· Private foundation
John and Mary Raitt 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 42 grants below total $464,929 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $554,929 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $90,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $294k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUTH GUIDANCE | $65,000 |
| ST. OLAF COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| HIGHSIGHT | $45,229 |
| THE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP | $35,000 |
| OUR LADY OF TEPEYAC HIGH SCHOOL | $24,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION, INC (ACLU) | $20,000 |
| CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST | $20,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $20,000 |
| MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| ALPHA PHI FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| NATIONAL IMMIGRANT JUSTICE CENTER | $15,000 |
| PARTNERSHIP TO EDUCATE AND ADVANCE KIDS (PEAK) | $15,000 |
| ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHT (ICIRR) | $15,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN MEDICINE (FKA NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE) | $10,000 |
| YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of your 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 +34% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 4 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- YGYouth Guidance6× · 2019–2024 · $472k · revenue +65%
- SOST OLAF COLLEGE6× · 2019–2024 · $375k · revenue +37%
- BSBig Shoulders Fund5× · 2018–2024 · $323k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- MUMARQUETTE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $20k
- SLSTATE LEADERSHIP PROJECTone grant, 2023 · $20k
- HAHeartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rightsone grant, 2020 · $11k · revenue -75%
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…
Provide post-secondary education leading to a baccalaureate degree. Program service expenditures are made in conjunction with the operation of a liberal arts college spread over 107 acres with approximately 63 educational and support…
To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
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 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.
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.
Hilbert college is an independent institution of higher learning that embraces its catholic franciscan heritage and values. students from diverse backgrounds are educated in liberal arts and professional programs to become informed…
We are chicago's jesuit, catholic university - a diverse community seeking god in all things and working to expand knowledge in the service of humanity through learning, justice, and faith.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Shoulders Fund and the most unlike its peers is American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education. 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 41 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 71 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 HEART AND MIND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Youth Guidance ↗
- Who funds ST OLAF COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Big Shoulders Fund ↗
- Who funds HIGHSIGHT ↗
- Who funds THE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP ↗
- Who funds The Chicago Community Trust ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds ALPHA PHI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LESLIE SHANKMAN SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds Midtown-Metro Achievement Centers ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds EDESIA INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH JOB CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OUR NEXT GENERATION INC ↗
- Who funds American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education ↗
- Who funds CAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds The Family Institute ↗
- Who funds Milwaukee Excellence Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Evanston Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING INC ↗
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 · Baird Foundation Inc · WP & HB White Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
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 Mary Raitt 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.
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