· Private foundation
Richchar Inc
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 $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $83k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Housing Forward | $85,000 |
| St Ignatius College Prep | $25,000 |
| Partners in Health | $15,000 |
| WBEZ Chicago Public Media | $15,000 |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $15,000 |
| Michael J Fox Foundation | $12,500 |
| The Barack Obama Foundation | $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 (FY17–17, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 13% of Richchar Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +39% since the first grant, against -96% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HFHOUSING FORWARD8× · 2018–2025 · $148k · revenue +189%
PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION8× · 2018–2025 · $84k · revenue +91%
THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH8× · 2018–2025 · $78k · revenue +479%
Funded once
- EIElea Instituteone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -96%
- ACAmerican Cancer Societyone grant, 2017 · $13k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
Iphi develops multi-sector partnerships and innovative solutions to improve the public's health and well-being across maryland, virginia and the district of columbia. our work strengthens health systems and policy, enhances conditions that…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.
To be the trusted partner in all healthcare decisions and to improve health by providing highly accessible, world-class care and services.
Champion humanitarian & patient-centered roles for pathologists. connect those in need to the specialized, life savings skills of pathologists. confer training & awards to residents.
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…
Make life better for people with parkinson's disease by improving care and advancing research toward a cure.
Chapin hall's mission is to improve the well-being of children and youth, families, and their communities through broad-perspective policy research.
Public health institute generates and promotes research, leadership and partnerships to build capacity for strong public health policy, programs, systems and practices.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 20 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 HOUSING FORWARD ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds The Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation) ↗
- Who funds Elea Institute ↗
- Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Richchar Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richchar Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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