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Lorelei Foundation Inc at a glance

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Lorelei Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$71k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$185kHealth$165kHuman Services$122kPhilanthropy$99kArts & Culture$48kPublic Benefit$46kInternational$42kEducation$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $27k
$2,500
Median grant
9
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Christ Church of Oakbrook$17,300
DuPage Foundation$10,000
Joliet Hope Center$7,000
ROSELAND COMMUNITY DAY CARE$6,500
Huntingtons Disease Society of America$6,500
Peace Lutheran Church$5,000
KIDS ALIVE$5,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
St Judes Childrens Hospital$2,500
SOJOURNERS CHURCH$2,000
GOOD FELLOWS$2,000
One World Surgery$1,500
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$1,000
Chamber Music Central$1,000
Stop Soldier Suicide$500
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 (FY17–23, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Team Brownsville: $1k → 23%Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc: $3k → 10%SAM 25: $1k → 11%Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc: $1k → 10%Metropolitan Family Services: $3k → 14%Fishermans Mark: $1k → 4%MidAmerica Service Dogs: $10k → 14%International Council of Friends: $1k → 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

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
KY
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
OK
TX
FL
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$549k · 26 repeat orgs$146k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
74

Total granted

$549k
$135k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+13%

Still filing today

50%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthInternationalHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterAnimalsOther
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

  • TB
    The Bev Hartig Huntingtons Disease Foundation Inc
    6× · 2017–2023 · $118k · revenue +83%
  • CM
    CHAMBER MUSIC CENTRAL
    8× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +57%
  • FO
    FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2023 · $18k · revenue +117%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • MS
    MidAmerica Service Dogs Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +13%
  • OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -34%
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
Nourishing Hope

Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.

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2
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
3
Partners in Food Solutions

Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.

International
4
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
5
Greater Chicago Food Depository

The greater chicago food depository is the nonprofit food bank serving cook county. our mission - is to end hunger. we believe food is a basic human right. to achieve our mission, we work in partnership with a network of community-based…

Food & Nutrition
6
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
7
Hospice of Michigan Inc

Hospice of Michigan, Inc. meets our patients and families where they are with urgency, purpose and compassionate accountability surrounding them with decades of dedicated hospice expertise.

Human Services
8
Vitalant

Unite blood and biologics donors, talent, and innovation to save and improve lives.

Health
9
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
10
Good Samaritan Foundation

Partnering for healing and a healthy future through philanthropy.

—
11
Global Partners in Care

The organization's mission is to build partnerships to enhance compassionate care globally. we are dedicated to improving access to hospice and palliative care worldwide.

International
12
Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Bev Hartig Huntingtons Disease 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

53 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. 53 of the 108 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/53
Grantees still filing
37/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHRIST CHURCH OF OAK BROOK: $145,355 · OtherCHRIST CHURCH OF OAK BROOKROSELAND COMMUNITY DAY CARE: $61,000 · OtherROSELAND COMMUNITY DAY CAREGIVING DUPAGE: $38,500 · OtherGIVING DUPAGEJoliet Hope Center: $24,500 · OtherJoliet Hope CenterHUNTINGTONS DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC: $23,500 · Other+70 more: $162,900 · Other+70 moreThe Bev Hartig Huntingtons Disease Foundation Inc: $117,500 · HealthThe Bev Hartig Hun…+9 more: $13,550 · Health+9 moreTHE DUPAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $93,500 · PhilanthropyTHE DUPAGE CO…+1 more: $3,000 · PhilanthropyONE WORLD SURGERY: $16,500 · InternationalOPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US: $10,000 · InternationalWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS: $4,000 · InternationalWORLD VISION INC: $2,700 · InternationalFREEDOM ALLIANCE: $2,500 · InternationalVILLAGES IN PARTNERSHIP INC: $2,200 · InternationalOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $2,000 · International+1 more: $1,000 · InternationalCHAMBER MUSIC CENTRAL: $27,500 · Arts & CultureEMERALD COAST THEATRE COMPANY: $1,000 · Arts & CultureFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $18,250 · EducationPURSUE SCHOLARS NFP: $1,500 · Education+2 more: $750 · EducationMidAmerica Service Dogs Foundation Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $3,500 · Human ServicesMetropolitan Family Services: $2,500 · Human ServicesCHICAGO EXECUTIVE FORUM: $1,250 · Human ServicesSHAWANO AREA MATTHEW 25 INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesFishermans Mark: $1,000 · Human ServicesTeambrownsville Inc: $1,000 · Human Services
Other$455,755Health$131,050Philanthropy$96,500International$40,900Arts & Culture$28,500Education$20,500Human Services$20,250

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 budgetThe Bev Hartig Huntingtons Disease Foundation Inc: $117,500 over 6y, 12% of budgetTHE DUPAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $93,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetGIVING DUPAGE: $38,500 over 6y, 28% of budgetCHAMBER MUSIC CENTRAL: $27,500 over 8y, 19% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $18,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetONE WORLD SURGERY: $16,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMidAmerica Service Dogs Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetDUPAGE PADS INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSMALL BUSINESS ADVOCACY COUNCIL: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetLITHUANIAN WORLD CENTER: $4,450 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $2,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $2,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWellness House: $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Family Services: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM ALLIANCE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPADS OF ELGIN INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREACT19 INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVILLAGES IN PARTNERSHIP INC: $2,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $2,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCollaborative Support Services Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE BIBLE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRoss K Macneill Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDRENS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $1,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetEMERALD COAST THEATRE COMPANY: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHAWANO AREA MATTHEW 25 INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE H FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFishermans Mark: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetL'ARCHE CHICAGO INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeambrownsville Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHCS FAMILY SERVICES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTOP SOLDIER SUICIDE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOLIDAY HEROES FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChicago Zoological Society: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOMINICAN UNIVERSITY: $250 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 The Bev Hartig Huntingtons Disease Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE DUPAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GIVING DUPAGE ↗
  • Who funds CHAMBER MUSIC CENTRAL ↗
  • Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ONE WORLD SURGERY ↗
  • Who funds MidAmerica Service Dogs Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US ↗
  • Who funds DUPAGE PADS INC ↗
  • Who funds SMALL BUSINESS ADVOCACY COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds LITHUANIAN WORLD CENTER ↗
  • Who funds WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS ↗
  • Who funds Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
  • Who funds Wellness House ↗
  • Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
  • Who funds Metropolitan Family Services ↗
  • Who funds FREEDOM ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
  • Who funds PADS OF ELGIN INC ↗

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 Chicago Community…Arthur J Gallagher Fo…American Endowment Fo…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…Morgan Stanley Global…The Blackbaud Giving …Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…
The Chicago Community TrustIL16.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
  • Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 108 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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