· Private foundation
Lakonishok 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $440k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOFFREY BALLET | $800,563 |
| CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $375,000 |
| LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO | $250,000 |
| ART INSTITUTE | $250,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $200,000 |
| FIDF | $140,000 |
| NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| HAND IN HAND USA | $25,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN MEDICAL SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| COLLEGE POSSIBLE CHICAGO | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,600 |
| OPERATION SMILE | $2,000 |
| PANCAN | $1,500 |
| HOLOCAUST MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| LINCOLN PARK ZOO | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of its 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.
22 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 3 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TJTHE JOFFREY BALLET5× · 2020–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +57%
- LOLyric Opera of Chicago5× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +34%
- CSChicago Symphony Orchestra2× · 2023–2024 · $747k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- BSBEVERLY SHORES TOWN PARKSone grant, 2020 · $10k
- ESERIC & SALOME ESTORICK MUSEUMone grant, 2022 · $10k
- ESE SCHOLARS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
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.
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.
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 the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.
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…
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…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
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…
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…
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.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 38 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 THE JOFFREY BALLET ↗
- Who funds Lyric Opera of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Hand in Hand USA ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED CHARITABLE ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds MUSIC INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Wellness House ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds THE CLEAR FUND ↗
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 Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lakonishok Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lakonishok Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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