· Private foundation
Hurley Family 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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLGATE UNIVERSITY | $1,525,000 |
| PICKLES GROUP INC | $10,000 |
| INDIAN HILL CLUB SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WINNETKA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% 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 +24% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CUCOLGATE UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $4.3M · revenue +60%
- CHCHRISTOPHER HOUSE4× · 2020–2023 · $20k · revenue +19%
- CPCHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC3× · 2020–2023 · $20k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- LLLA LUMIERE SCHOOL INCone grant, 2021 · $101k · revenue -19%
- LULOYOLA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW HURLEY SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2023 · $25k
- IHINDIAN HILL SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2023 · $25k
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.
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
Tutoring chicago delivers the power of education through one-to-one tutoring.
Rippowam Cisqua School creates independent thinkers, confident communicators, and engaged leaders who respect and contribute meaningfully to a diverse and increasingly complex global society.
To equip all students in grades six through twelve with the academic skills, intellectual habits and character traits to succeed in the college of their choice, strenghten their communities and change the world.
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
Ace amandla charter high school seeks to prepare students academically and socially with the skills needed for post-secondary success by providing high quality instruction, real world experiences, and comprehensive support in a…
See schedule othe mission of icahn charter schools is to cultivate a climate of collaborative excellence among students, staff, families, and the community. our four pillars of transformative education guide icahn educators as they adopt a…
Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…
The Lycee Francais de Chicago, driven by our core values of respect, responsibility and the joy of learning, empowers students to grow into active global citizens.
Louisville collegiate school inspires academic excellence, extraordinary character and global citizenship.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 22 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 COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LA LUMIERE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Indian Hill Club Scholarship Foundation ↗
- Who funds Pickles Group Inc ↗
- Who funds CHRISTOPHER HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds Youth Guidance ↗
- Who funds WINNETKA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Erikson Institute ↗
- Who funds METROSQUASH NFP ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Erikas Lighthouse A Beacon of Hope for Adolescent Depression ↗
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 · Kemper Educational and Charitable Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hurley Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hurley Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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