· Private foundation
Keeley Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k9 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $155k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Depaul University | $499,500 |
| Depaul University | $105,000 |
| Chicago Zoological Society | $50,000 |
| LTHS | $10,000 |
| Invest 4 Kids | $5,000 |
| Home 2 Home | $5,000 |
| First Congregation of Western Springs | $5,000 |
| Wolcott Academy | $2,500 |
| Old St. Pat's Church | $2,500 |
| Marie Joseph Spiritual Center | $1,000 |
| Highsight | $1,000 |
| Jay's Hope, Children's Cancer Fund | $500 |
| Depaul University | $500 |
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 (FY17–19, $87k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% 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 +39% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2020, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DUDEPAUL UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2020 · $2.5M · revenue +25%
Chicago Zoological Society4× · 2017–2020 · $105k · revenue +43%- IFInvest for Kids Inc3× · 2017–2019 · $75k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- LULoyola University Medicalone grant, 2017 · $100k
TRINITY COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $32k · revenue +31%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $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.
Provide a transformative educational experience that cultivates strengths of its students.
Smith college educates women of promise for lives of distinction and purpose. a college of and for the world, smith college links the power of the liberal arts to excellence in research and scholarship, developing leaders for society's…
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To make the catholic intellectual tradition a vital part of the culture of universities. to enrich academic communities at the university of chicago, across the nation, and the world with the insights of catholic thought. to dialogue with…
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Provide a biblically informed liberal arts education to undergraduate and graduate college students. we strive to offer the highest quality of instruction to prepare students for excellence in further study and careers beyond trinity. all…
As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Pratt is an institute, an experience, and an idea. what started as a radical experiment to expand access to creative careers is now a community of 5,137 grad and undergrad students working across 48 programs with 1,200 dedicated faculty.…
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Coe college is a private, four-year co-educational liberal arts college.
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 42 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 DEPAUL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Chicago Zoological Society ↗
- Who funds Invest for Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE HOME 2 HOME PROJECT ↗
- Who funds HIGHSIGHT ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE TRAIL FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds AGAPE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds WOLCOTT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ST ANN ARTS AND CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds WESTERN SPRINGS FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR SHIPBOARD EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BUFFALO SHORELINE ALLIANCE ↗
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: The Chicago Community Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Keeley Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Keeley Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trinity College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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