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Red Bird Hollow 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.

$360k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$8.7MHuman Services$2.3MArts & Culture$1.5MEnvironment$1.3MHealth$900kPublic Benefit$782kPhilanthropy$133kReligion$97kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $162k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $151k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$100,000
LAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION$51,281
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$30,000
CATO INSTITUTE$25,000
MES FUND$25,000
CHURCH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT$20,000
LAKE FOREST COLLEGE$20,000
Individual grant recipient$12,000
MONTESSORI CENTER OF MINNESOTA$10,000
AMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI$10,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA$10,000
HOOVER INSTITUTION$7,000
GORTON COMMUNITY CENTER$5,000
BEACON ACADEMY$5,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 11%FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 11%FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 11%FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 11%GORTON COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 8%GORTON COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 8%GORTON COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 8%GORTON COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 8%GORTON COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 8%FOREST PARK PRESERVATION CORPORATION: $2k → 8%CHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY: $6k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY: $6k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME & AID: $6k → 14%FOREST PARK PRESERVATION CORPORATION: $1k → 8%FOREST PARK PRESERVATION CORPORATION: $1k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$13M · 74 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

74 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 51 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

74
60

Total granted

$13M
$2.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+32%

Still filing today

72%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPublic BenefitEnvironmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesSocial ScienceOther

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

  • Lake Forest College
    7× · 2017–2025 · $6.3M · revenue +73%
  • LF
    LAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +420%
  • IP
    ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
    4× · 2019–2023 · $500k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • THE COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIAgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $503k · revenue +78%
  • LF
    LAKE FOREST ACADEMYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +33%
  • TP
    THE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $500k

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

04Your field

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.

1
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

3
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
4
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
5
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management

Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.

6
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
7
Illinois College

Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…

Education
8
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
9
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
10
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

11
The Institute of World Politics

The institute of world politics is a graduate school of national security and international affairs, dedicated to developing leaders with a sound understanding of international realities and the ethical conduct of statecraft, based on…

International
12
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Mes Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Policy Research and AdvocacyOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Independent K-12 SchoolsLocal History MuseumsCommunity FoundationsVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Health Access Advocacy and …Community Arts CentersPublic Library OperationsCommunity College Foundatio…Elementary Literacy TutoringCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 39 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%3%<5yr13%1%5–10yr18%12%10–20yr15%29%20–35yr14%20%35–55yr22%34%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr18%9%10–20yr15%12%20–35yr14%5%35–55yr22%74%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/91
the rest of the field
12%
8,891/72,268

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.

04the grantee network

84 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 84 of the 143 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
83/84
Grantees still filing
65/84
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Lake Forest College — $6,325,000 · EducationLake Forest CollegeLAKE FOREST ACADEMY — $500,000 · EducationLAKE FOREST ACADEMY+22 more — $347,230 · EducationJACK MILLER CENTER — $2,293,500 · OtherJACK MILLER CENTERNORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE — $838,200 · OtherNORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HEALTHCARETHE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION — $500,000 · OtherTHE PRESERVATION FOUNDATIONPRESERVATION FOUNDATION OF LAKE COUNTY — $500,000 · OtherPRESERVATION FOUNDATION OF LAKE COUNTYUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA - THE COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $394,754 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA - THE COLLEGE FOUNDA…BOARD OF VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA — $356,000 · OtherBOARD OF VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRG…Forest Bluff School — $256,704 · Other+84 more — $1,006,161 · Other+84 moreLAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION — $1,225,751 · Environment+6 more — $17,500 · EnvironmentILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE — $500,000 · Public BenefitCATO INSTITUTE — $175,150 · Public Benefit+7 more — $62,000 · Public BenefitTHE COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA — $502,500 · Philanthropy+4 more — $20,500 · PhilanthropyChicago Symphony Orchestra — $60,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI — $38,500 · Arts & CultureNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureELAWA FARM FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $2,000 · Arts & CultureBERNIE'S BOOK BANK — $65,000 · Youth Development
Education$7,172,230Other$6,145,319Environment$1,243,251Public Benefit$737,150Philanthropy$523,000Arts & Culture$115,500Youth Development$65,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLake Forest College — $6,325,000 over 7y, 3.7% of budgetLAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION — $1,225,751 over 8y, 10.0% of budgetTHE COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA — $502,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetLAKE FOREST ACADEMY — $500,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE — $500,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetForest Bluff School — $256,704 over 3y, 10% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE — $175,150 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $70,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBERNIE'S BOOK BANK — $65,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetChicago Symphony Orchestra — $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Island School Foundation Inc — $55,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetMONTESSORI INSTITUTE OF MILWAUKEE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetAMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI — $38,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBEACON ACADEMY — $37,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetInstitute for Humane Studies — $35,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMES Foundation — $30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH — $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGorton Community Center — $25,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMONTESSORI TRAINING CENTER OF MINNESOTA INC — $24,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN TRANSPARENCY — $23,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNorth Chicago Community Partners — $23,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $19,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES — $19,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL — $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCLUB FOR GROWTH — $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $16,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY — $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $12,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJOHANN FUST LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $12,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY — $11,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO — $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEACON ACADEMY A MONTESSORI HIGH SCHOOL — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHistory Center of Lake Forest-Lake Bluff — $9,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetCHICAGO CARES INC — $9,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBRADLEY IMPACT FUND INC — $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTATE POLICY NETWORK — $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE — $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAtlas Economic Research Foundation — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRehabilitation Institute of Chicago — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCINCINNATI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOPENLANDS — $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HEARTLAND INSTITUTE — $6,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGOLDEN APPLE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBETTER GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 Lake Forest College
  • Who funds LAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds THE COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
  • Who funds LAKE FOREST ACADEMY
  • Who funds ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
  • Who funds Forest Bluff School
  • Who funds CATO INSTITUTE
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc
  • Who funds BERNIE'S BOOK BANK
  • Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra
  • Who funds The Island School Foundation Inc
  • Who funds MONTESSORI INSTITUTE OF MILWAUKEE INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI
  • Who funds BEACON ACADEMY
  • Who funds Institute for Humane Studies
  • Who funds MES Foundation
  • Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH
  • Who funds Gorton Community Center
  • Who funds MONTESSORI TRAINING CENTER OF MINNESOTA INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN TRANSPARENCY
  • Who funds North Chicago Community Partners
  • Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC
  • Who funds THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES

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.

The Chicago Community TrustIL34.7× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · The Buchanan Family Foundation · Clarks Fork Foundation · Hunter Family Foundation · The Gorter Family Foundation · Carney Family Foundation · Butler Family Foundation · Hunter Family Foundation · Hedberg Foundation Inc · David D & Mary F Grumhaus Fund · CMB Foundation · Harold M & Adeline S Morrison Family 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 Red Bird Hollow 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 90%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    9get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Red Bird Hollow Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Red Bird Hollow Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 143 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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