· Private foundation
Finnegan Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k60 grants · $1.4M
- $50k–250k33 grants · $2.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| A BETTER CHICAGO | $200,000 |
| NORTHSHORE UNIVERSITY HEALTHSYSTEM | $200,000 |
| NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS | $105,000 |
| IMENTOR CHICAGO | $100,000 |
| LEAP INNOVATIONS | $100,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $100,000 |
| BOTTOM LINE | $100,000 |
| HOPE CHICAGO | $100,000 |
| START EARLY | $100,000 |
| METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES | $100,000 |
| YEAR UP | $100,000 |
| TEACH FOR ALL | $100,000 |
| KIPP CHICAGO SCHOOLS | $100,000 |
| THE MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT | $100,000 |
| CITY YEAR | $100,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $2.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 14% of Finnegan Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 82% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 96%.
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 +35% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.
101 repeat relationships: 95 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ABA Better Chicago5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +76%
- EHEndeavor Health Clinical Operations3× · 2022–2024 · $600k · revenue +12%
- NNNOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS5× · 2020–2024 · $525k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- SESTART EARLY (FORMERLY OUNCE OF PREVENTION)one grant, 2020 · $100k
- NLNEW LEADERSone grant, 2020 · $50k
Northwestern Universityone grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue +14%
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.
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To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
To equip all students in grades six through twelve with the academic skills, intellectual habits and character traits to succeed in the college of their choice, strenghten their communities and change the world.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
See Schedule ODeans for Impact supports educator-preparation programs to bring the science of learning into teaching practice; partners with policymakers to ensure pathways into teaching are accessible, practice-based, and…
Ai4all's mission is to ensure that the next generation of ai leaders reflects humanity. ai4all is transforming the pipeline of ai practitioners who will shape ai for the benefit of humanity.
College summit, inc. d/b/a peerforward (peerforward)'s mission is to unleash the power of positive peer influence to transform the lives of youth living in low-income communities by connecting them to college and careers. in low-income…
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How this is measured
93 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. 93 of the 116 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 A Better Chicago ↗
- Who funds Endeavor Health Clinical Operations ↗
- Who funds NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Family Services ↗
- Who funds TEACH FOR ALL INC ↗
- Who funds KIPP CHICAGO SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds LEAP Innovations ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY FOR URBAN SCHOOL LEADERSHIP ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds ONEGOAL ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds START EARLY ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
- Who funds Lawndale Educational and Regional Network Charter School ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds YOUTH JOB CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BETTER FUTURE FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds THE MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ONE MILLION DEGREES ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NEW CLASSROOMS INNOVATION PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds BRAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds Vocel Viewing our Children as Emerging Leaders ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION PIONEERS ↗
- Who funds NEW LEADERS INC ↗
- Who funds INTRINSIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds LEADING EDUCATORS INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS FIRST CHICAGO FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH & OPPORTUNITY UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds PEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds LIFT INC ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
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: Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Circle of Service Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Cme Group Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Osa Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Vivo Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Finnegan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Finnegan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Saga Innovations Inc: 28% of income from government
- City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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