· Private foundation
Lichtenheld 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Woodstock HS Backers Club | $7,500 |
| Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago | $5,000 |
| Community Food Bank of Southern AZ | $4,000 |
| Emerge | $3,000 |
| Youth on Their Own | $1,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity Tucson | $1,000 |
| Diaper Bank Southern AZ Community | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 41% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 2 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- HFHabitat for Humanity Tucson Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $26k · revenue +109%
- LRLEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $25k · revenue +136%
- YOYOUTH ON THEIR OWN8× · 2018–2025 · $24k · revenue +148%
Funded once
- TYThe YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago2× · 2024–2025 · $5k · revenue 0%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC2× · 2024–2025 · $5k · revenue +5%- WFWoodstock Food Pantrygraduated7× · 2019–2025 · $3k · revenue +690%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…
To provide low or no cost medical care to low income and uninsured people.
Memorial Hospital is committed to improving health by providing education and wellness programs and innovative services at all the stages of life.
Improving our community by providing exceptional, whole-person healthcare.
Live Free Illinois is a statewide organization partnering with over 120 congregations and directly impacted individuals to build safer more equitable communities across Illinois. Operating at the intersection of criminal justice reform and…
To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.
Empowering individuals with developmental disabilities and their families through advocacy and the coordination of service options
Strive to improve the health and well being of migrant and seasonal farmworkers and other medically vulnerable populations by providing quality accessable, affordable, and culturally responsive health care within the community we serve.
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
Operate homes for the aged and to conduct charitable and benevolent enterprises
The mission of lakewood health system is to provide quality, personalized healthcare for a lifetime.
The mission of the lightways hospice and serious illness care is to provide comprehensive, holistic, community based support services and care for terminally ill persons, their caregivers and loved ones without regard to economic status,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is International Justice Mission and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 55 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Community Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES COORDINATING COUNCIL OF SE AZ ↗
- Who funds SPECTRIOS INSTITUTE FOR LOW VISION ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity Tucson Inc ↗
- Who funds LEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ON THEIR OWN ↗
- Who funds CASA OF MCHENRY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Turning Point Inc ↗
- Who funds TURQUOISE TRAIL CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Family Health Partnership Clinic ↗
- Who funds THE MORTON ARBORETUM ↗
- Who funds WOODSTOCK AREA COMMUNITY MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds Independence Health & Therapy ↗
- Who funds The YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Endurance with Jan & Dave Dravecky ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
- Who funds SAINT LOUIS TORCHBEARERS 2 ↗
- Who funds Woodstock Food Pantry ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for McHenry County · Full Circle Foundation · Ruth Family Foundation · Aptargroup Charitable Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · AbbVie Foundation · UNITED WAY OF GREATER McHENRY COUNTY INC · The Gerhard & Patricia Weiler Family Foundation · Willow Springs Charitable Trust Jenny B Stoddard Trustee · The Bersted Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Kunes Family Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Lichtenheld Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.