How much does Francis Beidler III & Prudence R Beidler Foundation give?

Francis Beidler III & Prudence R Beidler Foundation reported 55 grants totaling $135,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 51 and 57 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.

What does Francis Beidler III & Prudence R Beidler Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (34%), Education (15%), Arts & Culture (9%).

Who are Francis Beidler III & Prudence R Beidler Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: The Voter Participation Center ($253k), Chicago Youth Centers ($64k), Planned Parenthood of Illinois ($40k).

Does Francis Beidler III & Prudence R Beidler Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 2% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Francis Beidler III & Prudence R Beidler Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Francis Beidler III & Prudence R Beidler Foundation

Francis Beidler III & Prudence R Beidler Foundation at a glance

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Francis Beidler III & Prudence R Beidler Foundation

Q: Which funders back the same organizations as Francis Beidler III & Prudence R Beidler Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Butler Family Foundation, John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy.

Q: Where is Francis Beidler III & Prudence R Beidler Foundation based?

Francis Beidler III & Prudence R Beidler Foundation is based in IL.

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$135k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$47k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Public Benefit$259kEducation$116kArts & Culture$69kHealth$66kPhilanthropy$66kYouth Development$64kHuman Services$24kHousing & Shelter$22kOther$0

02FY2025 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k53 grants · $72k
$10k–50k2 grants · $63k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.5M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
GEORGETOWN DAY SCHOOL	$3,000
WEBB SCHOOL	$3,000
ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO	$3,000
HISTORY CENTER LAKE FORESTLAKE BLUFF	$3,000
NEAR NORTH MONTESSORI SCHOOL	$3,000
CHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$2,500
THE WELLESLEY FUND	$2,500
GLOBAL GIVING	$2,500
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL	$2,000
OUNCE OF PREVENTION FUND (START EARLY)	$2,000

02The need

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$740k · 61 repeat orgs$17k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$740k

$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%

+3%

Still filing today

69%

40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther

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

TV
THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER
7× · 2019–2025 · $253k · revenue +96%
CY
Chicago Youth Centers
7× · 2019–2025 · $64k · revenue +56%
PP
Planned Parenthood of Illinois
7× · 2019–2025 · $40k · revenue +74%

Funded once

GC
GORTON COMMUNITY CENTER CAMPAIGN
one grant, 2019 · $3k
WC
Wellesley College
one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +3%
TY
THE YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL OF CHICAGO
one grant, 2019 · $2k

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.

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

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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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

Lake Forest Academy

Lake forest academy strives to embody in its practices - and to cultivate in its students -excellence of character, scholarship, citizenship, and responsibility.

Education

The University of Chicago Charter School Corporation

To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.

Education

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

Columbia College Chicago

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

Education

Academy for Global Citizenship Charter School

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.

Education

Kipp Chicago Schools

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…

Education

Lycee Francais de Chicago Inc

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.

Education

Children's Museum of Oak Park

To spark curiosity and creativity in all young children through positive, play-based learning experiences.

Arts & Culture

Junior Achievement of Chicago

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Focus; 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.

04the grantee network

48 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. 48 of the 69 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

46/48

Grantees still filing

36/48

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Civil Rights$253,200Other$247,750Education$91,250Youth Development$69,250Arts & Culture$47,750Health$40,000Philanthropy$15,550

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.

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.

The Chicago Community TrustIL31.3× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Francis Beidler III & Prudence R Beidler Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Francis Beidler III & Prudence R Beidler Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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.

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