· Private foundation
Enjoy a Better Life 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIBERTYVILLE COVENANT CHURCH | $5,000 |
| GLASA | $2,250 |
| LOVE INC | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| PADS LAKE COUNTY | $1,750 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN | $1,500 |
| CRISTO REY ST MARTIN COLLEGE | $1,500 |
| FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN | $1,500 |
| NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK | $1,500 |
| ST JUDES | $1,500 |
| JILL'S HOUSE | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $1,500 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $1,250 |
| A SAFE PLACE | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–21, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +74% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.
36 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 1 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; $250 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FMFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $7k · revenue +83%
- NINORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK9× · 2017–2025 · $7k · revenue +43%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC5× · 2021–2025 · $6k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- ICINTERNATIONAL CONCIL OF FREINDSone grant, 2019 · $1k
- LLUMINOSone grant, 2019 · $500
- CCCOLLEEN CARES ORGANIZATIONone grant, 2023 · $500 · revenue -1%
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.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
We value excellence and innovation in clinical and basic research, coordinated and comprehensive patient care, ongoing physician education, and evidence-based child advocacy. our goal is to provide leadership in endeavors that promote the…
Edward-Elmhurst Healthcare follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."
We are dedicated to the health and well-being of all children. as the pediatric teaching facility for the northwestern university feinberg school of medicine, this commitment drives us to be a leader in: -pediatric health care delivery…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Chicago sun-times serves the public interest by strengthening the well-being of our local communities and our democracy through independent local journalism.
Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.
Ronald mcdonald house charities of greater cincinnati offers a community of compassion, support and the comforts of home to families with critically ill children, steps away from the medical care they need.
Provide pediatric and subspecialty surgical, research, and educational services.
Naperville psychiatric ventures follows the mission of endeavor health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 47 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.
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Cristo Rey St Martin College Prep ↗
- Who funds PADS Lake County Inc ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds LAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States Inc ↗
- Who funds Adaptive Adventures ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO EXECUTIVE FORUM ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds PADS OF ELGIN INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEEN CARES ORGANIZATION ↗
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: AbbVie Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Enjoy a Better Life Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Enjoy a Better Life Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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