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Karen R & John T Crotty 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.

$104k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Human Services$239kReligion$159kFood & Nutrition$102kInternational$90kEnvironment$81kArts & Culture$58kEducation$58kHousing & Shelter$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $64k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
$4,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$689k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MATTHIAS ACADEMY$25,000
ST JAMES$15,000
COOL FOOD PANTRIES OF LAKE COUNTY$7,500
LAKE BLUFF OPEN LANDS ASSOC$6,000
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER$5,000
SALVATION ARMY$5,000
PADS$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$5,000
WFMT$5,000
OCEAN CONSERVANCY$4,000
WTTW$4,000
MCCORMICK FOUNDATION$4,000
SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATOIN$3,000
NAMI CHICAGO$2,500
NOW FOUNDATION$2,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $184k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MATTHIAS ACADEMY: $51k → 10%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 14%MATTHIAS ACADEMY: $25k → 10%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 14%NAPLES SENIOR CENTER AT JFCS: $1k → 10%MATTHIAS ACADEMY: $12k → 10%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 14%NAPLES SENIOR CENTER AT JFCS: $1k → 10%MATTHIAS ACADEMY: $10k → 10%NAPLES SENIOR CENTER AT JFCS: $750 → 10%NORTHERN DOOR CHILDRENS CENTER: $1k → 8%MATTHIAS ACADEMY: $6k → 10%NORTHERN DOOR CHILDRENS CENTER: $1k → 8%NORTHERN DOOR CHILDRENS CENTER: $1k → 8%NORTHERN DOOR CHILDRENS CENTER: $500 → 8%CHICAGO WHITE SOX CHARITIES: $2k → 14%CHICAGO WHITE SOX CHARITIES: $1k → 14%WHITE SOX CHARITIES: $600 → 14%LAKE FOREST LAKE BLUFF SENIOR CITIZENS FOUNDATION: $500 → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$849k · 49 repeat orgs$112k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +79% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.

49 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
40

Total granted

$849k
$86k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+79%
+44%

Still filing today

61%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureInternationalOther

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

  • MA
    MATTHIAS ACADEMY CORPORATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $104k · revenue ×34
  • MF
    Metropolitan Family Services
    3× · 2017–2019 · $70k · revenue +332%
  • PL
    PADS Lake County Inc
    6× · 2017–2022 · $41k · revenue +352%

Funded once

  • CC
    COMMUNITY CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • UJ
    UIC JANE ADDAMS COLLEGE OF SOCIAL WORK
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • LS
    LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOISgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +72%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
2
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
3
National Opinion Research Center

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…

Social Science
4
United States Naval Institute

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.

5
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
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
7
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
8
Climate Central Inc

Climate central, inc. (the organization") is an independent not-for-profit organization of leading scientists, technology experts and communication professionals that are dedicated to researching and reporting on climate change and its…

Science & Tech
9
Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources

The organization pursues higher standards of news coverage of natural resources and the environment -- standards of accuracy, fairness, balance, depth and context.

Arts & Culture
10
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
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Marine Biological Laboratory

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…

Science & Tech
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Natural Resources Defense Council Inc

We safeguard the earth: its people, its plants and animals, and (see schedule o) the natural systems on which all life depends. we work to restore the integrity of the elements that sustain life - air, land, and water - to defend…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Park Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Lake Bluff Open Lands Association. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Independent K-12 SchoolsSenior Support ServicesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Elementary Literacy TutoringFood Banks and PantriesChristian Missionary Organi…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 45 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr18%9%10–20yr15%20%20–35yr14%42%35–55yr22%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr18%8%10–20yr15%10%20–35yr14%51%35–55yr22%30%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/60
the rest of the field
12%
8,891/72,299

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.

04the grantee network

53 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 53 of the 96 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
52/53
Grantees still filing
45/53
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ST JAMES LUTHERAN CHURCH — $114,000 · OtherST JAMES LUTHERAN CHURCHCOOL FOOD PANTRIES OF LAKE COUNTY — $46,000 · OtherCOOL FOOD PANTRIES OF LAKE COUNTYTHE SALVATION ARMY — $38,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYWFMT — $34,700 · OtherWFMTNORTH CHICAGO COMM PARTNERS — $25,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY CHURCH — $20,000 · OtherSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $23,000 · Other+63 more — $223,725 · Other+63 moreMATTHIAS ACADEMY CORPORATION — $104,140 · Human ServicesMATTHIAS ACADEMY CORP…Metropolitan Family Services — $70,000 · Human ServicesMetropolitan Family S…+4 more — $10,350 · Human Services+4 moreThe Foundation for Tomorrow Inc — $40,300 · EducationAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND — $23,500 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $3,500 · EducationCOTTEY COLLEGE — $3,000 · Education+1 more — $500 · EducationLAKE BLUFF OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION — $37,500 · EnvironmentOCEAN CONSERVANCY — $10,500 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $8,000 · EnvironmentGREENPEACE FUND INC — $3,000 · Environment+3 more — $3,300 · EnvironmentWATER FIRST INTERNATIONAL — $40,000 · PhilanthropyROBERT R MCCORMICK FOUNDATION — $8,000 · PhilanthropyPADS Lake County Inc — $41,000 · Health+4 more — $3,500 · HealthNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK — $35,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$524,925Human Services$184,490Education$70,800Environment$62,300Philanthropy$48,000Health$44,500Food & Nutrition$35,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMATTHIAS ACADEMY CORPORATION — $104,140 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetMetropolitan Family Services — $70,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPADS Lake County Inc — $41,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetThe Foundation for Tomorrow Inc — $40,300 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetWATER FIRST INTERNATIONAL — $40,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetLAKE BLUFF OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION — $37,500 over 8y, 6.4% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK — $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND — $23,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $23,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC — $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC — $11,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY — $10,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROBERT R MCCORMICK FOUNDATION — $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Family Institute — $5,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPADS OF ELGIN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE RIDGES SANCTUARY INC — $4,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetREADING POWER INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetChicago White Sox Charities Inc — $3,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN DOOR CHILDRENS CENTER INC — $3,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENPEACE FUND INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOTTEY COLLEGE — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBAKER SENIOR CENTER NAPLES INC — $2,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI Chicago — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLake Bluff History Museum — $2,225 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAREER RESOURCE CENTER INC — $1,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSIERRA CLUB — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRehabilitation Institute of Chicago — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRush University Medical Center — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALIGHT — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION — $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBENEDICTINE SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE FOREST-LAKE BLUFF SENIOR CITIZENS FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 MATTHIAS ACADEMY CORPORATION
  • Who funds Metropolitan Family Services
  • Who funds PADS Lake County Inc
  • Who funds The Foundation for Tomorrow Inc
  • Who funds WATER FIRST INTERNATIONAL
  • Who funds LAKE BLUFF OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK
  • Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
  • Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC
  • Who funds THE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS
  • Who funds ROBERT R MCCORMICK FOUNDATION
  • Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION
  • Who funds The Family Institute
  • Who funds PADS OF ELGIN INC
  • Who funds THE RIDGES SANCTUARY INC
  • Who funds READING POWER INC
  • Who funds Chicago White Sox Charities Inc
  • Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC
  • Who funds NORTHERN DOOR CHILDRENS CENTER INC

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.

Schultz Family Private FoundationIL20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Schultz Family Private Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Edwards Family Cjlj Foundation · Lumw Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Baxter International Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Karen R & John T Crotty Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 26%
  • Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge100% of income from government
  • Center for Coastal Studies Inc26% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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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How do I get to Karen R & John T Crotty Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Karen R & John T Crotty Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 96 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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