· Private foundation
Francis Beidler Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| EVANSTON TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL HEALTH CENTER | $18,000 |
| PUBLIC INTEREST LAW INITIATIVE | $18,000 |
| PROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT | $15,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
72 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. 72 of the 143 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Francis Beidler Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Francis Beidler Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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