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Prince Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$160k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$11MEnvironment$690kHousing & Shelter$200kHuman Services$200kYouth Development$195kEducation$190kAnimals$180kCivil Rights$150kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $140k
$15,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Green Oceans$10,000
Friends of Newport Skatepark$10,000
Newport Tree Conservancy$9,500
Video Volunteers$5,000
President and Fellows of Harvard College$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Lutheran Social Services of the National Capital Area Inc: $10k → 14%Night Ministry: $50k → 14%Northwestern University Settlement: $40k → 14%Northwestern University Settlement: $35k → 14%Northwestern University Settlement: $32k → 14%Northwestern University Settlement: $30k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
PA
RI
CA
MO
VA
MD
KS
TN
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 77 repeat orgs$793k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

77
27

Total granted

$13M
$688k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+38%

Still filing today

88%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureInternationalEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • NP
    NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2021 · $600k · revenue +114%
  • CT
    CHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC
    3× · 2019–2022 · $397k · revenue +52%
  • CH
    Chicago Human Rhythm Project
    6× · 2017–2022 · $295k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • SA
    SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +111%
  • FO
    Friends of Anacostia Park
    one grant, 2022 · $77k · revenue +23%
  • SG
    ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $55k · revenue -23%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Chicago High School for the Arts

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…

Education
2
Pegasus Theatre Chicago

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…

—
3
Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre

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,…

Arts & Culture
4
Chicago Sinfonietta Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Theatre Y

Create connections between diverse artists seeking mutual growth through collaboration.

Arts & Culture
6
Chicago Opera Theater

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.

Arts & Culture
7
Chicago Humanities Festival

To promote public appreciation, understanding and support of the humanities through festivals and educational programs.

Arts & Culture
8
Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra

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.

Arts & Culture
9
Chicago Cultural Alliance

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…

Arts & Culture
10
Chamber Opera of Chicago
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11
Third Coast International Audio Festival

To cultivate a growing international culture of listening.

Arts & Culture
12
Music and Dance Theater Chicago Inc
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Theatre Group Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

104 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
29
Early backer (in before they grew)
99/104
Grantees still filing
71/104
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC: $397,000 · Arts & CultureLEAGUE OF CHICAGO THEATRES FOUNDATION: $285,000 · Arts & CultureTIMELINE THEATRE COMPANY: $277,000 · Arts & CultureLifeline Productions Inc: $275,000 · Arts & CultureYOUNG CHICAGO AUTHORS: $270,000 · Arts & CultureChicago Artists Coalition: $269,000 · Arts & Culture+41 more: $6,214,100 · Arts & Culture+41 moreNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $600,000 · OtherNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATIONChicago Human Rhythm Project: $295,000 · OtherChicago Human Rhythm ProjectMaywood Fine Arts Association: $250,000 · OtherMaywood Fine Arts AssociationILLINOIS ARTS ALLIANCE: $245,000 · OtherILLINOIS ARTS ALLIANCEINTERNATIONAL LATINO CULTURAL CENTER OF CHICAGO: $240,000 · OtherGUS GIORDANO'S JAZZ DANCE CHICAGO INC D/B/A GIORDANO DANCE CHICAGO: $231,836 · OtherArt & Business Council of Chicago: $220,000 · OtherEnsemble Espanol: $215,000 · OtherIntonation Workshop: $205,000 · OtherChicago Jazz Philharmonic: $205,000 · OtherRAVEN THEATRE COMPANY: $200,000 · OtherStorycatchers: $195,000 · OtherHOUSE THEATRE OF CHICAGO: $180,000 · Other+32 more: $1,220,500 · Other+32 moreGilloury Institute: $240,000 · InternationalCONTEXTOS NFP: $70,000 · InternationalGRANT FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · International+3 more: $12,500 · InternationalAlbany Park Theater Project: $280,000 · Youth DevelopmentGARFIELD PARK CONSERVATORY ALLIANCE: $190,000 · EnvironmentThe Newport Tree Conservancy: $49,500 · EnvironmentGreen Oceans: $10,000 · Environment+1 more: $5,000 · EnvironmentColumbia College Chicago: $125,619 · EducationST GEORGE'S SCHOOL: $55,000 · EducationTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $25,000 · EducationTHE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INC: $25,000 · EducationALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationNORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $137,000 · Human ServicesTHE NIGHT MINISTRY: $50,000 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES NATIONAL CAPITAL AREAINC: $10,000 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$7,987,100Other$4,502,336International$352,500Youth Development$280,000Environment$254,500Education$245,619Human Services$197,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $600,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC: $397,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetChicago Human Rhythm Project: $295,000 over 6y, 8.6% of budgetLEAGUE OF CHICAGO THEATRES FOUNDATION: $285,000 over 6y, 8.3% of budgetAlbany Park Theater Project: $280,000 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetTIMELINE THEATRE COMPANY: $277,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetLifeline Productions Inc: $275,000 over 6y, 6.7% of budgetYOUNG CHICAGO AUTHORS: $270,000 over 6y, 5.7% of budgetChicago Artists Coalition: $269,000 over 6y, 18% of budgetPUERTO RICAN ARTS ALLIANCE: $265,000 over 6y, 9.2% of budgetBeverly Arts Center of Chicago: $255,000 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetMaywood Fine Arts Association: $250,000 over 6y, 4.7% of budgetAbout Face Theatre Collective Inc: $245,000 over 6y, 7.6% of budgetILLINOIS ARTS ALLIANCE: $245,000 over 6y, 15% of budgetGilloury Institute: $240,000 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL LATINO CULTURAL CENTER OF CHICAGO: $240,000 over 6y, 21% of budget3ARTS INC: $240,000 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetCHICAGO YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS: $240,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetRemy Bumppo Theatre Company: $235,000 over 6y, 5.8% of budgetGUS GIORDANO'S JAZZ DANCE CHICAGO INC D/B/A GIORDANO DANCE CHICAGO: $231,836 over 6y, 6.8% of budgetChicago Filmmakers: $216,000 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetEnsemble Espanol: $215,000 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetCEDILLE CHICAGO NFP: $212,000 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetJazz Institute of Chicago: $211,000 over 6y, 8.6% of budgetCHICAGO CHILDREN'S THEATRE: $211,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetClassical Music Chicago: $210,000 over 6y, 6.5% of budgetSWEDISH AMERICAN MUSEUM ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO: $210,000 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetAMERICAN BLUES THEATER NFP: $210,000 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetPorchlight Music Theatre Chicago: $210,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetTHE RENAISSANCE SOCIETY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $210,000 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetSkyArt NFP: $205,000 over 6y, 5.8% of budgetChicago Jazz Philharmonic: $205,000 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetIntuitCenter for IntuitiveOutsider Art: $205,000 over 5y, 8.4% of budgetNatya Dance Theatre: $200,000 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetRAVEN THEATRE COMPANY: $200,000 over 6y, 7.4% of budgetStorycatchers: $195,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetGARFIELD PARK CONSERVATORY ALLIANCE: $190,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetHOUSE THEATRE OF CHICAGO: $180,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetThe National Public Housing Museum: $180,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetNATIONAL MUSUEM OF PUERTO RICAN ARTS AND CULTURE: $170,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetThe People's Music School: $160,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetTHEATER WIT NFP: $155,000 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetLINKS HALL INC: $152,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetTHIRD COAST PERCUSSION NFP: $150,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetCHANGING WORLDS: $150,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetACCESSIBLE CONTEMPORARY MUSIC: $140,000 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetNORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $137,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetColumbia College Chicago: $125,619 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 Gilloury Institute ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL LATINO CULTURAL CENTER OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds 3ARTS INC ↗
  • 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 Jazz Institute of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO CHILDREN'S THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds Classical Music Chicago ↗
  • Who funds SWEDISH AMERICAN MUSEUM ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN BLUES THEATER NFP ↗
  • Who funds Porchlight Music Theatre Chicago ↗
  • Who funds THE RENAISSANCE SOCIETY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds SkyArt NFP ↗
  • Who funds Chicago Jazz Philharmonic ↗
  • Who funds IntuitCenter for IntuitiveOutsider Art ↗
  • Who funds Natya Dance Theatre ↗
  • Who funds RAVEN THEATRE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds Storycatchers ↗
  • Who funds GARFIELD PARK CONSERVATORY ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds HOUSE THEATRE OF CHICAGO ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

John D and Catherine …Ncrc Community Develo…Field Foundation of I…The Chicago Community…Gaylord and Dorothy D…Lloyd a Fry FoundationPolk Bros Foundation …Frederick Henry Princ…Walder FoundationAlphawood FoundationLeague of Chicago The…Reva and David Logan …
John D and Catherine T Macarthur FoundationIL78.2× affinity47 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Prince Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Prince Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 100%
  • Chesapeake Bay Trust: 100% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
34report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 112 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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