· 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 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 $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 |
| Harvesters | $10,000 |
| Phillips Exeter Academy | $10,000 |
| Adler Planetarium of Chicago | $7,500 |
| The Community Church of Lake Forest & Lake Bluff | $5,000 |
| A Thousand Summers | $5,000 |
| Bishop Seabury Academy | $5,000 |
| North Chicago Community Partners | $5,000 |
| Coalition for the Homeless | $5,000 |
| Chicago Youth Centers | $4,000 |
| Proctor Academy | $4,000 |
| Operation Breakthrough | $2,500 |
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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +39% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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 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…
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 32 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 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 North Chicago Community Partners ↗
- Who funds PROJECT EXPLORATION ↗
- Who funds LAKE FOREST COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ST GEORGE'S INDEPENDENT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MIDDLEBURG HUMANE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONES ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO MOBILE MAKERS ↗
- Who funds ALIVE Rescue NFP ↗
- Who funds Gorton Community Center ↗
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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jay Whipple Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jay Whipple Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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