· Private foundation
Garrett 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $109k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
- $250k+1 grant · $514k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAKE FOREST COLLEGE | $513,775 |
| SHADY HILL SCHOOL | $55,000 |
| JOHN THOMAS DYE SCHOOL | $32,077 |
| MOTHERS TRUST FOUNDATION | $20,650 |
| ERIE FAMILY FOUNDATION | $20,363 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $15,000 |
| PAWS FOR PATRICK | $11,000 |
| JOSSELYN CENTER | $10,000 |
| HISTORY CENTER OF LAKE FORESTLAKE BLUFF | $6,258 |
| FRIENDS OF LAKE FOREST LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| EVAN SCHOLARS FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| PAN MASS CHALLENGE | $3,080 |
| LAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION | $2,695 |
| UCLA FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| BRAVO WAUKEGAN | $2,500 |
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 (FY18–24, $130k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 11% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +48% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
Lake Forest College7× · 2018–2024 · $669k · revenue +73%- MTMothers Trust Foundation7× · 2018–2024 · $116k · revenue +174%
- SHSHADY HILL SCHOOL2× · 2023–2024 · $111k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- RFREFORM FOR ILLINOISgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $66k · revenue +88%
- NMNORTHWESTERN MEDICINEone grant, 2021 · $25k
- TSTOBIE'S SMALL DOG RESCUEone grant, 2021 · $20k
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.
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The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
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…
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The chicago bar foundation brings the legal community together through advocacy, funding, and innovation to improve access to justice for people in need and to make the legal system more fair, equitable, and effective.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The aids foundation of chicago mobilizes communities to create equity and justice for people living with and vulnerable to hiv and related chronic disease.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Lake County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Adlai Stevenson Center On Democracy. 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 34 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
73 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. 73 of the 121 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 Lake Forest College ↗
- Who funds Mothers Trust Foundation ↗
- Who funds SHADY HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Cambridge Montessori School Inc ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN THOMAS DYE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Erie Family Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds REFORM FOR ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds GENESYS WORKS ↗
- Who funds THE THRESHOLDS ↗
- Who funds THE RAPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds History Center of Lake Forest-Lake Bluff ↗
- Who funds THE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF GRIFFITH PARK ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS FOR PATRICK ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS LILITH FUND ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds A Purposeful Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds BRAVO WAUKEGAN ↗
- Who funds THE LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds North Chicago Community Partners ↗
- Who funds MISERICORDIA HOME ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS ↗
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: John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · Butler Family Foundation · Clarks Fork Foundation · The Grainger Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Hedberg Foundation Inc · The Buchanan Family Foundation · Francis Beidler III & Prudence R Beidler Foundation · Little Orchard Foundation · Schultz Family Private Foundation · Red Bird Hollow Foundation · Harold M & Adeline S Morrison Family 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 Garrett 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.
- Epilepsy Foundation of America — 22% of income from government
- New England Donor Services Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Red Sox Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Cambridge Montessori School Inc — 1% of income from government
- American Repertory Theatre Co Inc — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% 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.