· Private foundation
Jack Ringer 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 $10k15 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Night Ministry | $15,000 |
| Francis W Parker School | $15,000 |
| Access Living of Metro Chicago | $6,000 |
| Field Museum | $3,500 |
| Lincoln Park Zoo | $3,000 |
| Tulane University | $3,000 |
| AIDS Foundation of Chicago | $2,500 |
| Steppenwolf Theatre | $2,000 |
| Art Institute of Chicago | $1,600 |
| Preservation Chicago | $1,500 |
| Museum of Science and Industry | $1,500 |
| Shedd Aquarium | $1,500 |
| Chad Smith Foundation | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Vocel | $500 |
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 (FY20–25, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
26 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 3 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FWFrancis W Parker School6× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +29%
- TATHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND6× · 2020–2025 · $17k · revenue +44%
- DTDelta Tau Delta Educational Foundation Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $17k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- IEIRA Educational Foundationone grant, 2022 · $3k
- DPDEBORAH'S PLACEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +54%
- NMNational MS Societyone grant, 2021 · $1k
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 Chicago History Museum strives to be a destination for learning, inspiration, and civic engagement. Through dynamic exhibitions, tours, programs, digital resources, and special events, the Museum connects people to Chicago's history…
To inspire conservation leadership by connecting people with wildlife and nature.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Operation of a nautical history museum.
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
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.
The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.
We are chicago's jesuit, catholic university - a diverse community seeking god in all things and working to expand knowledge in the service of humanity through learning, justice, and faith.
To spark curiosity and creativity in all young children through positive, play-based learning experiences.
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 36 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 THE NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds Francis W Parker School ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds Delta Tau Delta Educational Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds STEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry ↗
- Who funds SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago ↗
- Who funds COOK COUNTY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHICAGO RIVER ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO CARES INC ↗
- Who funds Vocel Viewing our Children as Emerging Leaders ↗
- Who funds PAWS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds AIDS Foundation of Chicago ↗
- Who funds DEBORAH'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds JESSE WHITE FOUNDATION LTD ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds KALEIDOSCOPE INC ↗
- Who funds THE JACKSON CHANCE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Ringer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jack Ringer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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