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Kirkpatrick Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Kirkpatrick Family Charitable 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.

$20k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$29kCrime & Legal$28kFood & Nutrition$20kHousing & Shelter$20kArts & Culture$8kPublic Benefit$8kCivil Rights$6kPhilanthropy$4k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$6,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$394k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK$6,230
CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA$6,000
ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMIGRANTS AND$6,000
GENEVA FOUNDATION OF PRESBYTERIAN HOMES$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–21, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SAFE PASSAGE: $7k → 13%SAFE PASSAGE: $7k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$94k · 6 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
3

Total granted

$94k
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+43%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureCrime & LegalFood & NutritionHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • NI
    NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK
    3× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +8%
  • CC
    CHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS
    3× · 2021–2023 · $20k · revenue +4%
  • SP
    SAFE PASSAGE INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $14k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • TV
    THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue 0%
  • SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDRENgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +106%
  • FC
    FreshLens Chicagograduated
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +43%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Live Free Chicago

Live Free Illinois is a statewide organization partnering with over 120 congregations and directly impacted individuals to build safer more equitable communities across Illinois. Operating at the intersection of criminal justice reform and…

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2
Community Health Partnership of Illinois

Strive to improve the health and well being of migrant and seasonal farmworkers and other medically vulnerable populations by providing quality accessable, affordable, and culturally responsive health care within the community we serve.

Health
3
Planned Parenthood North Central States Foundation

To build and maintain financial support for planned parenthood north central states to advance and protect sexual and reproductive health care for all.

Human Services
4
Planned Parenthood Great Rivers-Illinois

To provide, protect, and support reproductive and sexual health services, access and rights.

Health
5
Chicago Sun-Times Media Inc

Chicago sun-times serves the public interest by strengthening the well-being of our local communities and our democracy through independent local journalism.

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6
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.

Social Science
7
Northern Illinois Blood Bank Inc D/B/a Rock River Valley Blood Center

Rock river valley blood center, in partnership with our community, is dedicated to providing safe, high value blood products and services to people in need.

Health
8
The Network Advocating Against Domestic Violence

The Network is a group of 40+ member organizations dedicated to improving the lives of those impacted by gender-based violence through education, public policy and advocacy, and connecting community members with direct service providers.…

Human Services
9
Center for Housing and Health

Chh honors every person's right to a home and health care, by bridging the housing and health care systems, to improve the lives of chicagoans experiencing homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
10
Chicago Votes

Chicago Votes is a non-partisan, non-profit organization building a more inclusive democracy by putting power in the hands of young Chicagoans. We're engaging and developing a new generation of leaders by opening the doors of government,…

Civil Rights
11
Volunteers of America of Illinois

Volunteers of america of illinois partners with the people we serve to create transformational and lasting change in their lives through programs that support, empower, and transform.

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12
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Public Media Inc; the most unlike its peers is FreshLens Chicago. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Planned Parenthood of Illinois: $22,038 · HealthPlanned Parenthood of Illi…SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $7,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHI…NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $20,013 · Food & NutritionNORTHERN ILLINOIS …CHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $19,834 · Housing & ShelterCHICAGO COALITION …VIOLENCE POLICY CENTER: $14,000 · Crime & LegalVIOLENCE POL…SAFE PASSAGE INC: $14,000 · Human ServicesSAFE PASSAGE…CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureFreshLens Chicago: $2,000 · Arts & CultureTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $7,500 · Civil RightsILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMIGRANTS AND: $6,000 · OtherILLINOIS …GENEVA FOUNDATION OF PRESBYTERIAN HOMES: $4,000 · OtherGENEVA FO…
Health$29,038Food & Nutrition$20,013Housing & Shelter$19,834Crime & Legal$14,000Human Services$14,000Arts & Culture$8,000Civil Rights$7,500Other$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPlanned Parenthood of Illinois: $22,038 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $20,013 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $19,834 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVIOLENCE POLICY CENTER: $14,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSAFE PASSAGE INC: $14,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGENEVA FOUNDATION OF PRESBYTERIAN HOMES: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFreshLens Chicago: $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budget
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Kirkpatrick Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kirkpatrick Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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