· Private foundation
Hale Family Foundation Inc
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k42 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $481k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $195,000 |
| SCHWAB CHARITABLE | $176,000 |
| NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY | $60,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES | $33,000 |
| CHICAGO CLASSIC COMPUTING | $20,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| DUPAGE COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM FOU | $12,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $10,000 |
| ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL EDUC | $10,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF SURGICAL SC | $6,000 |
| FRIENDS OF SOUTH GEORGIA ISLAND | $5,000 |
| SIMMARON RESEARCH | $5,000 |
| ALASKA WHALE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| TAU BETA PI ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $91k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +29% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
58 repeat relationships: 49 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NGNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY7× · 2019–2025 · $273k · revenue +100%
- DUDEPAUL UNIVERSITY5× · 2019–2023 · $113k · revenue +17%
- OCOUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES5× · 2021–2025 · $88k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- DADAVID AND CLAUDIA JACKSON FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue +118%
- BFBluesphere Foundation Incone grant, 2019 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $3k
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.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
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;…
The museum's mission statement is "turn on the science: inspire learning. inform policy. improve lives."
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Increase societal understanding of the earth system through scientific research and education.
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 adler planetarium ('adler') is a not-for-profit cultural institution whose mission is to connect people to the universe and each other under the sky we all share. it aspires to be the world's premier center for engaging in astronomy…
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
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…
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
How this is measured
57 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. 57 of the 84 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
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.
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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: The Dupage Community Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hale Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hale Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Healthy Foods for Healthy Kids Inc: 14% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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