· Private foundation
Ronald and Geri Yonover Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k22 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $155k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $190k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF THE SUNCOAST | $75,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO | $65,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE | $50,000 |
| GOODMAN THEATER | $30,000 |
| STEPPENWOLF THEATER | $30,000 |
| CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER | $20,000 |
| CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $20,000 |
| ANGUILLA TENNIS & EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $14,000 |
| CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL | $11,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHWEST INDIANA | $10,000 |
| EDISON HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL D-DAY MUSEUM | $8,000 |
| MERCY HOME FOR BOYS & GIRLS | $7,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $7,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $113k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +40% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE4× · 2019–2022 · $227k · revenue +39%- STSTEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY8× · 2017–2024 · $155k · revenue +59%
- CSChicago Symphony Orchestra8× · 2017–2024 · $110k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- ATASOLO THEATRE INCone grant, 2018 · $35k · revenue +13%
ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INCone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +16%- CFChiArts Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue +77%
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.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
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.
Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
The adler planetarium ('adler') is a not-for-profit cultural institution whose mission is to connect people to the universe and each other under the sky we all share. it aspires to be the world's premier center for engaging in astronomy…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The society is an international nonprofit, nonpartisan organization which connects people and institutions in asia and the world to build understanding, address challenges and maximize opportunities.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Lookingglass theatre company is a national leader in the creation and presentation of innovative, cutting-edge theatrical work. lookingglass interweaves movement, circus arts and narrative in original and captivating ways. guided by an…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Shakespeare Theater and the most unlike its peers is Young Black and Lit. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
59 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. 59 of the 74 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds STEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER ↗
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE INC ↗
- Who funds GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Family & Children's Service of the Suncoast Inc ↗
- Who funds Culver Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF NWI INC ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Illinois Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANGUILLA TENNIS AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASOLO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds EDISON HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds WILDAID INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ChiArts Foundation ↗
- Who funds Broadway Dreams Foundation Corporation ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Friends of Florence ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds OUTSIDE IN ↗
- Who funds JOIN ↗
- Who funds Providence St Mel School ↗
- Who funds The Anti-Cruelty Society ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Friends of the Arts & Humanities Inc · William G and Marie Selby Foundation Inc · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · The Chicago Community Trust
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 Ronald and Geri Yonover 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Jewish Family & Children's Service of the Suncoast Inc — 67% of income from government
- Outside in — 33% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Friends of the Children-Portland — 5% of income from government
- Public Justice Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- Restorative Response Baltimore Inc — 4% of income from government
- Join — 4% of income from government
- Cascadia Health — 3% of income from government
- The Dougy Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Hermitage Artist Retreat Inc — 1% of income from government
- Florida Holocaust Museum Inc — 0% of income from government
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.