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Glerum 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 $10k12 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $218k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DENISON UNIVERSITY CAMPAIGN | $158,483 |
| DENISON ANNUAL FUND | $60,000 |
| RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION | $30,000 |
| GLESSNER HOUSE | $30,000 |
| GRIFFIN MUSEUM OF SCIENCE | $30,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CIVIC COUNSELING ALIANCE | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| THE NETWORK ADCOCATING AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE | $5,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $5,000 |
| 626 LANDMARK FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| UNDUE MEDICAL DEBT | $5,000 |
| ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| GICIA | $5,000 |
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, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +39% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 3 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, 98% 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
- DUDENISON UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2023 · $838k · revenue +39%
- KCKenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry7× · 2017–2023 · $430k · revenue +23%
- CCCIVIC CONSULTING ALLIANCE8× · 2017–2025 · $200k · revenue +99%
Funded once
- RBRAVINIA BUILDING PROJECTone grant, 2024 · $200k
- TCTHE CHICAGO CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -95%
- OLOUR LADY OF MERCY PARISH LIFE CENTER FUNDone grant, 2020 · $50k
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…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Our mission is to enhance the ability of our members to provide world class care to patients with digestive disorders and advance the profession through excellence and innovation based upon the pillars of patient care, education,…
To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.
Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…
Operation of a nautical history museum.
The broad mission of the ASCSA has remained constant over its distinguished history: teaching research archaeological exploration publication and dissemination of research. Founded in 1881 the ASCSA provides graduate students and scholars…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Civic Consulting Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Johann Fust Library Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 52 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 DENISON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry ↗
- Who funds CIVIC CONSULTING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds GLESSNER HOUSE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds 626 LANDMARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CASA CHIRILAGUA ↗
- Who funds BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds Youth Guidance ↗
- Who funds The Boca Grande Preschool Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Indian Hill Club Scholarship Foundation ↗
- Who funds JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOCA GRANDE WOMAN'S CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds JOHANN FUST LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds DALMATIAN DREAMS DBA DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TOURETTE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE NETWORK ADVOCATING AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ↗
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: The Chicago Community Trust · Sullivan Family Foundation Foundation · Carbonari Family Foundation · Sweet Peas Foundation · The Cruz Family Foundation Inc · Linda & Barry Allen Foundation · Edwardson Family Foundation · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Glerum 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wellesley College — 1% 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.