· Private foundation
Mary V Duffy Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Gift of Adoption Funds | $5,000 |
| CHO Foundation (Children Hispaniola Org) | $5,000 |
| Regina Dominican High School | $5,000 |
| Lawrence Hall | $3,000 |
| Our Lady of Tepeyac | $2,500 |
| Little Sisters of the PoorSt Marys Home | $2,000 |
| AMBAS (Womens Association of Barra de Santiago) | $2,000 |
| Police Chaplains Ministry | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +10% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 2 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, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LHLawrence Hall5× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +56%
- HAHoward Area Community Center2× · 2021–2022 · $3k · revenue +25%
- PCPOLICE CHAPLAINS MINISTRY FUND2× · 2022–2025 · $3k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- CVCHICAGO VOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +6%
- TCTeen Challenge Illinoisone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
- GOGift of Adoptionone grant, 2022 · $2k
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.
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.
Child Link provides foster care, family counseling, and therapy services to Chicago area adolescents who are at risk of homelessness. Child Link also refers adolescents to other agencies that are able to provide additional resources and…
Association house's mission is to advance each person's full participation in the life of their families, communities, and society. since 1899, we have served a vibrant, multicultural community. we used a trauma informed, culturally…
The Home currently provides support to charitable organizations that provide care, education and other services in community-based settings to expectant mothers, mothers, infants and children. Additionally, the Home provides required…
Providing Social Services to Families including Child Care
Rooted in the loving ministry of jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. our catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-centered, holistic care…
CASA of Cook County's vision is to protect abused and neglected children by providing them in court, a safe and permanent home, and an opportunity to grow, learn and thrive.
The organization is organized to provide social services for children and families from Birth thru five years of age. Our mission is to "improve the quality of life for families in culturally and economically diverse Chicago communities by…
To build a secure and hopeful today so children facing health issues and poverty succeed tomorrow.
Cornerstone Counseling empowers people to reach their spiritual, relational, and emotional potential through exceptional counseling and personal development services.
Administering an array of critical, intensive therapeutic interventions and/or facilitation services to emotionally and behaviorally disturbed clients for whom DCFS is legally responsible in order to stabilize their traditional or home of…
In 34 cities across five countries, covenant house builds bridges to hope for young people facing homelessness and survivors of human trafficking. we meet their immediate needs for food, clothing, protection, and medical and mental health…
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 33 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Lawrence Hall ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR CHICAGO ST MARY'S HOME ↗
- Who funds ECOVIVA NFP ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO VOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Howard Area Community Center ↗
- Who funds POLICE CHAPLAINS MINISTRY FUND ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA PLACE ↗
- Who funds Teen Challenge Illinois ↗
- Who funds SARAH'S CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds ESPERANZA COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds KICKING IT BACK INC ↗
- Who funds COOL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ALBANY PARK COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Warren Majengo Foundation ↗
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.
Open a dossier: George O'Brien & Joseph Linberg Charitable Foundation · Helen V Brach Foundation · Garnetta Kramer Charitable Foundation · WP & HB White Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · AbbVie Foundation · The Valerye H McCarthy Charitable Foundation · Benjamin & Bettina Van Cleave Charitable Foundation · Guy a & N Kay Arboit Charitable Trust · Harry F Chaddick and Elaine Chaddick Foundation Inc · Dr Scholl Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mary V Duffy Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary V Duffy Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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