· Private foundation
Kevin Walsh Family 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, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k44 grants · $94k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $43k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $220k
- $250k+1 grant · $298k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST IGNATIUS COLLEGE PREP | $298,115 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $220,000 |
| IRISH FELLOWSHIP CLUB | $18,800 |
| LOAVES AND FISHES COMMUNITY SERVS | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| OLD ST PATRICKS CHURCH | $5,500 |
| CANOPY | $5,300 |
| MIDWEST SHELTER FOR HOMELESS VETERANS | $5,000 |
| NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| ANGELS OF HOPE | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| HENRY FORD ROCHESTER FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CARE OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN | $5,000 |
| NORTHWEST CHARGERS HOCKEY ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY | $4,052 |
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 (FY20–25, $103k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 20% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +23% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.
51 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 30 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; $73k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LFLOAVES & FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES6× · 2020–2025 · $56k · revenue +124%
- NINORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK6× · 2020–2025 · $51k · revenue +8%
- MUMarquette University6× · 2020–2025 · $29k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- TRTHE RAINBOW CONNECTIONone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -12%
- IFIRISH FELLOWSHIP CLUB OF CHICAGOone grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue 0%
- AFAMERICAN FD FOR SUICIDEone grant, 2020 · $8k
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
69 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. 69 of the 140 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 University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds LOAVES & FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds A MOTHERS WISH INC ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST SHELTER FOR HOMELESS VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ANGELS OF HOPE A FAMILY CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE RAINBOW CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds VISION TO LEARN ↗
- Who funds LORAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
- Who funds IRISH FELLOWSHIP CLUB OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE JILLIAN FUND ↗
- Who funds MCLAREN GREATER LANSING ↗
- Who funds Crime Stoppers 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: AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation · The Barton Malow Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kevin Walsh Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kevin Walsh Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Samaritans Inc: 31% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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