· Private foundation
Reva and David Logan Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $120k
- $10k–50k89 grants · $2.1M
- $50k–250k101 grants · $9.8M
- $250k+2 grants · $550k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING | $300,000 |
| BRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL | $250,000 |
| EMPOWERMENT AVENUE | $225,000 |
| LAWRENCE HALL | $225,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $225,000 |
| CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICAN (CAF AMERICA) | $190,000 |
| GOOD JOBS FIRST | $175,000 |
| JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION | $170,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC ACCURACY | $163,500 |
| ETA CREATIVE ARTS FOUNDATION | $154,618 |
| DEEPLY ROOTED DANCE THEATER | $150,000 |
| MIDWEST CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING | $150,000 |
| VISION MAKER MEDIA | $150,000 |
| ONE MILLION DEGREES | $150,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $150,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $5.7M) 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 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 +33% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
223 repeat relationships — 159 still active in FY2024, 64 since wound down; 35 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M 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
NEO Philanthropy Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +27%- BPBRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL5× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +82%
- LHLawrence Hall5× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +56%
Funded once
- IRINVESTIGATIVE REPORTING PROGRAM AT UC BERKELEYIRP (REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITone grant, 2023 · $320k
- JHJOEL HALL DANCE COMPANYone grant, 2023 · $250k
- ICINNER CITY MISSIONS NETWORKone grant, 2022 · $213k
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.
To impact society through the powerful tools of media and film. we are a resource for uniting individuals interested in media and developing a core group of informed citizens.
Borderless magazine nfp is a chicago-based nonprofit news outlet that is reimagining local immigration journalism for a more just and equitable future. we provide free, local and state news coverage to english and spanish speakers.
Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.
Cinema/Chicago, the non-profit 501(c)(3) presenting organization of the Chicago International Film Festival, enriches the community through year-round programming devoted to international and independent cinema. We strengthen communication…
Reader institute for community journalism, inc. (ricji) is organized and operated to educate, advance, and inform public discourse through local, independent journalism in the greater chicago metropolitan area. ricji operates and publishes…
Operation of studio space and facilities for community radio station. The station is intended to benefit thousands of listeners and various music and arts appreciation groups throughout the chicago area.
Seeks to address the traumas of police violence and institutionalized racism through access to healing and wellness services, trauma-informed resources, and community connection. The Center is a part of and supports a movement to end all…
Block club chicago is a nonprofit news organization dedicated to delivering reliable, nonpartisan and essential coverage of chicago's diverse neighborhoods.
Latino Union works to defend the rights and dignity of contingent workers, including the right to immigrate, work, live free of oppression and violence, and provide for oneself and one's family.
Live Free Illinois is a statewide organization partnering with over 120 congregations and directly impacted individuals to build safer more equitable communities across Illinois. Operating at the intersection of criminal justice reform and…
The Chicago Refugee Coalition is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated ot the alleviation of human suffering through innovative partnerships, advocacy and community empowerment.
Chicago public art group brings artists and communities together to produce high-quality public art, extending and transforming the tradition of collaborative, community-involved public artwork.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections for the Homeless Inc and the most unlike its peers is Abundance Setting Ltd. 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 21 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% 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.
209 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. 209 of the 392 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds The Center for Investigative Reporting Inc ↗
- Who funds Lawrence Hall ↗
- Who funds THE BLOC ↗
- Who funds The People's Music School ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GOOD JOBS FIRST ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING INC ↗
- Who funds Invisible Institute ↗
- Who funds SARAH'S CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds MEDIA DEVELOPMENT INVESTMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WCIJ INC ↗
- Who funds CARE FOR REAL ↗
- Who funds Chicago Heightening Opportunity and Potential for ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SkyArt NFP ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds CONTEXTOS NFP ↗
- Who funds Chicago Art Department ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC ACCURACY ↗
- Who funds PROJECT RETURN INC ↗
- Who funds OPTIONS FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS MEDIA FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Youth Guidance ↗
- Who funds ONE MILLION DEGREES ↗
- Who funds KUUMBA LYNX ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM INC ↗
- Who funds InvestigateWest ↗
- Who funds INVESTIGATIVE NEWSOURCE ↗
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: Polk Bros Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Circle of Service Foundation · Chicago Foundation for Women · Institute for Nonprofit News
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 Reva and David Logan 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.
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% 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.
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