· Private foundation
George and June Block 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 $10k11 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $429k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $320k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHWEST COMMUNITY HOSPITAL | $185,000 |
| PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK | $85,000 |
| GILDA'S CLUB | $50,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $40,000 |
| DRAVET SYNDROME FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $25,000 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| WOOD RIVER COMMUNITY YMCA | $20,250 |
| CHICAGO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS | $20,000 |
| ST MALACHY SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| THE SENIOR CONNECTION | $20,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| HIGHER GROUND | $15,000 |
| WEST DEERFIELD TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY | $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 (FY17–24, $211k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +38% since the first grant, against +5% 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; $31k 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
- NCNorthwest Community Hospital8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +36%
PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC8× · 2017–2024 · $610k · revenue +24%
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY8× · 2017–2024 · $212k · revenue +140%
Funded once
- LCLURIE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $25k
- CFCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATIONMILESTONEone grant, 2017 · $20k
- PHPRESENCE HEALTH FOUNDATIONAMITA HEALTH FNDone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
NORTHWEST COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE follows the mission of Endeavor Health. The mission of Endeavor Health is to "help everyone in our communities be their best." Central to this mission is a commitment to providing clinical programs and…
Edward-Elmhurst Healthcare follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."
Rock river valley blood center, in partnership with our community, is dedicated to providing safe, high value blood products and services to people in need.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
Swedish Covenant Health follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Joint Commission evaluates and accredits health care organizations and programs across the United States to ensure compliance with rigorous standards of quality and safety, including the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
To improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.
The elmhurst memorial healthcare group follows the mission of endeavor health (f/k/a ns-ee holdings). the mission of endeavor health is to "help everyone in our communities be their best." central to this mission is a commitment to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Presence Health Foundation Board of Trustees and the most unlike its peers is Boots on the Court Inc. 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 47 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 61 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.
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- Who funds DRAVET SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC ↗
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- Who funds CHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds Michael Rolfe Pancreatic Cancer Foundation ↗
- Who funds PETTIT NATIONAL ICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
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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: AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Jd Robertson Foundation · Spur Community Foundation Inc · Heinz Family Foundation · The Springcreek Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 George and June Block 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.
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% 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.
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