· Private foundation
Elizabeth Beidler Tisdahl Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k33 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $21,000 |
| EVANSTON ANIMAL SHELTER | $20,000 |
| US FUND FOR UNICEF | $12,250 |
| ERIE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER | $12,000 |
| ETHS SCHOOL BASED HEALTH CENTER | $10,000 |
| GIRLS PLAY SPORTS | $10,000 |
| KUUMBA EVANSTON | $10,000 |
| ETHS FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| ALL OUR CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $5,000 |
| JAMES B MORAN CENTER FOR YOUTH ADVOCACY | $4,000 |
| EVANSTON CHILDREN'S CLOTHING ASSOC | $3,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $3,000 |
| YOUTH ORGANIZATIONS UMBRELLA | $2,000 |
| NORTHLIGHT THEATRE | $2,000 |
| LEARNING BRIDGE EDUCATION CENTER | $2,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
52 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 3 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF7× · 2019–2025 · $49k · revenue +55%- JBJAMES B MORAN CENTER FOR YOUTH ADVOCACY7× · 2019–2025 · $38k · revenue +157%
- EFErie Family Health Center Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $27k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- EFEVANSTON FOOD EXCHANGEone grant, 2020 · $4k
- CLCOLETTE LOUISE TISDAHL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +68%
- FFFAIR FIGHT INITIATIVE INCone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -20%
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.
Chicago Votes is a non-partisan, non-profit organization building a more inclusive democracy by putting power in the hands of young Chicagoans. We're engaging and developing a new generation of leaders by opening the doors of government,…
The museum's mission is to enrich lives through preservation, exploration, enlightenment and amazement.
To assist children who have been victims of abuse
Erie neighborhood house provides the most comprehensive support to immigrant and low-income families in chicago. our mission is to empower our communitylatinx immigrants alongside individuals and families of all backgroundsthrough…
A non-profit organization whose mission is connecting the youngest learners and their families to essential early learning experiences. Childcare Network of Evanston achieves this mission by offering families early education opportunities…
Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.
To provide boys and girls in Evanston and neighboring communities the opportunity to learn and play hockey in a diverse program that is rooted in skills development, sportsmanship, outstanding coaching, leadership skills, strong character…
To foster a competitive business climate and promote economic development by providing access to a broad range of resources such as leadership, advocacy, networking, partnerships, and educational opportunities for the Evanston business…
Advance the human & civil rights of children and adults with disabilities in illinois. administer federally mandated protection & advocacy system for state; exercise statutory powers, and serve as legal advocate and independent watchdog…
Equality illinois builds a better illinois by advancing equal treatment and social justice through education, advocacy and protection of the rights of the lgbt community.
The chicago high school for the arts (chiarts) develops the next generation of diverse, artistically promising scholar-artists through intensive pre-professional training in the arts, combined with a comprehensive college preparatory…
Ywca evanston/north shore provides domestic violence programs which includes providing affordable housing and other services to victims of domestic violence, the equity institute, the women's leadership and economic empowerment program,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evanston Scholars and the most unlike its peers is Colette Louise Tisdahl Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 59 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 UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ROBERT CROWN CENTER ↗
- Who funds GIRLS PLAY SPORTS INC NFP ↗
- Who funds JAMES B MORAN CENTER FOR YOUTH ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds Erie Family Health Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CURT'S CAFE ↗
- Who funds EQUITY & EMPOWERMENT FOR EVANSTON FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds YOUTH JOB CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds Evanston School Children's Clothing Assn ↗
- Who funds THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds INFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF EVANSTON INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH & OPPORTUNITY UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds EVANSTON TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT 202 ED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EVANSTON HISTORY CENTER ↗
- Who funds EVANSTON FOURTH OF JULY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds EVANSTONSKOKIE DISTRICT 65 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (FOUNDATION 65) ↗
- Who funds GLESSNER HOUSE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ALL OUR CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SARAH'S INN ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS GYMNASIUM INC ↗
- Who funds Piven Theatre Workshop ↗
- Who funds Mammoth Amateur Hockey Association ↗
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: Evanston Community Foundation · Francis Beidler Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Kellcie Fund · Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation · Northwestern University · AbbVie Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Cless Family Foundation · Finnegan Family Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc
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 Elizabeth Beidler Tisdahl 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.
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% 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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