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Efaw Family Foundation at a glance

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Efaw Family 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.

$32k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$97kHuman Services$26kPhilanthropy$11kAnimals$3kRecreation & Sports$1kArts & Culture$1kHealth$500
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HEARTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$25,000
ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY$5,200
MCLEAN COUNTY ARTS CENTER$1,000
EASTER SEALS$500
BREAKTHROUGH T1D$250
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 (FY19–23, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LIFELONG ACCESS: $20k → 11%MARCFIRST: $3k → 11%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.
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.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$71k · 7 repeat orgs$69k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +126% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
10

Total granted

$71k
$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+126%
+32%

Still filing today

57%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationAnimalsArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesOther
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

  • LA
    LIFELONG ACCESS
    2× · 2019–2023 · $23k · revenue +131%
  • MP
    MILLER PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
    5× · 2017–2023 · $2k · revenue +126%
  • INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $200 · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • BP
    BLOOMINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • SC
    SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +26%
  • BH
    BLOOMINGTON HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
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
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
2
Illinois Institute of Technology

To provide distinctive and relevant education in an environment of scientific, technological, and professional knowledge creation and innovation.

Education
3
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
4
Illinois State University Foundation

To elevate illinois state university through the power of philanthropy.

Education
5
Bradley University

Bradley university empowers students for immediate and sustained success in their personal and professional endeavors by combining professional preparation, liberal arts and sciences, and co-curricular experiences. alongside our dedication…

Education
6
Clark College District 14 Foundation

Clark college foundation inspires the joy of philanthropy in support of student success and program excellence at clark college.

Education
7
Trustees of Clark University

Clark university's mission is to educate undergraduate and graduate students to be imaginative and contributing citizens of the world, and to advance the frontiers of knowledge and understanding through rigorous scholarship and creative…

Education
8
East-West University

East-west university is an independent institution of higher learning located in downtown chicago. its mission is the pursuit of excellence by all through relevant, effective and convenient education and service to humankind with a global,…

Education
9
The Carle Foundation Hospital

To be the trusted partner in all healthcare decisions and to improve health by providing highly accessible, world-class care and services.

Health
10
Rockford University

To educate men & women to lead responsible lives by means of a curriculum grounded in liberal arts learning and complemented and extended by professional and practical experience, through the total academic and co-curricular experience,…

Education
11
Mcdaniel College Inc

Mcdaniel college is a diverse student-centered community committed to excellence in the liberal arts & sciences and professional studies with careful mentoring and attention to the individual. mcdaniel changes lives. we challenge students…

Education
12
Illinois Science and Technology Institute

The institute will advance science and technology through the education of illinois residents, the provision of grants to institutions and organizations for scientific research in the areas of science and technology, and by providing…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Illinois Wesleyan University; the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. 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

10 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. 10 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $31,784 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATIONBLOOMINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherBLOOMINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATIONHEARTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherHEARTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONSOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIV: $10,000 · OtherSOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVEASTER SEALS INC: $3,900 · Other+8 more: $2,570 · OtherLIFELONG ACCESS: $22,520 · Human ServicesLIFELONG ACCESSSOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationSOUTHERN CON…ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $5,200 · EducationILLINOIS WES…+1 more: $100 · EducationMILLER PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $2,375 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC: $200 · AnimalsMCLEAN COUNTY ARTS CENTER: $1,000 · Arts & CultureBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $250 · Health
Other$98,254Human Services$22,520Education$15,300Animals$2,575Arts & Culture$1,000Health$250

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHEARTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLIFELONG ACCESS: $22,520 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $5,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS INC: $3,900 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMILLER PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $2,375 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMCLEAN COUNTY ARTS CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEYOND THE BOOKS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds HEARTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LIFELONG ACCESS ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds EASTER SEALS INC ↗
  • Who funds MILLER PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds MCLEAN COUNTY ARTS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BEYOND THE BOOKS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Snyder Family Foundat…Charities Aid Foundat…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Snyder Family Foundation NfpIL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Snyder Family Foundation Nfp · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Efaw Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Efaw Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.

    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 21 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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