· Private foundation
Karen Sue Lieber Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| THE BLESSING FOUNDATION INC | $1,000 |
| YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF MCDONOUGH CO | $1,000 |
| WEST SIDE CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS | $200 |
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 (FY20–20, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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
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 +372% since the first grant, against +81% for those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- THTHE HOPE CENTER OF CHICAGO5× · 2017–2022 · $499k · revenue +372% · 49% of their budget
- YBYOUTH BE HEARD3× · 2019–2024 · $12k
- GHGLENWOOD HIGH SCHOOL3× · 2018–2020 · $10k
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $50k
- YOYMCA OF SPRINGFIELD ILone grant, 2020 · $25k
- CCCLEVELAND CLINIC RESEARCH FOUNDATIOone grant, 2021 · $25k
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.
Honor Flight of Dubuque and the Tri-States is a non-profit organization created to honor veterans living in northeast Iowa, southwest Wisconsin, and northwest Illinois for all their sacrifices. We transport our heroes to Washington DC to…
Online platform to share gods grace
Taking veterans on flights to washington dc
To recognize the bravery, determination and patriotism of America's Seniorveterans with an all-expense paid, one-of-a-kind journey to Washington DCfor a day of honor, thanks and inspiration. Since formation, throughSeptember 30, 2025, the…
Provide a spiritual ministry through a camp setting
Our goal is helping every single veteran in Texas, willing and able of getting on a plane or a bus, visit THEIR memorial.
Fly veterans to washington dc
Proclaim the gospel of jesus christ and provide assistance to the needy
Transport Americas veterans to Washington, D.C. to visit those memorials dedicated to honor their service and sacrifices.
To provide Ministry Support/Humanitarian Relief
Global missionary support
Promote gospel of jesus christ
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 31 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 HOPE CENTER OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds QUINCY PARK BOARD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREAT RIVER HONOR FLIGHT ↗
- Who funds CONTACT MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Defenders of Freedom ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Christian Assoc of McDonough Co ↗
- Who funds THE BLESSING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Living on the Edge Ministries 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.
Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Karen Sue Lieber Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Karen Sue Lieber Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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