· Private foundation
Niamogue Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $109k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Davidson College | $59,000 |
| Glen View Club Scholarship Foundation | $50,000 |
| Evans Scholar Foundation | $25,000 |
| Touch Foundation | $25,000 |
| St Ignatius College Prep | $10,000 |
| University of Pennsylvania | $10,000 |
| Brain Research Foundation | $5,000 |
| Parkinsons Foundation | $5,000 |
| Third Coast Percussion | $5,000 |
| St Clement Church | $5,000 |
| Colgate University | $5,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING | $5,000 |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $2,500 |
| The Night Ministry | $2,500 |
| Urban Pathways | $2,500 |
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 (FY19–25, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 25% of Niamogue Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 23% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 60%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Davidson College4× · 2019–2025 · $644k · revenue +26%- BRBRAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2025 · $35k · revenue +69%
- MCMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $23k · revenue +107%
Funded once
- SIST IGNATIUS OF CHICAGOone grant, 2019 · $10k
- PSParkinson Societyone grant, 2024 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
Education and Research
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.
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.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
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.
Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 28 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 Davidson College ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds GLEN VIEW CLUB SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TOUCH HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds BRAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARIACHI HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds URBAN PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds Lycee Francais de Chicago Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds THIRD COAST PERCUSSION NFP ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds RISING LEADERS OF NORTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds NOURISHING HOPE ↗
- Who funds EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATION ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · The Chicago Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Niamogue Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Niamogue Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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