse Schools ↗
- Who funds START EARLY ↗
- Who funds BEAT THE STREETS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds ASPIRE OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
- Who funds SCRIPTED INC DBA CODE NATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICA NEEDS YOU ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO SCHOLARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Inspiration Corporation ↗
- Who funds CURT'S CAFE ↗
- Who funds Invest for Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds OPEN BOOKS LTD ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds ACCION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds RESILIENCE ↗
- Who funds Vocel Viewing our Children as Emerging Leaders ↗
- Who funds READING IN MOTION ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE 98 ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds CODE2COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COOK COUNTY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ONEGOAL ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds EVANSTON REBUILDING WAREHOUSE ↗
- Who funds AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS 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: 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
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 Drw 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.
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of America — 21% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- The Bottom Line Inc — 0% of income from government
- Year Up 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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