· Private foundation
George Marquis Travers Jr 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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of GEORGE MARQUIS TRAVERS JR FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $7,700 |
| DELTA UPSILON ED FOUNDATION | $2,650 |
| 6000 MOMS NFP | $2,000 |
| THE LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER | $1,500 |
| FIRST CONGREG CHURCH OF GE | $1,500 |
| CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATRE | $1,000 |
| CENTER FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION | $1,000 |
| LIVING HOPE FOR CHILDREN | $1,000 |
| CATHOLIC SCHOOLS OF GREATER KALAMAZ | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS | $1,000 |
| PELOTONIA | $500 |
| ST PETRONILLE CHURCH | $500 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $500 |
| PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION PROGRESS | $500 |
| RESILIENCE | $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 (FY17–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 4% 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 +39% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 7 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- DPDUPAGE PADS INC6× · 2019–2025 · $9k · revenue +149%
- LHLIVING HOPE FOR CHILDREN8× · 2018–2025 · $8k · revenue +32%
- GEGLEN ELLYN CHILDRENS RESOURCE CENTER8× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +155%
Funded once
- GEGLEN ELLYN SCHOOL DISTRIC 41one grant, 2017 · $4k
CHARITY GLOBAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +101%- MFMARY FREE BED FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
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…
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.
At legal aid chicago, we work together to provide high quality civil legal aid to people living in poverty and other vulnerable groups.through advocacy, education, collaboration, and litigation we empower individuals, protect fundamental…
The Network is a group of 40+ member organizations dedicated to improving the lives of those impacted by gender-based violence through education, public policy and advocacy, and connecting community members with direct service providers.…
Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.
Thrive chicago's mission is to prepare chicago's youth for a vibrant future by aligning efforts and outcomes from cradle to career.
We value excellence and innovation in clinical and basic research, coordinated and comprehensive patient care, ongoing physician education, and evidence-based child advocacy. our goal is to provide leadership in endeavors that promote the…
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
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.
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…
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lawndale Christian Legal Center and the most unlike its peers is Charity Global 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 30 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 — 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.
38 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. 38 of the 64 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 DUPAGE PADS INC ↗
- Who funds LIVING HOPE FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds GLEN ELLYN CHILDRENS RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds GLEN ELLYN FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST DUPAGE FAMILY AND YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Educational Network ↗
- Who funds PARTNRSHP FOR EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds Taylor University ↗
- Who funds DABROWSKI CENTER ↗
- Who funds 6000 MOMS NFP ↗
- Who funds PFLAG ↗
- Who funds AGC LTD ↗
- Who funds THE MORTON ARBORETUM ↗
- Who funds THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE D ↗
- Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds LAWNDALE CHRISTIAN LEGAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds CAMP HERTKO HOLLOW INC ↗
- Who funds D41 KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE JED FOUNDATION ↗
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: United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Dupage Community Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase 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 George Marquis Travers Jr 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.
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.