· Private foundation
Milhouse Charities
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CULINARY CARE | $9,000 |
| PROJECT SYNCERE | $5,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| POLISHED PEBBLES | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST - 47TH AND COTTAGE PROJECT | $1,250 |
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 (FY19–19, $2k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +40% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2023, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PSPROJECT SYNCERE6× · 2017–2023 · $69k · revenue +13%
- AAAEROSTAR AVION INSTITUTE2× · 2020–2021 · $39k · revenue +171%
- CCCulinary Care4× · 2019–2023 · $27k · revenue +107%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $85k
- RPResilience Partners NFPgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +38%
- SCsouthwest chicago christian schoolone grant, 2019 · $15k
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.
To strengthen, enhance and enrich students interest in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) educational programs for elementary, middle and high school students in the Chicagoland area and assist eligible students in the…
The organization is a nonprofit after school program that uses the power of running to teach girls, 3rd-8th grade, critical social emotional learning skills.
Chicago Votes is a non-partisan, non-profit organization building a more inclusive democracy by putting power in the hands of young Chicagoans. We're engaging and developing a new generation of leaders by opening the doors of government,…
Tutoring chicago delivers the power of education through one-to-one tutoring.
In furtherance of its charitable and educational goals, the Network's activities consist primarily of providing educational opportunities for its members and the public on issues related to the advancement of women in the workplace. As the…
To promote education and to create awareness, excitement, and opportunities among girls and young women to launch successful stem-related careers.
Aia chicago foundation invests in chicago's next generation of architectural change-makers by awarding scholarships, grants, and recognition.
To prepare children from underrepresented groups, African American and Latino, for careers in science and mathematics.
Chicago scholars is transforming the leadership landscape of our city by resolving the fundamental barriers to success for academically driven, first generation college students from under-resourced communities.
Impact Grants Chicago connects, engages and inspires women to improve the community of Chicago by collectively funding $100,000 grants to Chicago nonprofits that are dedicated to addressing the challenges facing the city.
Lumity and our partners seek to break down the barriers between stem-related businesses, chicagoland schools, and under-resourced chicagoland communities. we work with over 25 corporate partners and five high schools to provide teens with…
Support and promotion of arts education programs at chicago high school for the arts. the organization may also support other educational activities in furtherance of the arts.
How this is measured
27 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. 27 of the 57 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 PROJECT SYNCERE ↗
- Who funds AEROSTAR AVION INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Culinary Care ↗
- Who funds Resilience Partners NFP ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds Forest Preserve Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MATHCOUNTS Foundation ↗
- Who funds REFLECTION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EL VALOR CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Loretto Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds ACE TECH ENDOWMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds WESTERN SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS ↗
- Who funds ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS 4 SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds AKARAMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGBOARD TO SUCCESS INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT ↗
- Who funds TRAGEDY TO TRIUMPH 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: The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Milhouse Charities funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Milhouse Charities. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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