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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.

$224k
Granted FY2025still arriving
51
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$859kHealth$94kArts & Culture$66kHuman Services$61kEnvironment$55kCommunity Improvement$32kPhilanthropy$28kFood & Nutrition$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k46 grants · $76k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $83k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
$1,050
Median grant
14
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
GENESYS WORKS$2,500
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RESCU FOUNDATION: $2k → 7%RESCU FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%RESCU FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%RESCU FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%RESCU FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%RESCU FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%RESCU FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%RESCU FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%THE NETWORK ADVOCATING AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $20k → 14%THE NETWORK ADVOCATING AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $5k → 14%RENAISSANCE SOCIAL SERVICES: $10k → 14%RENAISSANCE SOCIAL SERVICES: $2k → 14%RENAISSANCE SOCIAL SERVICES: $2k → 14%RENAISSANCE SOCIAL SERVICES: $1k → 14%RENAISSANCE SOCIAL SERVICES: $1k → 14%RENAISSANCE SOCIAL SERVICES: $1k → 14%RENAISSANCE SOCIAL SERVICES: $1k → 14%RENAISSANCE SOCIAL SERVICES: $1k → 14%CHICAGO ABUSED WOMEN COALITION: $800 → 14%JOURNEY CARE: $3k → 14%JOURNEY CARE: $3k → 14%JOURNEY CARE: $3k → 14%JOURNEY CARE: $2k → 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

ME
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
NJ
RI
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
AR
DC
HI
GA
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 62 repeat orgs$85k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

62
19

Total granted

$1.2M
$69k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+39%

Still filing today

58%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalFood & NutritionOther
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

  • GA
    GOLDEN APPLE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING
    5× · 2018–2025 · $167k · revenue +108%
  • US
    UC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2025 · $117k · revenue +17%
  • NB
    Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition Inc
    8× · 2018–2025 · $32k · revenue +123%

Funded once

  • MC
    MATH CIRCLES OF CHICAGOgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +181%
  • EC
    EAST-WEST CENTER FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +75%
  • HR
    HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue -75%
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
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

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…

Health
2
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management

Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.

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3
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

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.

Education
4
The Chicago Bar Foundation

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.

Education
5
Columbia College Chicago

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

Education
6
Chicago Public Education Fund

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.

Education
7
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.

Social Science
8
National Opinion Research Center

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…

Social Science
9
Saint Xavier University

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…

Education
10
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
11
Lake Forest College

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…

Education
12
The University of Chicago Charter School Corporation

To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grant Park Orchestral Association; 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.
04the grantee network

52 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. 52 of the 88 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/52
Grantees still filing
33/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GOLDEN APPLE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING: $167,000 · OtherGOLDEN APPLE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHINGCHRIST THE KING JESUIT COLLEGE PREP HIGH SCHOOL: $72,000 · OtherCHRIST THE KING JESUIT COLLEGE PREP HIGH SCHOOLST IGNATIUS COLLEGE PREP: $70,000 · OtherST IGNATIUS COLLEGE PREPMATH CIRCLES OF CHICAGO: $50,000 · OtherMATH CIRCLES OF CHICAGOChicago Foundation for Education: $40,000 · OtherChicago Foundation for Education+54 more: $213,940 · Other+54 moreACADEMY FOR URBAN SCHOOL LEADERSHIP: $280,000 · EducationACADEMY FOR URBAN SCHOOL LEADERSHIPUC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION: $117,000 · EducationUC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATIONBig Shoulders Fund: $15,000 · Education+5 more: $22,700 · EducationTHE NETWORK ADVOCATING AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $25,250 · Human ServicesRenaissance Social Services Inc: $19,050 · Human ServicesElea Institute: $9,500 · Human ServicesRESCU Foundation Inc: $9,050 · Human Services+1 more: $800 · Human ServicesUniversity of Chicago Medical Center: $21,000 · HealthAerospace Medical Association: $12,500 · HealthAngel Flight Central Inc: $8,050 · HealthNURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $8,000 · HealthAmerican Liver Foundation: $2,000 · Health+6 more: $4,150 · HealthSAVE THE BAY INC: $41,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $14,400 · EnvironmentGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $24,950 · Food & NutritionPART OF THE SOLUTION: $23,200 · Food & NutritionNorthwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition Inc: $31,700 · Community Improvement
Other$612,940Education$434,700Human Services$63,650Health$55,700Environment$55,400Food & Nutrition$48,150Community Improvement$31,700

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 budgetACADEMY FOR URBAN SCHOOL LEADERSHIP: $280,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetGOLDEN APPLE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING: $167,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetUC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION: $117,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMATH CIRCLES OF CHICAGO: $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetSAVE THE BAY INC: $41,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetChicago Foundation for Education: $40,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetNorthwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition Inc: $31,700 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NETWORK ADVOCATING AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $25,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $24,950 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPART OF THE SOLUTION: $23,200 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Chicago Medical Center: $21,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRenaissance Social Services Inc: $19,050 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBig Shoulders Fund: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $14,400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAerospace Medical Association: $12,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS INC: $11,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH STAR FUND INC: $10,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwest Community Music Academy: $10,075 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetEAST-WEST CENTER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetElea Institute: $9,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRESCU Foundation Inc: $9,050 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetAngel Flight Central Inc: $8,050 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetNURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPERUVIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY: $7,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION: $5,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $3,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JACK AND SHIRLEY LUBEZNIK CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $3,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $3,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCREO DUPAGE LTD: $3,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetGRANT PARK ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION: $2,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Liver Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGASTRO INTESTINAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $1,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON HOPE: $1,550 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLifeline Productions Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALTUS ACADEMY: $900 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEWBERRY LIBRARY: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetA SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO MARITIME MUSEUM: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO LIGHTS: $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBy The Hand Club For Kids: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $200 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.

  • 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 PERUVIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds DEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Circle of Service Fou…AbbVie FoundationArie and Ida Crown Me…The Chicago Community…Dr Scholl FoundationPolk Bros Foundation …United Way of Metropo…John D and Catherine …Robert R McCormick Fo…All Chicago Making Ho…Cme Group FoundationPatrick G and Shirley…
Circle of Service FoundationIL23.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Foley Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Foley Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Aerospace Medical Association: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
12report 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.

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 88 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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