· Private foundation
Goetz Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $183k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON | $60,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $42,500 |
| ST LUCY CHURCH | $40,000 |
| ST PATRICK'S MISSIONARY | $25,000 |
| ARCHDIOCESE OF CHICAGO | $20,000 |
| LIVE ACTION | $15,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP INC | $10,000 |
| MISERICORDIA HOME | $10,000 |
| DELBARTON SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| ELDER HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| ONE FOR ONE CHICAGO | $6,500 |
| FAITH HOPE AND CHARITY | $5,000 |
| LOYOLA ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| HFS CHICAGO SCHOLARS | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN LEGION | $1,400 |
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 (FY19–24, $151k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUniversity of Dayton8× · 2017–2024 · $450k · revenue +38%
- VUVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY6× · 2017–2023 · $205k · revenue +50%
- HCHFS CHICAGO SCHOLARS7× · 2017–2024 · $65k · revenue +91%
Funded once
- CACHARITABLE ADULT RIDES & SERVICESone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +19%
- CHCANCER HOPE NETWORKgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +207%
- SCSAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER OF NW SUBURBSone grant, 2022 · $13k
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.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
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.
As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…
We are chicago's jesuit, catholic university - a diverse community seeking god in all things and working to expand knowledge in the service of humanity through learning, justice, and faith.
Marietta college (mc) provides a strong foundation for a lifetime of leadership, critical thinking, and problem solving. we achieve this mission by offering undergraduates a contemporary liberal arts education and graduate students an…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
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.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 48 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 University of Dayton ↗
- Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHARITABLE ADULT RIDES & SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HFS CHICAGO SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MISERICORDIA HOME ↗
- Who funds CANCER HOPE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds MOUNT ST JOSEPH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LIVE ACTION ↗
- Who funds ONE FOR ONE CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds MARY'S CHILDREN FAMILY CENTER OF MI ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds International Friendships Inc ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY SCHOLARSHIP 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 Chicago Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Goetz Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Goetz Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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