· Private foundation
John & Weezie Gates Charitable Trust
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 $10k22 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $175k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $470k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $205,000 |
| TRINITY | $165,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & POLICY CENTER (ELPC) | $100,000 |
| THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION | $26,800 |
| HOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC | $25,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MARTIN COUNTY | $25,000 |
| ST CHRYSOSTOM'S CHURCH | $25,000 |
| ST ANTHONY TRUST OF HARTFORD | $25,000 |
| REHABILITATION INSTITUTE | $23,520 |
| THE CONSERVATION FUND | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE (AEI) | $10,000 |
| JUPITER ISLAND MEDICAL CLINIC | $5,000 |
| EAGLE HILL SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| TEAM IMPACT | $5,000 |
| EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $33k) 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +37% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 5 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
- EHEAGLE HILL FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTSINC7× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +28%
THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $167k · revenue +226%- AEAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH3× · 2017–2019 · $126k · revenue +0%
Funded once
- ESEAGLEBROOK SCHOOL CAPITAL FUNDone grant, 2017 · $100k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 2 X 20 COMMITTEE FUNDone grant, 2017 · $20k
- HSHARRIS SCHOOL PLAQUEone grant, 2020 · $15k
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
Stanley manne children's research institute strives to generate new knowledge and advance the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of pediatric diseases.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Education and Research
The adler planetarium ('adler') is a not-for-profit cultural institution whose mission is to connect people to the universe and each other under the sky we all share. it aspires to be the world's premier center for engaging in astronomy…
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.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Chicago Lighthouse for People Who Are Blind Or Visually Impaired and the most unlike its peers is Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 83 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 EAGLE HILL FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTSINC ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds HOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST ANTHONY TRUST OF HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TEAM IMPACT INC ↗
- Who funds JUPITER ISLAND GARDEN CLUBINC ↗
- Who funds DUNE ACRES CIVIC IMPROVEMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Youth Guidance ↗
- Who funds JUPITER ISLAND MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Madonna Mission ↗
- Who funds Invest for Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
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 David and Elizabeth Long Foundation · St Clair Charitable Trust · Legatus Foundation · CMB Foundation · Madigan Family Foundation · Ethel D Colket Foundation · Colket Family Foundation · The Zeckhauser Foundation · The James E & Constance L Bell Foundation · Cox Foundation Inc · Nivin and Duncan Macmillan Foundation · Donald Grant & Ann Martin Calder Foundat
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 & Weezie Gates Charitable Trust 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Boys & Girls Club of Martin County — 2% of income from government
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.