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Richard L Duchossois Foundation at a glance

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Richard L Duchossois 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.

$675k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$10MArts & Culture$708kYouth Development$235kHealth$201kCrime & Legal$200kEducation$130kPhilanthropy$25kPublic Benefit$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $300k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$100,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$161M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OPPORTUNITY IN OVERALLS$300,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT CHICAGO$100,000
UNITING VOICES$100,000
CASA LAKE COUNTY$100,000
WARRIOR SCHOLAR PROJECT FOUNDATION$25,000
INTERNATIONAL NEIGHBORHOOD COLLABORATIVE$25,000
LEAVE NO VETERAN BEHIND$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 65% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NATIONAL MUSEUM OF RACING AND HALL OF FAME: $1k → 7%THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%IKE EISENHOWER FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE: $500 → 17%OPPORTUNITY IN OVERALLS: $300k → 14%ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $100k → 7%SISTERS LYME AIDE ORGANIZATION: $500 → 8%CASA LAKE COUNTY: $100k → 8%CHICAGO HISTORY MUSEUM: $25k → 14%BASTOGNE MEMORIAL FUND: $1k → 7%WARRIOR SCHOLAR PROJECT FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY: $4k → 12%THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM: $100k → 23%GRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1k → 15%HERSHEL WOODY WILLIAMS MEDAL OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $1k → 15%DAVID R METCALF INVISIBLE WOUNDS FOUNDATION: $100k → 7%CASA LAKE COUNTY: $100k → 8%CHICAGO HISTORY MUSEUM: $1k → 14%THE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM: $50k → 23%CHICAGO CHILDREN'S CHOIR: $100k → 14%UNITING VOICES: $100k → 14%CHICAGO CHILDREN'S CHOIR: $15k → 14%CHICAGO CHILDREN'S CHOIR: $15k → 14%LEAVE NO VETERAN BEHIND: $25k → 14%INTERNATIONAL NEIGHBORHOOD COLLABORATIVE: $25k → 14%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT CHICAGO: $100k → 14%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT CHICAGO: $100k → 14%JUNIOR ACHIVEMENT OF CHICAGO: $5k → 14%JUNIOR ACHIVEMENT OF CHICAGO: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
NY
KY
VA
KS
TN
SC
LA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

6%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$666k · 4 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
16

Total granted

$666k
$11M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-3%
+45%

Still filing today

75%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $375k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationAnimalsHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UV
    UNITING VOICES
    4× · 2018–2024 · $230k · revenue +25%
  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO
    4× · 2018–2024 · $210k · revenue -5%
  • CASA LAKE COUNTY INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $200k · revenue -3%

Funded once

  • AH
    AIKEN HORSE PARK FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $10M · revenue -54% · 70% of their budget
  • AC
    ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +310%
  • IW
    Invisible Wounds Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +115% · 38% of their budget
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.

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2
Us Naval Academy Foundation Inc

To support, promote, and advance the mission of the naval academy.

Education
3
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
4
Naval War College Foundation Inc

Help the naval war college to: a. develop strategic and operational leaders: provide professional military education programs that are current, rigorous, relevant, and accessible to the maximum number of qualified u.s. officers and navy…

Education
5
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
6
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
7
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
8
Air & Space Forces Association

The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…

Education
9
University of Virginia Foundation

To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…

Education
10
Washington & Jefferson College

To graduate people of uncommon integrity, competence, and maturity, who are effective lifelong learners and responsible citizens, and who are prepared to contribute substantially to the world in which they live.

Education
11
American Civil War Museum Collection

The mission of the american civil war museum collection is to serve as the preeminent world center for the display, study, interpretation, commemoration, and preservation of the history and artifacts of the confederate states of america.

Arts & Culture
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Aiken Horse Park Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
9/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AIKEN HORSE PARK FOUNDATION: $10,184,598 · AnimalsAIKEN HORSE PARK FOUNDATION+1 more: $1,000 · AnimalsOPPORTUNITY IN OVERALLS: $300,000 · Arts & CultureUNITING VOICES: $230,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC: $100,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO: $210,000 · InternationalCASA LAKE COUNTY INC: $200,000 · Civil RightsADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $100,000 · HealthInvisible Wounds Foundation: $100,000 · HealthTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · OtherTHE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM: $50,000 · OtherCHICAGO HISTORY MUSEUM: $26,000 · OtherLEAVE NO VETERAN BEHIND: $25,000 · OtherInternational Neighborhood Collaborative: $25,000 · Other+6 more: $5,000 · OtherWARRIOR-SCHOLAR PROJECT FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationWashington and Lee University: $4,214 · Education+1 more: $500 · Education
Animals$10,185,598Arts & Culture$631,000International$210,000Civil Rights$200,000Health$200,000Other$231,000Education$29,714

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAIKEN HORSE PARK FOUNDATION: $10,184,598 over 1y, 70% of budgetOPPORTUNITY IN OVERALLS: $300,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetUNITING VOICES: $230,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO: $210,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetCASA LAKE COUNTY INC: $200,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetInvisible Wounds Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Neighborhood Collaborative: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetWARRIOR-SCHOLAR PROJECT FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWashington and Lee University: $4,214 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOODY WILLIAMS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF RACING INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Duchossois Family…The Chicago Community…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Charities Aid Foundat…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Duchossois Family FoundationIL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Duchossois Family Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Richard L Duchossois Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard L Duchossois Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Richard L Duchossois Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Richard L Duchossois 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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