· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 55% of its 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against -14% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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,…
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 21 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 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 ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Rik and Peg Master Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rik and Peg Master Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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