· Private foundation
Grand Victoria Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k26 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k40 grants · $907k
- $50k–250k46 grants · $4.7M
- $250k+2 grants · $805k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Crossroads Fund | $555,150 |
| Chicago Votes Education Fund | $250,000 |
| Southsiders Organized for Unity and Liberation | $226,500 |
| Hamilton Wings | $212,500 |
| Metropolitan Family Services | $176,500 |
| Black Oaks Center | $175,000 |
| United Congregations of Metro East | $175,000 |
| East Side Aligned | $161,500 |
| Grassroots Collaborative | $151,500 |
| Shriver Center on Poverty Law | $150,000 |
| Chicago Jobs Council | $150,000 |
| WEPOWER | $150,000 |
| Communities United | $125,000 |
| Raise the Floor Alliance | $125,000 |
| YWCA Elgin | $121,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $3.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 73% 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 +58% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.
154 repeat relationships: 91 still active in FY2024, 63 since wound down; 21 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $271k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JDJO DAVIESS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC7× · 2018–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +182% · 25% of their budget
- FFOREFRONT7× · 2018–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +179%
- TCTHE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION5× · 2018–2022 · $1.1M · revenue +234%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $1.0M
- WEWOMEN EMPLOYEDone grant, 2018 · $127k · revenue -14%
- YIYOUNG INVINCIBLESone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -44%
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.
Chicago Votes is a non-partisan, non-profit organization building a more inclusive democracy by putting power in the hands of young Chicagoans. We're engaging and developing a new generation of leaders by opening the doors of government,…
At legal aid chicago, we work together to provide high quality civil legal aid to people living in poverty and other vulnerable groups.through advocacy, education, collaboration, and litigation we empower individuals, protect fundamental…
The Chicago Cultural Alliances mission is to connect, promote, and support centers of cultural heritage for a more inclusive Chicago. We are an active consortium of 50 cultural heritage museums, centers, and historical societies that…
The Partnership for College Completion (PCC) champions policies, practices, and systems that increase college completion and eliminate degree completion disparities for low-income, first generation, and students of color in Illinois…
Live Free Illinois is a statewide organization partnering with over 120 congregations and directly impacted individuals to build safer more equitable communities across Illinois. Operating at the intersection of criminal justice reform and…
To achieve parity in economic opportunity for people of color by advancing multiracial leadership in corporate governance, expanding the talent pipline for executive-level management, and growing minority businesses.
North Branch Works is a membership-supported nonprofit neighborhood organization that for more than three decades has promoted balanced, job-creating economic development along the North Branch of the Chicago River.
Executive Service Corps is the premier nonprofit consultancy that engages highly skilled professionals who use their experience and expertise to provide nonprofits with the consulting services they need to be successful. Our vision is to…
PILI engages, inspires and empowers those advancing equal access to justice.
The Chicago Refugee Coalition is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated ot the alleviation of human suffering through innovative partnerships, advocacy and community empowerment.
The chicago committee seeks racial and ethnic diversity in the legal profession by collaborating with its law firm and corporate membership to: drive sustainable institutional change at law firms and corporate legal departments; provide…
Equality illinois builds a better illinois by advancing equal treatment and social justice through education, advocacy and protection of the rights of the lgbt community.
How this is measured
205 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. 205 of the 263 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 JO DAVIESS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds FOREFRONT ↗
- Who funds SHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPENLANDS ↗
- Who funds Chicago Jobs Council ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON WINGS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATURAL LAND INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds LATINO POLICY FORUM ↗
- Who funds RAISE THE FLOOR ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SCALELIT FKA CHICAGO CITYWIDE LITERACY COALITION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND FAMILY ISSUES ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE RIVERS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds THE HANA CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOBS TO MOVE AMERICA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES UNITED ↗
- Who funds WEPOWER ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN PLACE ↗
- Who funds MANO A MANO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FARMWORKER AND LANDSCAPER ADVOCACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds The Young Womens Christian Association Elgin Illinois ↗
- Who funds SOUTHSIDERS ORGANIZED FOR UNITY AND LIBERATION ↗
- Who funds Grassroots Collaborative ↗
- Who funds CO-OP ED CENTER NFP ↗
- Who funds BLACK OAKS CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE RENEWABLE LIVING ↗
- Who funds HEARTLANDS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Logan Square Neighborhood Association ↗
- Who funds HOUSING HELPERS INC ↗
- Who funds Illinois Action for Children ↗
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: Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Field Foundation of Illinois · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Woods Fund of Chicago · The Chicago Community Trust · Chicago Foundation for Women · Forefront · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Joyce Foundation · Efs Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Grand Victoria Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Grand Victoria Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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