· 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 you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
| PRESERVATION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL LOUIS UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $10,000 |
| LYCEE FRANCAIS DE CHICAGO | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN FOUNDATION OF THE Serpentine Galleries | $10,000 |
| SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS | $10,000 |
| KING'S ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| Atlantic Salmon Foundation | $5,000 |
| ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO | $5,000 |
| COLORADO COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| JAMESTOWN FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
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 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.
Your 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 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
Beyond the US — 14% of all-years giving ($278k)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 15% of J Jeffry and Elizabeth S Louis Foundation Inc c/o Bell & Anderson LLC’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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +67% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you 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
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
- 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%
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Friends of Eton College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 55 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
39 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. 39 of the 56 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 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 TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- 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 THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SELENI HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ETON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA 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: 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
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 J Jeffry and Elizabeth S Louis Foundation Inc c/o Bell & Anderson LLC 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- 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
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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