· Private foundation
LAJCK 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $184k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St Viator High School | $50,850 |
| Holy Family Catholic Church | $40,400 |
| Schaumburg Hoffman Estates Rotary Foundation | $30,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| St Benedict's Abbey | $20,000 |
| St Joseph's Church | $18,000 |
| Center for Healthcare Innovation | $15,000 |
| University of Iowa Center for Advancement | $15,000 |
| Duchesne Academy | $10,000 |
| Pulse | $10,000 |
| St Mary's College | $8,000 |
| The Lawrence Community Shelter | $7,500 |
| LBFE - Little Brothers-Friends of the Elderly | $7,500 |
| University of Chicago | $5,000 |
| AANE -The Asperger Autism Network | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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 +15% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.
32 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 14 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; $51k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LCLAWRENCE COMMUNITY SHELTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $142k · revenue +301%
- PTPADS TO HOPE DBA-JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME8× · 2018–2025 · $58k · revenue +15%
University of Chicago7× · 2019–2025 · $31k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- SJSt Joseph Churchone grant, 2024 · $18k
- ASAFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +69%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $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.
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
Providing academic support to children experiencing homelessness in Chicago and providing resources and services to families experiencing homelessness in Chicago.
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…
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.
The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
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.
The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.
To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Chicago scholars is transforming the leadership landscape of our city by resolving the fundamental barriers to success for academically driven, first generation college students from under-resourced communities.
How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 68 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 LAWRENCE COMMUNITY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HEALTHCARE INNOVATION ↗
- Who funds PADS TO HOPE DBA-JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HFS CHICAGO SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN ↗
- Who funds LITTLE BROTHERS - FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
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: The Chicago Community Trust · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Reva and David Logan Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization LAJCK Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from LAJCK Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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