· Private foundation
Graber 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 $10k10 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $307k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DORIS GRABER ENDOWED FUND - UNIERSITY OF IL FOUNDATION | $80,000 |
| AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ORTHODONTISTS FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| CITIZENS' CLIMATE EDUCATION | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER | $20,000 |
| WTTW | $15,000 |
| NORTH LIGHT THEATER | $15,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF AMERICA | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN | $15,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF EASTERN WISCONSIN | $15,000 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $11,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $11,000 |
| DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 62% of your 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 +34% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $97k 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
University of Illinois Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $932k · revenue +127%- AAAMERICAN ASSOC OF ORTHODONTISTS FDN9× · 2017–2025 · $525k · revenue +101% · 41% of their budget
- NTNORTHLIGHT THEATRE INC7× · 2019–2025 · $118k · revenue +160%
Funded once
- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1Dgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +26%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $2k
- OCOCEAN CONSERVANCYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100 · revenue +97%
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.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
The climate institute is organized for the purpose of educating the general public and policy makers as to the gravity of potential climate change, exploring the policy implications of the latest scientific findings on climate modelling…
Increase societal understanding of the earth system through scientific research and education.
Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
To research and develop centrist policy ideas.
Darksky international restores the nighttime environment and protects communities from the harmful effects of light pollution through outreach, advocacy, and conservation.
Shape and drive bold policy solutions to achieve equitable carbon-neutral economies.
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
The mission of the alliance for sustainable energy llc (alliance) is to operate the u.s. department of energy's national renewable energy laboratory to advance the science and engineering of energy efficiency, sustainable transportation,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Earth and the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 54 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 41 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 University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOC OF ORTHODONTISTS FDN ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS CLIMATE EDUCATION CORP ↗
- Who funds NORTHLIGHT THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF EASTERN WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America ↗
- Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds ALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE EARTH ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds Mequon Nature Preserve Inc ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY ↗
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: 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 Graber 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.
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of America — 21% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% 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.