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Mansueto 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.

$9.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
51
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Animals$8.1MPublic Benefit$8.1MPhilanthropy$6.6MEducation$6.4MArts & Culture$6.3MHealth$5.2MRecreation & Sports$2.1MFood & Nutrition$1.2MOther$0
02FY2024 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $400k
  • $50k–250k21 grants · $1.8M
  • $250k+8 grants · $7.5M
$50,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$49M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$2,000,000
SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY$2,000,000
WBEZCHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA$1,000,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA INC$700,000
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUATE$600,000
GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC$500,000
NORTH AUSTIN COMMUNITY CENTER$500,000
MEEDAN INC$250,000
BETTER GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION$200,000
COLLEGE POSSIBLE$150,000
NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS$112,500
ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO$100,000
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY$100,000
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND$100,000
RENAISSANCE SOCIETY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$100,000
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 (FY20–24, $685k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MATTIE N DIXON COMMUNITY CUPBOARD INC: $965 → 7%THE CITY EATS INC: $2k → 10%MUNSTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $200k → 15%MUNSTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $100k → 15%ISSAQUAH FOOD & CLOTHING BANK: $5k → 9%MUNSTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $100k → 15%MUNSTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $100k → 15%CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL: $100k → 14%CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL INC: $25k → 14%YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $11k → 14%URBAN INITIATIVES INC: $15k → 14%URBAN INITIATIVES: $15k → 14%CHRISTOPHER HOUSE: $10k → 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
MN
IL
MI
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MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
DE
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TN
DC
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$41M · 48 repeat orgs$6.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

48 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
52

Total granted

$41M
$3.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+12%

Still filing today

88%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.7M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · $5.9M · revenue +31%
  • CP
    CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $3.0M · revenue +24%
  • NA
    NORTH AUSTIN COMMUNITY CENTER
    4× · 2021–2024 · $2.0M · revenue ×19

Funded once

  • CC
    CHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION CENTRAL INVESTMENT FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $2.0M
  • TP
    THE POYNTER INSTITUTE FOR MEDIA STUDIES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +10%
  • KE
    Keene Endowment Associationgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue +38%

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
Columbia College Chicago

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

Education
2
Chicago Public Education Fund

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.

Education
3
National Opinion Research Center

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…

Social Science
4
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
5
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

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…

Health
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
Kipp Chicago Schools

The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…

Education
8
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
9
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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10
The University of Chicago Charter School Corporation

To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.

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
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is After School Matters Inc and 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.

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 backsteadyFood Banks and PantriesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Senior Support ServicesCommunity Food PantriesUnited Way AffiliatesIndependent K-12 SchoolsHealth Access Advocacy and …Community FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyCommunity Arts CentersEnvironmental Conservation …School Parent OrganizationsCommunity Foundations
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 35 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%1%<5yr13%5%5–10yr18%19%10–20yr15%24%20–35yr14%23%35–55yr22%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%7%5–10yr18%21%10–20yr15%28%20–35yr14%6%35–55yr22%37%55yr+

The field is 18% 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 — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/96
the rest of the field
12%
8,891/72,263

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

91 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. 91 of the 120 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
91/91
Grantees still filing
62/91
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE — $4,200,000 · OtherNORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HEALTHCARENORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $4,000,000 · OtherNORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONCHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION CENTRAL INVESTMENT FUND — $2,000,000 · OtherCHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION CENTRAL INVE…WBEZCHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA — $1,000,000 · OtherWBEZCHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA+75 more — $6,132,453 · Other+75 moreTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION — $5,888,309 · Arts & CultureTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDAT…CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $3,025,000 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INCTHE RENAISSANCE SOCIETY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO — $500,000 · Arts & CultureGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC — $500,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WALDEN WOODS PROJECT — $400,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more — $125,000 · Arts & CultureSHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY — $7,984,106 · AnimalsSHEDD AQUARIUM SOCI…+1 more — $125,000 · AnimalsTeach for America Inc — $3,050,000 · EducationTeach for Americ…THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO — $780,000 · EducationTHE ART INSTITUT…COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC — $550,000 · EducationCOLLEGE POSSIBLE…AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC — $375,000 · EducationAFTER SCHOOL MAT…GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $375,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVE…NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS — $275,000 · EducationFrancis W Parker School — $262,500 · EducationTHE POYNTER INSTITUTE FOR MEDIA STUDIES INC — $250,000 · Education+11 more — $982,600 · Education+11 moreNORTH AUSTIN COMMUNITY CENTER — $2,000,000 · Community Improvement+2 more — $64,159 · Community ImprovementBETTER GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION INC — $1,000,000 · Public BenefitILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE — $600,000 · Public BenefitGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $1,103,483 · Food & Nutrition+4 more — $25,511 · Food & Nutrition
Other$17,332,453Arts & Culture$10,438,309Animals$8,109,106Education$6,900,100Community Improvement$2,064,159Public Benefit$1,600,000Food & Nutrition$1,128,994

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY — $7,984,106 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION — $5,888,309 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $3,050,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $3,025,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetNORTH AUSTIN COMMUNITY CENTER — $2,000,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $1,103,483 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBETTER GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION INC — $1,000,000 over 5y, 7.2% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO — $780,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE — $600,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC — $550,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetRehabilitation Institute of Chicago — $502,879 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHANGE ILLINOIS — $500,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetTHE RENAISSANCE SOCIETY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO — $500,000 over 5y, 9.2% of budgetMUNSTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $500,000 over 4y, 60% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC — $500,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $500,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE WALDEN WOODS PROJECT — $400,000 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetAFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC — $375,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $375,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $337,475 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS — $275,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFrancis W Parker School — $262,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBy The Hand Club For Kids — $250,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMeedan Inc — $250,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetTHE POYNTER INSTITUTE FOR MEDIA STUDIES INC — $250,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetThe Good Shepherd Academy — $225,000 over 2y, 47% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $200,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHeartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights — $200,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKeene Endowment Association — $200,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetTHE COMMERCIAL CLUB OF CHICAGO — $188,500 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetTHE COMMERCIAL CLUB FOUNDATION — $184,500 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetAZIRA MICHAEL YOUTH FOUNDATION — $175,000 over 5y, 78% of budgetAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC — $157,609 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH JUMP — $135,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetCHICAGO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL INC — $125,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $125,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC — $125,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetONEGOAL — $125,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSKILLS FOR CHICAGO — $103,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCHICAGO FIRE FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRANCISCAN OUTREACH — $100,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT INC — $75,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTHE CHICAGO MATH & SCIENCE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL — $74,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBRAVEN INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $55,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL — $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetInstitute for Nonviolence Chicago — $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% 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.

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.

Robert R McCormick Fo…The Chicago Community…Lloyd a Fry FoundationPolk Bros Foundation …Arie and Ida Crown Me…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Canning FoundationJohn D and Catherine …Circle of Service Fou…Jewish Federation of …Joseph & Bessie Feinb…Helen V Brach Foundat…
Robert R McCormick FoundationIL29.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Robert R McCormick Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Canning Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation · Helen V Brach 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 Mansueto 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Garrett County Maryland Community Action Committee — 32% of income from government
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
  • The Walden Woods Project — 6% of income from government
  • The Poynter Institute for Media Studies Inc — 1% 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
22report 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

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 120 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines