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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (FY19–25, $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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
Lake Forest College7× · 2017–2025 · $6.3M · revenue +73%- LFLAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +420%
- IPILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE4× · 2019–2023 · $500k · revenue +2%
Funded once
THE COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIAgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $503k · revenue +78%- LFLAKE FOREST ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +33%
- TPTHE PRESERVATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $500k
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.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
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…
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.
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.
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…
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…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
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.
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…
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…
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.
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 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 — 1% 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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
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 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.
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.
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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