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John and Mary Raitt Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$555k
Granted FY2024still arriving
42
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$5.9MYouth Development$507kPhilanthropy$296kHealth$295kCivil Rights$168kRecreation & Sports$77kFood & Nutrition$71kReligion$64kOther$0
02FY2024 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 42 grants below total $464,929, the rows itemized in this filing. The $554,929 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $90,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k24 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $294k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $115k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$870k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY$20,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$20,000
CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST$20,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION, INC (ACLU)$20,000
ALPHA PHI FOUNDATION$15,000
ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHT (ICIRR)$15,000
NATIONAL IMMIGRANT JUSTICE CENTER$15,000
PARTNERSHIP TO EDUCATE AND ADVANCE KIDS (PEAK)$15,000
MIDTOWN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$10,000
EDESIA INC$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HEART AND MIND FOUNDATION: $1.8M → 14%SEE ATTACHED STMT: $1.3M → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.2M · 46 repeat orgs$120k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
18

Total granted

$7.2M
$115k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+22%

Still filing today

65%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthFood & NutritionCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • YG
    Youth Guidance
    6× · 2019–2024 · $472k · revenue +65%
  • SO
    ST OLAF COLLEGE
    6× · 2019–2024 · $375k · revenue +37%
  • BS
    Big Shoulders Fund
    5× · 2018–2024 · $323k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • SL
    STATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • MU
    MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • HA
    Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights
    one grant, 2020 · $11k · revenue -75%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
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
2
Lake Forest College

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…

Education
3
The University of Chicago Charter School Corporation

To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.

Education
4
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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5
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
6
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.

Social Science
7
Saint Xavier University

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…

Education
8
Junior Achievement of Chicago

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy

International
9
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
10
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
11
Hilbert College

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…

Education
12
Loyola University of Chicago

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Shoulders Fund; 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.
04the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 71 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/42
Grantees still filing
31/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOLY TRINITY HIGH SCHOOL: $1,356,514 · OtherHOLY TRINITY HIGH SCHOOLPARTNERSHIP TO EDUCATE AND ADVANCE KIDS (PEAK): $1,014,954 · OtherPARTNERSHIP TO EDUCATE AND ADVANCE KIDS (PEAK)OUR LADY OF TEPEYAC HIGH SCHOOL: $149,500 · Other+45 more: $604,200 · Other+45 moreHEART AND MIND FOUNDATION: $2,212,500 · PhilanthropyHEART AND MIND FOUNDATIONThe Chicago Community Trust: $182,500 · PhilanthropyThe Chicago Community Trust+2 more: $15,000 · PhilanthropyYouth Guidance: $472,400 · EducationYouth GuidanceST OLAF COLLEGE: $375,000 · EducationST OLAF COLLEGEBig Shoulders Fund: $323,000 · EducationBig Shoulders FundMarquette University: $100,000 · EducationMarquette UniversityALPHA PHI FOUNDATION INC: $82,500 · EducationALPHA PHI FOUNDATION I…+8 more: $178,500 · Education+8 moreHIGHSIGHT: $194,229 · Community ImprovementTHE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP: $185,000 · Health+1 more: $3,500 · HealthAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 · Civil RightsOUR NEXT GENERATION INC: $18,000 · Civil RightsNorthwestern University: $55,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$3,125,168Philanthropy$2,410,000Education$1,531,400Community Improvement$194,229Health$188,500Civil Rights$98,000Recreation & Sports$55,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHEART AND MIND FOUNDATION: $2,212,500 over 3y, 42% of budgetYouth Guidance: $472,400 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetST OLAF COLLEGE: $375,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBig Shoulders Fund: $323,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHIGHSIGHT: $194,229 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetTHE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP: $185,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetThe Chicago Community Trust: $182,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMarquette University: $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetALPHA PHI FOUNDATION INC: $82,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $55,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLESLIE SHANKMAN SCHOOL CORPORATION: $40,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWilliams College: $37,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMidtown-Metro Achievement Centers: $35,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEDESIA INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH JOB CENTER INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetOUR NEXT GENERATION INC: $18,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetAmerican Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education: $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMilwaukee Excellence Inc: $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Family Institute: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEvanston Community Foundation: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHeartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Poetry Center: $10,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetThe Springboard Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetNORTH LAKELAND DISCOVERY CENTER INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ancona School: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBALTIMORE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRO ROMERO: $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDEBRA GELFAND CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetHOLY FAMILY MINISTRIES: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOWARD YOUNG FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUKRAINIAN CONGRESS COMMITTEE OF AMERICA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHIRLEY HEINZE LAND TRUST INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 Milwaukee Excellence Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Family Institute ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

The Chicago Community…Baird Foundation IncWP & HB White Foundat…Jewish Federation of …John D and Catherine …Dr Scholl FoundationHerbert H Kohl Charit…The Ayco Charitable F…AbbVie FoundationNational Philanthropi…T Rowe Price Program …Gs Donor Advised Phil…
The Chicago Community TrustIL24.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization John and Mary Raitt Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John and Mary Raitt Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to John and Mary Raitt Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 71 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $1.3M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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