· Private foundation
Edmond and Alice Opler 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k36 grants · $738k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $177k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Hinsdale Hospital Foundation | $77,038 |
| Chicago Zoological Society | $50,000 |
| Wellness House | $50,000 |
| Chicago Horticultural Society | $40,000 |
| Communities in Schools | $35,000 |
| Ronald McDonald Charities of Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana | $35,000 |
| Cancer Wellness Center | $30,000 |
| Junior Achievement of Chicago | $30,000 |
| Keshet | $30,000 |
| College Bound Opportunities | $30,000 |
| Chicago Jesuit Academy | $30,000 |
| St. Coletta's of Illinois, Inc. | $25,000 |
| Children's Museum in Oak Lawn | $25,000 |
| WTTW | $25,000 |
| JDRF | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $425k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.
78 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Chicago Zoological Society6× · 2017–2024 · $240k · revenue +43%- WHWellness House6× · 2017–2024 · $240k · revenue +63%
- TCTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUM IN OAK LAWN6× · 2017–2024 · $185k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- AHAdventist Hinsdale Hospitalone grant, 2022 · $50k
- AHAMITA HealthAdventist Medical Center Hinsdaleone grant, 2021 · $50k
- LSLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR CHICAGO ST MARY'S HOMEone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -18%
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.
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.
To help people with developmental disabilities meet life's challenges and reach their highest potential.
Chh honors every person's right to a home and health care, by bridging the housing and health care systems, to improve the lives of chicagoans experiencing homelessness.
Child Link provides foster care, family counseling, and therapy services to Chicago area adolescents who are at risk of homelessness. Child Link also refers adolescents to other agencies that are able to provide additional resources and…
To provide community services including adult day, child care and home care .
To provide residential and rehabilitation services to clients with mental illnesses
To provide services and facilities for people whose capabilities and needs vary widely. lcc strives to make the lives of people more independent, healthful, meaningful and secure through development of innovative programs delivered with…
Administering an array of critical, intensive therapeutic interventions and/or facilitation services to emotionally and behaviorally disturbed clients for whom DCFS is legally responsible in order to stabilize their traditional or home of…
House of Good Shepherd serves with love and compassion women and children affected by domestic violence by offering a safe place with opportunities for emotional, educational and spiritual growth, giving hope and continued support for a…
Living Well Disability Services transforms the lives of people impacted by disabilities through the delivery of exceptional services.
Advancing lives of connection, contribution and meaning for persons with developmental disabilities and the individuals that support them.
Provide community-based residential housing to adults with autism and/or severe developmental disabilities. also provide developmental training and other supports to this same population.
The chicago children's advocacy center unites public, private, and community partners to ensure the safety, health, and well-being of abused children.
How this is measured
77 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. 77 of the 103 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
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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.
Open a dossier: George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Andrew and Alice Fischer Charitable Trust · The Coleman Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · Rice Foundation · Helen V Brach Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Circle of Service Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Service Club of Chicago
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Edmond and Alice Opler Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edmond and Alice Opler Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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