· Private foundation
Luther I Replogle Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k39 grants · $190k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $278k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS | $45,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF CHICAGO | $35,004 |
| REPLOGLE CENTER FOR COUNSELING AND WELL-BEING | $25,000 |
| STORYCATCHERS THEATRE | $20,000 |
| MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC | $12,000 |
| REACH EDUCATION INC | $11,000 |
| AMPLIFIED VOICES | $10,000 |
| FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE PARENT ADVOCACY CENTER | $10,000 |
| BECAUSE I CAN | $10,000 |
| CREATEMPLS | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA | $10,000 |
| SHOUT MOUSE PRESS | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| WORKFORCE AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT SERVICES DBA THE JOURNEY FORWARD | $10,000 |
| CHICAGO HEIGHTENING OPPORTUNITY AND POTENTIAL FOR EDUCATIONAL SUCCESS (HOPE | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $694k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +30% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
88 repeat relationships — 47 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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
- FPFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF CHICAGO8× · 2017–2024 · $268k · revenue +21% · 60% of their budget
- AFAMPERSAND FAMILIES6× · 2017–2022 · $106k · revenue +140%
- MSMERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC8× · 2017–2024 · $96k · revenue +113%
Funded once
- SSSouth Shore Health System Foundationone grant, 2017 · $55k
- AAAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROMEone grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +21%
- GOGIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +55%
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.
Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.
Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…
Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…
Springboard collaborative combines targeted student instruction with parent training in an incentivized system that closes the literacy gap, by transferring the summer from a barrier into a springboard for financially disadvantaged…
Our mission is to dramatically improve the early career outcomes of dc youth and young adults of color by creating innovative programs and by mobilizing employers, educators, and city leaders to create a local, diverse talent pipeline. our…
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
The washington area community investment fund (wacif) is a nonprofit community loan fund focused on increasing equity and economic opportunity in the washington, dc area's underserved communities. wacif's mission is driven is driven by…
To create and advance high quality, diverse educational communities that teach children the foundations of life-long learning and social responsibility.
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
City year helps students and schools succeed, while preparing the next generation of civically engaged leaders who can work across lines of difference. partnering with teachers, teams of city year americorps members cultivate learning…
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homeless Children's Playtime Project and the most unlike its peers is Reset. 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.
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 27 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% 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.
103 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 103 of the 157 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 FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds AMPERSAND FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds REACH EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds Storycatchers ↗
- Who funds FOSTER & ADOPTIVE PARENT ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds RESET ↗
- Who funds ACCESS INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH JUMP ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Critical Exposure Inc ↗
- Who funds SHOUTMOUSEPRESSINC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds Breaking Free Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY OF DIPLOMACY ↗
- Who funds GREATER DC DIAPER BANK ↗
- Who funds LOST BOYZINC ↗
- Who funds US NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JO DAVIESS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPUR LOCAL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME ↗
- Who funds CASA for Children of the District of Columbia ↗
- Who funds GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds BCAUSEICAN INC ↗
- Who funds CREATEMPLS ↗
- Who funds ScholarCHIPS Inc ↗
- Who funds Peace of Mind Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE ↗
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: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Corina Higginson Trust Co Laura Ford Trustee · United Way of the National Capital Area · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Inc · The Ottowhalley Family Foundation Inc C/O Metropolitan Agents Inc
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 Luther I Replogle 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.
- Harborcov Inc — 76% of income from government
- Bay Cove Human Services Inc — 70% of income from government
- Justice Resource Institute Inc — 48% of income from government
- Social Capital Inc — 11% of income from government
- South Shore Art Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Manna Food Center Inc — 1% of income from government
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.
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