· Private foundation
Gantz Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $132k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $266k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO | $115,000 |
| THE FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $100,500 |
| HOLY FAMILY MINISTRIES | $50,000 |
| WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC | $35,000 |
| CHURCH OF THE HOLY COMFORTER | $27,000 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS & ITS CONSTITUENT CHAPTERS AND BRANCHES | $15,000 |
| MUSIC INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO | $10,000 |
| BRAIN RESEACH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HAPP FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.
42 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO9× · 2017–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +39%
Northwestern University8× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +41%- HFHOLY FAMILY MINISTRIES9× · 2017–2025 · $638k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- MCMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +85%
- TCTHE CHICAGO CLUB PRESERVATION FUNDone grant, 2020 · $20k
- ACAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +168%
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.
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Provide post-secondary education leading to a baccalaureate degree. Program service expenditures are made in conjunction with the operation of a liberal arts college spread over 107 acres with approximately 63 educational and support…
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.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
How this is measured
45 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. 45 of the 76 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 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds HOLY FAMILY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds BRAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation) ↗
- Who funds MUSIC INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Big Shoulders Fund ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Writers Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds MILLENNIUM PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL ↗
- Who funds THE JOFFREY BALLET ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC ↗
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 · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Charles H and Beverly E Shaw Foundation · Patrick G and Shirley W Ryan Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Edwardson Family Foundation · The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Baird Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gantz Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gantz Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Board of Child Care of the United Methodist Church Inc: 100% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
- Goodwill Industries of the Chesapeake Inc: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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