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Frechette Family 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.

$7.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
83
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Education$4.4MHealth$4.3MRecreation & Sports$3.6MHuman Services$3.5MEnvironment$2.6MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.2MYouth Development$1.1MPhilanthropy$957kOther$0
02FY2024 · 83 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $70k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $444k
  • $50k–250k35 grants · $3.9M
  • $250k+6 grants · $3.3M
$40,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$165M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WALKING MOUNTAINS SCIENCE CENTER$1,000,000
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$650,318
ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH$571,250
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$500,000
EDUCARE DC$293,500
EARLY CHILDHOOD PARTNERS$291,000
BROADFUTURES$200,000
EAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$200,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION$200,000
ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$177,500
THE RESURRECTION PROJECT$175,000
VOCEL VIEWING OUR CHILDREN AS EMERGING LEADERS$175,000
A BETTER CHICAGO$153,000
ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE$150,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED$150,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $3.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YWCA OF CORTLAND: $3k → 15%EDUCARE DC: $294k → 14%CARING SOLUTIONS: $12k → 11%ALIVE: $10k → 9%JAMES W FOLEY LEGACY FOUNDATION: $10k → 5%JAMES W FOLEY LEGACY FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%EDUCARE DC: $250k → 14%CARING SOLUTIONS: $12k → 11%THE JAMES W FOLEY LEGACY FOUNDATION: $10k → 5%EDUCARE DC: $250k → 14%CARING SOLUTIONS: $10k → 11%EARLY CHILDHOOD PARTNERS: $312k → 7%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - CHICAGO: $125k → 14%EDUCARE DC: $3k → 14%EARLY CHILDHOOD PARTNERS: $296k → 7%ALIVE: $5k → 9%RESOURCES FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: $3k → 22%EDUCARE DC: $2k → 14%EARLY CHILDHOOD PARTNERS: $291k → 7%ALIVE: $5k → 9%HEARTLAND HUMAN CARE SERVICES INC: $125k → 14%CAROLE ROBERTSON CENTER FOR LEARNING: $100k → 14%EARLY CHILDHOOD PARTNERS: $6k → 7%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $55k → 14%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $50k → 14%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $50k → 14%VAIL VETERANS PROGRAM: $125k → 7%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $5k → 14%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $5k → 14%MY FUTURE PATHWAYS: $85k → 7%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $3k → 14%MY FUTURE PATHWAYS: $80k → 7%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $3k → 14%VAIL VALLEY CHARITABLE FUND: $15k → 7%VAIL VALLEY CHARITABLE FUND: $15k → 7%LYTE COLLECTIVE: $5k → 14%A BETTER CHICAGO: $150k → 14%A BETTER CHICAGO: $5k → 14%NEW MOMS: $75k → 14%NEW MOMS: $3k → 14%A BETTER CHICAGO: $153k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $75k → 14%A BETTER CHICAGO: $10k → 14%LITTLE CITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%LITTLE CITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%LYTE COLLECTIVE: $5k → 14%FATHERS FAMILIES AND HEALTHY COMMUNITIES: $53k → 14%CHICAGO FURNITURE BANK: $3k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$19M · 50 repeat orgs$5.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

50 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
50

Total granted

$19M
$3.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+7%

Still filing today

86%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthInternationalArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • RR
    ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH
    3× · 2022–2024 · $3.6M · revenue +1% · 38% of their budget
  • EC
    EARLY CHILDHOOD PARTNERS INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $907k · revenue +31% · 26% of their budget
  • ED
    EDUCARE DC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $798k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • MU
    Marquette University
    one grant, 2022 · $1.5M · revenue +14%
  • MC
    Mercy Corps
    one grant, 2022 · $600k · revenue -11%
  • EV
    EAGLE VALLEY MENTAL HEALTHgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $543k · revenue +46%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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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
2
Aids Foundation of Chicago

The aids foundation of chicago mobilizes communities to create equity and justice for people living with and vulnerable to hiv and related chronic disease.

Health
3
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
4
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
5
Columbia College Chicago

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

Education
6
Junior Achievement of Chicago

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

International
7
Live Free Chicago

Live Free Illinois is a statewide organization partnering with over 120 congregations and directly impacted individuals to build safer more equitable communities across Illinois. Operating at the intersection of criminal justice reform and…

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8
Center for Housing and Health

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.

Housing & Shelter
9
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
10
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

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…

Health
11
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Moms Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nick Janus Foundation Co Peter Janus. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Independent K-12 SchoolsYouth Development ServicesAffordable Housing Construc…Pregnancy Support ServicesLocal Food System Organizat…Lgbtq+ Community SupportCancer Support ServicesAffordable Housing Developm…Immigrant Worker SupportPolicy Research and AdvocacyLocal History MuseumsYouth Sports ProgramsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Community FoundationsChristian Youth Camps
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%7%<5yr14%14%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr16%52%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%8%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/111
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,454

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.

04the grantee network

110 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. 110 of the 140 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
109/110
Grantees still filing
66/110
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $2,020,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTERMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL — $1,398,655 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALHEARTLAND ALLIANCE — $1,125,000 · OtherHEARTLAND ALLIANCEEAGLE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES — $1,032,066 · OtherEAGLE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICESBROADFUTURES INC — $603,000 · OtherBROADFUTURES INCVocel Viewing our Children as Emerging Leaders — $427,500 · Other+67 more — $3,314,000 · Other+67 moreWALKING MOUNTAINS — $2,345,000 · EducationWALKING MOUNTAINSMarquette University — $1,500,000 · EducationMarquette UniversityVail Symposium — $390,000 · EducationVail SymposiumUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $200,000 · EducationErikson Institute — $200,000 · Education+15 more — $732,500 · Education+15 moreROUNDUP RIVER RANCH — $3,601,250 · Recreation & SportsROUNDUP RIVER RA…+1 more — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsEARLY CHILDHOOD PARTNERS INC — $906,925 · Human ServicesEARLY CHILDHOOD…EDUCARE DC — $798,000 · Human ServicesEDUCARE DCVAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC — $495,000 · Human ServicesVAIL VETERANS F…A Better Chicago — $318,000 · Human ServicesA Better Chicag…THE NIGHT MINISTRY — $170,000 · Human ServicesMY FUTURE PATHWAYS INC — $164,650 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - CHICAGO — $125,000 · Human ServicesHEARTLAND HUMAN CARE SERVICES INC — $124,500 · Human Services+14 more — $449,000 · Human Services+14 moreEAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $643,500 · PhilanthropyYOUTHPOWER365 — $275,000 · PhilanthropyThe Chicago Community Trust — $200,000 · Philanthropy+4 more — $88,125 · PhilanthropyMercy Corps — $600,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $400,000 · InternationalCONTEXTOS NFP — $77,500 · International+3 more — $8,000 · InternationalEAGLE VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH — $543,141 · HealthChicago South Side Birth Center — $50,000 · HealthCENTRO SANAR — $40,000 · HealthMICHAEL REESE HEALTH TRUST — $30,000 · Health+6 more — $44,000 · Health
Other$9,920,221Education$5,367,500Recreation & Sports$3,606,250Human Services$3,551,075Philanthropy$1,206,625International$1,085,500Health$707,141

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetROUNDUP RIVER RANCH — $3,601,250 over 3y, 38% of budgetWALKING MOUNTAINS — $2,345,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetMarquette University — $1,500,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEARLY CHILDHOOD PARTNERS INC — $906,925 over 3y, 26% of budgetEDUCARE DC — $798,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetEAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $643,500 over 3y, 15% of budgetBROADFUTURES INC — $603,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetMercy Corps — $600,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEAGLE VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH — $543,141 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetVAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC — $495,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetVocel Viewing our Children as Emerging Leaders — $427,500 over 3y, 10% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $400,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVail Symposium — $390,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetThe Resurrection Project — $325,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetA Better Chicago — $318,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetSTART EARLY — $300,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTHPOWER365 — $275,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetThe Chicago Community Trust — $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetErikson Institute — $200,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetVILAR PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC — $175,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTHE NIGHT MINISTRY — $170,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetDREAM PROJECT INC — $165,000 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetMY FUTURE PATHWAYS INC — $164,650 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $160,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBetty Ford Alpine Gardens — $150,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC — $150,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetVALLEY SETTLEMENT — $125,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - CHICAGO — $125,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY VAIL VALLEY INC — $120,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetPRECIOUS BLOOD MINISTRY OF RECONCILIATION NFP — $102,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCarole Robertson Center for Learning — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIllinois Action for Children — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetONWARD NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE — $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCONTEXTOS NFP — $77,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetNEW MOMS INC — $77,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMetropolitan Family Services — $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMPT ADVANCING NONPROFITS — $75,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES — $60,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetGREENHOUSE SCHOLARS — $60,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetElon University — $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBUCK'S ROCK CAMP INC — $54,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetFATHERS FAMILIES HEALTHY COMMUNITIES — $52,500 over 1y, 36% of budgetVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS — $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetACT FOR ALEXANDRIA — $50,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCENTRO SANAR — $40,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

Arie and Ida Crown Me…The Chicago Community…Polk Bros Foundation …United Way of Metropo…Robert R McCormick Fo…John D and Catherine …The Joyce FoundationCircle of Service Fou…Lloyd a Fry FoundationColorado Gives Founda…Imc Chicago Charitabl…United Jewish Foundat…
Arie and Ida Crown MemorialIL36.2× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · The Chicago Community Trust · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Robert R McCormick Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Joyce Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation · United Jewish 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 Frechette Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 47%
  • Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
35report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Frechette Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Frechette Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 140 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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