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Modestus Bauer Foundation
Its FY2025 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k98 grants · $322k
- $10k–50k37 grants · $592k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $102k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH UNITED FUND | $101,600 |
| NORTHSHORE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM | $45,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF ILLINOIS | $35,000 |
| ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND | $28,000 |
| HIGHLAND PARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $25,500 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $21,000 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| MAYO FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK | $20,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHENS INC | $20,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $19,500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE IDF | $18,000 |
| MORAINE TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY | $18,000 |
| LAKE FOREST COLLEGE | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $263k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 46% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
164 repeat relationships — 117 still active in FY2025, 47 since wound down; 16 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k 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 CHICAGO6× · 2020–2025 · $498k · revenue +13%
- EHEndeavor Health Clinical Operations6× · 2020–2025 · $280k · revenue +25%
- PPPlanned Parenthood of Illinois6× · 2020–2025 · $235k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- BMBRYN MAWR COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +34%
- ACAMERICAN COMMITTEE WEIZMANN INSTITUTEone grant, 2021 · $8k
- AWAMER WEIZMANN INSTITUTEone grant, 2020 · $7k
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 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.
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa and the most unlike its peers is Camp Nebagamon Foundation. 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 36 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% 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.
151 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. 151 of the 235 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Endeavor Health Clinical Operations ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood of Illinois ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Highland Park Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds MORAINE TOWNSHIP CHARITABLE FUND CHARITABLE FUND ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP NEBAGAMON ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Writers Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds Lake Forest College ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ASPIRITECH NFP ↗
- Who funds NORTHLIGHT THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds REAL OPTIONS FOR CITY KIDS ↗
- Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds ART ENCOUNTER ↗
- Who funds CANCER WELLNESS CENTER ↗
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: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · First Bank Chicago Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Circle of Service Foundation · Highland Park Community Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Richard & Patricia Cohn Family Foundation · Leva Family Foundation · United Way of Lake County Inc · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · St Louis Community Foundation Inc
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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Modestus Bauer 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Palm Beach Symphony Society Inc — 0% of income from government
- Children's Golf Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
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.
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