· Private foundation
Frances E Streit 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k48 grants · $81k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPARK VENTURES | $10,000 |
| HUSHABYE NURSERY | $10,000 |
| MEDHEN ORPHAN RELIEF EFFORT | $7,500 |
| PLOWSHARE FARM | $5,000 |
| MARGARETS VILLAGE | $5,000 |
| ANGEL WIGS OF HOPE | $4,500 |
| HANDS OF MERCY EVERYWHERE | $4,000 |
| HUBBARD HOUSE | $3,000 |
| INFORMED CHOICES | $3,000 |
| LET IT BE US | $3,000 |
| GIVE KIDS THE WORLD | $2,604 |
| CONNECT THE HEARTS | $2,500 |
| SISTERS OF CHRISTIAN CHARITY | $2,500 |
| CHICAGO VOYAGERS | $2,500 |
| COUNSELING CENTER OF THE NORTH SHORE | $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 (FY19–24, $98k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% 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.
74 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 15 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- CCChristian Care Center Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $24k · revenue +55%
- SVSpark Ventures6× · 2019–2024 · $20k · revenue +84%
- MVMARGARETS VILLAGE4× · 2021–2024 · $19k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- CAChicago Architecture Foundationone grant, 2019 · $7k · revenue -31%
- SASAINT AGNES CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $3k
- AFACTION FOR LIFE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +169%
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.
House of Good Shepherd serves with love and compassion women and children affected by domestic violence by offering a safe place with opportunities for emotional, educational and spiritual growth, giving hope and continued support for a…
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…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
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…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
The chicago children's advocacy center unites public, private, and community partners to ensure the safety, health, and well-being of abused children.
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…
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.
Infant welfare society of chicago (iws) (d/b/a iws family health) provides quality medical, dental and behavioral health services for the health, physical and mental development of children and their families in the chicagoland community.
The mission of advocate health care is to serve the health needs of individuals, families and communities through a wholistic philosophy rooted in our fundamental understanding of human beings as created in the image of god.
The hospital is a catholic health care organization sponsored by the sisters of st. casimir. by our commitment to witness to the healing mission of jesus, we contribute to healthy communities and promote quality health care to all with…
Chh honors every person's right to a home and health care, by bridging the housing and health care systems, to improve the lives of chicagoans experiencing homelessness.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Chicago Lighthouse for People Who Are Blind Or Visually Impaired and the most unlike its peers is Company of Folk. 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 33 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
107 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. 107 of the 162 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 Christian Care Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Spark Ventures ↗
- Who funds MARGARETS VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds HUSHABYE NURSERY ↗
- Who funds PLOWSHARE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds IMERMAN ANGELS ↗
- Who funds MEDHEN ORPHAN RELIEF EFFORT A NJNON PROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Chicago Architecture Foundation ↗
- Who funds YWCA EvanstonNorth Shore ↗
- Who funds THE ARTS OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE WILD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT FUTURES ↗
- Who funds Cornerstone Hospice Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds TFK Chicago Voyagers ↗
- Who funds HUBBARD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY SERVICE CENTER OF WILMETTE GLENVIEW NORTHBROOK AND KENILWORTH ↗
- Who funds ANGEL WIGS OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds HANDS OF MERCY EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds WILD HORSE RESCUE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LET IT BE US ↗
- Who funds FREE SPEECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds FAMILY FOCUS LEGACY ↗
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: Dr Scholl Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The a Montgomery Ward Foundation · Helen V Brach Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Charles H and Beverly E Shaw Foundation · WP & HB White Foundation · Baxter International Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Parady Cares Foundation Inc · Maurice & Henry Freund Charitable Foundation · Kemper Educational and Charitable Fund
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 Frances E Streit 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Hubbard House Inc — 42% of income from government
- Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Palm Beach Inc — 12% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Orlando Museum of Art Inc — 0% 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.