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Malott Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$7.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
42
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$11MEducation$6.8MPhilanthropy$5.7MPublic Safety & Disaster$4.1MArts & Culture$1.9MFood & Nutrition$1.6MScience & Tech$1.1MAnimals$1.0MOther$0
02FY2024 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $475k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $933k
  • $250k+8 grants · $5.7M
$30,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$93M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN RED CROSS$1,455,000
CHICAGO BOTANICAL GARDEN$1,300,000
NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION$860,000
CHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATIONAL FUND$500,000
MALOTT FAMILY DONOR ADVISED FUND CHARITABLE GIVING ACCT$400,000
KIZZIAH FAMILY DONOR ADVISED FUND$400,000
POHLE FAMILY FOUNDATION CHARITABLE GIVING FUND$400,000
FEEDING AMERICA$370,000
TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY$200,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA$150,000
LIFEMOVES$150,000
CHARLES ARMSTRONG SCHOOL$125,000
PARTNERS IN HEALTH$100,000
KENILWORTH UNION CHURCH$57,500
FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY$50,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOOVER INSTITUTION: $200k → 8%TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $200k → 10%SCRIPPS COLLEGE: $400k → 14%NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $1.2M → 14%COLORADO COLLEGE: $200k → 9%LINCOLN PARK ZOO: $400k → 14%HOOVER INSTITUTION: $200k → 8%NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $860k → 14%CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER: $200k → 9%CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER: $200k → 9%COLORADO COLLEGE: $200k → 9%LIFEMOVES: $350k → 7%LIFEMOVES: $275k → 7%AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE: $647k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1.5M → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1.5M → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $550k → 14%CHICAGO BOTANICAL GARDEN: $1.5M → 14%CHICAGO BOTANICAL GARDEN: $1.3M → 14%CHICAGO BOTANICAL GARDEN: $1.3M → 14%CHICAGO BOTANICAL GARDEN: $1.3M → 14%CHICAGO BOTANICAL GARDEN: $1.3M → 14%CHICAGO BOTANICAL GARDEN: $1.3M → 14%CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER: $225k → 14%AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE: $500k → 14%CHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATIONAL FUND: $500k → 14%CHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATIONAL FUND: $400k → 14%CHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATIONAL FUND: $300k → 14%CHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATIONAL FUND: $300k → 14%CHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATIONAL FUND: $300k → 14%CHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATIONAL FUND: $300k → 14%CHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATIONAL FUND: $300k → 14%CHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATIONAL FUND: $300k → 14%MALOTT FAMILY FUND CHARITABLE GIVING ACCOUNT: $495k → 14%FEEDING AMERICA: $440k → 14%POHLE FAMILY FOUNDATION CHARITABLE GIVING FUND: $400k → 14%DEANE AND JILL MALOTT FAMILY FUND: $400k → 14%KIZZIAH FAMILY DONOR ADVISED FUND: $400k → 14%KIZZIAH FAMILY FUND: $400k → 14%POHLE FAMILY FOUNDATION CHARITABLE GIVING: $400k → 14%MALOTT FAMILY DONOR ADVISED FUND CHARITABLE GIVING ACCT: $400k → 14%KIZZIAH FAMILY FUND: $400k → 14%POHLE FAMILY FOUNDATION CHARITABLE GIVING: $380k → 14%FEEDING AMERICA: $375k → 14%FEEDING AMERICA: $370k → 14%DEANE AND JILL MALOTT FAMILY FUND: $300k → 14%KIZZIAH FAMILY FUND: $300k → 14%POHLE FAMILY FUND: $300k → 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

ME
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
WY
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
KS
DC
HI
LA
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$33M · 63 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

63 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
31

Total granted

$33M
$833k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+55%

Still filing today

59%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthFood & NutritionAnimalsOther
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

  • CH
    CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $8.2M · revenue +37%
  • NP
    NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +117%
  • Feeding America
    4× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • MF
    MALOTT FAMILY FUND CHARITABLE GIVING ACCOUNT
    one grant, 2023 · $495k
  • SF
    SPRINGBOARD FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
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
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
2
Columbia College Chicago

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

Education
3
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
4
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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6
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
7
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
8
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
9
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
10
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
11
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
12
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc; the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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

60 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. 60 of the 104 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/60
Grantees still filing
49/60
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3,935,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $2,180,000 · OtherNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATIONKIZZIAH FAMILY FUND: $1,379,187 · OtherKIZZIAH FAMILY FUNDDEANE AND JILL MALOTT FAMILY FUND: $979,653 · OtherDEANE AND JILL MALOTT FAMILY FUNDPOHLE FAMILY FOUNDATION CHARITABLE GIVING: $880,000 · OtherLIFEMOVES: $775,000 · OtherCHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER: $625,000 · Other+61 more: $6,287,648 · Other+61 moreCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $8,200,000 · EnvironmentCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCI…ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: $305,000 · Environment+3 more: $20,000 · EnvironmentCHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $2,700,000 · EducationCHICAGO PUBLIC EDU…THE COLORADO COLLEGE: $1,140,000 · EducationTHE COLORADO COLLE…Teach for America Inc: $826,660 · EducationTeach for America …Scripps College: $590,000 · EducationScripps CollegeTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $560,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUST…+11 more: $287,500 · EducationKenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry: $1,100,000 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER: $565,000 · Arts & CultureFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $152,500 · Arts & CultureRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $80,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $20,000 · Arts & CultureFeeding America: $1,260,000 · Food & NutritionTHE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $105,000 · Food & NutritionGood Shepherd Food Bank: $100,000 · Food & Nutrition+2 more: $50,500 · Food & NutritionLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $1,000,000 · Animals+1 more: $2,000 · AnimalsAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $666,902 · Social ScienceTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $40,000 · Social Science
Other$17,041,488Environment$8,525,000Education$6,104,160Arts & Culture$1,917,500Food & Nutrition$1,515,500Animals$1,002,000Social Science$706,902

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $8,200,000 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $2,700,000 over 8y, 14% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $2,180,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetFeeding America: $1,260,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLORADO COLLEGE: $1,140,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetKenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry: $1,100,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $1,000,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $826,660 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLIFEMOVES: $775,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $666,902 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetScripps College: $590,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER: $565,000 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $560,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: $305,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $200,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Chicago Community Trust: $175,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $152,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $145,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHARLES ARMSTRONG SCHOOL: $125,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetChicago Foundation for Education: $120,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetTHE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $105,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetACADEMY FOR URBAN SCHOOL LEADERSHIP: $100,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $80,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGOLDEN APPLE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING: $80,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetINSPIRICA INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE: $70,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHIGH JUMP: $60,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTART EARLY: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $48,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPIVOT MINISTRIES INC: $40,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTHE NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $26,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNOURISHING HOPE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Symphony Orchestra: $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA: $13,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNUEVA SCHOOL: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOODIC INSTITUTE AT ACADIA NATIONAL PARK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOSEMITE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 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 CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds THE COLORADO COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds LIFEMOVES ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds Scripps College ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES ↗
  • Who funds TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY ↗
  • Who funds The Chicago Community Trust ↗
  • Who funds FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHARLES ARMSTRONG SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Chicago Foundation for Education ↗
  • Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗

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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Ayco Charitable F…The Chicago Community…Morgan Stanley Global…Lloyd a Fry FoundationNational Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Greater HorizonsSilicon Valley Commun…Vanguard Charitable E…Baird Foundation IncThe Bank of America C…
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY19.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Greater Horizons · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Baird Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Malott Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Malott Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Inspirica Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 104 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home