· Private foundation
Hutchins Education Foundation
Our mission statement has been amended to the following: The Hutchins Education Foundation will serve the public by supporting educational access civil rights and providing services to low-income or disabled individuals.
Read this first · the figures below need context
95% of Hutchins Education Foundation’s FY2026 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2026 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2025 to 2026.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k5 grants · $8k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| National Philanthropic Trust | $135,394 |
| CU at Home | $5,000 |
| Free Law Project | $1,011 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| North Central College | $258 |
| Wikimedia Foundation | $250 |
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 (FY25–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 2% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2026, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CAC-U AT HOME2× · 2025–2026 · $7k · revenue 0%
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2025–2026 · $2k
- NCNorth Central College2× · 2025–2026 · $1k · revenue 0%
Funded once
- EIEASTERN ILLINOIS FOODBANKone grant, 2025 · $1k · revenue 0%
- CCCHAMPAIGN COUNTY HEALTH CARE CONSUMERSone grant, 2025 · $1k · revenue 0%
University of Illinois Foundationone grant, 2025 · $500 · revenue 0%
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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Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
The chicago bar foundation brings the legal community together through advocacy, funding, and innovation to improve access to justice for people in need and to make the legal system more fair, equitable, and effective.
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The union works to advocate and advance a public policy agenda to support and protect the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of iowa. it works to maintain throughout the united states the rights of free…
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
The civic federation provides objective research and recommendations to improve government efficiency, transparency and accountability and to educate policymakers and the public.
To defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the constitution and laws of the united states guarantee everyone in this country.
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 9 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hutchins Education Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hutchins Education Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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