· Private foundation
Koch Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $109k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION | $34,035 |
| YMCA OF GREATER NEW YORK | $25,000 |
| CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS | $25,000 |
| PROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE | $15,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $10,000 |
| CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE CENTER | $5,000 |
| NATURALLY CHICAGO | $5,000 |
| TEMPLE SHALOM | $3,990 |
| CONGREGATION BETH ELOHIM | $3,960 |
| MHUB | $2,500 |
| CIVIC FEDERATION | $2,500 |
| HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CHIKAMING OPEN LANDS | $1,000 |
| PAN-MASS CHALLENGE | $500 |
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 (FY19–25, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, 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.
35 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY6× · 2018–2025 · $402k · revenue +97%- NPNAVY PIER INC6× · 2018–2024 · $171k · revenue +32%
- TJTHE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC7× · 2018–2025 · $166k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- JSJ STREET EDUCATION FUNDone grant, 2017 · $5k
- GAGORDON A RICH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $5k
- CPCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +81%
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.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
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…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
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.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Public Media Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 79 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 THE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds NAVY PIER INC ↗
- Who funds THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MHUB ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds PROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds THE CIVIC FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds NATURALLY CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILYFARMED DBA GOOD FOOD CATALYST ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds ADVANCE ILLINOIS NFP ↗
- Who funds Chicago Architecture Foundation ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST ↗
- Who funds ADVENTURE CYCLING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRANT PARK ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds PARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Polk Bros Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Trust · Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Xxxxx1008 · The Canning Foundation · Lavin Family Foundation
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 Koch 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.
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge 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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