· Private foundation
Jack M Klues & Elizabeth F Klues 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $124k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAINT VIATOR HIGH SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| OFF THE STREET CLUB | $50,000 |
| OFF THE STREET CLUB | $44,250 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| WEST BAY COMMUNITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
| FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| OFF THE STREET CLUB | $10,000 |
| MARCH OF DIMES FOUNDATION | $1,250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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
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 12% of Jack M Klues & Elizabeth F Klues Family Foundation’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 +29% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OTOFF THE STREET CLUB9× · 2017–2025 · $927k · revenue +161%
University of Illinois Foundation8× · 2017–2025 · $323k · revenue +127%- FMFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC8× · 2017–2025 · $85k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- TSTHE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF GREEK HOUSINGone grant, 2020 · $110k · revenue -6%
- MIMUSIC INSTITUTE OF CHICAGOone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +10%
- NDNBIA Disorders Associationone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +2%
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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Support of miami university
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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.
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How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 14 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 OFF THE STREET CLUB ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds QUINCY NOTRE DAME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF GREEK HOUSING ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds WEST BAY COMMUNITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds MUSIC INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds NBIA Disorders Association ↗
- Who funds FALKNER SWAMP NURSERY SCHOOL INC ↗
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: 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 Jack M Klues & Elizabeth F Klues Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jack M Klues & Elizabeth F Klues Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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