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Prince Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $140k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Elmwood Cemetery Foundation | $35,000 |
| Berkshire School Inc | $25,000 |
| AUXILIARY OF JOHN H STROGER JR HOSPITAL OF COOK COUNTY | $25,000 |
| SRBA Historic Building and Environmental Preservation Foundation | $20,000 |
| Grant Foundation | $15,000 |
| Friends of Newport Skatepark | $10,000 |
| Green Oceans | $10,000 |
| Newport Tree Conservancy | $9,500 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | $5,000 |
| Video Volunteers | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $197k) 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.
77 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 73 since wound down; 5 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, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k 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
- NPNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2021 · $600k · revenue +238%
- CTCHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC3× · 2019–2022 · $397k · revenue +52%
- CHChicago Human Rhythm Project6× · 2017–2022 · $295k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- SASHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +111%
- FOFriends of Anacostia Parkone grant, 2022 · $77k · revenue +23%
- SGST GEORGE'S SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $55k · revenue -23%
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 high school for the arts (chiarts) develops the next generation of diverse, artistically promising scholar-artists through intensive pre-professional training in the arts, combined with a comprehensive college preparatory…
Pegasus Theatre Chicago is a professional theater approaching 45 years of supporting Chicagos diverse community by producing accessible, socially relevant theatre and promoting the development of new artists for the stage. Our mission is…
To use multiple artistic forms (primarily dance and music) and the combined talents of our diverse company to convey intense personal narratives. We are proudly and visibly multicultural, exploring the intersection of heritage, culture,…
Chicago Sinfonietta is a professional orchestra dedicated to modeling and promoting diversity, inclusion, and both racial and cultural equity in the arts through the universal language of symphonic music. Our core values are built around…
Create connections between diverse artists seeking mutual growth through collaboration.
Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.
To promote public appreciation, understanding and support of the humanities through festivals and educational programs.
Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra's mission as a professional orchestra is to utilize the universal expression of music to create profound, inspiring, and personal connections between the people and communities of Chicagos Southland.
The Chicago Cultural Alliances mission is to connect, promote, and support centers of cultural heritage for a more inclusive Chicago. We are an active consortium of 50 cultural heritage museums, centers, and historical societies that…
To cultivate a growing international culture of listening.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Theatre Group Inc and the most unlike its peers is Elmwood Cemetery 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 36 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
104 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. 104 of the 112 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 NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds Chicago Human Rhythm Project ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE OF CHICAGO THEATRES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Albany Park Theater Project ↗
- Who funds TIMELINE THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Lifeline Productions Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG CHICAGO AUTHORS ↗
- Who funds Chicago Artists Coalition ↗
- Who funds PUERTO RICAN ARTS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Beverly Arts Center of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Maywood Fine Arts Association ↗
- Who funds About Face Theatre Collective Inc ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS ARTS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds 3ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Gilloury Institute ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL LATINO CULTURAL CENTER OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS ↗
- Who funds Remy Bumppo Theatre Company ↗
- Who funds GUS GIORDANO'S JAZZ DANCE CHICAGO INC D/B/A GIORDANO DANCE CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Chicago Filmmakers ↗
- Who funds Ensemble Espanol ↗
- Who funds CEDILLE CHICAGO NFP ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO CHILDREN'S THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Jazz Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds THE RENAISSANCE SOCIETY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds SWEDISH AMERICAN MUSEUM ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BLUES THEATER NFP ↗
- Who funds Classical Music Chicago ↗
- Who funds Porchlight Music Theatre Chicago ↗
- Who funds Chicago Jazz Philharmonic ↗
- Who funds SkyArt NFP ↗
- Who funds IntuitCenter for IntuitiveOutsider Art ↗
- Who funds RAVEN THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Natya Dance Theatre ↗
- Who funds Storycatchers ↗
- Who funds GARFIELD PARK CONSERVATORY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds The National Public Housing Museum ↗
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: John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc · Field Foundation of Illinois · The Chicago Community Trust · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust · Walder Foundation · Alphawood Foundation · League of Chicago Theatres Foundation · Reva and David Logan 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 Prince 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.
- Chesapeake Bay Trust — 100% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% 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.