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Feitler Family Fund at a glance

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Feitler Family Fund

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$746k
Granted FY2020
37
Grants FY2020
9
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2020.

Education$1.3MArts & Culture$542kHealth$239kEnvironment$206kReligion$138kRecreation & Sports$53kScience & Tech$28kSocial Science$27kOther$0
02FY2020 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k17 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $245k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $450k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$8.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WESLEYAN COLLEGE$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$100,000
HAVERFORD COLLEGE$50,000
CHICAGO SINAI CONGREGATION$50,000
THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO$50,000
LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$30,000
NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$25,000
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL$25,000
MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM$25,000
WTTW$25,000
NEWBERRY LIBRARY$25,000
WOMEN'S SPORTS FOUNDATION$15,000
BABSON COLLEGE$15,000
MERCERSBURG ACADEMY$10,000
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 (FY17–19, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $1k → 14%CHICAGO COMMONS ASSOCIATION: $5k → 14%CHICAGO CHILD CARE SOCIETY: $250 → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MT
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
CO
VA
MD
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 55 repeat orgs$700k to everyone else

55 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2020, 31 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
60

Total granted

$1.6M
$397k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+32%

Still filing today

78%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $303k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
Arts & CultureEducationHealthRecreation & SportsInternationalHuman 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

  • University of Chicago
    2× · 2017–2018 · $503k · revenue +56%
  • NF
    NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2020 · $130k · revenue +854%
  • TA
    THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
    3× · 2018–2020 · $75k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • THE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +45%
  • SC
    ST CHRYSOSTOM'S CHURCH & DAY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
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
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
5
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
7
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
8
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
9
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
10
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
11
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Theatre Group Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Sheftel Foundation Inc. 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

92 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. 92 of the 129 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
91/92
Grantees still filing
67/92
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Chicago: $503,000 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $150,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIACORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE: $150,000 · EducationCORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATIONTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $75,100 · EducationTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO+18 more: $221,650 · Education+18 moreCHICAGO SINAI CONGREGATION: $125,000 · OtherCHICAGO SINAI CONGREGATIONWESLEYAN COLLEGE: $100,000 · OtherWESLEYAN COLLEGEPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $60,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODTHE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC: $50,000 · OtherTHE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCI…MERCERSBURG ACADEMY: $35,000 · OtherHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL: $27,000 · OtherNORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherST CHRYSOSTOM'S CHURCH & DAY SCHOOL: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · Other+54 more: $264,793 · Other+54 moreWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $38,000 · Arts & CultureWINDOW TO THE W…The Arts Club of Chicago: $35,000 · Arts & CultureThe Arts Club o…MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC: $26,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE ART M…HYDE PARK ART CENTER: $25,000 · Arts & CultureHYDE PARK ART C…MUSIC AND DANCE THEATER CHICAGO INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureMUSIC AND DANCE…KOHL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureKOHL CHILDREN'S…Lyric Opera of Chicago: $16,500 · Arts & CultureUNITING VOICES: $15,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM TRUSTEE ASSOCIATION: $15,000 · Arts & CultureGRANT PARK ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION: $15,000 · Arts & CultureFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $15,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION OF THE FORTNIGHTLY: $12,250 · Arts & Culture+16 more: $104,525 · Arts & Culture+16 moreNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION: $130,000 · Recreation & SportsWomens Sports Foundation: $45,000 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF THE PARKS: $7,000 · Recreation & SportsAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $55,500 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $30,000 · HealthUSHER III INITIATIVE INC: $10,000 · HealthRush University Medical Center: $10,000 · Health+3 more: $3,100 · HealthHORIZONS GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentFREE SPIRIT MEDIA NFP: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $11,000 · InternationalWORLD LEARNING INC: $5,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $5,000 · International
Education$1,199,750Other$736,793Arts & Culture$362,275Recreation & Sports$182,000Health$108,600Youth Development$30,000International$21,000

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 budgetUniversity of Chicago: $503,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION: $130,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $75,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $55,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWomens Sports Foundation: $45,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $38,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Arts Club of Chicago: $35,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC: $26,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $26,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBABSON COLLEGE: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHYDE PARK ART CENTER: $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMUSIC AND DANCE THEATER CHICAGO INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NEWBERRY LIBRARY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFrancis W Parker School: $21,850 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKOHL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRoosevelt University: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHORIZONS GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetLyric Opera of Chicago: $16,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITING VOICES: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM TRUSTEE ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetGRANT PARK ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOPENLANDS: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetABRAHAM PATH INITIATIVE INC: $13,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSEVERN SCHOOL INC: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION OF THE FORTNIGHTLY: $12,250 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetTEN CHIMNEYS FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetRemy Bumppo Theatre Company: $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHILLWOOD ESTATE MUSEUM & GARDENS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFurry Friends Humane Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUSHER III INITIATIVE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetKENYON COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Smart Family Foundati…The Chicago Community…John D and Catherine …Richard and Mary L Gr…Jewish Federation of …Lloyd a Fry FoundationPolk Bros Foundation …Ncrc Community Develo…The Rhoades FoundationDr Scholl FoundationThe Robert Thomas Bob…Fifth Third Chicagola…
Smart Family Foundation of IllinoisIL49.5× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Smart Family Foundation of Illinois · The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Richard and Mary L Gray Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc · The Rhoades Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation · Fifth Third Chicagoland 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 Feitler Family Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Feitler Family Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • World Learning Inc: 39% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Baltimore Museum of Art: 4% of income from government
  • Babson College: 3% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: 1% of income from government
  • New World Symphony Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Feitler Family Fund?

Find your warmest path to Feitler Family Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 129 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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