· Private foundation
Richard W & Mary Louise Hurckes Family 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 65% of RICHARD W & MARY LOUISE HURCKES FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHICAGO HOPE ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST | $10,000 |
| MASON CLASSICAL ACADEMY | $7,000 |
| PARKER HEALTH CLINIC | $5,000 |
| ERIE FAMILY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATRE | $4,250 |
| WRITERS THEATRE | $4,250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,250 |
| HOWARD YOUNG MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $4,250 |
| LEGAL AID SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| ALEXANDRIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $2,000 |
| MOTHERS HOME | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +45% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 2 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, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- MCMASON CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC4× · 2022–2025 · $35k · revenue +75%
- SSSTRATFORD SHAKESPEAREAN FESTIVAL OF AMERICA5× · 2017–2021 · $27k · revenue +45%
- EFErie Family Health Center Inc5× · 2017–2021 · $24k · revenue +114%
Funded once
- TOTHE OPTIMA FOUNDATION DBA EDUCATION FREEDOM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -66%
HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +21%- FPFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF LAKE FORESTone grant, 2018 · $5k
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.
Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.
To present the highest-quality performances of great music, bringing national and international distinction to the orchestra and its community; to delight and educate audiences of all ages and backgrounds, and enhance the cultural vitality…
The chicago high school for the arts (chiarts) develops the next generation of diverse, artistically promising scholar-artists through intensive pre-professional training in the arts, combined with a comprehensive college preparatory…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The music institute of chicago ("music institute") leads people toward a lifelong engagement with music, by providing widely accessible resources for high quality music teaching, performing, and service activities.
The chicago theatre group is committed to producing both classic and contemporary works giving full voice to a wide range of artists and visions. by dedicating itself to three guiding principles - quality, equity, and community - the…
In educating the whole child, eton school inspires creative, confident thinkers who have an enduring passion for learning and are poised to contribute to the world.
The elysian charter school offers an academic program to help children discover their talents.
We believe in the life-changing, transformational, revelatory power of great art and opera. Lyric Opera of Chicago exists to provide a broad, deep, and relevant cultural service to the Chicago region and the nation, and to advance the…
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
East harlem scholars academies are public charter schools that prepare students with the skills, strength of character, and emotional well-being to excel academically, lead in their communities, and realize their best possible selves.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uncommon Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Havens Relief Fund Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 50 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 MASON CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds STRATFORD SHAKESPEAREAN FESTIVAL OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Erie Family Health Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HOPE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER ↗
- Who funds Erie Family Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL FLORIDA COMMUNITY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Alexandria Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds MOTHERS' HOME ↗
- Who funds Writers Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds THE OPTIMA FOUNDATION DBA EDUCATION FREEDOM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN WITH HAIR LOSS INC ↗
- Who funds Mercury One Inc ↗
- Who funds THE JED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNCOMMON SCHOOLS 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: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Richard W & Mary Louise Hurckes Family 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, a single department, or state — 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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