· Private foundation
Lavin Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $275k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $525k
- $250k+5 grants · $2.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ENCHANTED BACKPACK | $850,000 |
| TULANE UNIVERSITY | $750,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $700,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $250,000 |
| JEWISH UNITED FUND | $250,000 |
| CAST WATER SAFETY FOUNDATION | $205,200 |
| OAK PARK & RIVER FOREST HIGH SCHOOL IMAGINE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| CHICAGO HOPE ACADEMY | $70,000 |
| DEPRESSION & BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANCE | $50,000 |
| NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| BROTHER RICE HIGH SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| HUA MOMONA FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| FARM AID | $30,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CHICAGO | $25,000 |
| SHIRLEY RYAN ABILITYLAB | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $770k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% 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 +36% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.
97 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2024, 68 since wound down; 12 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $291k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TATHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND8× · 2017–2024 · $12M · revenue +72%
- EBENCHANTED BACKPACK5× · 2019–2024 · $4.9M · revenue +218% · 57% of their budget
- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO7× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +13%
Funded once
- ACANDREW C LANGERT FAMILY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue -93% · 97% of their budget
- CFCenter for Humane Technologyone grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue -39%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $324k
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 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.
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
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…
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…
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 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.
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
The chicagoland chamber of commerce combines the power of people, with our legacy of leadership and business advocacy, to drive a dynamic economy. we focus on delivering value for our members, making chicagoland a world-class place to live…
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.
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
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.
How this is measured
191 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. 191 of the 278 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds ENCHANTED BACKPACK ↗
- Who funds CAST WATER SAFETY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds ANDREW C LANGERT FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Center for Humane Technology ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Big Shoulders Fund ↗
- Who funds FARM AID INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HOPE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds OAK PARK & RIVER FOREST HIGH SCHOOL IMAGINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL ↗
- Who funds FOODCHAIN INC ↗
- Who funds NOURISHING HOPE ↗
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: Carol Bernick Family Foundation · Enchanted Backpack · Patrick G and Shirley W Ryan Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Canning Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lavin Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lavin Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Farm Aid Inc: 100% of income from government
- City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
- New World Symphony Inc: 0% of income from government
- Youth Haven Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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