· Private foundation
Peggy and Steve Fossett Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k14 grants · $83k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $570k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $796k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE ARK | $141,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN CHICAGO | $105,000 |
| CHICAGO AREA COUNCIL BSA | $100,000 |
| ADLER PLANETARIUM | $100,000 |
| MUSEUM OF FLIGHT | $100,000 |
| ARIE CROWN HEBREW DAY SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| WINGS OVER THE ROCKIES AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA | $50,000 |
| ONE LOVE GLOBAL WELLNESS FOUNDATION | $46,000 |
| CASA LAKE COUNTY | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $36,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS CHICAGO | $35,000 |
| NOURSHING HOPE | $35,000 |
| MERCY HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS | $25,000 |
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, $320k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
56 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2025, 10 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; $63k 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
- MOMUSEUM OF FLIGHT FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $600k · revenue +307%
- TATHE ADLER PLANETARIUM6× · 2020–2025 · $600k · revenue +38%
- WOWINGS OVER THE ROCKIES AIR & SPACE MUSEUM6× · 2020–2025 · $300k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- CMCHICAGO MEZUZAH AND MITZVAH CAMPAIGNgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +65%
- SLST LINUS SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $20k
- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND EMERGENCY FUNDone grant, 2023 · $18k
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.
To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
The network is an international membership association of more than 170 non profit human service agencies in the united states, canada and israel. its members provide a full range of human services for the jewish community and beyond,…
To enhance the quality of life, health, and well-being of jewish older adults, their families, and others in our community, consistent with the values and traditions of our jewish heritage.
Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…
The organization's mission is to manage a continuum of senior care business lines that consistently provide high-quality compassionate care while focusing on the development of innovative programs and services that enable individuals to…
Mount sinai is committed to the advancement of the art and science of medicine through clinical excellence. the central mission consists of high-quality patient care and teaching conducted in an atmosphere of social concern and scholarly…
Strengthening the community by providing behavioral health, healthcare and social services to all ages, faiths and backgrounds.
See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pat Mac's Pack Inc. 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 37 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 73 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 MUSEUM OF FLIGHT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ADLER PLANETARIUM ↗
- Who funds WINGS OVER THE ROCKIES AIR & SPACE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HATZALAH CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds ONE LOVE GLOBAL WELLNESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CASA LAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NOURISHING HOPE ↗
- Who funds Webster University ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SWIFT OUTDOOR ACCESSIBLE RECREATION ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO CHESED FUND ↗
- Who funds Park Lawn Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WILDWOOD HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
- Who funds SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds Pat Mac's Pack Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ANDREW WEISHAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO MEZUZAH AND MITZVAH CAMPAIGN ↗
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: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Todd a and Raphaela Stern Family Foundation · Aj & Sl Stern Family Foundation · Bitton Family Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · Weiner-Marc Foundation · Noah Wolff Family Foundation Inc · Elliott and Ronni Charitable Fdn · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Walder Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial
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 Peggy and Steve Fossett 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.
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