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Marquette Bank Education Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k72 grants · $176k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $66k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CRISTO REY WORK STUDY PROGRAM | $60,000 |
| MOTHER MCAULEY LIBERAL ARTS HIGH SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| SAINT RITA OF CASCIA HIGH SCHOOL | $46,000 |
| MARIST HIGH SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| OUR LADY OF TEPEYAC HIGH SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| SAINT ANN SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| LAKE FOREST COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA- CHAMPAIGN | $2,500 |
| CLARK ATLANTA UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO | $2,500 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON | $2,500 |
| ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO | $2,500 |
| NORTH CENTRAL COLLEGE | $2,500 |
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 (FY23–23, $3k) 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 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 +27% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
79 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 51 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k 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
- SXSAINT XAVIER UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +26%
- DUDEPAUL UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +25%
- LULOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO7× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ILINOIS URBANA-CHAMPAIGNone grant, 2024 · $10k
- ISIOWA STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $5k
- CCCHICAGO CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
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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…
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The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.
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Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Illinois Wesleyan University and the most unlike its peers is The Port Ministries. 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 80 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
97 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. 97 of the 228 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 SAINT XAVIER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DEPAUL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Lewis University ↗
- Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BRADLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Columbia College Chicago ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds National Louis University ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds The Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame ↗
- Who funds Spelman College ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
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: Ibm International Foundation · Ernest Wentcher Educational Fund · The Chicago Community Trust · Associated Colleges of Illinois Inc · Council of Independent Colleges · Helen V Brach Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Irish Fellowship Educational & Cultural Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Folds of Honor Foundation · Enterprise Holdings 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 Marquette Bank Education 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.
- Trustees of Boston College — 2% of income from government
- Barry University Inc — 0% of income from government
- Connecticut College — 0% 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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