· Private foundation
J Jeffry and Elizabeth S Louis Foundation Inc c/o Bell & Anderson LLC
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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $125k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAF AMERICA | $70,000 |
| THE NORTON MUSEUM PALM | $25,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| DEERFIELD ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $10,000 |
| PRESERVATION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| LYCEE FRANCAIS DE CHICAGO | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN FOUNDATION OF THE Serpentine Galleries | $10,000 |
| SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL LOUIS UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| KING'S ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO | $5,000 |
| Atlantic Salmon Foundation | $5,000 |
| COLORADO COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| JAMESTOWN FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 86% of grant dollars ($1.7M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 14% that went abroad ($278k) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY19–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 14% of all-years giving ($278k)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 15% of J Jeffry and Elizabeth S Louis Foundation Inc c/o Bell & Anderson LLC’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +67% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
28 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 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; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TOTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY9× · 2017–2025 · $260k · revenue +122%
Northwestern University9× · 2017–2025 · $125k · revenue +41%
Williams College9× · 2017–2025 · $106k · revenue +87%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $12k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LONDON GARDENone grant, 2017 · $11k
- CHCHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -29%
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Education and Research
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
How this is measured
39 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. 39 of the 56 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 TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds National Louis University ↗
- Who funds Lycee Francais de Chicago Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Atlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JAMESTOWN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN'S GREEN FIRE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SELENI HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ETON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Chicago Votes ↗
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 Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Baird Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization J Jeffry and Elizabeth S Louis Foundation Inc c/o Bell & Anderson LLC funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from J Jeffry and Elizabeth S Louis Foundation Inc c/o Bell & Anderson LLC. Bigger dots raise more.
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Trinity College: 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
- Williams College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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