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Frederick Henry Prince Trust Dated 7947

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$871k
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$175k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$2.0MEnvironment$1.0MFood & Nutrition$840kYouth Development$648kHealth$608kEducation$588kCommunity Improvement$510kCrime & Legal$180kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $688k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $175k
$25,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
St Georges School$175,000
John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts$45,000
Prince William Conservation Alliance$40,000
Lookingglass Theatre Company$30,000
Steppenwolf Theater$30,000
Alianza Leadership Institute$30,000
Court Theatre Fund$30,000
Chicago Theatre Group$30,000
John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts$30,000
America Scores Chicago$25,000
Acclivus Inc$25,000
District of Columbia Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Inc$25,000
Chicago Horticultural Society$25,000
Nehemiah Group$25,000
Art Institute of Chicago$25,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $171k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Fair Chance: $5k → 8%Street Soccer USA Inc: $15k → 17%Voices for Illinois Children: $15k → 14%Night Ministry: $35k → 14%Georgetown Village Inc: $3k → 14%Georgetown Village Inc: $3k → 14%Alianza Leadership Institute: $30k → 14%Alianza Leadership Institute: $20k → 14%Alianza Leadership Institute: $20k → 14%Caole Robertson Center for Learning: $15k → 14%Gads Hill Center: $10k → 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

IL
NY
MA
IN
PA
CT
RI
CA
VA
MD
TN
DC

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.0M · 70 repeat orgs$905k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +45% for the ones you funded once.

70 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

70
43

Total granted

$6.0M
$882k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+45%

Still filing today

91%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationHealthFood & NutritionHuman ServicesOther

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

  • JF
    JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
    5× · 2020–2024 · $290k · revenue +55%
  • CT
    CHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $223k · revenue +16%
  • LT
    LOOKINGGLASS THEATRE COMPANY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $218k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCHgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +313%
  • GW
    George Washington Carver Agriculture Research Center Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +101% · 33% of their budget
  • SI
    ST IGNATIUS COLLEGE OF CHICAGO
    one grant, 2021 · $50k

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.

1
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
2
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
3
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
4
Columbia College Chicago

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

Education
5
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

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6
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
7
Association of Washington Cities

The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…

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8
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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9
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
10
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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11
Lincoln Park Conservancy

The mission of the lincoln park conservancy is to preserve and enhance the inspiring beauty of chicago's largest and most visited park for current and future generations. we believe that beauty matters. that it has the transformative power…

Recreation & Sports
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health and Medicine Policy Research Group and the most unlike its peers is Court Theatre Fund. 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 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr16%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr16%25%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%1/109
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,456

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

107 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. 107 of the 116 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
105/107
Grantees still filing
83/107
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $290,000 · Arts & CultureJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR TH…CHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC — $222,500 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INCLOOKINGGLASS THEATRE COMPANY — $217,500 · Arts & CultureLOOKINGGLASS THEATRE COMPANYCourt Theatre Fund — $217,500 · Arts & CultureCourt Theatre FundVictory Gardens Theater — $150,000 · Arts & CultureVictory Gardens TheaterMetropolitan Opera Association Inc — $112,500 · Arts & CultureMetropolitan Opera Associati…ATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER — $100,000 · Arts & CultureATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF MEXICAN ART FKA MEXICAN FINE ARTS CENTER MUSEUM — $70,000 · Arts & CultureSTEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY — $67,500 · Arts & CultureTheater Alliance of Washington DC — $60,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more — $248,000 · Arts & Culture+9 moreBUILD INC — $140,000 · OtherBUILD INCLOCAL FOOD HUB INC — $125,000 · OtherLOCAL FOOD HUB INCAmerica Scores — $125,000 · OtherAmerica ScoresChicago Horticultural Society (Chicago Botanic Garden) — $100,000 · OtherAmerica SCORES Chicago — $75,000 · OtherPrince William Conservation — $75,000 · OtherLOST BOYZINC — $150,000 · OtherLOST BOYZINCChicago Youth Boxing Club — $122,500 · OtherChicago Youth Boxing ClubFRIENDS OF THE PARKS — $75,000 · OtherDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC — $160,000 · OtherDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA APPLESEED CEN…New Life Centers of Chicagoland — $100,000 · OtherMETROPOLITAN WASHINGTON COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS — $100,000 · Other+33 more — $773,000 · Other+33 morePRINCE WILLIAM CONSERVATION ALLIANCE — $160,000 · EnvironmentPRINCE WILLIAM C…CENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD TECHNOLOGY — $112,500 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR NEIGH…THE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL — $100,000 · EnvironmentTHE PIEDMONT ENV…CLEAN WATER FUND — $85,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN WATER FUNDTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $70,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PU…SOUTHEAST ENVIRONMENTAL TASK FORCE — $65,000 · EnvironmentSOUTHEAST ENVIRO…ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST — $60,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL LA…George Washington Carver Agriculture Research Center Inc — $50,000 · EnvironmentGARFIELD PARK CONSERVATORY ALLIANCE — $50,000 · EnvironmentTHE POTOMAC CONSERVANCY INC — $50,000 · EnvironmentCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY — $45,000 · EnvironmentGREAT MEADOW FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 · Environment+5 more — $117,500 · Environment+5 moreST GEORGE'S SCHOOL — $185,000 · EducationST GEORGE…GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $170,000 · EducationGEORGETOW…CHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $90,000 · EducationCHILDREN …THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO — $50,000 · EducationTHE ART I…ST LUKE'S SCHOOL — $30,000 · EducationAFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC — $20,000 · Education+6 more — $32,000 · Education+6 moreACCLIVUS INC — $145,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON DC INC — $85,000 · HealthHEALTH AND MEDICINE POLICY RESEARCH GROUP — $65,000 · HealthMICHAEL REESE HEALTH TRUST — $60,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $50,000 · HealthRush University Medical Center — $45,000 · HealthNorthwestern Memorial HealthCare — $40,000 · HealthLa Rabida Children's Hospital — $20,000 · HealthMARTHA'S TABLE INC — $85,000 · Food & NutritionFRESHFARM MARKETS — $85,000 · Food & NutritionMinority and Veteran Farmers of the Piedmont Inc — $80,000 · Food & NutritionAFRICULTURE — $80,000 · Food & NutritionFOODSHED CAPITAL — $75,000 · Food & NutritionWE SOW WE GROW PROJECT — $50,000 · Food & NutritionARCADIA FOOD INC — $35,000 · Food & NutritionFood Research & Action Center — $20,000 · Food & NutritionBUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC — $185,000 · Community ImprovementNehemiah Group dba Chicago Eco House — $65,000 · Community ImprovementMETROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL — $62,500 · Community ImprovementACCELERATE 500 INC — $60,000 · Community ImprovementPIEDMONT JOURNALISM FOUNDATION — $30,000 · Community ImprovementDC Greens Inc — $25,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $10,000 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$1,755,500Other$2,120,500Environment$1,000,000Education$577,000Health$510,000Food & Nutrition$510,000Community Improvement$437,500

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 budgetJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $290,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC — $222,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetLOOKINGGLASS THEATRE COMPANY — $217,500 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetBUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC — $185,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetST GEORGE'S SCHOOL — $185,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $170,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPRINCE WILLIAM CONSERVATION ALLIANCE — $160,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC — $160,000 over 6y, 6.6% of budgetVictory Gardens Theater — $150,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetLOST BOYZINC — $150,000 over 7y, 5.1% of budgetACCLIVUS INC — $145,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetBUILD INC — $140,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetLOCAL FOOD HUB INC — $125,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetChicago Youth Boxing Club — $122,500 over 6y, 8.0% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc — $112,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD TECHNOLOGY — $112,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER — $100,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL — $100,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNew Life Centers of Chicagoland — $100,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMETROPOLITAN WASHINGTON COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS — $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $90,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMARTHA'S TABLE INC — $85,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRESHFARM MARKETS — $85,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON DC INC — $85,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCLEAN WATER FUND — $85,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMinority and Veteran Farmers of the Piedmont Inc — $80,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetAFRICULTURE — $80,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetAmerica SCORES Chicago — $75,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE PARKS — $75,000 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetFOODSHED CAPITAL — $75,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF MEXICAN ART FKA MEXICAN FINE ARTS CENTER MUSEUM — $70,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $70,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAlianza Leadership Institute — $70,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetSTEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY — $67,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPEOPLE FOR COMMUNITY RECOVERY — $65,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetNehemiah Group dba Chicago Eco House — $65,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetSOUTHEAST ENVIRONMENTAL TASK FORCE — $65,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetHEALTH AND MEDICINE POLICY RESEARCH GROUP — $65,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetMETROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL — $62,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetACCELERATE 500 INC — $60,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST — $60,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMICHAEL REESE HEALTH TRUST — $60,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTheater Alliance of Washington DC — $60,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetTHE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWE SOW WE GROW PROJECT — $50,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetLA CASA NORTE — $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGeorge Washington Carver Agriculture Research Center Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 33% 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.

Frederick Henry Princ…Abbie Norman Prince T…The Morris and Gwendo…The Chicago Community…Polk Bros Foundation …United Way of Metropo…Arie and Ida Crown Me…Greater Washington Co…John D and Catherine …Lloyd a Fry FoundationDr Scholl FoundationRobert R McCormick Fo…
Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary TrustIL96.1× affinity45 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust · Abbie Norman Prince Trust · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Greater Washington Community Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · Robert R McCormick 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 Frederick Henry Prince Trust Dated 7947 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 · 20%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • Nature Forward — 32% of income from government
  • Anacostia Watershed Society Inc — 15% of income from government
  • The Rectory School Inc — 0% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
34report 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.

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 116 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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