· Private foundation
J D Bergman Charitable Foundation 23-58411
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASCENSION ILLINOIS FOUNDATION | $400,000 |
| ADVANCING AMERICAN FREEDOM FUND | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $25,000 |
| CHICAGO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| WILL GRUNDY MEDICAL CENTER | $10,000 |
| STEPPING STONES TREATMENT CENTER | $5,000 |
| WILL COUNTY CENTER FOR COMM CONCERN | $5,000 |
| UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| CASA OF RIVER VALLEY | $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 (FY20–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +43% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
Chicago Zoological Society5× · 2020–2024 · $175k · revenue +80%
NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $75k · revenue +10%- COCASA OF RIVER VALLEY4× · 2020–2024 · $10k · revenue +114%
Funded once
- ABALEXIAN BROTHERS HEALTH SYSTEMone grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue -75%
- RHROSARY HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $100k
- SCSilver Cross Foundationone grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue +14%
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.
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
Care to terminal patients/families
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
To advocate for and support hospitals and health systems as they serve patients and communities in illinois.
The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…
The Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, is an independent and separate nonprofit entity from the University of Illinois. Our mission is to encourage and administer private gifts and serve the UI System by working closely with…
Provide pediatric and subspecialty surgical, research, and educational services.
The Community Foundation of Northern Illinois ("CFNIL") was established to serve as a catalyst for giving and a promoter of philanthropy. The Foundation attracts, preserves, and grows a charitable endowment for the present and future needs…
The Foodbank's mission is to provide food, and develop awareness of and creative solutions for food insecurity. Annually, the Foodbank distributes approximately 9.5 million pounds of food to 130 food pantries, soup kitchens, children's…
To be a leader in quality health care to all people of central and southern illinois in support of the mission of the southern illinois university school of medicine.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
To promote excellence in the health and well-being of people of illinois through support and education of family physicians and the families and communities they serve.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Illinois State University Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Holly Club Co Larson & Associates Ltd. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 28 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 ALEXIAN BROTHERS HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds Chicago Zoological Society ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WILL COUNTY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ST FRANCIS ↗
- Who funds Silver Cross Foundation ↗
- Who funds CASA OF RIVER VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Lewis University ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds A SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOLLY CLUB CO LARSON & ASSOCIATES LTD ↗
- Who funds WILL GRUNDY MEDICAL CLINIC ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Joliet Area Community Hospice Corp ↗
- Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY CENTER FOR DISABILITY SERVICES ↗
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: United Way of Will County · AbbVie Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 J D Bergman Charitable Foundation 23-58411 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.