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Jtb 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.

$28M
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$15M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$12MHealth$981kFood & Nutrition$725kHuman Services$620kHousing & Shelter$430kArts & Culture$250kAnimals$244kPhilanthropy$203kOther$0
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k13 grants · $325k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+3 grants · $26M
$62,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$162M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$15,155,000
NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$10,000,000
ST JOHN'S PREPARATORY SCHOOL$750,000
NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK$150,000
SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND$150,000
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY$150,000
FOOD FOR GREATER ELGIN INC$150,000
SMILE TRAIN INC$100,000
ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO$100,000
MERCY SHIPS$100,000
ELGIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$100,000
FIDELITY CHARITABLE$70,000
TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC$62,500
MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO$62,500
CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA$62,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $175k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EVOLVE ADOPTION & FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 6%COVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS: $25k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS: $25k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS: $25k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS: $25k → 14%BARRINGTON AREA COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $25k → 14%BARRINGTON AREA COUNCIL ON AGING: $25k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MN
IL
NY
MA
OH
CA
MO
VA
AZ
KS
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

16%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.0M · 33 repeat orgs$36M to everyone else

33 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
12

Total granted

$7.0M
$11M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+21%

Still filing today

67%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureFood & NutritionEducationHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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

  • SMILE TRAIN INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $507k · revenue +19%
  • FF
    FOOD FOR GREATER ELGIN INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $425k · revenue +51%
  • NI
    NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK
    4× · 2022–2025 · $300k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • NF
    NIB FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $10M
  • SJ
    ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY (BAUSTERT SCHOLARSHIP)
    one grant, 2022 · $150k
  • LC
    LURIE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
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
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
2
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
3
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
4
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
5
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
6
University of Chicago Medical Center

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…

Health
7
Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Food & Nutrition
8
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
9
Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group

Northwestern memorial healthcare is an integrated healthcare system, consisting of multiple hospitals (including northwestern memorial hospital, an academic medical center) and networks of physicians and healthcare professionals, where the…

Health
10
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
11
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.": - count it: our work is…

International
12
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is College Diabetes Network Inc; the most unlike its peers is Nib Foundation. 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

37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 58 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/37
Grantees still filing
21/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $15,155,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONNORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,000,000 · EducationNORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION+1 more: $150,000 · EducationNIB FOUNDATION: $10,000,000 · OtherNIB FOUNDATIONORDER OF ST BENEDICT INC: $1,372,000 · OtherORDER OF ST BENEDICT INCST JOHNS UNIVERSITY: $801,000 · OtherSMILE TRAIN INC: $507,000 · Other+29 more: $2,521,000 · Other+29 moreFOOD FOR GREATER ELGIN INC: $425,000 · Food & NutritionNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $300,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $300,000 · Food & NutritionGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $300,000 · Food & NutritionBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $100,000 · HealthPlanned Parenthood of Illinois: $100,000 · HealthAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $100,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES: $75,000 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association: $50,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $25,000 · HealthCOLLEGE DIABETES NETWORK INC: $25,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 · HealthMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $112,500 · Arts & CultureTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $112,500 · Arts & CultureWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $62,500 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $62,500 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureMercy Ships International: $200,000 · InternationalWATERORG: $100,000 · InternationalCOVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesBARRINGTON AREA COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesEVOLVE Adoption & Family Services: $25,000 · Human Services
Education$25,305,000Other$15,201,000Food & Nutrition$1,325,000Health$500,000Arts & Culture$400,000International$300,000Human Services$175,000

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $15,155,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,000,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $507,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD FOR GREATER ELGIN INC: $425,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $300,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $300,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $300,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMercy Ships International: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $180,000 over 6y, 41% of budgetELGIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $112,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $112,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetWATERORG: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $100,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Illinois: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTHERN FOX VALLEY: $75,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER OF MINNESOTA: $75,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetONE TREE PLANTED INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $62,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $62,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBARRINGTON AREA COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $50,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEVOLVE Adoption & Family Services: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCOLLEGE DIABETES NETWORK INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 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 UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NIB FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD FOR GREATER ELGIN INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds ELGIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
  • Who funds TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS INC ↗
  • Who funds WATERORG ↗
  • Who funds TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds Planned Parenthood of Illinois ↗
  • Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ↗
  • Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTHERN FOX VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds ONE TREE PLANTED INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES ↗
  • Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA 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.

Arthur J Gallagher Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
Arthur J Gallagher FoundationIL14× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Jtb Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jtb Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.

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 58 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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