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Loyola University of Chicago

We are chicago's jesuit, catholic university - a diverse community seeking god in all things and working to expand knowledge in the service of humanity through learning, justice, and faith.

$336M
Granted FY2025still arriving
61
Grants FY2025still arriving
21
States reached
$564k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Health$20MScience & Tech$1.9MEducation$1.6MCrime & Legal$926kReligion$733kEmployment$555kEnvironment$545kYouth Development$376kOther$0
02FY2025 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 61 grants below total $4,208,931 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $336,432,614 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $332,223,683 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $94k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $502k
  • $50k–250k22 grants · $2.7M
  • $250k+2 grants · $930k
$22,403
Median grant
21
States reached
$2.7B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$564,391
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS$365,357
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$248,136
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$244,276
THE ACES SCHOOL$224,662
LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY$209,710
BOSTON UNIVERSITY$202,276
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$181,449
IL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$175,452
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON$148,414
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS$139,363
VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS INC$128,604
WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY$104,614
MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE$80,310
WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY$71,712
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $399k) 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.

area typical 11%Vietnamese Association of Illinois: $107k → 14%Vietnamese Association of Illinois: $72k → 14%Circesteem: $30k → 14%Circesteem: $25k → 14%Asian Human Services: $19k → 14%Circesteem: $17k → 14%Asian Human Services: $15k → 14%Asian Human Services: $9k → 14%CIRCESTEEM INC: $7k → 14%South-East Asia Center: $6k → 14%South-East Asisa Center: $6k → 14%MISERCORDIA HOME: $12k → 14%National Runaway Switchboard: $9k → 14%National Runaway Switchboard: $9k → 14%National Runaway Switchboard: $7k → 14%McGaw YMCA: $7k → 14%McGaw YMCA: $5k → 14%MCGAW YMCA: $5k → 14%Misericordia: $17k → 14%Misericordia: $8k → 14%Misericordia: $7k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NH
WA
ID
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NM
TN
NC
SC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$24M · 92 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

92 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2025, 48 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

92
42

Total granted

$24M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+20%

Still filing today

53%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $746k 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
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureRecreation & SportsReligionOther

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

  • University of Chicago
    8× · 2018–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +52%
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2022–2025 · $713k · revenue +12%
  • Northwestern University
    8× · 2017–2025 · $462k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • SO
    Sisters of Charity BVM
    one grant, 2021 · $500k
  • LL
    LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATL LABORATORY
    one grant, 2017 · $272k
  • TL
    THE LAW FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - KANSAS CITYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $113k · revenue +102%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
3
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
4
Loyola University of Chicago

We are chicago's jesuit, catholic university - a diverse community seeking god in all things and working to expand knowledge in the service of humanity through learning, justice, and faith.

Education
5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
6
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
7
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
8
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
9
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
10
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
11
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
12
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health and Medicine Policy Research Group and the most unlike its peers is National Black Law Students Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Community College Foundatio…Affordable Housing Developm…Cancer Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 55 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%50%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr16%5%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%63%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%3/155
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,410

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.

04the grantee network

90 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 90 of the 155 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
87/90
Grantees still filing
65/90
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS — $4,010,960 · OtherTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY — $1,241,420 · OtherTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITYREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO — $1,155,953 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGOLOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY — $830,428 · OtherVarian Medical Systems — $745,265 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $713,182 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN — $644,746 · Other+85 more — $8,714,063 · Other+85 moreUniversity of Chicago — $2,272,883 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoThe Trustees of Princeton University — $1,196,759 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeton Uni…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $1,189,028 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIV…THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC — $315,651 · Education+32 more — $2,291,985 · Education+32 moreTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $233,339 · HealthChicago Association for Research and Education in Science — $187,374 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER — $177,472 · HealthRush University Medical Center — $124,489 · HealthAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago — $62,177 · HealthHEALTH AND MEDICINE POLICY RESEARCH GROUP — $60,350 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $48,300 · HealthVanderbilt University Medical Center — $37,673 · Health+4 more — $41,380 · HealthNorthwestern University — $462,274 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $6,813 · Recreation & SportsVIETNAMESE ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS — $178,546 · Human ServicesCIRCESTEEM INC — $77,915 · Human ServicesASIAN HUMAN SERVICES — $43,438 · Human ServicesMISERICORDIA HOME — $43,402 · Human ServicesNational Runaway Switchboard — $25,528 · Human ServicesYoung Mens Christian Assoc McGaw Inc — $17,574 · Human Services+1 more — $12,218 · Human ServicesTHE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $169,958 · Arts & CultureChicago Children's Museum — $124,234 · Arts & CultureHUMANITY FIRST USA — $27,500 · Arts & CultureTUTORING CHICAGO — $13,207 · Arts & CultureTHE INSTITUTE — $286,421 · ReligionInterfaith Worker Justice — $14,987 · Religion
Other$18,056,017Education$7,266,306Health$972,554Recreation & Sports$469,087Human Services$398,621Arts & Culture$334,899Religion$301,408

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUniversity of Chicago — $2,272,883 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University — $1,196,759 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $1,189,028 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $713,182 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University — $462,274 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC — $315,651 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRO ROMERO — $291,003 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE — $286,421 over 6y, 9.5% of budgetTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $233,339 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University — $231,106 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE INC — $223,218 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING WORKS — $189,075 over 5y, 35% of budgetChicago Association for Research and Education in Science — $187,374 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetVIETNAMESE ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS — $178,546 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER — $177,472 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetIllinois Institute of Technology — $175,452 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE — $170,940 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $169,958 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER — $156,907 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation — $131,471 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRush University Medical Center — $124,489 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Children's Museum — $124,234 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetDEVCORP NORTH DBA ROGERS PARK BUSINESS ALLIANCE — $121,410 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $121,339 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $119,613 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAW FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - KANSAS CITY — $113,037 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetFORGING OPPORTUNITIES FOR REFUGEES IN AMERICA INC NFP — $109,615 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetHoward Brown Health Center — $100,415 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMeasures for Justice Institute — $100,005 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine — $90,089 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $86,326 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCIRCESTEEM INC — $77,915 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetEmory University — $72,211 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRoosevelt University — $66,089 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $62,624 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago — $62,177 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH AND MEDICINE POLICY RESEARCH GROUP — $60,350 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $57,979 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University — $57,541 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $48,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College — $47,819 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago — $46,415 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY — $45,595 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetASIAN HUMAN SERVICES — $43,438 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMISERICORDIA HOME — $43,402 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science — $38,357 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 University of Chicago
  • Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds Northwestern University
  • Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC
  • Who funds CENTRO ROMERO
  • Who funds THE INSTITUTE
  • Who funds THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University
  • Who funds Austin Crepelle & Ernest Sickeys Sch for Wards and Domestic Dep Nat
  • Who funds ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE INC
  • Who funds LIVING WORKS
  • Who funds Chicago Association for Research and Education in Science
  • Who funds VIETNAMESE ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER
  • Who funds Illinois Institute of Technology
  • Who funds MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE

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.

The Chicago Community TrustIL30.7× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Northwestern University · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · American Heart Association Inc · Yale University · University of Pittsburgh · Johns Hopkins University · Helen V Brach Foundation · Lloyd a Fry 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 Loyola University of Chicago 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 11%
  • Medstar Health Research Institute Inc25% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University12% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University12% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University11% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College7% of income from government
  • Northeastern University7% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
15report 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, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 155 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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