· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| By the Hand Club for Kids | $150,000 |
| Alzheimer's Association | $150,000 |
| Doctors without Borders | $100,000 |
| Brilliant Cities To Support Expansion Into Chicago | $100,000 |
| Donald Danforth Plant Science Center | $100,000 |
| Northern Illinois Food Bank | $75,000 |
| The Thresholds Homeless Outreach Program (Hop) | $75,000 |
| Cristo Rey Network | $75,000 |
| St Alphonsus Parish | $75,000 |
| Northwestern Medicine | $55,000 |
| Chicago Commons | $50,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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
How this is measured
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%- FOFRIENDS OF BERRIEN COUNTY TRAILSone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -83%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 48 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds BRILLIANT DETROIT ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY NETWORK ↗
- 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 ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF CHICAGOLAND WEST ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BERRIEN COUNTY TRAILS ↗
- Who funds HINSDALE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lost Pond Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lost Pond Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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