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Perkins Harnett Foundation
Its FY2023 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 FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k35 grants · $75k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $62k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BIG SHOULDERS FUND | $16,000 |
| BENET ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| ERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE | $11,150 |
| ERIE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| PILLARS COMMUNITY HEALTH | $10,000 |
| METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| YOUTH FOR CHRIST | $5,000 |
| LINK UNLIMITED SCHOLARS | $5,000 |
| REFUGEE ONE | $5,000 |
| GIRLS IN THE GAME | $3,500 |
| TOMMY CORRAL MEMORIAL FDTN | $3,500 |
| FLORIDA LABRADOR RETRIEVER RESCUE | $3,000 |
| NOTRE DAME CATHOLIC CHURCH | $3,000 |
| ST JAMES FOOD PANTRY | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
22 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k 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
- EEERIE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL4× · 2017–2023 · $45k · revenue +41%
- BSBig Shoulders Fund4× · 2017–2023 · $31k · revenue +67%
- ENERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE4× · 2017–2023 · $21k · revenue +91%
Funded once
- PMPERKINS MALO HUNTER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +22%
- UOUniversity of Michigangraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +202%
- TATHORTON ALUMNI LEGACY FUNDone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…
Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness (CCH) builds community power and advances racial equity through organizing, advocacy, legal assistance, and education to prevent and end homelessness because housing is a human right.
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
The Chicago Refugee Coalition is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated ot the alleviation of human suffering through innovative partnerships, advocacy and community empowerment.
Serving recently arrived migrants and asylum seekers in the Chicagoland area and is committed to upholding the dignity and human rights of immigrants.
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
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.
Infant welfare society of chicago (iws) (d/b/a iws family health) provides quality medical, dental and behavioral health services for the health, physical and mental development of children and their families in the chicagoland community.
Providing academic support to children experiencing homelessness in Chicago and providing resources and services to families experiencing homelessness in Chicago.
To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
Executive Service Corps is the premier nonprofit consultancy that engages highly skilled professionals who use their experience and expertise to provide nonprofits with the consulting services they need to be successful. Our vision is to…
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 Perkins Malo Hunter Foundation. 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 47 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 69 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 ERIE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Big Shoulders Fund ↗
- Who funds ERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds PILLARS COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Family Services ↗
- Who funds REFUGEEONE ↗
- Who funds LINK Unlimited Scholars ↗
- Who funds GIRLS IN THE GAME NFP ↗
- Who funds TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds MISERICORDIA HOME ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds AID FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds RESPOND NOW ↗
- Who funds The Esselstyn Family Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PERKINS MALO HUNTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds Cornerstone Academy co Richard Van der Molen ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds OPEN BOOKS LTD ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
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: The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Robert R McCormick Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Allstate Foundation · Cme Group Foundation · Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation · The Dupage Community Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Greater Chicago Food Depository
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 Perkins Harnett 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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