· Private foundation
Rik and Peg Master 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $9,100 |
| Pioneer Center | $2,798 |
| WTTW | $2,008 |
| St Mary Church | $1,057 |
| Indian Country Media LLC | $500 |
| McHenry County Historical Society | $500 |
| AIA Chicago Foundation | $259 |
| AIA Illinois Foundation | $206 |
| National Congress of American Indians Funds | $111 |
| 7 Gen Found (SGF) | $108 |
| Architects Foundation | $103 |
| CFNF (Center for Native Futures) | $100 |
| Veterans Path to Hope | $41 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 55% of your 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.
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 +18% since the first grant, against -14% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 6 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, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- WTWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC3× · 2023–2025 · $4k · revenue +29%
- AFAIA FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $706 · revenue +18%
- ACAIA CHICAGO FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $518 · revenue +19%
Funded once
- NHNATIVE HOPE INCone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -14%
- SMST MARY CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $500
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $500
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.
Empowered by members to champion the profession of architecture.
The indiana chapter of the american institute of architects [aia indiana] is a non-profit professional association representing the interests of and providing services to nearly 900 architects and affiliated design professionals.the…
The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.
Providing leadership in improving the building environment
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
To cultivate a growing international culture of listening.
The purpose of this organization is to provide education and support to architects within the territory of the chicago chapter.
The Community Foundation of Northern Illinois ("CFNIL") was established to serve as a catalyst for giving and a promoter of philanthropy. The Foundation attracts, preserves, and grows a charitable endowment for the present and future needs…
Native Americans in Philanthropy advocates, educates, convenes and innovates to dramatically increase philanthropic investments in Native communities and transform the philanthropic sector's relationship with Indigenous communities.
The Chicago Cultural Alliances mission is to connect, promote, and support centers of cultural heritage for a more inclusive Chicago. We are an active consortium of 50 cultural heritage museums, centers, and historical societies that…
Advance illinois was founded in 2008 as an independent policy and advocacy organization that works toward a heathy public education system that prepares students to achieve success in college, career, and civic life. advance illinois is…
Chicago Votes is a non-partisan, non-profit organization building a more inclusive democracy by putting power in the hands of young Chicagoans. We're engaging and developing a new generation of leaders by opening the doors of government,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aia Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Transitional Living Services Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 21 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 WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIVE HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds AIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AIA ILLINOIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AIA CHICAGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MCHENRY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CONGRESS OF AMERICAN INDIANS FUND ↗
- Who funds Center for Native Futures ↗
- Who funds Transitional Living Services 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.
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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 Rik and Peg Master 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.
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.