· Private foundation
Generations of Giving Foundation Inc
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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $415k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA | $100,000 |
| BROTHERS FOR LIFE | $100,000 |
| NASCAR FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| EXTENSIONS DANCE CO | $50,000 |
| NAMI CHICAGO | $30,000 |
| NASCAR HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| BRUCE WOOD DANCE CO INC | $30,000 |
| C21 WOMENS ENSEMBLE | $25,000 |
| ILLINOIS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER | $25,000 |
| GRANDE PRAIRIE CHORAL ARTS | $25,000 |
| SAN DIEGO JEWISH EXPERIENCE INC | $25,000 |
| STANDWITHUS | $25,000 |
| UNITED NATIONS WATCH - USA | $20,000 |
| JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO | $20,000 |
| CALS ALL STAR ANGEL FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 29% 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 +45% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- BFBrothers for Life5× · 2020–2024 · $470k · revenue +569%
- TSTHE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA5× · 2020–2024 · $280k · revenue +52%
- EDExtensions Dance Company5× · 2020–2024 · $205k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- SASAMUEL AND ALTHEA STROUM JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue +88%
- NMNORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE-NORTHWESTERN MEMOone grant, 2020 · $5k
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORYone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +17%
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.
Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.
To enrich the lives of our community through dance education and performance while developing Chicago's native talent pool in a welcoming environment that celebrates multiculturalism & ethnic diversity.
We believe in the life-changing, transformational, revelatory power of great art and opera. Lyric Opera of Chicago exists to provide a broad, deep, and relevant cultural service to the Chicago region and the nation, and to advance the…
The chicago high school for the arts (chiarts) develops the next generation of diverse, artistically promising scholar-artists through intensive pre-professional training in the arts, combined with a comprehensive college preparatory…
The Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University ("The Auditorium"), an Illinois not-for-profit corporation, is committed to presenting the finest in international, cultural, community and educational programming to Chicago and to the…
Chicago Sinfonietta is a professional orchestra dedicated to modeling and promoting diversity, inclusion, and both racial and cultural equity in the arts through the universal language of symphonic music. Our core values are built around…
To use multiple artistic forms (primarily dance and music) and the combined talents of our diverse company to convey intense personal narratives. We are proudly and visibly multicultural, exploring the intersection of heritage, culture,…
To create vivid, entertaining theatrical experiences that invigorate and engage people of all ages and identities by illuminating the complexity, ambiguity, and wonder of our world. shared humanity and unforgettable stories - now this is…
To promote public appreciation, understanding and support of the humanities through festivals and educational programs.
Visceral Dance Chicago is a contemporary company dedicated to providing a comprehensive environment designed to cultivate dance education, creation and performance for choreographers, dancers, and artists.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Theatre Group Inc and the most unlike its peers is C21 Womens Ensemble. 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.
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 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 60 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 Brothers for Life ↗
- Who funds THE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Extensions Dance Company ↗
- Who funds BRUCE WOOD DANCE CO INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds MOTORSPORTS CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED NATIONS WATCH - USA ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds C21 Womens Ensemble ↗
- Who funds NOURISHING HOPE ↗
- Who funds ONETABLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAMI Chicago ↗
- Who funds ART OVER HATE COLLECTIVE INC F/K/N ARTISTS 4 ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds CAL'S ALL-STAR ANGEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GUS GIORDANO'S JAZZ DANCE CHICAGO INC D/B/A GIORDANO DANCE CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO DANCE CRASH NFP ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND-USA INC ↗
- Who funds TIMELINE THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds ISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds STEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE LAWFARE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BLUES THEATER NFP ↗
- Who funds THE LAMBS FARM INC ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS ARTS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CHICAGO DANCE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds DESIGNS FOR DIGNITY ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB CHICAGO ↗
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 D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · The Shubert Foundation Inc · Alphawood Foundation · The Coleman Foundation Inc · Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Prince 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 Generations of Giving Foundation Inc 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.
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.