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Krehbiel Family Foundation at a glance

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Krehbiel 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.

$788k
Granted FY2025still arriving
43
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$90k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Environment$865kArts & Culture$826kEducation$661kHealth$498kYouth Development$302kPublic Benefit$255kRecreation & Sports$118kInternational$75kOther$0
02FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $320k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $415k
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundati$90,000
Chicago Parks Foundation$75,000
Art Institute of Chicago$50,000
A Better Chicago$50,000
Museum Of Contemporary Art Chicago$50,000
World Monuments Fund Inc$50,000
Trustees Of Dartmouth College$50,000
American Friends Of The National Ga$25,000
The Society Of The Four Arts$25,000
The Ireland Funds America$25,000
Trustees Of Dartmouth College$25,000
10000 Degrees$20,000
Boys And Girls Club Of San Francisc$20,000
Inst Energy Econ Financial Analysis$20,000
Resources For The Future$20,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $260k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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%A Better Chicago: $35k → 14%A Better Chicago: $50k → 14%A Better Chicago: $50k → 14%A Better Chicago: $50k → 14%A Better Chicago: $50k → 14%A Better Chicago: $25k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
RI
CA
CO
VA
DC
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.7M · 41 repeat orgs$574k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

41 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
24

Total granted

$3.7M
$505k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
0%

Still filing today

83%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsInternationalOther
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

  • TA
    THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
    5× · 2021–2025 · $672k · revenue +43%
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $480k · revenue +55%
  • EI
    ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT
    5× · 2021–2025 · $190k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +49%
  • TB
    THE BRIDGESPAN GROUP INC
    one grant, 2021 · $70k · revenue -4%
  • TA
    The Arts Club of Chicago
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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3
National Opinion Research Center

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…

Social Science
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
The Common Application Inc

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…

Education
7
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
8
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
9
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
10
The University of Chicago Charter School Corporation

To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.

Education
11
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
12
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids First Chicago for Education; the most unlike its peers is 1916 Redan Foundation. 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

59 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. 59 of the 76 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/59
Grantees still filing
35/59
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $672,222 · EducationTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGOHIGH JUMP: $110,000 · EducationHIGH JUMP10000 DEGREES: $100,000 · Education10000 DEGREESTrustees of Dartmouth College: $95,000 · EducationTrustees of Dartmouth CollegeCIVIC CONSULTING ALLIANCE: $80,000 · EducationCIVIC CONSULTING ALLIANCEColumbia College Chicago: $75,000 · EducationColumbia College ChicagoTHE CHICAGO SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationFrancis W Parker School: $50,000 · Education+8 more: $97,500 · Education+8 moreTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $250,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYTrustees of Dartmouth College: $225,000 · OtherTrustees of Dartmouth CollegeTHE CIVIC FEDERATION: $82,500 · OtherTHE CIVIC FEDERATIONROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $80,000 · OtherROBIN HOOD FOUNDATIONBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $107,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCIS…EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $75,000 · OtherEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT …THE BRIDGESPAN GROUP INC: $70,000 · OtherRush University Medical Center: $71,250 · Other+27 more: $415,000 · Other+27 moreENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT: $190,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL I…NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $150,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURC…INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY ECONOMICS AND FINANCIAL ANALYSIS INC: $150,000 · EnvironmentINSTITUTE FOR E…PROTECT OUR WINTERS: $60,000 · EnvironmentPROTECT OUR WIN…Resources for the Future Inc: $40,000 · EnvironmentResources for t…+3 more: $60,000 · Environment+3 moreALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION: $480,000 · Social ScienceALZHEIMER'S…THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BARACK…WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC: $82,000 · Arts & CultureWORLD MONU…MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $80,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF …The Arts Club of Chicago: $50,000 · Arts & CultureThe Arts C…THORNWILLOW INSTITUTE LTD: $30,000 · Arts & CultureTHORNWILLO…The Society of the Four Arts Inc: $25,000 · Arts & CultureThe Societ…NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureNAVY SEAL …THE DECORATIVE ARTS TRUST: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $9,500 · Arts & CultureA Better Chicago: $260,000 · Human ServicesCHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION: $175,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Education$1,329,722Other$1,375,750Environment$650,000Social Science$480,000Arts & Culture$421,500Human Services$260,000Recreation & Sports$180,000

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 budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $672,222 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION: $480,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetA Better Chicago: $260,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $250,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT: $190,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION: $175,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR ENERGY ECONOMICS AND FINANCIAL ANALYSIS INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetHIGH JUMP: $110,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $107,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budget10000 DEGREES: $100,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $95,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CIVIC FEDERATION: $82,500 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC: $82,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $80,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCIVIC CONSULTING ALLIANCE: $80,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $75,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetColumbia College Chicago: $75,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $71,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRIDGESPAN GROUP INC: $70,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROTECT OUR WINTERS: $60,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe Arts Club of Chicago: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE CHICAGO SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFrancis W Parker School: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetResources for the Future Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEMPOWER SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $30,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetTHORNWILLOW INSTITUTE LTD: $30,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetNext Generation Scholars Inc: $28,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $27,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Society of the Four Arts Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEVERGREEN CLIMATE INNOVATIONS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DECORATIVE ARTS TRUST: $20,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $15,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO ROWING FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBig Shoulders Fund: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE CHICAGO INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE AND ART INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetACADEMY FOR GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF HUDSON RIVER PARK INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Arie and Ida Crown Me…The Chicago Community…John D and Catherine …The Canning FoundationImc Chicago Charitabl…The Energy FoundationLloyd a Fry FoundationRobert R McCormick Fo…Polk Bros Foundation …The Goldman Sachs Cha…Best Portion Foundati…Illinois Tool Works F…
Arie and Ida Crown MemorialIL19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Canning Foundation · Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation · The Energy Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Best Portion Foundation · Illinois Tool Works Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to Krehbiel Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 76 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home