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Lichtenheld Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$23k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Philanthropy$759kHealth$130kFood & Nutrition$65kHuman Services$61kReligion$51kEducation$41kYouth Development$39kEnvironment$35kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Woodstock HS Backers Club$7,500
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago$5,000
Community Food Bank of Southern AZ$4,000
Emerge$3,000
Diaper Bank Southern AZ Community$1,000
Habitat for Humanity Tucson$1,000
Youth on Their Own$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%LIVING WATERS INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 8%Outreach Community Ministries: $5k → 7%OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $5k → 7%Outreach Community Ministries: $5k → 7%OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $5k → 7%YMCA of Metro Chicago: $5k → 14%Turning Point Inc: $3k → 6%TURNING POINT INC: $3k → 6%Turning Point Inc: $3k → 6%TURNING POINT INC: $3k → 6%Turning Point Inc: $3k → 6%Youth on Their Own: $5k → 15%Youth on Their Own: $5k → 15%Youth on Their Own: $5k → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $5k → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $4k → 15%Youth on Their Own: $1k → 15%WOODSTOCK AREA COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $2k → 6%Woodstock Area Community Ministries: $2k → 6%Woodstock Area Community Ministries: $2k → 6%WOODSTOCK AREA COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $1k → 6%Woodstock Area Community Ministries: $750 → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
OH
CO
MO
AZ
NM
NC
DC
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 38 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
15

Total granted

$1.3M
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+5%

Still filing today

47%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEnvironmentHousing & ShelterReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • HF
    Habitat for Humanity Tucson Inc
    7× · 2019–2025 · $26k · revenue +109%
  • LR
    LEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $25k · revenue +136%
  • CO
    CASA OF MCHENRY COUNTY INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $24k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • TY
    The YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago
    2× · 2024–2025 · $5k · revenue 0%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $5k · revenue +5%
  • WF
    Woodstock Food Pantrygraduated
    7× · 2019–2025 · $3k · revenue +690%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Lincoln Behavioral Services

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…

Health
2
Fenix Family Health Center

To provide low or no cost medical care to low income and uninsured people.

Health
3
Memorial Hospital Association

Memorial Hospital is committed to improving health by providing education and wellness programs and innovative services at all the stages of life.

Health
4
Marana Health Center Inc

Improving our community by providing exceptional, whole-person healthcare.

Health
5
Live Free Chicago

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…

—
6
Lakeside Community Committee

To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.

Human Services
7
Options and Advocacy for Mchenry County Inc

Empowering individuals with developmental disabilities and their families through advocacy and the coordination of service options

Human Services
8
Community Health Partnership of Illinois

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.

Health
9
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

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…

Health
10
Illinois Presbyterian Home

Operate homes for the aged and to conduct charitable and benevolent enterprises

Human Services
11
Lakewood Health System

The mission of lakewood health system is to provide quality, personalized healthcare for a lifetime.

Health
12
Joliet Area Community Hospice Corp

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,…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is International Justice Mission; 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.
04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 55 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/28
Grantees still filing
19/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

National Christian Foundation Chicago: $737,675 · OtherNational Christian Foundation ChicagoEMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES COORDINATING COUNCIL OF SE AZ: $47,000 · Other+39 more: $283,700 · Other+39 moreYOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $24,000 · Human ServicesOUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $20,000 · Human ServicesTurning Point Inc: $15,000 · Human ServicesWOODSTOCK AREA COMMUNITY MINISTRY: $6,250 · Human ServicesThe YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago: $5,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesCommunity Food Bank Inc: $60,000 · Food & NutritionLEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthFamily Health Partnership Clinic: $10,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $4,500 · HealthHabitat for Humanity Tucson Inc: $26,000 · Housing & ShelterPADS OF ELGIN INC: $2,000 · Housing & ShelterCASA OF MCHENRY COUNTY INC: $24,000 · Crime & LegalTURQUOISE TRAIL CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Education
Other$1,068,375Human Services$71,250Food & Nutrition$60,000Health$39,500Housing & Shelter$28,000Crime & Legal$24,000Education$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCommunity Food Bank Inc: $60,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetEMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES COORDINATING COUNCIL OF SE AZ: $47,000 over 8y, 6.9% of budgetSPECTRIOS INSTITUTE FOR LOW VISION: $33,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity Tucson Inc: $26,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCASA OF MCHENRY COUNTY INC: $24,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetYOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $24,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetOUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $20,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTURQUOISE TRAIL CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 8y, 15% of budgetTurning Point Inc: $15,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFamily Health Partnership Clinic: $10,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MORTON ARBORETUM: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetIndependence Health & Therapy: $6,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEndurance with Jan & Dave Dravecky: $4,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetThe LAM Foundation: $2,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMCHENRY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHWOODS WILDLIFE CENTER: $1,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLiving Water International: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 CASA OF MCHENRY COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH ON THEIR OWN ↗
  • Who funds OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds TURQUOISE TRAIL CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Turning Point Inc ↗
  • Who funds Family Health Partnership Clinic ↗
  • Who funds THE MORTON ARBORETUM ↗
  • Who funds WOODSTOCK AREA COMMUNITY MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds Independence Health & Therapy ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
  • Who funds The YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds Endurance with Jan & Dave Dravecky ↗
  • Who funds SAINT LOUIS TORCHBEARERS 2 ↗
  • Who funds Woodstock Food Pantry ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…Full Circle FoundationRuth Family FoundationAptargroup Charitable…Northwestern Memorial…AbbVie FoundationUNITED WAY OF GREATER…The Gerhard & Patrici…Willow Springs Charit…The Bersted FoundationGeorge M Eisenberg Fo…Kunes Family Foundati…
The Community Foundation for McHenry CountyIL19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lichtenheld Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lichtenheld Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 55 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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