· Private foundation
Norman and Susan Abazoris Foundation
Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k16 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $117k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE BRIDGE YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICE | $117,104 |
| CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING | $25,000 |
| THE BRIDGE YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICE | $25,000 |
| INJURED MARINE SEMPER FI FUND | $20,000 |
| JOURNEYSTHE ROAD HOME | $15,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| SAVE A PET | $10,000 |
| INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY-ISU FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS | $7,500 |
| ANIMAL HOUSE SHELTER | $5,000 |
| NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL HEADACHE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| AUTISMUS RHEIN-MAIN EV | $5,000 |
| FRIED'S CAT SHELTER | $5,000 |
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 (FY22–22, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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 improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
The friends are dedicated to the rescue, protection, and adoption of companion animals in need while inspiring the human-animal bond. we meet our mission by:-saving 100% of healthy and treatable animals.-providing high-quality animal care…
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…
The austin humane society (ahs) offers comprehensive, humane, life-saving animal services, transforming the lives of animals and those who love them. because we believe homeless animals deserve a chance to thrive in a loving environment,…
Pet animal welfare society of ct (paws), established in 1962, is a no-kill animal rescue shelter dedicated to the rescue and adoption of our community's homeless and abused dogs and cats. paws efforts are focused on three critical needs:…
To compassionately serve pets and the people who love them.
The mission of safe haven for cats is to use no-kill principles and education to save cats' lives through rescue, adoption, spay/neuter services and community programs.
Animal Humane Society (AHS) established in 1878 and incorporated as a nonprofit charitable organization in 1891 works to engage the hearts, hands, and minds of the community to help animals. AHS's vision is to compassionately and…
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
To save the lives of homeless, sick and injured cats and to work with our community to provide feline expertise and quality programs and services for people and cats.
Animal care centers of nyc's (acc) mission is to end animal homelessness in nyc.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save-a-Pet Inc and the most unlike its peers is Brightfocus Foundation. 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 51 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 23 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 THE BRIDGE YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds PADS TO HOPE DBA-JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME ↗
- Who funds SAVE-A-PET INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds TREE HOUSE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Frieds Cat Shelter Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL HEADACHE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL HOUSE SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SENIORLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE AUTISM COMMUNITY IN ACTION ↗
- Who funds LITTLE CITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PAWS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
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: Norman and Susan Abazoris Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Motorola Solutions Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Baxter International Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Synchrony 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 Norman and Susan Abazoris 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.
- Autism Society of America Inc — 8% of income from government
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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