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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k29 grants · $84k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $69k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| NAPERVILLE SUNRISE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| TURNING POINTE AUTISM FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MATTESON YOUTH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION | $4,500 |
| YORKVILLE ENDURANCE INC | $3,500 |
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.
Your 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. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Neil & Ginny Gerald Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in IL; read by stated purpose it is 88% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k 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
- NINATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY4× · 2021–2024 · $393k · revenue +27% · 43% of their budget
- FMFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC4× · 2021–2024 · $80k · revenue +40%
- PAPUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC D/B/A HESED HOUSE4× · 2020–2024 · $44k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- LFLITTLE FRIENDS INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +36%
- VFVIOLET FOUNDATION FOR PEDIATRIC BRAIN CAgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +42%
- GCGrace Community Church of Southern Marylandone grant, 2020 · $10k
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…
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
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…
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.…
The aids foundation of chicago mobilizes communities to create equity and justice for people living with and vulnerable to hiv and related chronic disease.
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…
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,…
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.
Nami illinois is dedicated to improving the quality of life for people with mental health disorders and their families through support, education, and advocacy.
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.
Helping chicagoland's at-risk children and their families build, achieve and sustain better lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Little Friends Inc and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 52 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 NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC D/B/A HESED HOUSE ↗
- Who funds NAPERVILLE RESPONDS FOR OUR VETERANS ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINTE AUTISM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LITTLE FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds PARAMOUNT ARTS CENTRE ↗
- Who funds ARRANMORE CENTER FOR THE ARTS DBA ARRANMORE ARTS ↗
- Who funds NAPERVILLE SUNRISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Naperville Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds Matteson Youth Athletic Association ↗
- Who funds VIOLET FOUNDATION FOR PEDIATRIC BRAIN CA ↗
- Who funds The Hope Center ↗
- Who funds THE ANDREW WEISHAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INDIAN PRAIRIE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Edward Foundation ↗
- Who funds STARABILITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOBBY JONES CHIARI & SYRINGOMYELIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PET PARADE CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds SUGAR GROVE CORN BOIL NFP ↗
- Who funds Giant Steps Illinois Inc ↗
- Who funds ONE WORLD SURGERY ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Samaritan Interfaith Counseling Center ↗
- Who funds CASA KANE COUNTY ↗
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 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
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 Neil & Ginny Gerald Family 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.
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