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John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy

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.

$32M
Granted FY2024still arriving
60
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$3.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0177% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.

Education$19MHealth$8.9MHousing & Shelter$5.9MHuman Services$5.8MFood & Nutrition$4.3MInternational$3.0MCommunity Improvement$2.6MYouth Development$1.1MPhilanthropy$1.1MOther$19M
02FY2024 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $285k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.0M
  • $250k+41 grants · $31M
$275,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$185M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Carter Center Inc$3,000,000
Reclaiming Chicago NFP$3,000,000
Lake Forest College$2,500,000
National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC)$2,375,000
Big Shoulders Fund$2,000,000
Erie Family Health Foundation Inc$1,500,000
The Josselyn Center NFP$1,326,087
Allies for Community Business$975,000
Northern Illinois Food Bank$860,000
North Chicago Community Partners NFP$855,000
Cristo Rey St Martin College Prep$800,000
Loyola University of Chicago$800,000
Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago Inc$750,000
Transform Capital$700,000
Renew Communities NFP$675,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $5.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Camp Blue Skies: $200k → 10%Camp Blue Skies: $200k → 10%Camp Blue Skies: $200k → 10%Keeping Families Covered: $75k → 8%Keeping Families Covered: $35k → 8%Beyond Legal Aid: $35k → 14%Hispanic American Community Education and Services Inc: $35k → 8%Hispanic American Community Education and Services Inc: $25k → 8%Beyond Legal Aid: $25k → 14%Keeping Families Covered: $20k → 8%Keeping Families Covered: $15k → 8%Hispanic American Community Education And Services Inc: $10k → 8%South Suburban PADS: $40k → 14%South Suburban Pads: $35k → 14%Misericordia Home: $500k → 14%Misericordia Home: $500k → 14%Misericordia Home: $500k → 14%Misericordia Home: $500k → 14%Misericordia Home: $75k → 14%The Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights: $100k → 14%Community Youth Network Inc: $25k → 8%The Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights: $100k → 14%Community Youth Network Inc: $20k → 8%Community Youth Network Inc: $15k → 8%The Young Center for Immigrant Childrens Rights: $30k → 14%The Young Center for Immigrant Childrens' Rights: $25k → 14%Mano a Mano Family Resource Center: $90k → 8%Mano a Mano Family Resource Center: $75k → 8%Mano a Mano Family Resource Center: $70k → 8%Mano A Mano Family Resource Center: $40k → 8%Mano a Mano Family Resource Center: $15k → 8%YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago: $250k → 14%ElderCARE Lake County: $25k → 8%COOL Ministries: $25k → 8%LEAP Innovations: $100k → 14%LEAP Innovations: $35k → 14%Renew Communities NFP: $675k → 8%Renew Communities NFP: $338k → 8%Renew Communities NFP: $338k → 8%Roberti Community House: $35k → 8%Mothers Trust Foundation: $35k → 8%Roberti Community House: $32k → 8%Roberti Community House: $30k → 8%Roberti Community House: $25k → 8%Mothers Trust Foundation: $25k → 8%Mothers Trust Foundation: $20k → 8%Mothers Trust Foundation: $15k → 8%Gorton Community Center: $11k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
NC
SC
DC
AL
GA
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$53M · 135 repeat orgs$17M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

135 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 99 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

135
58

Total granted

$53M
$3.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+16%

Still filing today

78%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther

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

  • LU
    LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
    5× · 2020–2024 · $5.0M · revenue +23%
  • BS
    Big Shoulders Fund
    5× · 2020–2024 · $4.4M · revenue +67%
  • NI
    NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK
    5× · 2020–2024 · $3.9M · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • CC
    Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago
    one grant, 2023 · $1.2M · revenue 0%
  • LC
    LAWNDALE CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue +63%
  • NI
    National Immigrant Justice Center
    one grant, 2020 · $500k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management

Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.

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2
Legal Aid Chicago

At legal aid chicago, we work together to provide high quality civil legal aid to people living in poverty and other vulnerable groups.through advocacy, education, collaboration, and litigation we empower individuals, protect fundamental…

Crime & Legal
3
Lakeshore Legal Aid

Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.

Crime & Legal
4
A Better Chicago

A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.

Human Services
5
Lakeside Community Committee

To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.

Human Services
6
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

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.

Education
7
The University of Chicago Charter School Corporation

To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.

Education
8
Illinois College

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…

Education
9
Kipp Chicago Schools

The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…

Education
10
Chicago Public Education Fund

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.

Education
11
Chicago Collegiate Inc

To equip all students in grades six through twelve with the academic skills, intellectual habits and character traits to succeed in the college of their choice, strenghten their communities and change the world.

Education
12
Chicago Heightening Opportunity and Potential for

Providing academic support to children experiencing homelessness in Chicago and providing resources and services to families experiencing homelessness in Chicago.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections for the Homeless Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Roberti Community House. 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 32 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%2%<5yr14%7%5–10yr18%17%10–20yr17%29%20–35yr14%24%35–55yr16%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%8%<5yr14%15%5–10yr18%12%10–20yr17%12%20–35yr14%31%35–55yr16%22%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%2/182
the rest of the field
16%
5,390/34,468

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.

04the grantee network

169 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. 169 of the 214 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
50
Early backer (in before they grew)
167/169
Grantees still filing
126/169
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO — $4,967,927 · EducationLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGOBig Shoulders Fund — $4,412,615 · EducationBig Shoulders FundCristo Rey St Martin College Prep — $2,535,000 · EducationCristo Rey St Martin College P…Lake Forest College — $2,520,000 · EducationLake Forest CollegeNorth Chicago Community Partners — $2,210,000 · EducationNorth Chicago Community Partne…+27 more — $2,709,500 · Education+27 moreNational Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) — $2,625,000 · OtherNational Immigrant Justice Center (NIJ…Lawndale Educational and Regional Charter School Network (LEARN) — $1,300,000 · OtherLawndale Educational and Regional Char…Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago — $1,175,000 · OtherDANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $1,135,000 · OtherCATHOLIC BISHOP OF CHICAGO — $1,028,000 · OtherNorthwestern Memorial Foundation — $1,010,250 · OtherALLIES FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESS INC — $1,915,000 · OtherALLIES FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESS INC+110 more — $13,908,800 · Other+110 moreTHE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP — $3,871,484 · HealthTHE JOSSELYN C…Erie Family Health Foundation Inc — $3,295,000 · HealthErie Family He…PADS Lake County Inc — $1,040,000 · HealthPADS Lake Coun…St Bernard Hospital — $300,000 · Health+6 more — $383,250 · HealthRECLAIMING CHICAGO NFP — $3,000,000 · Housing & ShelterRECLAIMIN…NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF CHICAGO INC — $750,000 · Housing & ShelterNEIGHBORH…The Resurrection Project — $705,000 · Housing & ShelterThe Resur…CONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $400,000 · Housing & ShelterCONNECTIO…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY LAKE COUNTY — $325,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT F…LA CASA NORTE — $300,000 · Housing & Shelter+4 more — $390,000 · Housing & Shelter+4 moreMISERICORDIA HOME — $2,075,000 · Human ServicesMISERICOR…RENEW COMMUNITIES NFP — $1,357,500 · Human ServicesRENEW COM…Camp Blue Skies Foundation — $600,000 · Human ServicesCamp Blue…MANO A MANO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER — $300,000 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS — $255,000 · Human ServicesThe YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago — $250,000 · Human Services+19 more — $952,700 · Human Services+19 moreNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK — $3,935,000 · Food & NutritionGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $331,300 · Food & NutritionTHE CARTER CENTER INC — $3,000,000 · International+3 more — $11,000 · International
Education$19,355,042Other$24,097,050Health$8,889,734Housing & Shelter$5,870,000Human Services$5,790,200Food & Nutrition$4,266,300International$3,011,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO — $4,967,927 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBig Shoulders Fund — $4,412,615 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK — $3,935,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTHE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP — $3,871,484 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetErie Family Health Foundation Inc — $3,295,000 over 4y, 75% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC — $3,000,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetRECLAIMING CHICAGO NFP — $3,000,000 over 1y, 77% of budgetLake Forest College — $2,520,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetNorth Chicago Community Partners — $2,210,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetMISERICORDIA HOME — $2,075,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetALLIES FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESS INC — $1,915,000 over 3y, 9.8% of budgetRENEW COMMUNITIES NFP — $1,357,500 over 4y, 64% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago — $1,175,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $1,135,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetPADS Lake County Inc — $1,040,000 over 4y, 9.2% of budgetSTART EARLY — $750,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF CHICAGO INC — $750,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetThe Resurrection Project — $705,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTRANSFORM CAPITAL — $700,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetNICASA NFP — $677,500 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetARDEN SHORE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES — $660,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Lake County — $660,000 over 5y, 8.2% of budgetCamp Blue Skies Foundation — $600,000 over 3y, 55% of budgetCRISTO REY NETWORK — $505,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetCity Colleges of Chicago Foundation — $500,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetLAWNDALE CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER — $500,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCASA LAKE COUNTY INC — $485,000 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HIGHWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY — $485,000 over 4y, 88% of budgetTHE LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $480,000 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetACADEMY FOR URBAN SCHOOL LEADERSHIP — $470,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetThe Chicago Community Trust — $415,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $400,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetLAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER — $400,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetYOUTHBUILD LAKE COUNTY INC — $370,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetREFUGEEONE — $352,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $331,300 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY LAKE COUNTY — $325,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetMANO A MANO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER — $300,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetSt Bernard Hospital — $300,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLA CASA NORTE — $300,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetNORTH LAWNDALE COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL INC — $280,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS — $255,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetNew Life Centers of Chicagoland — $250,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHOPE CHICAGO INC — $250,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetThe YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago — $250,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLINK Unlimited Scholars — $195,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetWAUKEGAN PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $175,000 over 4y, 32% of budgetCHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER — $175,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budget
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.

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.

The Lake County Commu…Circle of Service Fou…Northwestern Memorial…United Way of Metropo…The Gorter Family Fou…The Chicago Community…United Way of Lake Co…The Grainger Foundati…First Bank Chicago Fo…Healthcare Foundation…Robert R McCormick Fo…Harold M & Adeline S …
The Lake County Community FoundationIL87.6× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Lake County Community Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Gorter Family Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Lake County Inc · The Grainger Foundation Inc · First Bank Chicago Foundation · Healthcare Foundation of Northern Lake County · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Harold M & Adeline S Morrison 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 John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
50report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 214 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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