· Private foundation
Harry F Chaddick and Elaine Chaddick 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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 44% of HARRY F CHADDICK AND ELAINE CHADDICK FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k53 grants · $178k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $160k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DEPAUL UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| FOOD CONNECTION | $50,000 |
| ST VINCENT DEPAUL | $20,000 |
| WESTERN CAROLINA RESCUE MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| MY DADDY TAUGHT ME THAT (KL TRAINING SOLUTIONS) | $20,000 |
| PARISH OF ST EUGENE | $20,000 |
| WORKING WHEELS | $15,000 |
| SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| UNDUE MEDICAL DEBT | $10,000 |
| CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $10,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH BOARD CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BIG SHOULDERS FUND | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL SHRINE OF ST FRANCES XAVIER CABRINI | $7,800 |
| CHANGE 4 CHILDREN | $7,500 |
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 (FY19–25, $356k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
112 repeat relationships — 57 still active in FY2025, 55 since wound down; 9 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- DUDEPAUL UNIVERSITY7× · 2019–2025 · $880k · revenue +17%
- LLLeap Learning Systems3× · 2019–2021 · $122k · revenue +55%
- RIRiverLink Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $121k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- HFHEAR FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $25k
- SVST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETYone grant, 2024 · $20k
- UOUniversity of Chicago Cancer Research Foundationone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -78%
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.
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
Chh honors every person's right to a home and health care, by bridging the housing and health care systems, to improve the lives of chicagoans experiencing homelessness.
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…
Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…
The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.
The chicago children's advocacy center unites public, private, and community partners to ensure the safety, health, and well-being of abused children.
To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
Infant welfare society of chicago (iws) (d/b/a iws family health) provides quality medical, dental and behavioral health services for the health, physical and mental development of children and their families in the chicagoland community.
Thrive chicago's mission is to prepare chicago's youth for a vibrant future by aligning efforts and outcomes from cradle to career.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Rescue Inc and the most unlike its peers is North Side Housing and Supportive Services. 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 37 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
103 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. 103 of the 183 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 DEPAUL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Leap Learning Systems ↗
- Who funds RiverLink Inc ↗
- Who funds Asheville Art Museum Association Inc ↗
- Who funds WESTERN CAROLINA RESCUE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Big Shoulders Fund ↗
- Who funds FOOD CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MemoryCare Inc ↗
- Who funds All Souls Counseling Center ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S WELL-BEING LEAGUE F/K/A CHILDREN'S WELFARE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds PEACE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds St Leonard's Ministries ↗
- Who funds OLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC ↗
- Who funds PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds Horizons for Youth ↗
- Who funds Harmony Hope & Healing ↗
- Who funds HIGHSIGHT ↗
- Who funds WARREN W CHERRY PRESCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NORTH SIDE HOUSING AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Lawrence Hall ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds Healthy Schools Campaign ↗
- Who funds Midtown-Metro Achievement Centers ↗
- Who funds W4H ASHEVILLE ↗
- Who funds MICHIANA HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL ↗
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 Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Dogwood Health Trust · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · WP & HB White Foundation · Helen V Brach Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Community Foundation of Henderson County Inc · Richard Eckerd Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Wnc Bridge Foundation · Robert R McCormick 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 Harry F Chaddick and Elaine Chaddick Foundation Inc 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.
- Warrior Canine Connection Inc — 5% of income from government
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.