· Private foundation
Raymond F and Judith K McCaskey 2003 Charitable Trust
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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $235k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER | $100,000 |
| LINCOLN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| ERIKSON INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| OPERA HOUSE ARTS | $50,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND | $25,000 |
| CHICAGO HUMANITIES FESTIVAL | $25,000 |
| CHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE INC | $20,000 |
| UNITED SOCIETY OF SHAKERS SABBATHDAY LAKE INC | $20,000 |
| HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION OF THE FORTNIGHTLY | $20,000 |
| ELCA WORLD HUNGER | $20,000 |
| AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC | $20,000 |
| ISLAND HERITAGE TRUST INC | $10,000 |
| THE DWELLING | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $25k) 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.
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 +17% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 6 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k 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
- CSCHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER6× · 2020–2025 · $600k · revenue +8%
- EIErikson Institute5× · 2020–2025 · $250k · revenue +41%
- USUNITED SOCIETY OF SHAKERS SABBATHDAY LAKE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $105k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- EELCAone grant, 2023 · $50k
THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIREDgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +33%- ELEVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICAone grant, 2024 · $20k
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 purpose of the montauk historical society is to collect, restore, preserve and display historically significant buildings, objects and writings and to preserve and share the history and cultures of montauk and the east end for this and…
Maine Historical Society, founded in 1822, is a private non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share Maine's story. Based in Portland, we work closely with communities and partners throughout the state, and serve a statewide and…
Founded in 1881 the Staten Island Museum engages visitors with interdisciplinary exhibitions, public programs, and educational activities for all ages. It is the mission of the Staten Island Museum to spark curiosity and generate…
Vision: to preserve, share and continue the american story mission: to be a welcoming, thriving, historic site and community resource that engages people of all backgrounds in our inclusive american story. values: - we value caroline…
The carpenters' company preserves and interprets carpenters' hall and our collections as unique historical assets that are tied to our nation's founding and the master builder tradition, and we convene the public to explore and inspire new…
The Chicago History Museum strives to be a destination for learning, inspiration, and civic engagement. Through dynamic exhibitions, tours, programs, digital resources, and special events, the Museum connects people to Chicago's history…
Freeport historical society preserves the history of freeport, maine through its collections of archives, artifacts, buildings, and landscapes. it uses these collections, in addition to new research and discoveries, to host public…
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
The mission of canterbury shaker village is to preserve and interpret the legacy of the shakers, providing a place for learning, reflection, and renewal of the human spirit. canterbury shaker village, inc., an internationally recognized…
The Barrington History Museum is a Not-For-Profit organization founded for the purpose of promoting interest in preservation, documentation, and exhibition of Barrington, Illnois hertitage, along with the historic preservation of buildings…
The nantucket historical association preserves and interprets the history of nantucket through its programs, collections, and properties, in order to promote the island's significance and foster an appreciation of it among all audiences.
The norwalk seaport association, inc. offers a cultural, environmental, and historical journey to the norwalk islands. the sheffield island lighthouse and the light keeper's cottage provide a unique historical and educational venue which…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois and the most unlike its peers is Island Workforce Housing. 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 39 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) — 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 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.
37 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. 37 of the 53 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 CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Erikson Institute ↗
- Who funds Chicago Humanities Festival ↗
- Who funds UNITED SOCIETY OF SHAKERS SABBATHDAY LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds HOLY FAMILY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION OF THE FORTNIGHTLY ↗
- Who funds CHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds OPERA HOUSE ARTS ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HERITAGE TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND WORKFORCE HOUSING ↗
- Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ↗
- Who funds LANDMARKS PRESERVATION COUNCIL OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL AMBULANCE CORPS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC DEERFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds CITY WITH DWELLINGS COMMUNITY FIRST INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Safer Foundation ↗
- Who funds ISLAND PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds SHAKER MUSEUM AND LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY ISLAND PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HISTORIC SECOND CHURCH ↗
- Who funds GALENA-JO DAVIESS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF WHITE WATER SHAKER VILLAGE ↗
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: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Hickrill Foundation Inc · Becton Family Foundation Sheila Heatter Trustee · The Chicago Community Trust · The Joyce & Gary Wenglowski Foundation · Tynan Family Charitable Trust Cate O'Dwyer Trustee · The Rodricks Foundation Inc · Stephen and Margaret Gill Family Foundation · Richard and Mary L Gray Foundation · The Donnelley Foundation · The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation · Ge Aerospace 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 Raymond F and Judith K McCaskey 2003 Charitable Trust 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.
- Historic Deerfield Inc — 0% 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.