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Green 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.

$329k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Education$710kHealth$435kInternational$140kRecreation & Sports$65kFood & Nutrition$10kHousing & Shelter$10kPhilanthropy$10kHuman Services$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $204k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$75,000
UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND$50,000
EDUCATION ACROSS BORDERS$45,000
UNLV FOUNDATION$40,000
CLEVELAND CLINIC LOU RUVO CENTER FOR B$25,000
THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE$25,000
ILLINOIS PERUVIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOC$25,000
RETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST$25,000
DE LA SALLE NORTH CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL$19,200
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SECRET SMILES OF DAYTON INC: $10k → 14%CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE: $25k → 14%THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE: $25k → 14%THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE: $25k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
WI
OR
NV
OH
CT
OK
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 9 repeat orgs$356k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +68% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
9

Total granted

$1.0M
$256k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
+36%

Still filing today

67%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND
    4× · 2022–2025 · $200k · revenue +17%
  • EA
    EDUCATION ACROSS BORDERS
    4× · 2022–2025 · $140k · revenue +117%
  • RS
    RETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $100k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • OW
    Operation Walk Chicago
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
  • SI
    ST IGNATIUS COLLEGE PREP
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • MU
    MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY EQUITY IN MILWAUK
    one grant, 2024 · $36k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Gastro Intestinal Research Foundation Inc

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…

Health
2
The Foundation for Peripheral Neuropathy

The mission of the Foundation is to dramatically improve the lives of people living with peripheral neuropathy. It is focused on discovering more effective treatment options and finding a cure for peripheral neuropathy. The Foundation…

Health
3
Resurrection University

Resurrection University (dba Oak Point University) inspires, educates and forms life-long learners who meet the world's changing needs with curiosity, ingenuity and grace.

Education
4
Benedictine University

Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…

Education
5
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health
6
Chicago State Foundation

The mission of Chicago State Foundation is to advance the interest and welfare of CSU by building relationships, securing philanthropic support, stewarding assets and otherwise procuring private support on behalf of the University. Working…

Education
7
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
8
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute is an independent health research facility closely affiliated with The Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa, committed to the excellence in the creation of scientific knowledge that…

Health
9
Neurosurgery Research and Education Foundation

NREF supports basic science and clinical research, as well as life-long education, to foster improved outcomes for our patients with neurosurgical diseases.

Health
10
Lake Forest College

Provide post-secondary education leading to a baccalaureate degree. Program service expenditures are made in conjunction with the operation of a liberal arts college spread over 107 acres with approximately 63 educational and support…

Education
11
University of New Orleans Foundation

The University of New Orleans Foundation's mission is to promote the well-being and advancement of the University of New Orleans and all the colleges, schools, departments, and divisions comprising it, and to develop, expand, and improve…

Education
12
Children's Hospital Pathology Foundation Inc

The Foundation's mission is to provide pathology services primarily to patients at Boston Children's Hospital and at satellite locations. The Foundation carries on and promotes basic and applied medical research and education in the field…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Chicago Lighthouse for People Who Are Blind Or Visually Impaired; the most unlike its peers is Secret Smiles of Dayton Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
12/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENT: $206,096 · OtherMARQUETTE UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENTILLINOIS PERUVIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOC: $135,000 · OtherILLINOIS PERUVIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $75,000 · OtherROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGOBPS FOUNDATION: $65,000 · OtherBPS FOUNDATIONST IGNATIUS COLLEGE PREP: $50,000 · OtherST IGNATIUS COLLEGE PREPDE LA SALLE NORTH CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $37,850 · OtherDE LA SALLE NORTH CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLMARQUETTE UNIVERSITY EQUITY IN MILWAUK: $36,000 · OtherMARQUETTE UNIVERSITY EQUITY IN MILWAUKMARQUETTE UNIVERSITY DIEDERICH COLLEGE: $25,000 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINIC NEVADA: $25,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND: $200,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PORTLANDEDUCATION ACROSS BORDERS: $140,000 · EducationEDUCATION ACROSS BORDERSUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION: $70,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOU…+1 more: $10,000 · EducationOperation Walk Chicago: $100,000 · HealthOperation Walk C…RETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC: $100,000 · HealthRETT SYNDROME RE…THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $75,000 · Human ServicesSECRET SMILES OF DAYTON INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesBEYOND HUNGER: $10,000 · Food & NutritionHOUSING FORWARD: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterOAK PARK-RIVER FOREST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyVETERINARY CARE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $5,000 · Animals
Other$654,946Education$420,000Health$200,000Human Services$85,000Food & Nutrition$10,000Housing & Shelter$10,000Philanthropy$10,000Animals$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND: $200,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATION ACROSS BORDERS: $140,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetOperation Walk Chicago: $100,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetRETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBPS FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSECRET SMILES OF DAYTON INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetBEYOND HUNGER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOUSING FORWARD: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOAK PARK-RIVER FOREST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVETERINARY CARE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

The Chicago Community…Hazard Family Foundat…National Philanthropi…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
The Chicago Community TrustIL15.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Hazard Family Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Green Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Green Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • University of Portland: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
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The camps
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By state
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