· Private foundation
Miller Cooper & Co Ltd Charitable Foundation C/O Tad Render
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.
The 70 grants below total $386,749 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $443,441 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $56,692 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k63 grants · $144k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $76k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $166k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH UNITED FUND | $166,197 |
| The Richard H. Driehaus Museum | $16,200 |
| BERNIE'S BOOK BANK | $15,306 |
| RABINE GROUP FOUNDATION | $13,940 |
| ILLINOIS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER | $10,750 |
| Jewish Community Centers of Chicago | $10,000 |
| The Red Arts Foundation | $10,000 |
| The Jeffrey Pride Foundation | $8,380 |
| Youth Guidance | $8,000 |
| RAVINIA FESITVAL ASSOCIATION | $8,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES | $7,080 |
| UNIVERISTY OF CHICAGO BOOTH SCHOOL OF BUSINESS | $6,000 |
| GLENKIRK | $5,000 |
| LYRICS FOR LIFE FOUNDATION, INC. | $5,000 |
| BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK | $5,000 |
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 +24% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 31 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; $83k 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
- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO5× · 2017–2024 · $742k · revenue +13%
- TCTHE CHERYL RABINE FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2024 · $69k · revenue +64%
- HMHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC5× · 2017–2024 · $48k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +63%
- OTONE TAIL AT A TIME NFPgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +45%
- FCFRIENDSHIP CENTER FOOD PANTRYone grant, 2023 · $4k
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.
The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…
We value excellence and innovation in clinical and basic research, coordinated and comprehensive patient care, ongoing physician education, and evidence-based child advocacy. our goal is to provide leadership in endeavors that promote the…
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
Provide pediatric and subspecialty surgical, research, and educational services.
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
The chicago bar foundation brings the legal community together through advocacy, funding, and innovation to improve access to justice for people in need and to make the legal system more fair, equitable, and effective.
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
To optimize philanthropy in support of the mission and future of the children's hospital of chicago medical center.
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
Children's advocates for change was organized to improve the lives of children in illinois by bringing about significant changes public policies and programs for children through research, policy analysis and advocacy, public education and…
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.
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections for the Homeless Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pano Koumantaros Cancer Research Fund Inc. 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 37 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) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
105 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. 105 of the 177 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 JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds THE CHERYL RABINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds UCAN ↗
- Who funds BERNIE'S BOOK BANK ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES ↗
- Who funds Erikas Lighthouse A Beacon of Hope for Adolescent Depression ↗
- Who funds Youth Guidance ↗
- Who funds The Richard H Driehaus Museum ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds McDermott Center ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds Glenkirk ↗
- Who funds Jewish Community Centers of Chicago ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Search Inc ↗
- Who funds Epstein Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds JEFFREY PRIDE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Childcare Network of Evanston ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds Termax Charities ↗
- Who funds ANGELO AND ROMANA CAPUTO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Chicago Children's Museum ↗
- Who funds Follett Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds ONE TAIL AT A TIME NFP ↗
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: The Chicago Community Trust · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Kovler Family Foundation · Motorola Solutions Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Patrick G and Shirley W Ryan Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · The Ayco Charitable 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.