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Henry Pope 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.

$91k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$301kEducation$56kArts & Culture$43kAnimals$39kHuman Services$24kEnvironment$11kPhilanthropy$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k28 grants · $66k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$2,457
Median grant
6
States reached
$573k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HONOR HEALTH FOUNDATION$15,000
NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HEALTHSYSTEM$10,000
SHIRLEY RYAN ABILITY LAB$7,500
NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HEALTHSYS$5,000
RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSN$5,000
PHOENIX CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$4,000
JOSSELYN CENTER$4,000
FUSION SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION$3,500
CHILDREN'S LURIE HOSPITAL$3,000
JOHN G SHEDD AQUARIUM$2,500
NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL$2,500
CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION$2,500
HEALING REINS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER$2,500
LINCOLN PARK ZOO$2,500
BANNER HEALTH FDN$2,457
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 (FY19–25, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%EQUESTRIAN CONNECTION: $2k → 8%EQUESTRIAN CONNECTION: $2k → 8%EQUESTRIAN CONNECTION: $2k → 8%EQUESTRIAN CONNECTION: $1k → 8%MOTHERS GRACE: $3k → 11%MOTHERS GRACE: $2k → 11%MOTHERS GRACE: $2k → 11%MOTHERS GRACE: $2k → 11%MOTHERS GRACE: $2k → 11%MOTHERS GRACE: $1k → 11%MOTHERS GRACE: $1k → 11%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.
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$451k · 32 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
3

Total granted

$451k
$7k

Still filing today

75%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationAnimalsArts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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

  • RI
    Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
    7× · 2019–2025 · $44k · revenue +33%
  • RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $31k · revenue +40%
  • HF
    HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $25k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • NS
    NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HEALTHSYSTEM CARDIOLOGY DIVISION
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • RU
    RUSH UNIVERSITY ALZHEIMERS DISEASE CENTER
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
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
Honorhealth

Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.

Health
2
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
3
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
4
Hugo W Moser Research Institute At Kennedy Krieger Inc

The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…

Science & Tech
5
Rush University Medical Center

The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
6
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
7
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
8
Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group

Northwestern memorial healthcare is an integrated healthcare system, consisting of multiple hospitals (including northwestern memorial hospital, an academic medical center) and networks of physicians and healthcare professionals, where the…

Health
9
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
10
Swedish Covenant Health

Swedish Covenant Health follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."

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11
Stanley Manne Childrens Research Institute

Stanley manne children's research institute strives to generate new knowledge and advance the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of pediatric diseases.

Health
12
Edward-Elmhurst Healthcare

Edward-Elmhurst Healthcare follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Allendale Association; the most unlike its peers is The Translational Genomics Research Institute. 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

27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 41 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
22/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $43,500 · HealthRehabilitation Institute of ChicagoHONORHEALTH FOUNDATION: $24,500 · HealthHONORHEALTH FOUNDATIONPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $21,000 · HealthPhoenix Children's Hospital FoundationTHE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP: $17,500 · HealthTHE JOSSELYN CENTER NFPHEALING REINS EQUINE ASSISTED SERVICES INC: $15,500 · HealthHEALING REINS EQUINE ASSISTED SERVICES…THE TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $11,000 · HealthTHE TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH IN…Endeavor Health Clinical Operations: $10,000 · HealthEndeavor Health Clinical OperationsARIZONA WOMEN'S BOARD: $9,950 · HealthARIZONA WOMEN'S BOARD+3 more: $9,957 · Health+3 moreNORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HEALTHSYS THORACIC ONCOLOGY PROGRAM (HENSING): $32,000 · OtherNORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HEALTHSYS THORACIC …NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HEALTHSYSTEM CARDIOVASCULAR FELLOWSHIP FUND: $25,500 · OtherNORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HEALTHSYSTEM CARDIO…CHILDREN'S LURIE HOSPITAL - FOUNDER'S BOARD: $15,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S LURIE HOSPITAL - FOUNDER'S BOAR…NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL WOMEN'S BOARD: $15,000 · OtherNORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL WOMEN'S BOA…NOTRE DAME PREP HIGH SCHOOL: $14,250 · OtherNOTRE DAME PREP HIGH SCHOOLALLENDALE ASSOCIATION: $14,000 · OtherALLENDALE ASSOCIATIONRUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER WOMAN'S BOARD: $10,500 · OtherRUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER WOMAN'S BOA…NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HEALTHSYSTEM TRANSFORMATION INNOVATION FUND: $10,000 · OtherNORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HEALTHSYSTEM TRANSF…NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER HOUSE OF WELCOME: $7,000 · OtherCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $10,500 · OtherCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETYLYFORD CAY FOUNDATION INC: $9,500 · Other+6 more: $17,500 · Other+6 moreLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $17,500 · AnimalsLINCOLN P…SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $17,500 · AnimalsSHEDD AQU…CATNAP FROM THE HEART: $3,500 · AnimalsCATNAP FR…RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $31,000 · Arts & CultureSPECIAL GIFTS THEATRE INC CO ELISE LARSEN: $7,000 · Arts & CultureWOMENS WESTERN GOLF FOUNDATION: $14,000 · EducationTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $5,000 · EducationHADLEY INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $3,500 · EducationGLEN VIEW CLUB SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $3,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $2,500 · EducationFUSION ACADEMY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $18,500 · Recreation & SportsMOTHER'S GRACE: $11,500 · Human ServicesEquestrian Connection NFP: $5,500 · Human Services
Health$162,907Other$180,750Animals$38,500Arts & Culture$38,000Education$28,000Recreation & Sports$18,500Human Services$17,000

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 budgetRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $43,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $31,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHONORHEALTH FOUNDATION: $24,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $21,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFUSION ACADEMY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $18,500 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetTHE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP: $17,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $17,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $17,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHEALING REINS EQUINE ASSISTED SERVICES INC: $15,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetWOMENS WESTERN GOLF FOUNDATION: $14,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetALLENDALE ASSOCIATION: $14,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMOTHER'S GRACE: $11,500 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetTHE TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $11,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $10,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA WOMEN'S BOARD: $9,950 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetLYFORD CAY FOUNDATION INC: $9,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL GIFTS THEATRE INC CO ELISE LARSEN: $7,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetEquestrian Connection NFP: $5,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPAWS FOR PATRICK: $5,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHADLEY INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $3,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCATNAP FROM THE HEART: $3,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGLEN VIEW CLUB SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds FUSION ACADEMY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds HEALING REINS EQUINE ASSISTED SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds WOMENS WESTERN GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ALLENDALE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds MOTHER'S GRACE ↗
  • Who funds THE TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Endeavor Health Clinical Operations ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA WOMEN'S BOARD ↗
  • Who funds LYFORD CAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL GIFTS THEATRE INC CO ELISE LARSEN ↗
  • Who funds Equestrian Connection NFP ↗
  • Who funds PAWS FOR PATRICK ↗
  • Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds HADLEY INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
  • Who funds CATNAP FROM THE HEART ↗
  • Who funds GLEN VIEW CLUB SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Banner Health Foundation ↗

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.

Baird Foundation IncThe Chicago Community…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Charities Aid Foundat…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Baird Foundation IncWI14.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baird Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Henry Pope Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Henry Pope Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Healing Reins Equine Assisted Services Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Henry Pope Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Henry Pope Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 41 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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