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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.

$723k
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$514k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.0MPublic Benefit$425kPhilanthropy$328kHealth$232kHuman Services$162kArts & Culture$69kEmployment$60kPublic Safety & Disaster$54kOther$0
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k23 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $109k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
  • $250k+1 grant · $514k
$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
BRAVO WAUKEGAN$2,500
UCLA FOUNDATION$2,500
02The need
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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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%VOICES FOR ILLINOIS CHILDREN: $3k → 14%CHILDREN'S ADVOCATES FOR CHANGE: $2k → 14%VOICES FOR ILLINOIS CHILDREN: $1k → 14%MISERICORDIA HOME: $5k → 14%MISERICORDIA HOME: $1k → 14%MOTHERS TRUST FOUNDATION: $30k → 8%MOTHERS TRUST FOUNDATION: $21k → 8%MOTHERS TRUST FOUNDATION: $20k → 8%MOTHERS TRUST FOUNDATION: $15k → 8%MOTHERS TRUST FOUNDATION: $15k → 8%MOTHERS TRUST FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%THE CRADLE FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%MOTHERS TRUST FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%THE CRADLE FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%CHICAGO FURNITURE BANK: $150 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

IL
NY
MA
IN
CT
CA
VA
MD
TN
SC
DC
TX
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 40 repeat orgs$295k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
63

Total granted

$2.3M
$278k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+5%

Still filing today

70%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentCivil RightsOther
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

  • Lake Forest College
    7× · 2018–2024 · $669k · revenue +73%
  • MT
    Mothers Trust Foundation
    7× · 2018–2024 · $116k · revenue +174%
  • SH
    SHADY HILL SCHOOL
    2× · 2023–2024 · $111k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • RF
    REFORM FOR ILLINOISgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $66k · revenue +88%
  • NM
    NORTHWESTERN MEDICINE
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • TS
    TOBIE'S SMALL DOG RESCUE
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
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.

1
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
University of Illinois Foundation

The Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, is an independent and separate nonprofit entity from the University of Illinois. Our mission is to encourage and administer private gifts and serve the UI System by working closely with…

Education
3
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
4
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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5
University Family Physicians Inc

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…

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6
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
7
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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8
The Chicago Bar Foundation

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.

Education
9
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
11
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
12
Gastro Intestinal Research Foundation Inc

The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Lake County Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

73 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/73
Grantees still filing
47/73
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CENTER FOR ILLINOIS POLITICS: $355,000 · OtherCENTER FOR ILLINOIS POLITICSSHADY HILL FUND: $220,000 · OtherSHADY HILL FUNDCambridge Montessori School Inc: $87,700 · OtherCambridge Montessori School IncTHE JOHN THOMAS DYE SCHOOL: $82,259 · OtherTHE JOHN THOMAS DYE SCHOOLAMERICAN RED CROSS: $53,575 · OtherTHE THRESHOLDS: $49,500 · OtherTHE RAPE FOUNDATION: $45,000 · Other+78 more: $411,841 · Other+78 moreLake Forest College: $668,775 · EducationLake Forest CollegeSHADY HILL SCHOOL: $111,000 · EducationSHADY HILL SCHOOLGENESYS WORKS: $55,000 · EducationGENESYS WORKS+8 more: $37,104 · EducationMothers Trust Foundation: $115,650 · Human ServicesMISERICORDIA HOME: $6,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S ADVOCATES FOR CHANGE: $5,000 · Human Services+2 more: $3,150 · Human ServicesErie Family Health Foundation Inc: $66,250 · HealthTHE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP: $31,000 · HealthPAWS FOR PATRICK: $14,818 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $5,000 · Health+7 more: $8,286 · HealthREFORM FOR ILLINOIS: $65,500 · Civil RightsEQUALITY CALIFORNIA: $5,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Civil RightsFRIENDS OF GRIFFITH PARK: $30,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS LILITH FUND: $10,000 · EnvironmentLAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION: $5,045 · Environment+1 more: $500 · EnvironmentAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $18,090 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $10,453 · International
Other$1,304,875Education$871,879Human Services$129,800Health$125,354Civil Rights$75,500Environment$45,545International$28,543

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLake Forest College: $668,775 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetMothers Trust Foundation: $115,650 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetSHADY HILL SCHOOL: $111,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCambridge Montessori School Inc: $87,700 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE JOHN THOMAS DYE SCHOOL: $82,259 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetErie Family Health Foundation Inc: $66,250 over 5y, 22% of budgetGENESYS WORKS: $55,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE THRESHOLDS: $49,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RAPE FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHistory Center of Lake Forest-Lake Bluff: $39,258 over 7y, 4.7% of budgetTHE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP: $31,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF GRIFFITH PARK: $30,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $27,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $18,090 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS FOR PATRICK: $14,818 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $10,453 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA Purposeful Rescue Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS LILITH FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $9,232 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBRAVO WAUKEGAN: $7,500 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTHE LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $6,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMISERICORDIA HOME: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Chicago Community Partners: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER: $5,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION: $5,045 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF LAKE FOREST PARKS & REC FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCATES FOR CHANGE: $5,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF LAKE FOREST LIBRARY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetPABLOVE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUALITY CALIFORNIA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLake Bluff History Museum: $5,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL GENERAL FUND: $4,035 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEQUALITY CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetREADING POWER INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELAWA FARM FOUNDATION: $3,400 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLAKE FOREST FOUNDATION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION: $3,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetThe Cradle Foundation: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $2,591 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPS ARTS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE CO INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 A Purposeful Rescue Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS LILITH FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
  • Who funds BRAVO WAUKEGAN ↗
  • Who funds THE LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MISERICORDIA HOME ↗
  • Who funds EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds North Chicago Community Partners ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS ↗

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.

John and Kathleen Sch…Butler Family Foundat…Clarks Fork FoundationThe Grainger Foundati…The Chicago Community…Hedberg Foundation IncThe Buchanan Family F…Francis Beidler III &…Little Orchard Founda…Schultz Family Privat…Red Bird Hollow Found…Harold M & Adeline S …
John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber PhilanthropyIL28.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Garrett Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Garrett Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
12report 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 121 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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