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Patzik Frank & Samotny 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.

$54k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Health$155kHousing & Shelter$55kReligion$44kHuman Services$32kEducation$31kEmployment$30kCommunity Improvement$28kFood & Nutrition$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$64k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHICAGO$9,000
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY$7,480
EMBER FOUNDATION$5,750
YESHIVAH OF FLATBUSH$5,400
HAROLD E EISENBERG FOUNDATION$5,000
CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING$3,500
FOR AUTISTIC KIDS FOUNDATION$3,400
IBJI CARES$2,500
BEDS PLUS$2,000
Individual grant recipient$1,600
ORG FOR SOCIAL MEDIA SAFETY$1,562
RAINBOW COUNCIL SCOUTING AMERICA$1,500
KEEN CHICAGO$1,000
CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE$1,000
THE HAP FOUNDATION$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CRADLE TO CRAYONS: $20k → 8%ALMOST HOME KIDS: $1k → 7%ALMOST HOME KIDS: $1k → 7%CJE SENIOR LIFE: $750 → 8%YWCA OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $500 → 14%CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE: $1k → 14%CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE: $1k → 14%THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE: $850 → 14%THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $850 → 14%CHICAGO COMMONS ASSOCIATION: $500 → 14%JEWISH CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 14%JEWISH CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES: $750 → 14%LITTLE CITY FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES INC: $500 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
WI
NY
MA
IN
CT
CA
VA
DC
GA
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$316k · 34 repeat orgs$172k to everyone else

34 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
61

Total granted

$316k
$165k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+24%

Still filing today

68%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • HE
    HAROLD E EISENBERG FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2025 · $30k · revenue +34%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHICAGO
    3× · 2018–2025 · $29k · revenue +324%
  • FA
    FOR AUTISTIC KIDS FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • GH
    GROWING HOME INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +59%
  • CT
    CRADLES TO CRAYONS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +141%
  • GG
    GROW GREATER ENGLEWOOD INC
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -56%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Pediatric Faculty Foundation Inc

We value excellence and innovation in clinical and basic research, coordinated and comprehensive patient care, ongoing physician education, and evidence-based child advocacy. our goal is to provide leadership in endeavors that promote the…

Health
2
Lurie Children's Surgical Foundation Inc

Provide pediatric and subspecialty surgical, research, and educational services.

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3
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

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…

Health
4
Children's Hospital of Chicago Medical Center

We are dedicated to the health and well-being of all children. as the pediatric teaching facility for the northwestern university feinberg school of medicine, this commitment drives us to be a leader in: -pediatric health care delivery…

Health
5
Stanley Manne Childrens Research Institute

Stanley manne children's research institute strives to generate new knowledge and advance the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of pediatric diseases.

Health
6
The Chicago Scholars Foundation

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.

Education
7
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
8
Chicago Children's Advocacy Center

The chicago children's advocacy center unites public, private, and community partners to ensure the safety, health, and well-being of abused children.

Crime & Legal
9
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
10
True Chicago
Arts & Culture
11
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.

Education
12
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Ann & robert h. lurie children's hospital of chicago is dedicated to the health and well-being of all children. as the pediatric teaching facility for northwestern university feinberg school of medicine, this commitment drives us to be a…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Chicago Lighthouse for People Who Are Blind Or Visually Impaired and the most unlike its peers is Craig's Pantry & Outreach Program Nfp Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyMedical Research Funding Or…Community Support ServicesAffordable Housing Developm…Community Development Organ…Hospital Systems and Networ…School Parent Support Organ…Advocacy and Policy Organiz…Social Change InfrastructureYouth Education and Develop…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr19%23%20–35yr14%21%35–55yr15%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr19%39%20–35yr14%24%35–55yr15%18%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/73
the rest of the field
13%
8,066/60,009

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.

04the grantee network

72 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. 72 of the 101 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/72
Grantees still filing
43/72
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $28,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientYESHIVAH OF FLATBUSH — $22,600 · OtherYESHIVAH OF FLATBUSHIndividual grant recipient — $13,250 · OtherTHE CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING INC — $13,250 · OtherUS TOO INTERNATIONAL INC — $12,500 · OtherCHICAGO CARES INC — $24,880 · OtherCHICAGO CARES INCGROW GREATER ENGLEWOOD INC — $20,000 · OtherGROW GREATER ENGLEWOOD INC+61 more — $115,324 · Other+61 moreHAROLD E EISENBERG FOUNDATION — $30,200 · PhilanthropyHAROLD E EIS…FOR AUTISTIC KIDS FOUNDATION — $24,500 · PhilanthropyFOR AUTISTIC…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHICAGO — $29,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR…LA CASA NORTE — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterLA CASA NOR…CANCER WELLNESS CENTER — $13,750 · HealthCANCER WEL…NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $8,480 · HealthNATIONAL M…American Heart Association Inc — $7,500 · HealthAmerican H…ZERO PROSTATE CANCER — $3,000 · HealthZERO PROST…RETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC — $2,500 · HealthRETT SYNDR…SHARED VOICES — $2,500 · HealthSHARED VOI…Wellness House — $2,000 · Health+9 more — $6,425 · Health+9 moreCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED — $3,700 · Human ServicesJewish Child and Family Services — $3,250 · Human ServicesAlmost Home Kids — $2,000 · Human Services+5 more — $3,250 · Human ServicesGROWING HOME INC — $20,000 · EmploymentSKILLS FOR CHICAGO — $10,000 · EmploymentTHE EMBER FOUNDATION — $21,250 · ReligionThe Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation) — $7,525 · Religion
Other$249,804Philanthropy$54,700Housing & Shelter$49,000Health$46,155Human Services$32,200Employment$30,000Religion$28,775

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHAROLD E EISENBERG FOUNDATION — $30,200 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHICAGO — $29,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO CARES INC — $24,880 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFOR AUTISTIC KIDS FOUNDATION — $24,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTHE EMBER FOUNDATION — $21,250 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetGROWING HOME INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGROW GREATER ENGLEWOOD INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLA CASA NORTE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCANCER WELLNESS CENTER — $13,750 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING INC — $13,250 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUS TOO INTERNATIONAL INC — $12,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSKILLS FOR CHICAGO — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $8,480 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation) — $7,525 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPASS WITH FLYING COLORS INC — $7,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetBEDS PLUS INC — $6,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetChicago Architecture Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJAPANESE AMERICAN SERVICE COMMITTEE — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORKING IN THE SCHOOLS INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED — $3,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHINSDALE CENTRAL FOUNDATION — $3,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJewish Child and Family Services — $3,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL SPORT CENTER FOR THE DISABLED — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetZERO PROSTATE CANCER — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORT AMERICA INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARED VOICES — $2,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetKESHET — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO SUNDAY EVENING CLUB — $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWellness House — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlmost Home Kids — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC — $1,875 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLa Rabida Children's Foundation — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThree Lakes Waterfront Association — $1,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANDOR HEALTH EDUCATION — $1,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBAL MATERIAL TECHNOLOGIES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLITTLE CITY FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINNING WITH WYATT INCORPORATED — $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE COVE SCHOOL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY — $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRecovering Communities of Step Ahead — $675 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
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.

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.

Jewish Federation of …Circle of Service Fou…The Chicago Community…United Way of Metropo…AbbVie FoundationCme Group Community F…Robert R McCormick Fo…Polk Bros Foundation …Northwestern Memorial…Lloyd a Fry FoundationField Foundation of I…Baird Foundation Inc
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan ChicagoIL27.8× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Circle of Service Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Cme Group Community Foundation F/K/A Nymex Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · Baird Foundation Inc

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 Patzik Frank & Samotny 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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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How do I get to Patzik Frank & Samotny Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Patzik Frank & Samotny Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 101 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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