· Private foundation
Laurie and James Richter 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.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $6,490 |
| GUN VIOLENCE PREVENTION GPAC | $5,163 |
| GRAPEVINE - 100 WOMEN WHO CARE | $4,220 |
| CASA LAKE COUNTY INC | $3,150 |
| RENAISSANCE SOCIAL SERVICES | $2,819 |
| SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| NORTH SHORE UNITARIAN CHURCH | $1,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,041 |
| SOCIALGOOD FUND | $1,040 |
| SEA SCOUTS SHIP 5111 | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $318 |
| KESHET | $52 |
| PAYPAL GIVING FUND | $50 |
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 (FY17–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 27% of Laurie and James Richter Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 56% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 48%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
36 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 27 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $318 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
CASA LAKE COUNTY INC6× · 2018–2025 · $14k · revenue +79%- RSRenaissance Social Services Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +244%
- WHWILLOW HOUSE2× · 2017–2022 · $2k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $5k
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORYone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +17%- CICHILDREN INCORPORATEDgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +41%
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.
At legal aid chicago, we work together to provide high quality civil legal aid to people living in poverty and other vulnerable groups.through advocacy, education, collaboration, and litigation we empower individuals, protect fundamental…
The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…
Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…
Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling 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…
Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
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 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.…
The chicago bar foundation brings the legal community together through advocacy, funding, and innovation to improve access to justice for people in need and to make the legal system more fair, equitable, and effective.
See schedule othe mission of skills is to stand as a life-changing employment resource connecting underrepresented job seekers to employers with opportunities across industries. we do this by building multi-level, trusted relationships…
How this is measured
45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 94 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 CASA LAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Global Impact ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Renaissance Social Services Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds EVIDENCE ACTION ↗
- Who funds WILLOW HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Community Partners dba Community Assisted Rides ↗
- Who funds READING POWER INC ↗
- Who funds Water for South Sudan Inc ↗
- Who funds ASPIRITECH NFP ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO SURVIVORS INC ↗
- Who funds CURT'S CAFE ↗
- Who funds HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds COALITION LEGAL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHICAGO RIVER ↗
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: AbbVie Foundation · The Lake County Community Foundation · Sbb Research Group Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Circle of Service Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Healthcare Foundation of Highland Park · United Way of Lake County Inc · The Medline Foundation · Harold M & Adeline S Morrison Family Foundation · First Bank Chicago Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Laurie and James Richter Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Laurie and James Richter Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Laurie and James Richter Family Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Laurie and James Richter 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.
Play a game based on Laurie and James Richter Family’s filings →