· Private foundation
Francis Beidler III & Prudence R Beidler Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k53 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $63k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER | $47,000 |
| CHICAGO YOUTH CENTERS | $16,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF ILLINOIS | $9,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CHICAGO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $4,000 |
| HISTORY CENTER LAKE FORESTLAKE BLUFF | $3,000 |
| NEAR NORTH MONTESSORI SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| GEORGETOWN DAY SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| WEBB SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO | $3,000 |
| CHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| GLOBAL GIVING | $2,500 |
| THE WELLESLEY FUND | $2,500 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| OUNCE OF PREVENTION FUND (START EARLY) | $2,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 52 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 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; $8k 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 CENTER7× · 2019–2025 · $253k · revenue +96%
- CYChicago Youth Centers7× · 2019–2025 · $64k · revenue +56%
- PPPlanned Parenthood of Illinois7× · 2019–2025 · $40k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- GCGORTON COMMUNITY CENTER CAMPAIGNone grant, 2019 · $3k
- WCWellesley Collegeone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +3%
- TYTHE YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL OF CHICAGOone grant, 2019 · $2k
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.
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.
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.
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…
Lake forest academy strives to embody in its practices - and to cultivate in its students -excellence of character, scholarship, citizenship, and responsibility.
To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Academy for global citizenship charter school (agc) develops mindful leaders who take action both now and in the future to positively impact their communities and the world beyond.
The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…
The Lycee Francais de Chicago, driven by our core values of respect, responsibility and the joy of learning, empowers students to grow into active global citizens.
To spark curiosity and creativity in all young children through positive, play-based learning experiences.
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Focus and the most unlike its peers is Faraja Fund Foundation. 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 47 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 69 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 Planned Parenthood of Illinois ↗
- Who funds Chicago Children's Museum ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds THE WEBB SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds START EARLY ↗
- Who funds Lake Forest College ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds Center on Halsted ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Middleton Place Foundation ↗
- Who funds WINGS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds BETTER GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPENLANDS ↗
- Who funds THE JOFFREY BALLET ↗
- Who funds NEAR NORTH MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FARAJA FUND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRIMO CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds LAKE FOREST COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LAKE FOREST PARKS & REC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Juvenile Justice Initiative Attn Elizabeth Clarke ↗
- Who funds Ragdale Foundation ↗
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 · Butler Family Foundation · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · Circle of Service Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Garrett Family Foundation · Clarks Fork Foundation · Hunter Family Foundation · Harold M & Adeline S Morrison Family Foundation · The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc
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 III & Prudence R 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.
- The Immigrant Learning Center Inc — 34% of income from government
- The Lord's Place Inc — 12% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% 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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