· Private foundation
Jay Whipple 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $30,000 |
| St Judes Children's Research Hospital | $25,000 |
| Northern Illinois Food Bank | $20,000 |
| Doctors Without Borders | $15,000 |
| Phillips Exeter Academy | $10,000 |
| Harvesters | $10,000 |
| Adler Planetarium of Chicago | $7,500 |
| North Chicago Community Partners | $5,000 |
| A Thousand Summers | $5,000 |
| Coalition for the Homeless | $5,000 |
| Bishop Seabury Academy | $5,000 |
| The Community Church of Lake Forest & Lake Bluff | $5,000 |
| Chicago Youth Centers | $4,000 |
| Proctor Academy | $4,000 |
| Operation Breakthrough | $2,500 |
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 human-services grants (FY20–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% 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
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.
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 +39% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 6 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $160k · revenue +78%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $135k · revenue +39%
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY6× · 2020–2025 · $110k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- EFELAWA FARM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
- SGST GEORGE'S INDEPENDENT SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -24%
- CMCHICAGO MOBILE MAKERSone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +20%
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 philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
Hillbrook provides an extraordinary educational experience that fosters a love of learning in our students and helps them to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to achieve their highest individual potential in school and in life.…
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…
Harvard-westlake strives to be a diverse and inclusive community united by the joyful pursuit of educational excellence, living and learning with integrity, and purpose beyond ourselves.
To offer an academically challenging and personally enriching education program in a safe, nurturing environment where ethical values and good citizenship are emphasized.
At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…
Inspiring young scholars to contribute their wisdom, compassion, and personal best in the classroom, the community and the world.
We believe that great schools are the cornerstone of a just and thriving community. ensuring that every child is able to attend a school that works is our moral and social imperative - our children deserve no less.
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
Innovative and full of heart, mark day school nurtures each child to pursue their curiosity, think critically, embrace challenge with courage and joy, and work in partnership with others to build more caring and inclusive communities.
Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Youth Centers and the most unlike its peers is Project Exploration. 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 39 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 32 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 ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds ELAWA FARM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds DANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds PROCTOR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BISHOP SEABURY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Chicago Youth Centers ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN AUSTIN CHELEY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Foxcroft School ↗
- Who funds STREETDOG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ORPHANS OF THE STORM ↗
- Who funds PROJECT EXPLORATION ↗
- Who funds North Chicago Community Partners ↗
- Who funds LAKE FOREST COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ST GEORGE'S INDEPENDENT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MIDDLEBURG HUMANE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALIVE Rescue NFP ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO MOBILE MAKERS ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONES ↗
- Who funds Gorton Community Center ↗
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 Chicago Community Trust · Hedberg Foundation Inc · Butler Family Foundation · Carney Family Foundation · David D & Mary F Grumhaus Fund · Red Bird Hollow Foundation · Clarks Fork Foundation · The Gorter Family Foundation · The Dick Family Foundation · Bill Bartholomay Foundation · Sheffield Foundation · Hunter Family Foundation
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 Jay Whipple Family Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.