· Private foundation
Matriarch 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $60,000 |
| UTAH FILM CENTER | $10,000 |
| LAKE FOREST GARDEN CLUB | $5,000 |
| TRI COMMUNITY AND YOUTH AGENCY | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 52% of your 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.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc6× · 2017–2024 · $112k · revenue +33%
- LCLAKE COUNTY SPONSORS3× · 2019–2021 · $80k · revenue +29% · 29% of their budget
- KAKids Above All Illinois2× · 2018–2019 · $20k · revenue +91%
Funded once
- LCLAKE COUNTY UNITED INCone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -55%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
- CICSAB INCone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +15%
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.
Uniting people and resources to advance the health, education, and financial stability of our communities.
A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.
To empower people with disabilities to lead self-directed lives as valued members of the community.
Lcea is organized for the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding of economics; matters of public concern; finance; education and training; science and technology; economic planning and development; and other subjects…
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
The university center of lake county provides facilities and support services for its member colleges and universities in delivering higher education programs to lake county students.
Lincoln park zoo is dedicated to connecting people with nature by providing a free, family-oriented wildlife experience in the heart of chicago and by advancing the highest quality of animal care, horticulture, education, science and…
Meeting the professional needs of los angeles lawyers, and improving the administration of justice.
Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.
We provide emergency medical services, spays ands neuters for animals in need.
The Humane Society of Lake County is a non-profit corporation organized solely for charitable purposes and has the general responsibility to operate for the advancement of humane treatment and the prevention of cruelty to animals. Founded…
To maintain economic vitality and quality of life in lake county, illinois by creating and retaining quality jobs, stimulating capital investment, pursuing economic diversity and improving the county's business climate.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids Above All Illinois and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 20 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 American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds LAKE COUNTY SPONSORS ↗
- Who funds GENEVA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Kids Above All Illinois ↗
- Who funds LAKE COUNTY UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds UTAH FILM CENTER ↗
- Who funds LAKE FOREST GARDEN CLUB ↗
- Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CSAB INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds The Anti-Cruelty Society ↗
- Who funds PAWS INC ↗
- Who funds TRI COMMUNITY AND YOUTH AGENCY INC ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Matriarch 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.