· Private foundation
John F and Joan P Mullins Charitable 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| BUTTERFIELD SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $5,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHICAGOLAND & NORTHWEST INDIANA | $4,000 |
| PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER | $4,000 |
| EASTERSEALS OF DUPAGE & FOX VALLEY REGION | $3,500 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $3,500 |
| THE MAGIC FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| SEMPER FI AND AMERICA'S FUND | $3,000 |
| CHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS | $3,000 |
| EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO | $3,000 |
| THE HUNDRED CLUB OF DUPAGE COUNTY | $2,500 |
| NOTRE DAME PARISH | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.
36 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CBCHICAGO BLACKHAWK ALUMNI ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +205%
- NINORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK9× · 2017–2025 · $32k · revenue +43%
- LULOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO8× · 2018–2025 · $27k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- CNCOMMUNITY NURSE HEALTH CENTERone grant, 2017 · $3k
- CDCHICAGO DISTRICT GOLF ASSOCIATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue -34%
- BSBROADVIEW SERVICE CENTER INCone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
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.
The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
Provide pediatric and subspecialty surgical, research, and educational services.
The 100 club of illinois provides resources, several forms of financial support, access to training, and moral support to the families of first responders who have lost their lives in the line of duty and active duty first responders. all…
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…
Chicago family health center will promote health, work to prevent disease and provide treatment through the delivery of quality, accessible primary healtcare that is culturally sensitive, affordable, and responsive to community and…
Champion humanitarian & patient-centered roles for pathologists. connect those in need to the specialized, life savings skills of pathologists. confer training & awards to residents.
We, loyola university health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.loyola university health system is a member of trinity health.
We value excellence and innovation in clinical and basic research, coordinated and comprehensive patient care, ongoing physician education, and evidence-based child advocacy. our goal is to provide leadership in endeavors that promote the…
The Chicago Parks Foundation is a separate 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization that also serves as the strategic partner for the coordination of fundraising and charitable resources for the Chicago Park District.
The chicago bar foundation brings the legal community together through advocacy, funding, and innovation to improve access to justice for people in need and to make the legal system more fair, equitable, and effective.
The aids foundation of chicago mobilizes communities to create equity and justice for people living with and vulnerable to hiv and related chronic disease.
How this is measured
34 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. 34 of the 51 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 CHICAGO BLACKHAWK ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Magic Foundation ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds PILLARS COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHICAGOLAND & NW INDIANA ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hundred Club of Dupage County ↗
- Who funds MISERICORDIA HOME ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS DUPAGE & THE FOX VALLEY REGION ↗
- Who funds JUST LIVE INC ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PATRIOT EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OPERATORS TRANSITION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TESTICULAR CANCER AWARENESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN HEARING IMPAIRED HOCKEY ASSN INC ↗
- Who funds Big Shoulders Fund ↗
- Who funds Paws With A Cause ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO DISTRICT GOLF ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP 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.
Open a dossier: Baird Foundation Inc · Motorola Solutions Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John F and Joan P Mullins Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John F and Joan P Mullins Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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