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George Marquis Travers Jr Foundation at a glance

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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.

$25k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$35kReligion$17kHealth$13kHousing & Shelter$12kYouth Development$12kInternational$10kHuman Services$10kFood & Nutrition$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$355k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$7,700
DELTA UPSILON ED FOUNDATION$2,650
6000 MOMS NFP$2,000
FIRST CONGREG CHURCH OF GE$1,500
THE LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER$1,500
CENTER FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION$1,000
LIVING HOPE FOR CHILDREN$1,000
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS OF GREATER KALAMAZ$1,000
CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATRE$1,000
NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS$1,000
PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION PROGRESS$500
PELOTONIA$500
GLEN HOUSE FOOD PANTRY$500
ST PETRONILLE CHURCH$500
GLEN ELLYN YOUTH FAMILY COUNSELIN$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NORTHEAST DUPAGE FAMILY YOUTH SER: $2k → 7%NORTHEAST DUPAGE FAMILY YOUTH SER: $1k → 7%NORTHEAST DUPAGE FAMILY YOUTH SER: $750 → 7%NORTHEAST DUPAGE FAMILY YOUTH SER: $500 → 7%THE YOUNG CENTER: $500 → 14%6000 MOMS NFP: $2k → 7%GE CHILDREN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $2k → 7%GE CHILDREN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $2k → 7%GE CHILDREN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $1k → 7%GE CHILDREN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $1k → 7%GE CHILDREN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $1k → 7%GE CHILDREN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $1k → 7%GE CHILDREN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $500 → 7%GE CHILDREN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $500 → 7%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

MN
IL
MI
NY
IA
IN
OH
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
AL
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$146k · 31 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +31% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
25

Total granted

$146k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+31%

Still filing today

58%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther
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

  • DP
    DUPAGE PADS INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $9k · revenue +149%
  • LH
    LIVING HOPE FOR CHILDREN
    8× · 2018–2025 · $8k · revenue +32%
  • GE
    GLEN ELLYN CHILDRENS RESOURCE CENTER
    8× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +155%

Funded once

  • GE
    GLEN ELLYN SCHOOL DISTRIC 41
    one grant, 2017 · $4k
  • G
    GEYFCS
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
  • CHARITY GLOBAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +74%
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
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
2
Nourishing Hope

Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.

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3
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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4
Legal Aid Chicago

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…

Crime & Legal
5
The Network Advocating Against Domestic Violence

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.…

Human Services
6
Lakeshore Legal Aid

Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.

Crime & Legal
7
Thrive Chicago Nfp

Thrive chicago's mission is to prepare chicago's youth for a vibrant future by aligning efforts and outcomes from cradle to career.

Human Services
8
Pediatric Faculty Foundation Inc

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…

Health
9
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

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…

Health
10
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
11
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
12
Pew Research Center

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…

Social Science
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lawndale Christian Legal Center; 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.
04the grantee network

38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/38
Grantees still filing
25/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $42,700 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCATHOLIC SCHOOLS OF GREATER KALAMAZ: $9,000 · OtherCATHOLIC SCHOOLS OF GREATER KALAMAZUNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCE: $6,750 · OtherUNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCEDELTA UPSILON ED FOUNDATION: $6,400 · OtherDELTA UPSILON ED FOUNDATIONGLEN ELLYN FOOD PANTRY: $5,075 · OtherGLEN ELLYN SCHOOL DISTRIC 41: $4,383 · OtherPRECIOUS BLOOD MINISTRY: $4,000 · Other+33 more: $39,022 · Other+33 moreLIVING HOPE FOR CHILDREN: $8,000 · Human ServicesLIVING HOPE FOR…GLEN ELLYN CHILDRENS RESOURCE CENTER: $8,000 · Human ServicesGLEN ELLYN CHIL…NORTHEAST DUPAGE FAMILY AND YOUTH SERVICES INC: $3,750 · Human ServicesNORTHEAST DUPAG…6000 MOMS NFP: $2,000 · Human Services6000 MOMS NFPCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $1,000 · Human Services+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesYoung Mens Educational Network: $3,550 · EducationPARTNRSHP FOR EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS: $2,750 · EducationTaylor University: $2,500 · EducationBRIDGES ACADEMY INC: $1,000 · EducationPELOTONIA: $500 · EducationDUPAGE PADS INC: $8,500 · Housing & ShelterCENTER FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION: $5,000 · Crime & LegalLAWNDALE CHRISTIAN LEGAL CENTER: $1,000 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $500 · Crime & LegalDABROWSKI CENTER: $2,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 · HealthTHE JED FOUNDATION: $1,000 · HealthRESILIENCE: $500 · HealthGILDA'S CLUB CHICAGO: $500 · HealthWellness House: $500 · HealthNAMI National: $250 · HealthYOUNG LIFE: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP HERTKO HOLLOW INC: $1,000 · Youth Development
Other$117,330Human Services$23,250Education$10,300Housing & Shelter$8,500Crime & Legal$6,500Health$5,750Youth Development$3,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDUPAGE PADS INC: $8,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLIVING HOPE FOR CHILDREN: $8,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGLEN ELLYN CHILDRENS RESOURCE CENTER: $8,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetGLEN ELLYN FOOD PANTRY: $5,075 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEAST DUPAGE FAMILY AND YOUTH SERVICES INC: $3,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Mens Educational Network: $3,550 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNRSHP FOR EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS: $2,750 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTaylor University: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPFLAG: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget6000 MOMS NFP: $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetDABROWSKI CENTER: $2,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetAGC LTD: $1,900 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MORTON ARBORETUM: $1,625 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LGBTQ COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE D: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP HERTKO HOLLOW INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JED FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGES ACADEMY INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetD41 KIDS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLAWNDALE CHRISTIAN LEGAL CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIVE LIKE KATIE FOUNDATION A/K/A LLK FOUNDATION: $620 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRESILIENCE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MISSION CONTINUES: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB CHICAGO: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF MADISON COUNTY: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWellness House: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKids In Danger: $400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSCARCE: $325 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAMI National: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAGUNA ART MUSEUM: $220 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 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 PFLAG ↗
  • Who funds 6000 MOMS NFP ↗
  • Who funds DABROWSKI CENTER ↗
  • 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 CAMP HERTKO HOLLOW INC ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE JED FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGES ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds D41 KIDS FOUNDATION ↗

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.

United Way of Metropo…The Dupage Community …The Chicago Community…John D and Catherine …AbbVie FoundationPolk Bros Foundation …Circle of Service Fou…Morgan Stanley Global…Renaissance Charitabl…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
United Way of Metropolitan Chicago IncIL19.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 George Marquis Travers Jr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George Marquis Travers Jr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 64 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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