· Private foundation
George Zendt Charitable Trust
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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IZAAK WALTON LEAGUE OF AMERICA | $7,361 |
| CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND | $7,361 |
| CHICAGO HEARING SOCIETY | $7,361 |
| CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $7,361 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $7,361 |
| ERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE | $7,361 |
| EPWORTH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $7,361 |
| LURIE CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $7,361 |
| INFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF CHICAGO | $7,361 |
| LEARNING ALLY | $7,361 |
| ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $7,361 |
| VNA FOUNDATION OF CHICAGO | $7,361 |
| WASHINGTON SQUARE HEALTH FOUNDATION | $7,361 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $7,361 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $7,361 |
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 (FY20–25, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +33% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 10 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, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k 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
- TSTHE SEEING EYE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $38k · revenue +134%
- LALESTER AND ROSALIE ANIXTER CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $38k · revenue +33%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $38k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- CHCHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2025 · $7k · revenue 0%
- LCLURIE CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2025 · $7k
- TITHE IZAAK WALTON LEAGUE OF AMERICAone grant, 2025 · $7k · revenue +16%
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 Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
To advocate for and support hospitals and health systems as they serve patients and communities in illinois.
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
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…
Stanley manne children's research institute strives to generate new knowledge and advance the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of pediatric diseases.
The american college of radiology (acr) is organized to advance radiology science, practice and access, improve quality and safety, provide continuing education for radiology and allied professionals, and achieve better outcomes through…
Ann & robert h. lurie children's hospital of chicago is dedicated to the health and well-being of all children. as the pediatric teaching facility for northwestern university feinberg school of medicine, this commitment drives us to be a…
The mission of mchc chicago hospital council is to foster, promote, support, develop and encourage charitable, educational, scholastic and scientific purposes; promote cooperative effort and action between hospitals and other health care…
The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Infant Welfare Society of Chicago and the most unlike its peers is Washington Square Health Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 30 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 THE SEEING EYE INC ↗
- Who funds LESTER AND ROSALIE ANIXTER CENTER ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds PATHWAY TO ADVENTURE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Illinois Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds The Anti-Cruelty Society ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE IZAAK WALTON LEAGUE OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Learning Ally Inc ↗
- Who funds INFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Washington Square Health 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 · Motorola Solutions Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Zendt Charitable Trust 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Learning Ally Inc — 4% 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.