· Private foundation
Glen and Vicki Hess 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHICAGO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BROOKFIELD ZOO | $5,000 |
| RED RIVER OES RESCUE | $1,000 |
| BLUE MAN DOG | $1,000 |
| IMMUNE DEFICIENCY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ST CLETUS FOOD PANTRY | $1,000 |
| CAPE MAY COUNTY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| HINSDALE HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| GREENE COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,000 |
| PASADENA PLAYHOUSE | $1,000 |
| NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGBORS | $1,000 |
| A MEANINGFUL PURPOSE | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 9 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, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Chicago Zoological Society8× · 2017–2025 · $70k · revenue +43%- CFCATNAP FROM THE HEART4× · 2019–2023 · $2k · revenue +182%
- HHHINSDALE HUMANE SOCIETY2× · 2020–2025 · $2k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- HHHELPING HAND CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +81%
- LCLUTHERAN CHURCH CHARITIES FUNDone grant, 2020 · $250 · revenue +23%
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.
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.
The humane society takes in approximately 6000 dogs and cats each year. they accept animals picked up by local animal control and any animals brought in by individuals. the primary goal of the humane society is to end animal suffering.…
To find a safe, loving and appropriate home for every homeless pet, including those with special needs or challenges. PAHS strives to treat, heal, and provide optimal well-being for the animals in their care.
Helping hounds dog rescue provides a compassionate approach to dog rescue by matching homeless dogs from overcrowded shelter systems with loving homes.
The Humane Society is dedicated to saving and improving the lives of pets through adoptions, community spay/neuter services and humane eduon programs.
The mission of HSMC is to provide shelter, medical care, and comfort to stray and surrendered dogs and cats while working to secure their forever homes.
Chicago canine rescue foundation finds permanent homes for homeless dogs in our community with a specific emphasis on assisting the most vulnerable animals, who without our help, would have no other options. while in our care, they are…
Happy Paws Haven Co. is a foster based animal rescue agency that helps animals in need.
To save, socialize and secure loving homes for unwanted or abandoned dogs.
People for pets is a non-profit organization devoted to finding homes for abandoned pets as well as caring for lost pets. people for pets also promotes spaying and neutering.
Rescue and adoptions of cats and dogs. find home for companion animals
Pet Network rescues adoptable animals from euthanasia, connects abandoned animals with loving families, instills respect for animals through humane education, and enhances lives through animal companionship.
Adopt-a-pets misson is to continue to find loving families for homeless dogs and cats as well as assist people in the community with their personal animals. the organization provides medical and emotional care to each animal that enters…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 16 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Chicago Zoological Society ↗
- Who funds CATNAP FROM THE HEART ↗
- Who funds HINSDALE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds GREENE COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HAND CENTER ↗
- Who funds Cape May County Zoological Society Inc ↗
- Who funds A MEANINGFUL PURPOSE INC ↗
- Who funds Blue Man Dog ↗
- Who funds Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest ↗
- Who funds IMMUNE DEFICIENCY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN CHURCH CHARITIES FUND ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Glen and Vicki Hess Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Glen and Vicki Hess Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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