· Private foundation
John H Hart Foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k26 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $170k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $980k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| LINCOLN PARK ZOO | $150,000 |
| STEPPENWOLF THEATRE | $125,000 |
| CHI ARTS | $115,000 |
| THE JESSICA FUND | $100,000 |
| CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $90,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $50,000 |
| GOODMAN THEATRE | $50,000 |
| MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC | $50,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR HEARING & SPEECH | $50,000 |
| MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART | $50,000 |
| ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO | $30,000 |
| CHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN | $25,000 |
| SANTA FE OPERA | $15,000 |
| INVEST FOR KIDS | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $134k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% 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 +45% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.
86 repeat relationships: 42 still active in FY2024, 44 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; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CSChicago Symphony Orchestra8× · 2017–2024 · $787k · revenue +58%
- CTCHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC8× · 2017–2024 · $745k · revenue +35%
- LPLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · $602k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- TCTHE CHICAGO ACADEMY FOR THE ARTSone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +18%
- EIErikson Instituteone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +14%
- TPTHE PARKER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -73%
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 organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.
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.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
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 an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
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 npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
How this is measured
131 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. 131 of the 179 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 THE JESSICA FUND ↗
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds STEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN ↗
- Who funds MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL LTD ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR HEARING AND SPEECH RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds MUSICAL MOVEMENTS FOR CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Lyric Opera of Chicago ↗
- Who funds THE SANTA FE OPERA ↗
- Who funds Invest for Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds FIRST SERVE-NM INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOFFREY BALLET ↗
- Who funds Francis W Parker School ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Respectacle Inc ↗
- Who funds THINK NEW MEXICO ↗
- Who funds Erikson Institute ↗
- Who funds BRENTWOOD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Stuttering Foundation of America ↗
- Who funds MUSIC INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ARTS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Abeles Foundation · Santa Fe Community Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Albuquerque Community Foundation · Anchorum St Vincent · Thornburg Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Zell Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John H Hart Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John H Hart Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- University of Miami: 5% of income from government
How this is measured
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