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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 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.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 61 grants below total $4,208,931, the rows itemized in this filing. The $336,432,614 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $332,223,683 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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

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 (FY17–25, $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 its 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
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

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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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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

+36%
+22%

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
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
    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%
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
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 Chicago

The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.

Education
3
University of Miami

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

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
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
7
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
8
Columbia College Chicago

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

Education
9
Rush University Medical Center

The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health and Medicine Policy Research Group; 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.
04the grantee network

90 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. 90 of the 155 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
87/90
Grantees still filing
64/90
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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: $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
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 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 ↗

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…United Way of Metropo…Northwestern Universi…Polk Bros Foundation …John D and Catherine …Robert R McCormick Fo…American Heart Associ…Yale UniversityUniversity of Pittsbu…Johns Hopkins Univers…Helen V Brach Foundat…Lloyd a Fry Foundation
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

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 Loyola University of Chicago funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Loyola University of Chicago. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Medstar Health Research Institute Inc: 25% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% 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, 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 155 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 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home