· Private foundation
Herman & Katherine Peters Foundation Corp
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 56% of HERMAN & KATHERINE PETERS FOUNDATION CORP’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 $10k60 grants · $171k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $145k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOX VALLEY FOOD FOR HEALTH | $25,000 |
| PURPLE PLUNGE | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| STANTON ROWING FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $10,000 |
| NORTHERN ILL FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| FEED THE CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| GLENWOOD ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY USA | $10,000 |
| CHICAGO COALITION FOR HOMELESS | $10,000 |
| CONVOY OF HOPE | $7,500 |
| FOOD FOR THE POOR | $7,500 |
| SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA | $7,500 |
| BENET ACADEMY | $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 (FY21–25, $86k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 94% 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.
69 repeat relationships — 55 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 14 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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
- FVFOX VALLEY FOOD FOR HEALTH INC4× · 2021–2025 · $85k · revenue +22%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches4× · 2021–2025 · $40k · revenue +27%
- SBSILVER BIRCH RANCH INC & AFFILIATE3× · 2021–2024 · $35k · revenue +11%
Funded once
University of Chicagograduatedone grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +34%- NCNorthwest Community Hospital Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +143%
- NINORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANKone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -8%
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.
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.
To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.
The chicago children's advocacy center unites public, private, and community partners to ensure the safety, health, and well-being of abused children.
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.…
Child Link provides foster care, family counseling, and therapy services to Chicago area adolescents who are at risk of homelessness. Child Link also refers adolescents to other agencies that are able to provide additional resources and…
The mission of cornerhouse is to partner with families, communities, and systems - entrusted with the safety of children, youth and vulnerable adults - to reduce trauma and end abuse.
Food for the hungry is a christian humanitarian aid and global development organization that has designed, developed and delivered solutions for more than 50 years so that children, families and communities can flourish. (continued on…
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.
To provide services to improve the quality of life for children and families.
Empowering families and individuals experiencing homelessness to build a future filled with dignity, opportunity, and lasting solutions.
Chicago family health center will promote health, work to prevent disease and provide treatment through the delivery of quality, accessible primary healtcare that is culturally sensitive, affordable, and responsive to community and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Purple Plunge. 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 42 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 121 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 FOX VALLEY FOOD FOR HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds FEED THE CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds GLENWOOD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds SILVER BIRCH RANCH INC & AFFILIATE ↗
- Who funds Childrens Oncology Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Northwest Community Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds Purple Plunge ↗
- Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL ↗
- Who funds STANTON ROWING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL ACTION ↗
- Who funds WARM BLANKETS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC DBA KINSHIP UNITED ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds INDIANA DUNES ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
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: AbbVie Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Andrew and Alice Fischer Charitable Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Rotary Club of Palatine Foundation · The FJK Private Foundation · John Marshall Family Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc
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 Herman & Katherine Peters Foundation Corp 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.
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% 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.
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