· Private foundation
Judy Peck Foundation Inc
Its FY2017 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
57% of Judy Peck Foundation Inc’s FY2017 grant dollars went to Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2017 names 21 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k23 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $44k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND | $169,866 |
| AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION | $165,374 |
| CHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $164,845 |
| FAMILY EQUALITY COUNCIL | $22,000 |
| THE CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST HUMAN RIGHTS & GENOCIDE EDUCATION | $21,625 |
| ST FRANCIS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC (WSPCA INC) | $6,500 |
| THE LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE DESERT | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,312 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF CENTRAL & GREATER NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC | $3,792 |
| AM SHALOM | $3,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| THE ALLENDALE SHELTER CLUB | $3,000 |
| LAKE FOREST COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC | $2,000 |
| WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–17, $948) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 aids foundation of chicago mobilizes communities to create equity and justice for people living with and vulnerable to hiv and related chronic disease.
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
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 door county land trust is a local, non-governmental non-profit organization whose mission is to preserve door county's exceptional lands and waters forever.
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…
Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
Chicago canine rescue foundation finds permanent homes for homeless dogs in our community with a specific emphasis on assisting the most vulnerable animals, who without our help, would have no other options. while in our care, they are…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
At legal aid chicago, we work together to provide high quality civil legal aid to people living in poverty and other vulnerable groups.through advocacy, education, collaboration, and litigation we empower individuals, protect fundamental…
The foundation works to defend and promote the constitution of the united states, focusing especially on the first, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, and 14th amendments. the foundation also works to defend and promote the constitution of the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Rolling Dog Farm. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 44 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.
20 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. 20 of the 28 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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY EQUALITY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST HUMAN RIGHTS & GENOCIDE EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE D ↗
- Who funds THE ALLENDALE SHELTER CLUB ↗
- Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE FOREST COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE THRESHOLDS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds 180 TURNING LIVES AROUND ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE ROLLING DOG FARM ↗
- Who funds DETROIT PIT CREW DOG RESCUE ↗
- Who funds CPC Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS OF THE DESERT ↗
- Who funds Lake Forest Police Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ORPHANS OF THE STORM ↗
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: American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Judy Peck Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- 180 Turning Lives Around — 61% 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.
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