· Private foundation
Grimes 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 $10k15 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $86k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Plymouth Place | $80,000 |
| St Francis Xavier Catholic Parish | $32,500 |
| Sts Peter & Paul School | $32,000 |
| Benet Academy | $11,300 |
| Ohio State University Gymnastics Program | $10,000 |
| Nicholas D Sergi Foundation | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Fluffs & Scruffs A Dog Rescue | $5,000 |
| Drive Fore the Future Foundation | $4,000 |
| Ohio State University Track & Field Program | $2,500 |
| St John of the Cross Parish | $1,050 |
| Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance | $1,000 |
| Mercyhurst University | $750 |
| Muscular Dystrophy Association | $700 |
| Ironwood Country Club Employee Scholarship Fund | $500 |
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 (FY18–25, $130k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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.
31 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 6 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; $4k 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
- NDNicholas D Sergi Foundation4× · 2022–2025 · $12k · revenue +52%
- MUMERCYHURST UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +2%
- PCPILLARS COMMUNITY HEALTH6× · 2019–2024 · $6k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- SFSt Francis Xavier Schoolone grant, 2024 · $20k
- TVTHE VOICES & FACES PROJECTone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
- SPSts Peter and Paul Catholic Parishone grant, 2022 · $17k
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.
Chicago canine rescue foundation finds permanent homes for homeless dogs in our community with a specific emphasis on assisting the most vulnerable animals, who without our help, would have no other options. while in our care, they are…
The mission of misericordia home is to support children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities who choose our community by providing the highest quality residential, training, and employment services. we provide the…
The Mission of The Villas at Mercy Creek is to Celebrate Life and Serve with Joy.
The mission of franciscan communities inc. ("franciscan communities") is to celebrate life and serve with joy. (continued on schedule o).
Setting a new standard of employment for people who have disabilities and chronic medical conditions.
We strive to make aging easier through the development of a network of services for older persons designed to optimize the quality of their lives.
To improve the quality of life for families challenged by alzheimer's disease or another dementia, through services tailored to meet individual needs.
St. anne home is a ministry of the felician sisters of north america dedicated to the continued healing mission of jesus christ by providing a continuum of care and supportive services to adults, their families, and their caregivers. st.…
MISSION - TO celebrate life and serve with joy. Vision - to provide access to Catholic high schools and offer programs for higher education and career readiness for young women from the Chicago area.
The primary purpose of the chicago home for incurables, ("the home"), is to provide financial support to the university of chicago for the operation of patient care facilities and funding of research of incurable diseases at the university…
To address and meet the needs of aged persons, including housing, healthcare, and financial security.
To perpetuate a village community to provide progressive life assistance to adults with developmental disabilities so that they can maximize their abilities and maintain their independence in the least restrictive environment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Diego Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Nicholas D Sergi Foundation. 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 51 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 55 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 PLYMOUTH PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE VOICES & FACES PROJECT ↗
- Who funds FLUFFS & SCRUFFS A DOG RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Nicholas D Sergi Foundation ↗
- Who funds MERCYHURST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PILLARS COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds YORKSHIRE TERRIER NATIONAL RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds GIVE ME A CHANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOX VALLEY OLDER ADULT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Vocel Viewing our Children as Emerging Leaders ↗
- Who funds La Grange Country Club Foundation ↗
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: United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Community Memorial Foundation · Ageoptions Inc (Fka Suburban Area Agency on Aging) · Baird Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Grimes 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.
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.