· Private foundation
Oberweiler 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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $85k
- $10k–50k39 grants · $786k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREEN CITY MARKET | $40,000 |
| COMER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $40,000 |
| TRAVIS MANION FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $30,000 |
| RUSTIC FALLS NATURE CAMP | $25,000 |
| BRUSHWOOD CENTER AT RYERSON WOODS | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE FOREST PRESERVE | $25,000 |
| DELTA INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| VETERANS PATH TO HOPE (DBA TRANSITIONAL LIVING SERVICES) | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHICAGO RIVER | $25,000 |
| ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL EDUCATION FUND | $25,000 |
| GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE | $25,000 |
| YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS | $25,000 |
| BRAVEHEARTS THERAPEUTIC RIDING AND EDUCATIONAL CENTER | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ILLINOIS NATURE PRESERVES | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $727k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 5% of Oberweiler Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 86% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 88%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
61 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 17 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $154k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BTBRAVEHEARTS THERAPEUTIC RIDING AND EDUCATIONAL CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $315k · revenue +45%
- CGCHICAGO'S GREEN CITY MARKET PROGRAM6× · 2020–2025 · $138k · revenue +74%
- ASA SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2024 · $127k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- FCFIDELITY CHARITABLE GIVING DONOR ADVISED FUNDone grant, 2022 · $175k
- AOANGELIC ORGANICS LEARNING CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $28k · revenue +114%
- TWThe Womens Treatment Center DBA TWTC Changed to Windy City Caresone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -96%
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.
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
To assist children who have been victims of abuse
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.…
To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.
The Chicago Parks Foundation is a separate 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization that also serves as the strategic partner for the coordination of fundraising and charitable resources for the Chicago Park District.
Children's advocates for change was organized to improve the lives of children in illinois by bringing about significant changes public policies and programs for children through research, policy analysis and advocacy, public education and…
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.
Administering an array of critical, intensive therapeutic interventions and/or facilitation services to emotionally and behaviorally disturbed clients for whom DCFS is legally responsible in order to stabilize their traditional or home of…
Strive to improve the health and well being of migrant and seasonal farmworkers and other medically vulnerable populations by providing quality accessable, affordable, and culturally responsive health care within the community we serve.
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…
Plant Chicago's mission is to cultivate local circular economies. We envision a paradigm shift in production, consumption, and waste driven at the local level, generating equity and economic opportunity for all residents.
At legal aid chicago, we work together to provide high quality civil legal aid to people living in poverty and other vulnerable groups.through advocacy, education, collaboration, and litigation we empower individuals, protect fundamental…
How this is measured
94 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. 94 of the 117 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 BRAVEHEARTS THERAPEUTIC RIDING AND EDUCATIONAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO'S GREEN CITY MARKET PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds A SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS FOR CONSERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHICAGO RIVER ↗
- Who funds BRUSHWOOD CENTER AT RYERSON WOODS ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST ↗
- Who funds UCM NETWORK DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds IPM INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Travis Manion Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO LIGHTS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE FOREST PRESERVES ↗
- Who funds THE DELTA INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Almost Home Kids ↗
- Who funds SALUTE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS ↗
- Who funds INFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds GROUNDSWELL CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds Childrens Oncology Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Tuesdays Child ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES ↗
- Who funds ECDYSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CODE PLATOON NFP ↗
- Who funds CASA OF DUPAGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS RANK ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ILLINOIS NATURE PRESERVES ↗
- Who funds LAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds WINGS PROGRAM INC ↗
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: Dr Scholl Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Andrew and Alice Fischer Charitable Trust · The Chicago Community Trust · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · AbbVie Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · The Service Club of Chicago · The Lumpkin Family Foundation · The Coleman Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Oberweiler Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Oberweiler Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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