· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| ERIE FAMILY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| PARKER HEALTH CLINIC | $5,000 |
| HOWARD YOUNG MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $4,250 |
| CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATRE | $4,250 |
| WRITERS THEATRE | $4,250 |
| STRATFORD FESTIVAL | $4,250 |
| LEGAL AID SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| ALEXANDRIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $2,000 |
| MOTHERS HOME | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- MOMercury One Incone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -31%
- FPFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF LAKE FORESTone grant, 2018 · $5k
- TOTHE OPTIMA FOUNDATION DBA EDUCATION FREEDOM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -66%
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.
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.
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.…
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 50 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 Mercury One 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 THE JED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Richard W & Mary Louise Hurckes Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard W & Mary Louise Hurckes Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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