· Private foundation
Foley Family 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 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 $10k46 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $83k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GOLDEN APPLE FOUNDATION | $65,000 |
| UC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| SAVE THE BAY | $21,000 |
| CHRIST THE KING JESUIT COLLEGE PREP HIGH SCHOOL | $12,000 |
| ST IGNATIUS COLLEGE PREP | $10,000 |
| DEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION | $5,250 |
| ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT REFUGEE RIGHTS | $5,250 |
| THE NETWORK ADVOCATING AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE | $5,250 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD FUNDERS GROUP | $5,250 |
| BIG SHOULDERS FUND | $5,000 |
| NORTHWEST BRONX COMMUNITY & CLERGY COALITION | $4,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $3,950 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTH | $3,000 |
| PART OF THE SOLUTION | $2,900 |
| MISERECORDIA | $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 (FY18–25, $64k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% 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.
62 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 5 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- GAGOLDEN APPLE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING5× · 2018–2025 · $167k · revenue +108%
- USUC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2025 · $117k · revenue +17%
- NBNorthwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $32k · revenue +123%
Funded once
- MCMATH CIRCLES OF CHICAGOgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +181%
- ECEAST-WEST CENTER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
- RURush University Medical Centergraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +39%
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.
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.
The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.
The chicago bar foundation brings the legal community together through advocacy, funding, and innovation to improve access to justice for people in need and to make the legal system more fair, equitable, and effective.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
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…
Provide post-secondary education leading to a baccalaureate degree. Program service expenditures are made in conjunction with the operation of a liberal arts college spread over 107 acres with approximately 63 educational and support…
To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grant Park Orchestral Association and the most unlike its peers is Bonnell Cove 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 39 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
52 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. 52 of the 88 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 ACADEMY FOR URBAN SCHOOL LEADERSHIP ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN APPLE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING ↗
- Who funds UC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MATH CIRCLES OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE BAY INC ↗
- Who funds Chicago Foundation for Education ↗
- Who funds Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NETWORK ADVOCATING AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds PART OF THE SOLUTION ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago Medical Center ↗
- Who funds Renaissance Social Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Big Shoulders Fund ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds Aerospace Medical Association ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH STAR FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Northwest Community Music Academy ↗
- Who funds EAST-WEST CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Elea Institute ↗
- Who funds RESCU Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Angel Flight Central Inc ↗
- Who funds NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds PERUVIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Circle of Service Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · The Chicago Community Trust · Dr Scholl Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · All Chicago Making Homelessness History · Cme Group Foundation · Patrick G and Shirley W Ryan Foundation
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 Foley Family 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.
- Aerospace Medical Association — 2% 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.