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New Frontiers Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
94% of New Frontiers Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 9 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year New Frontiers Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 15 organizations, $116k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k16 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $57k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HIGHSIGHT | $15,000 |
| MADONNA MISSION | $12,000 |
| HORIZONS FOR YOUTH | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CHICAGO JESUIT ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES ILLINOIS | $5,000 |
| ONE MILLION DEGREES | $5,000 |
| FORA | $5,000 |
| HIGH JUMP | $5,000 |
| TUTORING CHICAGO | $5,000 |
| NEWROOT LEARNING INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| DANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $5,000 |
| THE PEACE CORNER | $4,000 |
| LIVINGWORKS | $4,000 |
| BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE OF IL | $4,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $141k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
36 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2023, 15 since wound down. Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- HHIGHSIGHT8× · 2017–2024 · $150k · revenue +19%
- OMONE MILLION DEGREES8× · 2017–2024 · $66k · revenue +122%
- MMMadonna Mission6× · 2019–2024 · $62k · revenue +312%
Funded once
- EVEAST VILLAGE YOUTH PROGRAMone grant, 2017 · $5k
- PVPROJECT VISION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +814%
- LULAUNCH Uone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
To equip all students in grades six through twelve with the academic skills, intellectual habits and character traits to succeed in the college of their choice, strenghten their communities and change the world.
The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…
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.
Tutoring and mentoring programs for inner city youth.
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
Midtown-Metro Achievement Centers, through its Midtown Center for boys and Metro Achievement Center for girls, helps close the achievement gap for Chicago's urban youth ages eight through eighteen.
Friends of the children - chicago has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…
To connect Black students with resources and opportunities that strengthen the necessary skills to succeed as they advance to, through, and beyond college.
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,…
Providing academic support to children experiencing homelessness in Chicago and providing resources and services to families experiencing homelessness in Chicago.
Chicago Free School provides pre-kindergarten through 8th grade instruction and support activities. The faculty consists of qualified indiviuals with the appropriate education and experiende to provide students with the education that…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Youth Centers and the most unlike its peers is Illinois Fatherhood Initiative. 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 32 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 46 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 PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds HIGHSIGHT ↗
- Who funds Horizons for Youth ↗
- Who funds ONE MILLION DEGREES ↗
- Who funds Madonna Mission ↗
- Who funds ONE FAMILY ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds HIGH JUMP ↗
- Who funds NEWROOT LEARNING INSTITUTE F/K/A UMOJA STUDENT DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds TUTORING CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds The Peace Corner Inc ↗
- Who funds DANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds HFS CHICAGO SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds LIVING WORKS ↗
- Who funds Chicago Youth Centers ↗
- Who funds ERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SUE DUNCAN CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GLENWOOD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds DREAM ON EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS FATHERHOOD INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds LADDER UP (F/K/A CITY-WIDE TAX ASSISTANCE PROGRAM) ↗
- Who funds PASS WITH FLYING COLORS INC ↗
- Who funds EAST VILLAGE YOUTH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT VISION INC ↗
- Who funds UCAN ↗
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 · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · AbbVie Foundation · WP & HB White Foundation · Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation · Helen V Brach Foundation · Pwc Foundation Inc · Robert R McCormick Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Lohengrin Foundation Inc · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase 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 New Frontiers 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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