· Private foundation
Honora M Cullinan 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $190k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $172k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRANCISCAN OUTREACH ASSOCIATION | $60,000 |
| FRANCISCAN CONNECTION | $60,000 |
| GENERAL MINISTER OF THE FRANCISCAN ORDER | $52,000 |
| ST ANTHONY OF PADUA PARISH | $35,000 |
| LOAVES AND FISHES | $35,000 |
| THOMAS TERRY COMMUNITY CENTER | $30,000 |
| SISTER THEA BHOWMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| CHILDREN'S CENTER OF THE CUMBERLANDS | $25,000 |
| LITTLE FLOWER OF JESUS CATHOLIC CHURCH | $20,000 |
| PETER & PAUL COMMUNITY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| ST MARY'S HOME LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR | $10,000 |
| MORNINGSTART MISSION MINISTRIES INC | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $164k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of Honora M Cullinan Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 41% of the giving stays in IL; read by stated purpose it is 28% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
16 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TFThe Franciscan Connection7× · 2019–2025 · $299k · revenue +157% · 29% of their budget
- CCCHILDRENS CENTER OF THE CUMBERLAND8× · 2018–2025 · $154k · revenue +4%
- LFLOAVES & FISHES INC8× · 2018–2025 · $140k · revenue +53% · 46% of their budget
Funded once
- GAGENERAL ADMIN OF THE FRANCISCAN ORDone grant, 2018 · $50k
- FOFRANCISEAN OUTREACH ASSOCIone grant, 2018 · $40k
- CSCUSTODY SAINT BENEDICT OF THE AMAZON2× · 2024–2025 · $28k
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 provide temporary housing and care
Educational, religious and living assistance services for senior citizens
The center serves the under-served and persons with disabilities by partnering with donors, area churchs, foundations, and agencies to provide food, clothing, home repairs, assistance with utility and prescription apyments, and access to…
Assisting poor and homeless with accessing public benefits job readiness counseling job referrals and housing referrals mail drop and Pope Francis Center Ids
Serving individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities in an intentional, faith-based community.
The franciscan center, inc., a ministry of the sisterts of st. francis assisi of milwaukee franciscan centers, is a multi-faceted emergency outreach agency serving the poor and homelesss of baltimore regardless of age, race, creed,…
Catholic charities serves to not only meet the immediate needs of the vulnerable within our communities but to provide solutions that embrace a path to stability for those we are privileged to serve. catholic charities is the primary…
Provide food and shelter to 16 homeless men at no cost to them while they transition onto independent living. Provide free soup kitchen to all who choose to come to our door.
Provide assistance to local community
To perform the works of mercy in response to the call of god. our corporal works of mercy performed primarily include providing food, clothing, shelter, and prison ministry. our spiritual works of mercy performed primarily include…
The carthage crisis center is committed to restoring homeless and needy people to self sufficiency with god's help.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Peter & Paul Community Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Childrens Center of the Cumberland. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 24 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 The Franciscan Connection ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCANS FOR THE WORLD ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS CENTER OF THE CUMBERLAND ↗
- Who funds LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds QUINCY UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC URBAN PROGRAMS NFP ↗
- Who funds PETER & PAUL COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MORNING STAR MISSION MINISTRIES 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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Honora M Cullinan 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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