· Private foundation
Jentes Family Foundation
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $186k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $176k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HYDE PARK ART CENTER | $101,152 |
| BRYN MAWR COLLEGE | $74,882 |
| METROPOLITAN PEACE ACADEMY | $20,943 |
| 826 NATIONAL | $20,898 |
| 826 CHI | $20,014 |
| CABINET OF CURIOSITY | $20,000 |
| LINKS HALL | $16,075 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $16,056 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $16,056 |
| PROPUBLICA | $11,253 |
| WTTW | $11,253 |
| GREATER FOOD CHICAGO DEPOSITORY | $11,253 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,239 |
| CHICAGO READER | $11,239 |
| DEBORAH'S PLACE | $9,634 |
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 (FY18–23, $437k) 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 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.
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 +29% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 24 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
HYDE PARK ART CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $669k · revenue +44%- MFMetropolitan Family Services4× · 2020–2023 · $432k · revenue +104%
- BMBRYN MAWR COLLEGE6× · 2017–2024 · $407k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $46k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $30k
MACALESTER COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $26k · revenue +35%
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.
Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The chicago academy for the arts transforms emerging artists through a curriculum and culture which connect intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, and creativity to impart the skills to lead and collaborate across diverse communities.
The chicago theatre group is committed to producing both classic and contemporary works giving full voice to a wide range of artists and visions. by dedicating itself to three guiding principles - quality, equity, and community - the…
The music institute of chicago ("music institute") leads people toward a lifelong engagement with music, by providing widely accessible resources for high quality music teaching, performing, and service activities.
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…
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
To promote public appreciation, understanding and support of the humanities through festivals and educational programs.
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
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 spark curiosity and creativity in all young children through positive, play-based learning experiences.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Illinois Arts Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Court Theatre Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 73 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 HYDE PARK ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Family Services ↗
- Who funds BRYN MAWR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER ↗
- Who funds 826CHI INC ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds 826 National Inc ↗
- Who funds Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds LINKS HALL INC ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG CHICAGO AUTHORS ↗
- Who funds START EARLY ↗
- Who funds Lyric Opera of Chicago ↗
- Who funds DEBORAH'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF JONES ↗
- Who funds Cabinet of Curiosity Inc NFP ↗
- Who funds GRANT PARK ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds MACALESTER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds NEAR NORTH MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
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: John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Field Foundation of Illinois · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Prince Foundation · The Irving Harris Foundation · The Poetry Foundation · The Joyce 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 Jentes 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.