· Private foundation
Evon D and Jack H Keck 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k31 grants · $77k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHICAGO LIGHTS | $12,250 |
| WOMENS EMPOWERMENT | $5,000 |
| SACRAMENTO LOAVES AND FISHES | $5,000 |
| CHIPPEWA HUMANE ASSOC | $5,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA | $5,000 |
| RIVER CITY FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,200 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN ELK FOUNDATION | $3,100 |
| AMERICAN PRAIRIE RESERVE | $3,100 |
| NATIONAL WILD TURKEY FEDERATION | $3,100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,100 |
| PHEASANTS FOREVER | $3,100 |
| ASHLEY FOR THE ARTS | $2,500 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 4 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- CLCHICAGO LIGHTS9× · 2017–2025 · $85k · revenue +5%
- WSWILD SHEEP FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $56k · revenue +119%
- WEWOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT9× · 2017–2025 · $47k · revenue +111%
Funded once
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSEone grant, 2022 · $7k
- VOVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OF ILLINOISgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +107%
- PHPROJECT H O P E INCone grant, 2020 · $4k
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.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
To bring animals out of crisis and strengthen the bond between people and animals through emergency sheltering, disaster relief services, financial assistance and education. redrover accomplishes its mission by engaging volunteers and…
Our mission is to act to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take into account human needs.
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
Mercy for animals' mission is to construct a compassionate food system that is not just kind to animals but essential for the future of our planet and all who share it. our vision of a world where animals are respected, protected, and free…
Animal equality is an international organization working with society, governments, and companies to end cruelty to farmed animals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wild Sheep Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Onefest Ltd. 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 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
55 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. 55 of the 89 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 CHICAGO LIGHTS ↗
- Who funds WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT ↗
- Who funds RIVER CITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO LOAVES & FISHES ↗
- Who funds SANTAS VOLUNTEERS ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Scooters Pals ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds ONEFEST LTD ↗
- Who funds MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ONE TAIL AT A TIME NFP ↗
- Who funds The Anti-Cruelty Society ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR OUTDOORS INC ↗
- Who funds FEED MY PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds ERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds BETWEEN FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds ASHLEY FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds CHIPPEWA VALLEY SPIRIT ALL STARS INC ↗
- Who funds CHIPPEWA VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds Team Up Gymnastics Association Inc ↗
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: Xcel Energy Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Eau Claire Community Foundation · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation · Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust
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 Evon D and Jack H Keck 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Outdoors Inc — 1% of income from government
- Neads Inc — 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.