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Kiphart Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k6 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $350k
- $250k+1 grant · $2.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $2,539,860 |
| MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC | $100,000 |
| LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO | $100,000 |
| WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO | $50,000 |
| THE JOFFERY BALLET | $50,000 |
| COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO | $49,877 |
| THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| IMPACT FOR EQUITY | $25,000 |
| MUSIC INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO | $20,000 |
| THE PEOPLE'S MUSIC SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| ASPEN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–22, $500k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
University of Chicago6× · 2019–2024 · $11M · revenue +25%- MSMERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC5× · 2019–2024 · $500k · revenue +19%
- EIErikson Institute4× · 2019–2022 · $310k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- CCOLUMBIAone grant, 2022 · $100k
Family Focusgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +158%
Feeding Americagraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +40%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…
Ann & robert h. lurie children's hospital of chicago is dedicated to the health and well-being of all children. as the pediatric teaching facility for northwestern university feinberg school of medicine, this commitment drives us to be a…
Stanley manne children's research institute strives to generate new knowledge and advance the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of pediatric diseases.
Endeavor Health Clinical Operations follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
We are chicago's jesuit, catholic university - a diverse community seeking god in all things and working to expand knowledge in the service of humanity through learning, justice, and faith.
Mission - the institute of medicine of chicago is an independent non-profit organization of distinguished leaders in the health field who collaborate to improve the health of the public. drawing upon the expertise of a diverse membership…
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Focus and the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 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.
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 48 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
40 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 55 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds INGENUITY INCORPORATED CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds Erikson Institute ↗
- Who funds Lyric Opera of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Columbia College Chicago ↗
- Who funds FAMILY FOCUS LEGACY ↗
- Who funds Center on Halsted ↗
- Who funds THE JOFFREY BALLET ↗
- Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Family Focus ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds The Cara Program ↗
- Who funds MUSIC INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds The People's Music School ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds STRIDES FOR PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT FOR EQUITY ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds NOURISHING HOPE ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT STAR COMMUNITY OUTREACH CORP ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado ↗
- Who funds Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN 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.
Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Sidley Austin Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Siragusa Family Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Circle of Service Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
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 Kiphart Family 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
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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