· Private foundation
Francis Beidler Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k73 grants · $220k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $376k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $127k
- $250k+1 grant · $285k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER | $285,000 |
| CHICAGO YOUTH CENTERS | $77,000 |
| AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $45,000 |
| CHICAGO CHILDRENS MUSEUM | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| GIRLS PLAY SPORTS | $27,000 |
| NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| BETTER GOVERNMENT ASSOC | $23,000 |
| CHAPIN HALL CENTER FOR CHILDREN | $21,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| ERIE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER | $19,000 |
| PUBLIC INTEREST LAW INITIATIVE | $18,000 |
| EVANSTON TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL HEALTH CENTER | $18,000 |
| PROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT | $15,000 |
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, $326k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% 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.
120 repeat relationships — 89 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 3 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k 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
- TVTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER8× · 2018–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +120%
- CYChicago Youth Centers8× · 2018–2025 · $534k · revenue +46%
- PIPublic Interest Law Initiative8× · 2018–2025 · $233k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- NCNAT'L CENTER ON POVERTY LAW S SHRIVERone grant, 2018 · $7k
- ALAIR LIFE LINE OF THE MIDWESTone grant, 2018 · $5k
- HAHEARTLAND ALLIANCEone grant, 2018 · $4k
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.
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
Chicago Votes is a non-partisan, non-profit organization building a more inclusive democracy by putting power in the hands of young Chicagoans. We're engaging and developing a new generation of leaders by opening the doors of government,…
The chicago children's advocacy center unites public, private, and community partners to ensure the safety, health, and well-being of abused children.
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
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…
Improve the lives of children in illinois by bringing about significant changes in public policies and programs for children through research, policy analysis and advocacy, public education and community outreach.
Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.
Thrive chicago's mission is to prepare chicago's youth for a vibrant future by aligning efforts and outcomes from cradle to career.
To assist children who have been victims of abuse
Tutoring chicago delivers the power of education through one-to-one tutoring.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Youth Centers and the most unlike its peers is Equity & Empowerment for Evanston Families. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
72 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. 72 of the 143 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 THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds Chicago Youth Centers ↗
- Who funds Chicago Children's Museum ↗
- Who funds Public Interest Law Initiative ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds BETTER GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds START EARLY ↗
- Who funds GIRLS PLAY SPORTS INC NFP ↗
- Who funds Erie Family Health Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CHAPIN HALL CENTER FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds ALL OUR CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Family Institute ↗
- Who funds Gateway Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Lake Forest College ↗
- Who funds FAMILY FOCUS LEGACY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ADVANCING DOMESTIC PEACE ↗
- Who funds THE THRESHOLDS ↗
- Who funds METROSQUASH NFP ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID CHICAGO ↗
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: The Chicago Community Trust · Elizabeth Beidler Tisdahl Foundation · The Kellcie Fund · Evanston Community Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Circle of Service Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Northwestern University · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · AbbVie 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 Francis Beidler 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.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% 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.
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