· Private foundation
Parker Kemp Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k46 grants · $111k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CANINE COMPANIONS | $32,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $30,250 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| LEXINGTON HIGH SCHOOL | $12,000 |
| TARA PERFORMING ARTS HIGH SCHOOL | $11,000 |
| MCLEAN COUNTY SWCD FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SUSAN G KOMEN FOR THE CURE | $10,000 |
| LEXINGTON COMMUNITY CENTER | $10,000 |
| LEXINGTON FOOD PANTRY | $9,100 |
| MIDWEST FOOD BANK | $9,000 |
| ST PATRICK CHURCH OF MERNA | $6,750 |
| RACING FOR MENTAL HEALTH | $6,000 |
| LEXINGTON GENEALOGICAL & HISTORICAL SCTY | $5,500 |
| HOME SWEET HOME MINISTRIES | $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 (FY20–25, $79k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
77 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 6 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- IWILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $125k · revenue +8%
- CCCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $117k · revenue +70%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $112k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- SMST MARYS CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $15k
DENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTSgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +67%- NPNOMAD PLAYHOUSEone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
Provide affordable, high-quality health services and remove inequities to improve the lives of all.
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
To support and promote mental health services in the four counties of carroll, lee, ogle, and whiteside.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
To further the education of healthcare providers in the neurosciences, provide community education with an emphasis on public awareness of neurological disorders, and support and conduct clinical and pre-clinical research in the…
To give members the ability to control their financial destiny by providing members with the means to satisfy their needs for financial services in a comfortable family-like environment. in doing so, the credit union strives to maintain…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
To be the trusted partner in all healthcare decisions and to improve health by providing highly accessible, world-class care and services.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
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.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc and the most unlike its peers is Humane Society of Central Illinois. 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 42 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 95 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 ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TARA INSTITUTE OF THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE BABY FOLD ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP ↗
- Who funds Community Cancer Center Foundation ↗
- Who funds HOME SWEET HOME MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PSORIASIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIFELONG ACCESS ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS INC ↗
- Who funds RACING FOR MENTAL HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds TOWN OF NORMAL CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE CLINIC ↗
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: Illinois Prairie Community Foundation Inc · Snyder Family Foundation Nfp · The Growmark Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · United Way of McLean County · Charities Aid Foundation America · Paul a Funk Foundation · Russell and Betty Shirk Foundation · Stephen S and Anne E K Matter Foundation · Myers Family Foundation · Reardon Family Foundation · The Owen 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 Parker Kemp 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.