· Private foundation
Perry Family Charitable 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $203k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $870k
- $250k+2 grants · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION | $1,251,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF CHICAGO | $715,000 |
| CRISTO REY NETWORK | $150,000 |
| CATHOLIC EXTENSION | $125,000 |
| CRISTO REY ST MARTIN COLLEGE PREP | $125,000 |
| PHI KAPPA PSI FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| CHICAGO JESUIT ACADEMY | $100,000 |
| CLEARBROOK | $85,000 |
| CHRIST THE KING JESUIT COLLEGE PREP HIGH SCHOOL | $80,000 |
| COME TO BELIEVE NETWORK | $55,000 |
| THE ONE PLAN SAINTS JFX | $50,000 |
| ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO | $27,500 |
| EVAN SCHOLARS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| OUR LADY OF TEPEYAC PARISH | $25,000 |
| BIG SHOULDERS FUND | $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 (FY17–25, $407k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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 +28% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
58 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 12 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, 98% 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
University of Illinois Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $4.0M · revenue +127%- LULOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO9× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +39%
- CRCRISTO REY NETWORK9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +211%
Funded once
- T1THE 1916 FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
- CPCHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -15%
- MPMIDWEST PROVINCE JESUITSone grant, 2021 · $6k
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.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
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.
The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.
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.
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…
The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
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…
The mission of Chicago State Foundation is to advance the interest and welfare of CSU by building relationships, securing philanthropic support, stewarding assets and otherwise procuring private support on behalf of the University. Working…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Provide pediatric and subspecialty surgical, research, and educational services.
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 Go Green Winnetka. 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.
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 32 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 28% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
63 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. 63 of the 128 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 Cristo Rey St Martin College Prep ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago ↗
- Who funds CLEARBROOK ↗
- Who funds THE ENDOWMENT FUND OF THE PHI KAPPA PSI FRATERNITY ↗
- Who funds The People's Music School ↗
- Who funds COME TO BELIEVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS PRISON PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ↗
- Who funds EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Big Shoulders Fund ↗
- Who funds LINK Unlimited Scholars ↗
- Who funds Creighton University ↗
- Who funds THE 1916 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EMPOWER ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds DANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds CHASING HOPE FOUNDATION CHRISTINE WALKER ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Walls Turned Sideways NFP ↗
- Who funds MOBILE CARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 1916 FOUNDATION INC ↗
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 · Dr Scholl Foundation · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · Helen V Brach Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Sheila Reynolds Berner Foundation · Big Shoulders Fund · AbbVie Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Hulsebosch Hope Foundation · Irish Fellowship Educational & Cultural 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 Perry Family Charitable 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
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.