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Georgy Family 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRY | $10,500 |
| ST THOMAS THE APOSTLE | $10,500 |
| CASA OF MCHENRY COUNTY | $9,306 |
| CRYSTAL LAKE FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| HIGHLAND MEALS ON WHEELS | $5,000 |
| VIETNAM VETERANS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| OPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SENIOR CARE VOLUNTEER NETWORK | $3,000 |
| VETERAN'S PATH TO HOPE | $2,500 |
| CLARITY CLINIC | $2,500 |
| SIU FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| 1ST WAY LIFE CENTER | $2,500 |
| MCAP | $2,000 |
| GLENED FOOD PANTRY | $2,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF MCHENRY COUNTY | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $94k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 3% 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 +23% since the first grant, against -7% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 5 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- PCPioneer Center for Human Services5× · 2020–2024 · $83k · revenue +23%
- COCASA OF MCHENRY COUNTY INC8× · 2017–2025 · $34k · revenue +128%
- GSGOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRY4× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +17% · 35% of their budget
Funded once
- MCMISS CARLY'S INCone grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue 0%
- DHDEERHAVEN HOMEone grant, 2022 · $6k
- LALITTLE ANGELS CENTER FOR EXCEP CAREone grant, 2017 · $4k
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 Organization's mission is to assist shut-ins, usually the elderly, by delivering hot, nutritious and low-cost meals to them in their homes.
The organization operates congregate and home delivered meal programs in suburban cook, grundy, will and kendall counties under contracts and grants with age option and ageguide (formerly northeastern illinois area agency on aging(neil)).…
Our mission is to ensure that Chicago seniors and people with disabilities benefit from nutritious meal programs that improve their quality of life and maximize independence.
Service Inc. of Illinois was formed in 1989 to provide screening, assessment, evaluation, service planning, referral, linkage, follow-up, & related services to individuals with developmental disabilities and/or developmental delays in 17…
The Foodbank's mission is to provide food, and develop awareness of and creative solutions for food insecurity. Annually, the Foodbank distributes approximately 9.5 million pounds of food to 130 food pantries, soup kitchens, children's…
We strive to make aging easier through the development of a network of services for older persons designed to optimize the quality of their lives.
Living Well Disability Services transforms the lives of people impacted by disabilities through the delivery of exceptional services.
Catholic Charities of St. Paul and Minneapolis serves those most in need. Catholic Charities is a leader at solving poverty, creating opportunity, and advocating for justice in the community.
Child Link provides foster care, family counseling, and therapy services to Chicago area adolescents who are at risk of homelessness. Child Link also refers adolescents to other agencies that are able to provide additional resources and…
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago's purpose is to partner with mission-driven people and organizations across Cook and Lake counties and to witness a message of mercy and hope to a world in need through service.
Administering an array of critical, intensive therapeutic interventions and/or facilitation services to emotionally and behaviorally disturbed clients for whom DCFS is legally responsible in order to stabilize their traditional or home of…
Care for Friends provides fundamental food, clothing and healthcare programs for individuals in Chicago experiencing or at risk of homelessness. Our "no questions asked" policy removes the most common barriers to assistance and allows us…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lions of Illinois Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Nehi Research Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 48 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 CASA OF MCHENRY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds OPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CRYSTAL LAKE FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds MISS CARLY'S INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CARE VOLUNTEER NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Transitional Living Services Inc ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds MATER DEI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Purple Asparagus ↗
- Who funds SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Stand Together Foundation ↗
- Who funds The YMCA of Metropolitan 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: AbbVie Foundation · Aptargroup Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation for McHenry County · The Chicago Community Trust · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Northern Illinois Food Bank · Edward Jones Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Georgy 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.
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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