· Private foundation
Gurtz 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 $10k5 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $365k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $225k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| ST JUDE HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| ZACHARIAS CENTER | $50,000 |
| LURIE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FDN | $50,000 |
| FELDMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $40,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| RORY DAVID DEUTCH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| SATURDAY PLACE | $25,000 |
| THE WELL RESOURCE CENTER | $20,000 |
| HFS CHICAGO SCHOLARS | $20,000 |
| CHARLIE PROJECT DOG RESCUE | $20,000 |
| JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METRO CHGO | $15,000 |
| THE ANTI-CRUELTY SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
33 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 9 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- FFFELDMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $193k · revenue +610% · 100% of their budget
- HAHEARTLAND ANIMAL SHELTER NFP8× · 2018–2025 · $130k · revenue ×13
- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC4× · 2022–2025 · $115k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- BJB'NAI JEHOSHUA BETH ELOHIMone grant, 2017 · $105k
- NMNORTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $75k
- OFONE FAMILY ILLINOISone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +24%
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.
The mission of the akc canine health foundation, inc. is to fund, advance, and communicate canine health research and science through knowledge and discovery.
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…
Animal cancer foundation is dedicated to finding new treatments and eventual cures for cancer by funding research in and increasing public awareness of comparative oncology, the study of naturally occurring, similar cancers in people and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc and the most unlike its peers is Executive Construction 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 25 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 47 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 RORY DAVID DEUTSCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FELDMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND ANIMAL SHELTER NFP ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds PAWS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds The Anti-Cruelty Society ↗
- Who funds ONE FAMILY ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds Saturday Place ↗
- Who funds CHARLIE PROJECT DOG RESCUE LIMITED ↗
- Who funds The Well Resource Center NFP ↗
- Who funds CHICAGOLAND LAB RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds ROFEH CHOLIM CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Northwest Community Hospital ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds HFS CHICAGO SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Clayco 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: The Chicago Community Trust · AbbVie Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Gurtz 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.