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Philip H Corboy Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $74k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BIG SHOULDERS FUND | $100,000 |
| ST CLEMENT PARISH | $50,000 |
| DEPAUL COLLEGE PREP FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MISERICORDIA | $21,000 |
| MERCY HOME FOR BOYS & GIRLS | $17,500 |
| THE NEIGHBORHOOD BRIDGE | $10,000 |
| DANNY DID FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| LEO HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| NOURISHING HOPE | $5,000 |
| STEPPENWOLF THEATRE | $5,000 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS CENTER | $5,000 |
| CENTER FOR DISABILITY AND ELDER LAW | $5,000 |
| LUMEN CORDIUM SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
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 (FY19–23, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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 +17% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
- LULOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO5× · 2019–2023 · $2.3M · revenue +24%
- DUDEPAUL UNIVERSITY5× · 2019–2023 · $769k · revenue +17%
- BSBig Shoulders Fund5× · 2020–2024 · $360k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- TNTHE NITA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -40%
- TATHE ACADEMY AT ST JOAN OF ARCone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +5%
- CPCHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue -35%
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 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.
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…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
Dominican University provides instruction to students seeking an Associates, Undergraduate or Graduate degree (some doctorate and certificates), and administers all of its programs without discrimination of race, color, gender, religion,…
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…
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.
To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.
Steadfast in jesus christ as revealed in the holy scriptures, concordia university chicago promotes academic rigor in its liberal arts and professional programs; grounds students in objective truth, integrity, and excellence; and practices…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Youth Centers and the most unlike its peers is St Marys University of Minnesota. 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 50 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 44 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 LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds DEPAUL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Big Shoulders Fund ↗
- Who funds DEPAUL COLLEGE PREP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Center for Disability & Elder Law Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NITA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MADONNA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds DANNY DID FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN AT THE CROSSROADS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ACADEMY AT ST JOAN OF ARC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL INC ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE CONNECTOR ↗
- Who funds NOURISHING HOPE ↗
- Who funds Kids In Danger ↗
- Who funds MARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Illinois Community for Displaced Immigrants ↗
- Who funds Mental Health Association of Greater Chicago ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
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: Helen V Brach Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Motorola Solutions Foundation · Assurant Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Philip H Corboy 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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