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Lost Pond 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 FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $178k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+1 grant · $255k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Indiana University Foundation | $255,000 |
| The Nature Conservancy | $200,000 |
| Breakthrough T1D (FKA JDRF) | $175,000 |
| Catholic Charities - Diocese of Joliet | $155,000 |
| Alzheimer's Association | $150,000 |
| By the Hand Club for Kids | $150,000 |
| Doctors without Borders | $100,000 |
| Brilliant Cities To Support Expansion Into Chicago | $100,000 |
| Donald Danforth Plant Science Center | $100,000 |
| Cristo Rey Network | $75,000 |
| The Thresholds Homeless Outreach Program (Hop) | $75,000 |
| St Alphonsus Parish | $75,000 |
| Northern Illinois Food Bank | $75,000 |
| Northwestern Medicine | $55,000 |
| Chicago Commons | $50,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $50k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 +34% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 11 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, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $875k 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
Indiana University Foundation3× · 2023–2025 · $395k · revenue +41%- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF JOLIET3× · 2023–2025 · $390k · revenue +35%
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY4× · 2022–2025 · $55k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1Dgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +35%
BRILLIANT DETROITone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%- HHHINSDALE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +204%
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.
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…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
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…
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.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
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…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.
Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…
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…
To effectively communicate science based information on food safety, nutrition, and health for the public good.
Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Candor Health Education and the most unlike its peers is Elementry School District No 181 Foundation. 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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 48 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds By The Hand Club For Kids ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF JOLIET ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds BRILLIANT DETROIT ↗
- Who funds DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds THE ADLER PLANETARIUM ↗
- Who funds Chicago Commons Association ↗
- Who funds CHIKAMING OPEN LANDS ↗
- Who funds Wellness House ↗
- Who funds CANDOR HEALTH EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds UNITING VOICES ↗
- Who funds Elementry School District No 181 Foundation ↗
- Who funds HINSDALE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF CHICAGOLAND WEST ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BERRIEN COUNTY TRAILS ↗
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: Baird Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Lost Pond 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.