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Robert R McCormick Foundation

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$106M
Granted FY2024still arriving
255
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$33M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Recreation & Sports$108MEducation$65MPhilanthropy$37MCommunity Improvement$30MHuman Services$24MHealth$22MYouth Development$17MArts & Culture$17MOther$0
02FY2024 · 255 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $91k
  • $10k–50k107 grants · $2.8M
  • $50k–250k75 grants · $7.9M
  • $250k+62 grants · $95M
$50,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$1.8B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CANTIGNY FOUNDATION$33,451,760
UNITED WAY-MCCORMICK PARTNERSHIP FOR STRONG NEIGHBORHOODS INC$8,246,000
NATIONAL LOUIS UNIVERSITY$5,398,000
ENLACE CHICAGO$4,715,000
METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES$3,572,000
INSTITUTE FOR LATINO PROGRESS (INSTITUTO DEL PROGRESO LATINO)$3,325,000
TEAMWORK ENGLEWOOD$2,720,000
BIG SHOULDERS FUND$2,024,208
XCHANGE CHICAGO INC$2,000,000
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER - MAIN CAMPUS$1,500,000
NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$1,500,000
LEWIS UNIVERSITY$1,235,000
BETTER GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION$1,173,000
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MEXICAN ART$1,155,000
BRIGHTPOINT$1,050,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $32.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SHOWERUP: $150k → 10%ILLINOIS PRINCIPALS FOUNDATION: $440k → 11%ILLINOIS NETWORK OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE & REFERRAL AGENCIES: $401k → 11%ILLINOIS NETWORK OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES: $315k → 11%FRIENDS OF DEKALB REGIONAL OFFICE OF EDUCATION: $425k → 13%JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $620k → 14%ILLINOIS NETWORK OF CHILD CARE RESOURCES & REFERRAL AGENCIES: $275k → 11%JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $450k → 14%FRIENDS OF DEKALB REGIONAL OFFICE OF EDUCATION: $150k → 13%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $455k → 7%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS - ILLINOIS CHAPTER: $393k → 14%PARTNERSHIP FOR RESILIENCE: $150k → 7%URBAN INITIATIVES INC: $135k → 14%SHARE OUR SPARE: $600k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $1.7M → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $470k → 14%ILLINOIS JOINING FORCES FOUNDATION: $261k → 14%ILLINOIS JOINING FORCES FOUNDATION: $250k → 14%CAROLE ROBERTSON CENTER FOR LEARNING: $782k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF GREATER CHICAGO: $233k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $225k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $133k → 14%ERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $503k → 14%CHAPIN HALL CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $350k → 14%CHAPIN HALL CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $150k → 14%UCAN: $150k → 14%YMCA OF METRO CHICAGO: $471k → 14%THE BLOC: $250k → 14%THE BLOC: $150k → 14%AUSTIN CHILDCARE PROVIDERS NETWORK: $150k → 14%AUSTIN CHILDCARE PROVIDERS NETWORK: $150k → 14%AUSTIN CHILDCARE PROVIDERS NETWORK: $150k → 14%CAROLE ROBERTSON CENTER FOR LEARNING: $4.1M → 14%INSTITUTE FOR LATINO PROGRESS (INSTITUTO DEL PROGRESO LATINO): $3.3M → 14%CAROLE ROBERTSON CENTER FOR LEARNING: $560k → 14%CAROLE ROBERTSON CENTER FOR LEARNING: $225k → 14%THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $200k → 14%THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $180k → 14%INSTITUTE FOR LATINO PROGRESS: $125k → 14%FAMILY FOCUS INC: $615k → 14%CHICAGO COMMONS ASSOCIATION: $150k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $3.6M → 14%BRIGHTPOINT: $1.1M → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $955k → 14%CHILDRENS HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILLINOIS: $453k → 14%CHILDRENS HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILLINOIS: $165k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILLINOIS: $165k → 14%THRIVE CHICAGO: $150k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
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DC
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TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$366M · 331 repeat orgs$19M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

331 repeat relationships — 192 still active in FY2024, 139 since wound down; 57 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

331
195

Total granted

$366M
$11M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+20%

Still filing today

95%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther

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

  • CF
    CANTIGNY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $105M · revenue +101% · 56% of their budget
  • UW
    UNITED WAY - MCCORMICK PARTNERSHIP FOR STRONG NEIGHBORHOODS INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $27M · revenue +88% · 100% of their budget
  • EC
    Enlace Chicago
    5× · 2020–2024 · $14M · revenue +20% · 57% of their budget

Funded once

  • VV
    Vocel Viewing our Children as Emerging Leadersgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $610k · revenue +90% · 33% of their budget
  • DC
    DUPAGE COUNTY REGIONAL OFFICE OF EDUCATION
    one grant, 2021 · $550k
  • CC
    CHICAGO COALITION TO SAVE OUR MENTAL HEALTH CENTERSgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +45% · 90% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.

Social Science
2
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.

Education
3
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
4
Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce

The chicagoland chamber of commerce combines the power of people, with our legacy of leadership and business advocacy, to drive a dynamic economy. we focus on delivering value for our members, making chicagoland a world-class place to live…

—
5
The University of Chicago Charter School Corporation

To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.

Education
6
The Partnership for College Completion

The Partnership for College Completion (PCC) champions policies, practices, and systems that increase college completion and eliminate degree completion disparities for low-income, first generation, and students of color in Illinois…

Education
7
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
8
Illinois College

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…

Education
9
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
10
Arise Chicago

Arise chicago builds partnerships between faith communities and workers to fight workplace injustice through education, organizing, and advocating for public policy changes.

Employment
11
The Chicago Bar Foundation

The chicago bar foundation brings the legal community together through advocacy, funding, and innovation to improve access to justice for people in need and to make the legal system more fair, equitable, and effective.

Education
12
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids First Chicago for Education and the most unlike its peers is Mexican Cultural Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr18%26%20–35yr14%23%35–55yr15%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%2%<5yr14%11%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr18%17%20–35yr14%43%35–55yr15%18%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%8/596
the rest of the field
13%
9,268/69,347

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

532 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 532 of the 596 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.

40
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
109
Early backer (in before they grew)
520/532
Grantees still filing
372/532
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CANTIGNY FOUNDATION — $105,143,170 · OtherCANTIGNY FOUNDATION+80 more — $78,880,661 · Other+80 moreNational Louis University — $7,719,050 · EducationNational Louis U…Big Shoulders Fund — $6,318,921 · EducationBig Shoulders Fu…University of Chicago — $2,713,558 · EducationTHE CHICAGO SCHOLARS FOUNDATION — $2,710,500 · EducationCristo Rey St Martin College Prep — $2,300,000 · EducationLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO — $1,924,206 · EducationBLOCK CLUB CHICAGO NFP — $1,833,575 · Education+43 more — $28,334,616 · Education+43 moreEnlace Chicago — $13,654,620 · Community ImprovementEnlace Chi…PROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $8,110,500 · Community ImprovementPROJECT HO…Teamwork Englewood Inc — $7,132,600 · Community ImprovementTeamwork E…THE BOTTOM LINE INC — $1,861,500 · Community Improvement+12 more — $4,355,000 · Community Improvement+12 moreUNITED WAY - MCCORMICK PARTNERSHIP FOR STRONG NEIGHBORHOODS INC — $26,753,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY…UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC — $2,547,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY…The Chicago Community Trust — $1,655,000 · PhilanthropyMetropolis Strategies NFP — $1,446,600 · Philanthropy+3 more — $1,270,850 · PhilanthropyMetropolitan Family Services — $7,189,300 · Human ServicesMetropoli…Carole Robertson Center for Learning — $5,633,808 · Human ServicesCarole Ro…INSTITUTE FOR LATINO PROGRESS — $3,725,000 · Human ServicesINSTITUTE…CHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL — $1,847,500 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'…ILLINOIS JOINING FORCES FOUNDATION — $1,118,000 · Human ServicesJUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION — $1,110,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $1,025,430 · Human ServicesILLINOIS NETWORK OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES — $990,500 · Human Services+13 more — $6,746,210 · Human Services+13 moreUniversity of Chicago Medical Center — $4,750,000 · HealthRehabilitation Institute of Chicago — $3,420,000 · HealthAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago — $3,385,515 · HealthSINAI HEALTH SYSTEM — $2,285,000 · HealthALTERNATIVES INC — $622,100 · Health+3 more — $1,105,000 · HealthILLINOIS PRESS FOUNDATION INC — $2,300,000 · Arts & CultureKenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry — $2,105,000 · Arts & CultureFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $1,655,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL MUSEUM OF MEXICAN ART FKA MEXICAN FINE ARTS CENTER MUSEUM — $1,580,500 · Arts & CultureChicago Children's Museum — $1,255,000 · Arts & CultureChicago Humanities Festival — $670,500 · Arts & CultureUNITED STATES FOUNDATION FOR THE COMMEMORATION OF WORLD WARS — $500,000 · Arts & Culture+10 more — $3,213,650 · Arts & Culture
Other$184,023,831Education$53,854,426Community Improvement$35,114,220Philanthropy$33,672,450Human Services$29,385,748Health$15,567,615Arts & Culture$13,279,650

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCANTIGNY FOUNDATION — $105,143,170 over 5y, 56% of budgetUNITED WAY - MCCORMICK PARTNERSHIP FOR STRONG NEIGHBORHOODS INC — $26,753,000 over 4y, 100% of budgetEnlace Chicago — $13,654,620 over 5y, 57% of budgetPROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $8,110,500 over 3y, 56% of budgetNational Louis University — $7,719,050 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetMetropolitan Family Services — $7,189,300 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetTeamwork Englewood Inc — $7,132,600 over 5y, 47% of budgetBig Shoulders Fund — $6,318,921 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetHeartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights — $5,845,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetCarole Robertson Center for Learning — $5,633,808 over 5y, 14% of budgetUniversity of Chicago Medical Center — $4,750,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNorthwestern University — $4,202,400 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR LATINO PROGRESS — $3,725,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetLITTLE VILLAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $3,439,000 over 4y, 79% of budgetRehabilitation Institute of Chicago — $3,420,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago — $3,385,515 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetIllinois Action for Children — $3,116,260 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $2,713,558 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHICAGO SCHOLARS FOUNDATION — $2,710,500 over 5y, 12% of budgetTHE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS — $2,701,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC — $2,547,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetLATINO POLICY FORUM — $2,388,350 over 5y, 17% of budgetILLINOIS PRESS FOUNDATION INC — $2,300,000 over 3y, 33% of budgetSINAI HEALTH SYSTEM — $2,285,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetKenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry — $2,105,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetXCHANGE CHICAGO INC — $2,000,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetInjustice Watch NFP — $2,000,000 over 3y, 66% of budgetBETTER GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION INC — $1,975,500 over 4y, 26% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO — $1,924,206 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOTTOM LINE INC — $1,861,500 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL — $1,847,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetBLOCK CLUB CHICAGO NFP — $1,833,575 over 5y, 34% of budgetGE CHAMBER FOUNDATION — $1,779,800 over 4y, 74% of budgetNew Life Centers of Chicagoland — $1,738,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetIllinois Institute of Technology — $1,670,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetONE MILLION DEGREES — $1,662,500 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetThe Chicago Community Trust — $1,655,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $1,655,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF MEXICAN ART FKA MEXICAN FINE ARTS CENTER MUSEUM — $1,580,500 over 5y, 14% of budgetMetropolis Strategies NFP — $1,446,600 over 5y, 49% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $1,386,400 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSTART EARLY — $1,384,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $1,362,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND — $1,335,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC — $1,277,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetOFF THE STREET CLUB — $1,272,250 over 5y, 18% of budgetChicago Children's Museum — $1,255,000 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetLewis University — $1,235,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
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 CANTIGNY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY - MCCORMICK PARTNERSHIP FOR STRONG NEIGHBORHOODS INC ↗
  • Who funds Enlace Chicago ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds National Louis University ↗
  • Who funds Metropolitan Family Services ↗
  • Who funds Teamwork Englewood Inc ↗
  • Who funds Big Shoulders Fund ↗
  • Who funds Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights ↗
  • Who funds Carole Robertson Center for Learning ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR LATINO PROGRESS ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE VILLAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds Illinois Action for Children ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds THE CHICAGO SCHOLARS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC ↗
  • Who funds LATINO POLICY FORUM ↗
  • Who funds Cristo Rey St Martin College Prep ↗
  • Who funds ILLINOIS PRESS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
  • Who funds Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry ↗
  • Who funds XCHANGE CHICAGO INC ↗
  • Who funds Injustice Watch NFP ↗
  • Who funds BETTER GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds THE BOTTOM LINE INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL ↗
  • Who funds BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO NFP ↗
  • Who funds GE CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds New Life Centers of Chicagoland ↗
  • Who funds Illinois Institute of Technology ↗

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.

Polk Bros Foundation …United Way of Metropo…Circle of Service Fou…Arie and Ida Crown Me…Lloyd a Fry FoundationField Foundation of I…John D and Catherine …The Joyce FoundationCme Group FoundationMichael Reese Health …Chicago Foundation fo…Fulk Family Foundatio…
Polk Bros Foundation IncIL170.2× affinity115 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Polk Bros Foundation Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Joyce Foundation · Cme Group Foundation · Michael Reese Health Trust · Chicago Foundation for Women · Fulk Family Foundation Inc

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 Robert R McCormick 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Icivics Inc — 13% of income from government
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
  • The Bottom Line Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
68report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 596 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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