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Ed Uihlein Family Foundation at a glance

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Ed Uihlein Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$7.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
105
Grants FY2024still arriving
24
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$4.3MEducation$3.6MAnimals$3.6MHuman Services$3.5MEnvironment$1.5MArts & Culture$1.3MHealth$846kCivil Rights$724kOther$0
02FY2024 · 105 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k44 grants · $130k
  • $10k–50k33 grants · $468k
  • $50k–250k21 grants · $1.8M
  • $250k+7 grants · $5.0M
$10,000
Median grant
24
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNIO$1,000,000
THE JACK MILLER CENTER$1,000,000
MAX MCGRAW WILDLIFE FOUNDATION$1,000,000
CHOKOLOSKEE CHURCH OF GOD$697,117
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SPECIAL DEPOSITORY$500,000
DELTA WATERFOWL FOUNDATION$500,000
ASHBROOK CENTER$300,000
ST ANASTASIA$200,000
JIM RYUN MINISTRIES$200,000
INSTITUTE FOR FREE SPEECH$150,000
FELLOW MORTALS$150,000
DUCKS UNLIMITED$150,000
HOWARD YOUNG FOUNDATION$130,000
BALLOTPEDIA$100,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$75,000
02The need
03

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 (FY22–24, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GUARDIAN ANGELS OF SW FLORIDA: $10k → 10%GUARDIAN ANGELS OF SW FLORIDA: $10k → 10%COMMUNIO: $1.0M → 6%GUARDIAN ANGELS OF SW FLORIDA: $10k → 10%COMMUNIO: $1.0M → 6%COMMUNIO: $250k → 6%ENVISION UNLIMITED: $50k → 14%ENVISION UNLIMITED: $50k → 14%CLEARBROOK: $2k → 14%CLEARBROOK: $2k → 14%CLEARBROOK: $2k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $1k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $1k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

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CA
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TN
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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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$53M · 103 repeat orgs$3.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against -28% for those funded once.

103 repeat relationships: 98 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

103
12

Total granted

$53M
$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
-28%

Still filing today

77%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $780k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureAnimalsHuman ServicesEnvironmentCivil RightsOther
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

  • CF
    COMMUNIO FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +161%
  • MM
    Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +30%
  • DU
    Ducks Unlimited Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • AC
    AMERICAN CORNERSTONE INSTITUTE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue +42%
  • PF
    PRESERVATION FOUNDATION OF LAKE COUNTY
    one grant, 2022 · $500k
  • NORTHSHORE CLASSICAL ACADEMY
    one grant, 2023 · $400k
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.

1
United States Naval Institute

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.

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2
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
3
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management

Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.

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4
Institute for Conservation Leadership

To support healthy communities and a healthy earth, the institute for conservation leadership strengthens leaders, organizations, coalitions and networks.

Community Improvement
5
Illinois College

Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…

Education
6
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
7
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
8
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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9
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
10
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

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11
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
12
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The American Conservative; the most unlike its peers is Carson Springs Wildlife 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

91 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 91 of the 122 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
91/91
Grantees still filing
56/91
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SEE: $36,017,143 · OtherSEETHE JACK MILLER CENTER: $3,100,000 · OtherTHE JACK MILLER CENTERMax McGraw Wildlife Foundation: $2,000,000 · Other+73 more: $5,575,819 · Other+73 moreAMERICAN CORNERSTONE INSTITUTE INC: $1,000,000 · EducationASHLAND UNIVERSITY: $900,000 · EducationNORTHSHORE CLASSICAL ACADEMY: $400,000 · EducationINTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC: $175,000 · EducationGLENWOOD ACADEMY: $150,000 · EducationNITTANY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $150,000 · Education+14 more: $467,000 · EducationCOMMUNIO FOUNDATION INC: $2,250,000 · Human ServicesEnvision Unlimited: $100,000 · Human Services+4 more: $40,500 · Human ServicesDelta Waterfowl Foundation: $1,001,000 · AnimalsFELLOW MORTALS INC: $350,000 · AnimalsCarson Springs Wildlife Foundation: $150,000 · Animals+5 more: $45,000 · AnimalsDucks Unlimited Inc: $1,450,000 · Environment+4 more: $67,500 · EnvironmentINSTITUTE FOR FREE SPEECH: $450,000 · Public BenefitLUCY BURNS INSTITUTE INC: $300,000 · Public Benefit+2 more: $40,000 · Public BenefitJIM RYUN MINISTRIES INC: $525,000 · ReligionWORD from GOD Inc: $30,000 · ReligionILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE: $30,000 · Religion
Other$46,692,962Education$3,242,000Human Services$2,390,500Animals$1,546,000Environment$1,517,500Public Benefit$790,000Religion$585,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNIO FOUNDATION INC: $2,250,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetMax McGraw Wildlife Foundation: $2,000,000 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $1,450,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetDelta Waterfowl Foundation: $1,001,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetAMERICAN CORNERSTONE INSTITUTE INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetASHLAND UNIVERSITY: $900,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJIM RYUN MINISTRIES INC: $525,000 over 3y, 65% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR FREE SPEECH: $450,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetHOWARD YOUNG FOUNDATION INC: $390,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetFELLOW MORTALS INC: $350,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetLUCY BURNS INSTITUTE INC: $300,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetInstitute for Humane Studies: $225,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF KENOSHA INC: $175,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetINTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC: $175,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetInner City Impact: $150,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetGLENWOOD ACADEMY: $150,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNITTANY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $150,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC: $150,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetCarson Springs Wildlife Foundation: $150,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetCLARE BOOTHE LUCE CENTER FOR CONSERVATIVE WOMEN: $150,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetGUN OWNERS FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetThe Becket Fund: $125,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LAW & LIBERTY: $115,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetEnvision Unlimited: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AVALON NETWORK INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $90,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR URBAN RENEWAL & EDUCATION: $75,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetKENOSHA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSAGE PATIENT ADVOCATES: $65,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetGROVE CITY COLLEGE: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerica's Future Foundation: $45,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetInstitute on the Constitution Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE: $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBEACON ACADEMY A MONTESSORI HIGH SCHOOL: $35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetACCURACY IN MEDIA INC: $30,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetGUARDIAN ANGELS OF S W FLORIDA INC: $30,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCADDIE & LEADERSHIP ACADEMY OF SE WI INC: $30,000 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetActon Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWORD from GOD Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetTHE GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN HISTORY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLake Forest College: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRO-LIFE ACTION LEAGUE INC: $30,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetLAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWASHINGTON LEGAL FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budget
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.

Donors Trust IncTriad Foundation IncCharles Koch InstituteThe Lynde and Harry B…The Chicago Community…The Armstrong Foundat…The Buchanan Family F…Kickapoo Springs Foun…The Legett FoundationAdolph Coors Foundati…Charles Koch Foundati…Bradley Impact Fund I…
Donors Trust IncVA30.9× affinity14 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · Triad Foundation Inc · Charles Koch Institute · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · The Armstrong Foundation · The Buchanan Family Foundation · Kickapoo Springs Foundation · The Legett Foundation · Adolph Coors Foundation · Charles Koch Foundation · Bradley Impact Fund Inc

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 Ed Uihlein Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ed Uihlein Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    9get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Ed Uihlein Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Ed Uihlein Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 122 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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