· Public charity
Hfs Chicago Scholars
HFS CHICAGO SCHOLARS (hfs) was created for the express purpose of supporting the educational aspiration of economically disadvantaged, but academically motivated chicago inner-city youth.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $107k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $247k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $254k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DE LA SALLE INSTITUTE | $73,400 |
| ST LAURENCE HIGH SCHOOL | $69,198 |
| FENWICK HIGH SCHOOL | $57,200 |
| ST IGNATIUS COLLEGE PREP | $53,950 |
| CHICAGO HOPE ACADEMY | $31,000 |
| MOTHER MCAULEY LIBERAL ARTS HIGH SC | $24,900 |
| FRANCIS W PARKER SCHOOL | $24,800 |
| CRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $23,350 |
| DE PAUL COLLEGE PREP | $22,850 |
| NAZARETH ACADEMY | $21,900 |
| TRINITY HS | $19,500 |
| HOLY TRINITY HIGH SCHOOL | $17,200 |
| UNIV OF CHICAGO LAB SCHOOL | $16,900 |
| LOYOLA ACADEMY | $16,200 |
| ST PATRICK HIGH SCHOOL | $14,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of its 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.
45 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FFFENWICK FOUNDATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $356k · revenue +209%
- CHCHICAGO HOPE ACADEMY8× · 2018–2025 · $184k · revenue +21%
- TLTHE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO7× · 2019–2025 · $69k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- SIST IGNATIUS SUMMER SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $8k
- RDREGINA DOMINICAN HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $6k
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.
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How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 51 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.
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: Irish Fellowship Educational & Cultural Foundation · LINK Unlimited Scholars · The Chicago Community Trust · The Cuneo Foundation · WP & HB White Foundation · Helen V Brach Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Charles W & Patrica S Bidwill Foundati · Marquette Bank Education Foundation · Fred J Brunner Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The John P Loftus Scholarship Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hfs Chicago Scholars funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hfs Chicago Scholars. Bigger dots raise more.
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