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Reichert 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $116k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $403k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $256k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| A Safe Place | $74,000 |
| Arnold Palmer Medical Center Foundation | $70,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $62,000 |
| Carroll University | $50,000 |
| Paws for Patrick | $30,000 |
| University of Wisc Milwuakee | $25,000 |
| International Bowling Museum | $25,000 |
| Emily Brooks Foundation | $25,000 |
| American Red Cross | $25,000 |
| habitat for Humanity Lake County IL | $25,000 |
| Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | $20,000 |
| Cove School | $20,000 |
| Chicago Food Depository Chicago IL | $20,000 |
| The Cradle | $17,000 |
| Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest IL | $15,000 |
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, $244k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 55% 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.
66 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 5 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k 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
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY LAKE COUNTY6× · 2020–2025 · $150k · revenue +95%
- TCThe Cradle Society7× · 2019–2025 · $141k · revenue +3%
- TCTHE COVE SCHOOL INC7× · 2019–2025 · $140k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- TLThe Lake County Haven - Lake Forest ILone grant, 2022 · $60k
- HFhabitat for Humanityone grant, 2019 · $30k
- PFPRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIESgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +66%
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.
In 34 cities across five countries, covenant house builds bridges to hope for young people facing homelessness and survivors of human trafficking. we meet their immediate needs for food, clothing, protection, and medical and mental health…
Founded in 1883, brightpoint (formerly known as children's home & aid) is a leading statewide organization supporting families so children can thrive.
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
To ensure that people with intellectual and developmental disabilities are provided with the best options and opportunities to live safely, work productively, explore creatively, learn continuously and play pleasurably throughout their…
The chicago children's advocacy center unites public, private, and community partners to ensure the safety, health, and well-being of abused children.
Start early advances quality early learning for families with children, before birth through their earliest years, to help close the opportunity gap.
Provides housing and support services to individuals and families impacted by hiv/aids
Empowering individuals to build stronger families and communities.
For more than 45 years, primo center has empowered families experiencing homelessness to become productive, responsible, and independent members of their community.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Little flower is committed to improving the well-being of the children, families, and individuals with developmental disabilities across nyc and long island so they can reach their full potential. little flower transforms caring into…
In 34 cities across five countries, covenant house builds bridges to hope for young people facing homelessness and survivors of human trafficking. we meet their immediate needs for food, clothing, protection, and medical and mental health…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Little Star Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Emily Brooks Foundation Inc. 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 42 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 90 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 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY LAKE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds The Cradle Society ↗
- Who funds THE COVE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds READING POWER INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds Gorton Community Center ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CARROLL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds COOL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE LAKE COUNTY HAVEN ↗
- Who funds PAWS FOR PATRICK ↗
- Who funds LITTLE STAR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HARBOUR INC ↗
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: AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Trustmark Foundation · Baxter International Foundation · Clarks Fork Foundation · John Marshall Family Foundation · Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation · Harold M & Adeline S Morrison Family Foundation · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Arthur J Gallagher 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 Reichert 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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