· Private foundation
Herbert & Roselle Mack Charitable 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 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 $10k14 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA | $25,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF ILLINOIS | $25,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $5,000 |
| PBS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC (WTTW) | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC (WBEZ) | $3,000 |
| NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC (DBA - NPR) | $3,000 |
| CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION (DBA - CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE CENTER (CAC)) | $2,500 |
| NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK | $2,500 |
| KENNETH C GRIFFIN MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY (DBA - GRIFFIN MUSEUM OF S | $2,500 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $2,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC (DBA - ALZHEIMER'S | $2,000 |
| CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY (DBA - CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN) | $1,500 |
| CHICAGO HISTORY MUSEUM | $1,500 |
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 (FY21–21, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +37% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 10 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $175k · revenue +12%- PPPlanned Parenthood of Illinois9× · 2017–2025 · $160k · revenue +64%
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY9× · 2017–2025 · $37k · revenue +140%
Funded once
- HFHonor Flight Chicago Corpgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +33%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $1k
- CTCAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM DBA CULINARY CAREERS PROGRAMone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +17%
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.
To inspire conservation leadership by connecting people with wildlife and nature.
The Chicago History Museum strives to be a destination for learning, inspiration, and civic engagement. Through dynamic exhibitions, tours, programs, digital resources, and special events, the Museum connects people to Chicago's history…
To promote public appreciation, understanding and support of the humanities through festivals and educational programs.
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The Design Museum of Chicago strives to inspire, educate and innovate through design. As a resource for the Chicago design community and beyond, the museum facilitates an open dialogue about contemporary and historical design through…
The chicagoland chamber of commerce combines the power of people, with our legacy of leadership and business advocacy, to drive a dynamic economy. we focus on delivering value for our members, making chicagoland a world-class place to live…
The Chicago Cultural Alliances mission is to connect, promote, and support centers of cultural heritage for a more inclusive Chicago. We are an active consortium of 50 cultural heritage museums, centers, and historical societies that…
Chicago sun-times serves the public interest by strengthening the well-being of our local communities and our democracy through independent local journalism.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 29 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.
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood of Illinois ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry ↗
- Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Chicago Architecture Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds REFUGEEONE ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PBS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds The Richard H Driehaus Museum ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Honor Flight Chicago Corp ↗
- Who funds CAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM DBA CULINARY CAREERS PROGRAM ↗
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 Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Herbert & Roselle Mack Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Herbert & Roselle Mack Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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