· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k16 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $57k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HIGHSIGHT | $15,000 |
| MADONNA MISSION | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| HORIZONS FOR YOUTH | $10,000 |
| CHICAGO JESUIT ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES ILLINOIS | $5,000 |
| NEWROOT LEARNING INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| DANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $5,000 |
| HIGH JUMP | $5,000 |
| ONE MILLION DEGREES | $5,000 |
| FORA | $5,000 |
| TUTORING CHICAGO | $5,000 |
| THE PEACE CORNER | $4,000 |
| BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE OF IL | $4,000 |
| LIVINGWORKS | $4,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- LULAUNCH Uone grant, 2017 · $3k
- PVPROJECT VISION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +814%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
30 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. 30 of the 46 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 GLENWOOD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SUE DUNCAN CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DREAM ON EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS FATHERHOOD INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds PASS WITH FLYING COLORS INC ↗
- Who funds LADDER UP (F/K/A CITY-WIDE TAX ASSISTANCE PROGRAM) ↗
- Who funds EAST VILLAGE YOUTH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT VISION INC ↗
- Who funds UCAN ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization New Frontiers Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from New Frontiers Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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