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Neil & Ginny Gerald Family Foundation at a glance

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Neil & Ginny Gerald Family 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.

$268k
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$115k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Community Improvement$393kFood & Nutrition$114kHealth$86kArts & Culture$58kEducation$51kRecreation & Sports$51kHuman Services$50kHousing & Shelter$49kOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k29 grants · $84k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $69k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $115k
$2,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY$115,000
PARAMOUNT ARTS CENTRE INC$25,000
FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN$20,000
NAPERVILLE SALUTE CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION$12,500
PUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC DBA HESED HOUSE$11,246
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY$9,953
NAPERVILLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION$5,000
FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES OF ILLINOIS$5,000
ARRANMORE ARTS$5,000
HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION$5,000
NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$5,000
TURNING POINTE AUTISM FOUNDATION$5,000
NAPERVILLE SUNRISE FOUNDATION$5,000
MATTESON YOUTH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION$4,500
ARRANMORE ARTS$3,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $503k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY: $214k → 7%THE HOPE CENTER: $10k → 8%NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY: $115k → 7%National Institute for Community: $31k → 7%National Institute for Community: $15k → 7%Hesed House: $15k → 8%NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY: $10k → 7%National Institute for Community: $8k → 7%Hesed House: $14k → 8%Little Friends: $20k → 7%Little Friends: $5k → 7%PUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC DBA HESED HOUSE: $11k → 8%Hesed House: $4k → 8%Turning Pointe Autism Foundation: $5k → 7%URBAN INITIATIVES INC: $500 → 14%Turning Pointe Autism Foundation: $5k → 7%TURNING POINTE AUTISM FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%TURNING POINTE AUTISM FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%TURNING POINTE AUTISM FOUNDATION: $3k → 7%TURNING POINTE AUTISM FOUNDATION: $3k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Neil & Ginny Gerald Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 88%.

Neil & Ginny Gerald Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$737k · 25 repeat orgs$157k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
17

Total granted

$737k
$98k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+36%

Still filing today

80%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyEducationHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • NI
    NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $393k · revenue +27% · 43% of their budget
  • FM
    FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $80k · revenue +40%
  • PA
    PUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC D/B/A HESED HOUSE
    4× · 2020–2024 · $44k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • LF
    LITTLE FRIENDS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +36%
  • VF
    VIOLET FOUNDATION FOR PEDIATRIC BRAIN CAgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +42%
  • GC
    Grace Community Church of Southern Maryland
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Gastro Intestinal Research Foundation Inc

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…

Health
2
A Better Chicago

A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.

Human Services
3
Nourishing Hope

Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.

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4
University Family Physicians Inc

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…

—
5
Goodwill Industries of Northern Il and Wi Stateline Area Inc

The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…

—
6
Aids Foundation of Chicago

The aids foundation of chicago mobilizes communities to create equity and justice for people living with and vulnerable to hiv and related chronic disease.

Health
7
Chicago Family Health Center Inc

Chicago family health center will promote health, work to prevent disease and provide treatment through the delivery of quality, accessible primary healtcare that is culturally sensitive, affordable, and responsive to community and…

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8
Pitch in

Established in 2011 by retired Chicago Cubs pitcher Kerry Wood, and his wife Sarah, Pitch In (fka Wood Family Foundation) seeks to improve the lives of children in four high-need neighborhoods in Chicago: North Lawndale, Humboldt Park,…

Philanthropy
9
Advocates for Illinois Children

Improve the lives of children in illinois by bringing about significant changes in public policies and programs for children through research, policy analysis and advocacy, public education and community outreach.

Human Services
10
Nami Illinois Inc

Nami illinois is dedicated to improving the quality of life for people with mental health disorders and their families through support, education, and advocacy.

Health
11
Rimland Services Nfp

Provide community-based residential housing to adults with autism and/or severe developmental disabilities. also provide developmental training and other supports to this same population.

Human Services
12
Kids Above All Illinois

Helping chicagoland's at-risk children and their families build, achieve and sustain better lives.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Little Friends Inc; the most unlike its peers is Matteson Youth Athletic Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 52 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
21/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY: $393,089 · Human ServicesNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITYPUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC D/B/A HESED HOUSE: $44,014 · Human ServicesPUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC D/B/A HESED HOUSETURNING POINTE AUTISM FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Human ServicesLITTLE FRIENDS INC: $25,000 · Human Services+3 more: $15,500 · Human ServicesARRANMORE CENTER FOR THE ARTS DBA ARRANMORE ARTS: $20,500 · OtherARRANMORE CENTER FOR …Northwestern Memorial Foundation: $17,500 · OtherNorthwestern Memorial…NAPERVILLE SALUTE CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION: $12,500 · OtherNAPERVILLE SALUTE CHA…Grace Community Church of Southern Maryland: $10,000 · OtherGrace Community Churc…Edward Foundation: $9,165 · OtherEdward FoundationFamilies Helping FamiliesBridge Communities Inc: $9,002 · OtherFamilies Helping Fami…FRIENDS OF YOUTH BASEBALL OF RICHTON PARK: $7,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $7,500 · OtherVIOLET FOUNDATION FOR PEDIATRIC BRAIN CA: $10,000 · OtherVIOLET FOUNDATION FOR…BOBBY JONES CHIARI & SYRINGOMYELIA FOUNDATION: $6,000 · OtherMatteson Youth Athletic Association: $13,500 · OtherMatteson Youth Athlet…+19 more: $44,790 · Other+19 moreFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $80,000 · InternationalFEED MY ST…ONE WORLD SURGERY: $3,000 · InternationalNAPERVILLE SUNRISE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyTHE ANDREW WEISHAR FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropySTARABILITY FOUNDATION INC: $6,400 · PhilanthropyPET PARADE CHARITIES: $5,000 · PhilanthropyNAPERVILLE RESPONDS FOR OUR VETERANS: $30,500 · Housing & ShelterFAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES OF ILLINOIS: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterBRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC: $2,500 · Housing & ShelterNaperville Education Foundation: $16,335 · EducationINDIAN PRAIRIE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationGiant Steps Illinois Inc: $3,000 · EducationPARAMOUNT ARTS CENTRE: $25,000 · Arts & CultureA SPECIAL PLACE: $1,750 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$502,603Other$167,957International$83,000Philanthropy$41,400Housing & Shelter$38,000Education$34,335Arts & Culture$26,750

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY: $393,089 over 4y, 43% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC D/B/A HESED HOUSE: $44,014 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNAPERVILLE RESPONDS FOR OUR VETERANS: $30,500 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetTURNING POINTE AUTISM FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLITTLE FRIENDS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARAMOUNT ARTS CENTRE: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetARRANMORE CENTER FOR THE ARTS DBA ARRANMORE ARTS: $20,500 over 4y, 49% of budgetNAPERVILLE SUNRISE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetNaperville Education Foundation: $16,335 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetMatteson Youth Athletic Association: $13,500 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetVIOLET FOUNDATION FOR PEDIATRIC BRAIN CA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Hope Center: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE ANDREW WEISHAR FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetINDIAN PRAIRIE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetEdward Foundation: $9,165 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSTARABILITY FOUNDATION INC: $6,400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBOBBY JONES CHIARI & SYRINGOMYELIA FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPET PARADE CHARITIES: $5,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetSUGAR GROVE CORN BOIL NFP: $3,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetGiant Steps Illinois Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetONE WORLD SURGERY: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSamaritan Interfaith Counseling Center: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASA KANE COUNTY: $2,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH SUBURBAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA SPECIAL PLACE: $1,750 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEST SUBURBAN COMMUNITY PANTRY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAURORA AREA INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY: $650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN INITIATIVES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Dupage Community …The Chicago Community…Community Foundation …Dunham FundThe Rich FoundationNaperville Rotary Cha…Arthur J Gallagher Fo…Robert August Koranda…The Walter S & Lucien…The John P Calamos Fo…Koranda Family Founda…Tara Foundation
The Dupage Community FoundationIL21.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Dupage Community Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley · Dunham Fund · The Rich Foundation · Naperville Rotary Charities Inc · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Robert August Koranda Memorial Foundation C/O Kenneth R Koranda · The Walter S & Lucienne B Driskill Foundation · The John P Calamos Foundation · Koranda Family Foundation · Tara Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Neil & Ginny Gerald Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Neil & Ginny Gerald Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Neil & Ginny Gerald Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Neil & Ginny Gerald Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 52 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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