· Private foundation
Marguerite Delany Hark 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.
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
- $10k–50k15 grants · $395k
- $50k–250k20 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+5 grants · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FELLOWSHIP HOUSING | $500,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500,000 |
| EAGLE RIVER VALLEY CHILDCARE | $333,333 |
| VAIL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY VAIL VALLEY | $300,000 |
| HOME | $135,000 |
| GARY SINISE FOUNDATION | $130,000 |
| CONSERVATION FOUNDATION GULF COAST | $125,000 |
| ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH | $100,000 |
| VAIL VETERANS PROGRAM | $100,000 |
| NIGHT MINISTRY | $75,000 |
| VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION | $66,667 |
| HOME OF THE SPARROW | $50,000 |
| CHICAGO YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $50,000 |
| LITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDE | $50,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $863k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +16% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 15 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, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M 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
- FHFellowship Housing Corporation8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +308%
- HOHOUSING OPPORTUNITIES AND MAINTENANCE FOR THE ELDERLY INC2× · 2023–2024 · $170k · revenue +26%
- VVVAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $160k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- OROrthopaedic Research and Education Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +28%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY EAGLE COUNTYone grant, 2023 · $250k
- BWBig Waters Land Trust Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +70%
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.
Chh honors every person's right to a home and health care, by bridging the housing and health care systems, to improve the lives of chicagoans experiencing homelessness.
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…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.
The aids foundation of chicago mobilizes communities to create equity and justice for people living with and vulnerable to hiv and related chronic disease.
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.
Valle del sol inspires positive change by investing in health and human services to strengthen families with tools and skills for self-sufficiency and by building the next generation of latino and diverse leaders.
The mission of the foundation for health care continuums is to strengthen each community we serve by providing a wide spectrum of housing and health care services that honor the evolving, aging population.
Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
To support salem health, salem health west valley and related organizations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc and the most unlike its peers is League to Save Lake Tahoe. 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 44 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
50 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 68 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 Fellowship Housing Corporation ↗
- Who funds VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EAGLE RIVER VALLEY CHILDCARE ↗
- Who funds ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY VAIL VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES AND MAINTENANCE FOR THE ELDERLY INC ↗
- Who funds VAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds Big Waters Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds Home of the Sparrow Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds WINGS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds DEBORAH'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds La Rabida Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds The Cradle Foundation ↗
- Who funds Howard Area Community Center ↗
- Who funds LAKELAND AREA SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT FUTURES ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE ↗
- Who funds THE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP ↗
- Who funds HINSDALE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS ↗
- Who funds MARIAN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
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: George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · The Chicago Community Trust · AbbVie Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Rhoades Foundation · Patrick and Anna M Cudahy Fund · Andrew and Alice Fischer Charitable Trust · WP & HB White Foundation · The Service Club of Chicago
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 Marguerite Delany Hark 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.
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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