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Lohengrin Foundation Inc at a glance

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Lohengrin Foundation Inc

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.

$6.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
73
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$6.1MHealth$4.0MArts & Culture$3.2MInternational$1.3MCommunity Improvement$1.1MCrime & Legal$1.1MYouth Development$965kCivil Rights$704kOther$0
02FY2024 · 73 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $125
  • $10k–50k35 grants · $1.0M
  • $50k–250k35 grants · $3.2M
  • $250k+2 grants · $2.3M
$50,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO CENTER FOR MOTOR NEURON DISEASE$2,000,000
CROSSROADS FUND$275,000
PARTNERS IN HEALTH$235,500
NATIONAL IMMIGRANT JUSTICE CENTER (NIJC NFP)$217,000
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN$200,000
SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM$150,000
HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA$149,138
CHICAGO COMMUNITY CENTER$133,000
THE HYAMS FOUNDATION INC$125,000
CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA$125,000
BOSTON WOMENS FUND$125,000
INGENUITY INC$100,000
MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE$100,000
INSTITUTE FOR NONVIOLENCE CHICAGO$100,000
RESTORE JUSTICE FOUNDATION$85,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $426k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CAROLE ROBERTSON CENTER FOR LEARNING: $61k → 14%CAROLE ROBERTSON CENTER FOR LEARNING: $31k → 14%CAROLE ROBERTSON CENTER FOR LEARNING: $30k → 14%ERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $76k → 14%ERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $51k → 14%ERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $30k → 14%EQUITY AND TRANSFORMATION: $25k → 14%GADS HILL CENTER: $31k → 14%GADS HILL CENTER: $21k → 14%GADS HILL CENTER: $20k → 14%BRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE - EE DIRECTED: $200 → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $51k → 14%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
NY
MA
PA
CT
RI
CA
VA
DC
MS
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15M · 60 repeat orgs$5.1M to everyone else

60 repeat relationships: 37 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 36 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
23

Total granted

$15M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+23%

Still filing today

75%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.7M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationCrime & LegalHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • University of Chicago
    4× · 2019–2023 · $4.8M · revenue +25%
  • PBS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +98%
  • CF
    CROSSROADS FUND INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $932k · revenue +167%

Funded once

  • NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC
    one grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue +23%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICINE
    one grant, 2021 · $435k
  • W
    WBEZ
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
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.

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A Better Chicago

A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.

Human Services
2
Junior Achievement of Chicago

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy

International
3
Chicago United for Equity

Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.

Civil Rights
4
Chicago United

To achieve parity in economic opportunity for people of color by advancing multiracial leadership in corporate governance, expanding the talent pipline for executive-level management, and growing minority businesses.

Philanthropy
5
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.

Social Science
6
Arise Chicago

Arise chicago builds partnerships between faith communities and workers to fight workplace injustice through education, organizing, and advocating for public policy changes.

Employment
7
Alternatives Inc

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…

Health
8
The Chicago Bar Foundation

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.

Education
9
Chicago Votes

Chicago Votes is a non-partisan, non-profit organization building a more inclusive democracy by putting power in the hands of young Chicagoans. We're engaging and developing a new generation of leaders by opening the doors of government,…

Civil Rights
10
Kipp Chicago Schools

The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…

Education
11
Legal Aid Chicago

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…

Crime & Legal
12
National Opinion Research Center

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…

Social Science
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Youth Centers; the most unlike its peers is The Hyams Foundation Inc. 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

86 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. 86 of the 122 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
85/86
Grantees still filing
46/86
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO CENTER FOR MOTOR NEURON DISEASE: $2,000,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO CENTER FOR MOTOR NEURON D…CROSSROADS FUND INC: $932,000 · OtherCROSSROADS FUND INCHUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC: $675,968 · OtherHUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INCFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $500,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE CHILDRENUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICINE: $435,000 · OtherSECOND SENSE: $350,000 · Other+70 more: $3,706,070 · Other+70 moreUniversity of Chicago: $4,800,000 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoMIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION: $249,999 · Education+10 more: $515,907 · Education+10 morePBS FOUNDATION: $1,500,000 · Arts & CulturePBS FOUNDATIONNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $500,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL PUBLIC RA…CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $231,500 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO PUBLIC MED…The People's Music School: $190,000 · Arts & CultureThe People's Music…INGENUITY INCORPORATED CHICAGO: $175,000 · Arts & CultureTUTORING CHICAGO: $142,750 · Arts & CultureThe Hyams Foundation Inc: $125,000 · Arts & Culture+10 more: $500,225 · Arts & Culture+10 morePARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $974,372 · HealthSINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $400,000 · HealthMISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE: $375,000 · Crime & LegalEQUAL JUSTICE WORKS: $102,000 · Crime & LegalInstitute for Nonviolence Chicago: $100,000 · Crime & LegalREADING BETWEEN THE LINES NFP: $72,000 · Crime & LegalCITIZENS FOR JUVENILE JUSTICE INC: $25,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $20,000 · Crime & LegalRESTORE JUSTICE FOUNDATION: $275,000 · Civil RightsCHANGING WORLDS: $173,000 · Civil RightsUNITED AFRICAN ORGANIZATION: $25,000 · Civil RightsERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $157,250 · Human ServicesCarole Robertson Center for Learning: $121,500 · Human ServicesGADS HILL CENTER: $71,375 · Human ServicesMetropolitan Family Services: $50,500 · Human ServicesEQUITY AND TRANSFORMATION: $25,000 · Human Services+1 more: $200 · Human Services
Other$8,599,038Education$5,565,906Arts & Culture$3,364,475Health$1,374,372Crime & Legal$694,000Civil Rights$473,000Human Services$425,825

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 budgetUniversity of Chicago: $4,800,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPBS FOUNDATION: $1,500,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $974,372 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCROSSROADS FUND INC: $932,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetHUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC: $675,968 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $500,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $400,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE: $375,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetSECOND SENSE: $350,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetRESTORE JUSTICE FOUNDATION: $275,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetMIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION: $249,999 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $231,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWOMEN EMPLOYED: $205,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetThe People's Music School: $190,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $176,666 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetINGENUITY INCORPORATED CHICAGO: $175,000 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetCHANGING WORLDS: $173,000 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $157,250 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTUTORING CHICAGO: $142,750 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetMATH CIRCLES OF CHICAGO: $141,625 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $141,375 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON WOMEN'S FUND INC: $125,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetThe Hyams Foundation Inc: $125,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCarole Robertson Center for Learning: $121,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHorizons for Youth: $114,375 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE WORKS: $102,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetREADING IN MOTION: $100,500 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetInstitute for Nonviolence Chicago: $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNew Life Centers of Chicagoland: $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRoosevelt University: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChicago Youth Centers: $98,125 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMUSIC AND DANCE THEATER CHICAGO INC: $95,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCOLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC: $90,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO ARTS PARTNERSHIPS IN EDUCATION: $77,241 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetKenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry: $74,625 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $73,350 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT VISION INC: $72,750 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetREADING BETWEEN THE LINES NFP: $72,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetGADS HILL CENTER: $71,375 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC: $62,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO LIGHTS: $54,250 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetMetropolitan Family Services: $50,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO OPERA THEATER: $50,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetLATINO POLICY FORUM: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPUBLIC NARRATIVE: $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSouthside Together Organizing For Power: $50,000 over 1y, 11% 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 University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds PBS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds CROSSROADS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
  • Who funds SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
  • Who funds MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds SECOND SENSE ↗
  • Who funds RESTORE JUSTICE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN EMPLOYED ↗
  • Who funds The People's Music School ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds INGENUITY INCORPORATED CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds CHANGING WORLDS ↗
  • Who funds ERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds TUTORING CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds MATH CIRCLES OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON WOMEN'S FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds The Hyams Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Carole Robertson Center for Learning ↗
  • Who funds Horizons for Youth ↗
  • Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS ↗
  • Who funds READING IN MOTION ↗
  • Who funds Institute for Nonviolence Chicago ↗
  • Who funds New Life Centers of Chicagoland ↗
  • Who funds Roosevelt University ↗

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.

Polk Bros Foundation …Circle of Service Fou…The Chicago Community…John D and Catherine …Lloyd a Fry FoundationUnited Way of Metropo…Arie and Ida Crown Me…ForefrontRobert R McCormick Fo…Field Foundation of I…The Albert Pick Jr Fu…Woods Fund of Chicago
Polk Bros Foundation IncIL73.2× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Forefront · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · The Albert Pick Jr Fund · Woods Fund of Chicago

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 Lohengrin Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lohengrin Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Saga Innovations Inc: 28% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Puppet Showplace Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
30report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to Lohengrin Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Lohengrin Foundation Inc 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.

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 122 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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