· Private foundation
Karen R & John T Crotty 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $36k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND | $15,000 |
| ST JAMES | $10,750 |
| UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND | $10,500 |
| LAKE BLUFF OPEN LANDS ASSOC | $8,000 |
| BOWEN HIGH SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $6,000 |
| WFMT | $5,000 |
| PADS | $5,000 |
| WTTW | $5,000 |
| FEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NAMI CHICAGO | $5,000 |
| EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA | $5,000 |
| COOL FOOD PANTRIES OF LAKE COUNTY | $5,000 |
| SOUTHWEST INDIAN FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| TOYS FOR TOTS | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $186k) 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 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 +60% since the first grant, against +48% for those funded once.
54 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 7 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MAMATTHIAS ACADEMY CORPORATION5× · 2020–2024 · $104k · revenue ×34
- MFMetropolitan Family Services3× · 2017–2019 · $70k · revenue +332%
- LBLAKE BLUFF OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $46k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- CCCOMMUNITY CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $20k
- LSLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOISgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +72%
- UJUIC JANE ADDAMS COLLEGE OF SOCIAL WORKone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
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How this is measured
55 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. 55 of the 103 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 MATTHIAS ACADEMY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Family Services ↗
- Who funds LAKE BLUFF OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PADS Lake County Inc ↗
- Who funds The Foundation for Tomorrow Inc ↗
- Who funds WATER FIRST INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds PADS OF ELGIN INC ↗
- Who funds ROBERT R MCCORMICK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAMI Chicago ↗
- Who funds THE RIDGES SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds The Family Institute ↗
- Who funds FEMINIST MAJORITY 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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Karen R & John T Crotty Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Karen R & John T Crotty Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge: 100% of income from government
- Center for Coastal Studies Inc: 26% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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