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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 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 $10k14 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF ILLINOIS | $25,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA | $25,000 |
| WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC (WTTW) | $5,000 |
| PBS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC (DBA - NPR) | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC (WBEZ) | $3,000 |
| KENNETH C GRIFFIN MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY (DBA - GRIFFIN MUSEUM OF S | $2,500 |
| CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION (DBA - CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE CENTER (CAC)) | $2,500 |
| NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK | $2,500 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $2,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC (DBA - ALZHEIMER'S | $2,000 |
| CHICAGO HISTORY MUSEUM | $1,500 |
| CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY (DBA - CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN) | $1,500 |
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 (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 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.
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 +43% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you 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
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
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%
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Architecture Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Honor Flight Chicago Corp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 29 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 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 ↗
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 · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Herbert & Roselle Mack Charitable 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.
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