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Paul M Angell Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$57M
Granted FY2024still arriving
128
Grants FY2024still arriving
19
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Health$4.8MYouth Development$3.7MCivil Rights$3.2MEducation$2.6MEnvironment$2.5MScience & Tech$2.3MHuman Services$2.3MPhilanthropy$1.6MOther$0
02FY2024 · 128 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 128 grants below total $21,294,745 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $57,054,396 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $35,759,651 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k19 grants · $625k
  • $50k–250k90 grants · $8.9M
  • $250k+19 grants · $12M
$100,000
Median grant
19
States reached
$903M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Rush University Medical Center$2,000,000
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies$1,250,000
Harlem Co. Boys & Girls Club, Inc.$885,500
Mountain Comprehensive Health Corporation$750,000
Yerkes Future Foundation$750,000
International Community Foundation$750,000
Chicago Community Foundation$500,000
Rheumatology Research and Educational Fund Inc$500,000
Embarc, Inc$500,000
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital$500,000
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Inc.$500,000
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Inc.$500,000
The Pew Charitable Trusts$500,000
Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence$500,000
Earthjustice$305,000
02Your 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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$17M · 65 repeat orgs$13M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

65 repeat relationships — 65 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 52 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
41

Total granted

$17M
$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+12%

Still filing today

88%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthAnimalsOther

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

  • AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +27%
  • TP
    The Pew Charitable Trusts
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +13%
  • BC
    BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE
    2× · 2022–2024 · $900k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • University of Chicago
    one grant, 2023 · $210k · revenue +21%
  • SC
    SHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -13%
  • BE
    BLACK ENSEMBLE THEATER CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $120k · revenue +158%

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

03Your 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
A Better Chicago

A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.

Human Services
2
Junior Achievement of Chicago

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy

International
3
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.

Social Science
4
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
5
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
6
Chicago United

To achieve parity in economic opportunity for people of color by advancing multiracial leadership in corporate governance, expanding the talent pipline for executive-level management, and growing minority businesses.

Philanthropy
7
Arise Chicago

Arise chicago builds partnerships between faith communities and workers to fight workplace injustice through education, organizing, and advocating for public policy changes.

Employment
8
Ampt Advancing Nonprofits

Advancing Nonprofits is committed to strengthening the organizational health and support long-term development of small nonprofits on Chicagos west and south sides while prioritizing Black- and Latine-led community organizations.…

Community Improvement
9
The University of Chicago Charter School Corporation

To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.

Education
10
Children's Museum of Oak Park

To spark curiosity and creativity in all young children through positive, play-based learning experiences.

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
Thrive Chicago Nfp

Thrive chicago's mission is to prepare chicago's youth for a vibrant future by aligning efforts and outcomes from cradle to career.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago and the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Washington Ear 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 backsteadyCommunity Hospital SystemsGovernment Accountability &…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Pregnancy Support CentersChildhood Cancer SupportImmigrant and Latino Integr…Environmental Advocacy and …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Jewish Community FederationsCharter and Independent Sch…Girls Stem Education Progra…Community Literacy TutoringUrban Agriculture EducationLocal History MuseumsPublic Library SupportDomestic Violence and Sexua…Women's Empowerment Organiz…Food Pantries and AssistanceEducation Equity InitiativesIndigenous Community Develo…Asian American Civic & Cult…Youth Development CentersClassical Music OrchestrasCommunity Theater Companies
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 35 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%1%<5yr13%7%5–10yr18%16%10–20yr15%26%20–35yr14%28%35–55yr22%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%7%5–10yr18%14%10–20yr15%22%20–35yr14%25%35–55yr22%33%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.8%1/124
the rest of the field
12%
8,891/72,235

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.

03the grantee network

123 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. 123 of the 162 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
121/123
Grantees still filing
64/123
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,120,000 · OtherCHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONHarlem Co. Boys & Girls Club, Inc. — $885,500 · OtherHarlem Co. Boys & Girls Club, Inc.EMBARC INC — $650,000 · OtherBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE — $900,000 · OtherBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE+107 more — $12,351,063 · Other+107 moreRush University Medical Center — $2,000,000 · HealthRush Universi…MOUNTAIN COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CORPORATION — $750,000 · HealthMOUNTAIN COMP…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $500,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILD…Repro TLC — $200,000 · Health+4 more — $305,000 · Health+4 moreINTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,450,000 · PhilanthropyINTERNATION…The Pew Charitable Trusts — $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyThe Pew Cha…FAUNA & FLORA INTERNATIONAL USA INC — $335,000 · PhilanthropyFAUNA & FLO…FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC — $210,000 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION …+1 more — $100,000 · PhilanthropyYERKES FUTURE FOUNDATION INC — $750,000 · EducationYERKES FUT…DENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $400,000 · EducationDENVER SCH…SAGA INNOVATIONS INC — $350,000 · EducationSAGA INNOV…NEWROOT LEARNING INSTITUTE F/K/A UMOJA STUDENT DEVELOPMENT CORP — $275,000 · EducationNEWROOT LE…University of Chicago — $210,000 · EducationUniversity…Youth Guidance — $200,000 · EducationYouth Guid…New Legacy Charter School — $150,000 · EducationGENEVA LAKE ASTROPHYSICS AND STEAM INC — $150,000 · EducationCHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $125,000 · Education+6 more — $420,000 · Education+6 moreCHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL — $425,000 · Human ServicesGADS HILL CENTER — $225,000 · Human ServicesChicago Commons Association — $205,000 · Human ServicesMetropolitan Family Services — $200,000 · Human ServicesMUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION — $175,000 · Human ServicesASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO — $170,000 · Human ServicesMANO A MANO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER — $160,000 · Human ServicesUCAN — $150,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH OUTREACH SERVICES INC — $130,000 · Human ServicesCHRISTOPHER HOUSE — $125,000 · Human ServicesERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE — $125,000 · Human ServicesMI CASA RESOURCE CENTER — $125,000 · Human ServicesIGNITE — $100,000 · Human Services+3 more — $135,000 · Human ServicesThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies — $1,250,000 · Science & TechRheumatology Research and Educational Fund Inc — $750,000 · Science & TechAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $1,250,000 · Civil RightsChicago United for Equity — $125,000 · Civil RightsChicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation — $75,000 · Civil Rights+2 more — $100,000 · Civil Rights
Other$15,906,563Health$3,755,000Philanthropy$3,095,000Education$3,030,000Human Services$2,450,000Science & Tech$2,000,000Civil Rights$1,550,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRush University Medical Center — $2,000,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,450,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies — $1,250,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $1,250,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetThe Pew Charitable Trusts — $1,000,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE — $900,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetYERKES FUTURE FOUNDATION INC — $750,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetMOUNTAIN COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CORPORATION — $750,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRheumatology Research and Educational Fund Inc — $750,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetEMBARC INC — $650,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetBUILD INC — $500,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL — $425,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $400,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetFAMILY MATTERS INC — $350,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetSAGA INNOVATIONS INC — $350,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCHICAGO ABORTION FUND — $350,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetFAUNA & FLORA INTERNATIONAL USA INC — $335,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetCHICAGO CARES INC — $325,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $305,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCROSSROADS FUND INC — $300,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetWILDAID INC — $276,245 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetNEWROOT LEARNING INSTITUTE F/K/A UMOJA STUDENT DEVELOPMENT CORP — $275,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetJANE ADDAMS RESOURCE CORPORATION — $250,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - CHICAGO — $250,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetAurora Public Schools Foundation — $225,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetGADS HILL CENTER — $225,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND FAMILY ISSUES — $225,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetChicago Youth Centers — $220,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC — $210,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $210,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Commons Association — $205,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSCHOOL JUSTICE PROJECT INC — $200,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetMetropolitan Family Services — $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOO PROJECT — $200,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetONWARD NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE — $200,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetYouth Guidance — $200,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetREVOLUTION WORKSHOP — $200,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetRepro TLC — $200,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetThe Cara Program — $180,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION — $175,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetKenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry — $175,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO — $170,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMANO A MANO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER — $160,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCenter for Changing Lives — $160,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetREFUGEEONE — $160,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHEPHZIBAH CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION — $160,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUCAN — $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

Polk Bros Foundation …United Way of Metropo…The Chicago Community…John D and Catherine …Circle of Service Fou…Field Foundation of I…Robert R McCormick Fo…Lloyd a Fry FoundationChicago Foundation fo…Arie and Ida Crown Me…Grand Victoria Founda…Forefront
Polk Bros Foundation IncIL67.2× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Polk Bros Foundation Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Chicago Foundation for Women · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Grand Victoria Foundation · Forefront

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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Paul M Angell Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Paul M Angell Family 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 162 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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