· Private foundation
Master Educational Assistance 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k40 grants · $116k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $268k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIBERTY FOREVER FOUNDATION | $48,000 |
| CHRIST THE KING COLLEGE PREP | $37,585 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $28,298 |
| LANSING CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| FRIEDA INC | $20,000 |
| RESILIENCE PARTNERS NFP | $18,000 |
| ST FRANCES OF ROME SCHOOL | $17,500 |
| PILSEN PROMISE PROJECT | $17,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $16,381 |
| CHICAGO POLICE MARINE CORPS LG | $13,460 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| MARIST HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL INTEG ARTS | $10,000 |
| BROTHERHOOD FOR THE FALLEN | $8,500 |
| AMERICAN BRAIN TUMOR ASSN | $7,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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 +17% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
66 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 36 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RPResilience Partners NFP5× · 2020–2025 · $90k · revenue +38%
University of Chicago2× · 2023–2024 · $57k · revenue +21%
American Brain Tumor Association5× · 2020–2025 · $35k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- CTChrist the Kng College Prepone grant, 2024 · $26k
- CTCHRIST THE KING COLLEGEone grant, 2023 · $24k
- SJST JAMES PARISHone grant, 2020 · $20k
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.
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…
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Resurrection University (dba Oak Point University) inspires, educates and forms life-long learners who meet the world's changing needs with curiosity, ingenuity and grace.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Under the medical sevice plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical instruction…
The organization's mission is to serve the interests of law enforcement at the local and state-wide levels, including legislation, labor, social events of law enforcement officers,etc. and to act as the collective bargaining agent for the…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
How this is measured
30 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. 30 of the 171 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 Resilience Partners NFP ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds American Brain Tumor Association ↗
- Who funds BROTHERHOOD FOR THE FALLEN ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds University of Dayton ↗
- Who funds ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MICHAEL P GORDON MEMORIAL 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: Good Heart Work Smart Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Big Shoulders Fund · The Coleman Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation · Cme Group Community Foundation F/K/A Nymex Foundation · Forefront · Helen V Brach Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Master Educational Assistance Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Master Educational Assistance Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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