· Private foundation
Rosslevee Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDENS | $12,000 |
| ARIZONA MUSIC FESTIVAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| JEWISH UNITED FUND | $9,500 |
| MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART | $7,650 |
| RAVINIA FESTIVAL | $5,000 |
| DIGESTIVE HEALTH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MISERICORDIA HOME | $4,000 |
| AM SHALOM | $3,700 |
| HIGHLAND PARK ART CENTER | $3,000 |
| TRILOGY INC | $1,000 |
| HIGHLAND PARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $1,000 |
| COMMUNITY PARTNERS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING | $750 |
| ARTISTS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $500 |
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 (FY17–25, $39k) 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 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.
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 +24% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 7 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $91k · revenue +54%- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO9× · 2017–2025 · $84k · revenue +13%
- CHCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY4× · 2017–2025 · $52k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- MOMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHYone grant, 2018 · $5k
- CBCONGREGATION BNAI JEHOSHUA BETH ELOHIMone grant, 2024 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $3k
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.
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The chicago high school for the arts (chiarts) develops the next generation of diverse, artistically promising scholar-artists through intensive pre-professional training in the arts, combined with a comprehensive college preparatory…
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
We are chicago's jesuit, catholic university - a diverse community seeking god in all things and working to expand knowledge in the service of humanity through learning, justice, and faith.
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.
Chicago scholars is transforming the leadership landscape of our city by resolving the fundamental barriers to success for academically driven, first generation college students from under-resourced communities.
Chicago sun-times serves the public interest by strengthening the well-being of our local communities and our democracy through independent local journalism.
Steadfast in jesus christ as revealed in the holy scriptures, concordia university chicago promotes academic rigor in its liberal arts and professional programs; grounds students in objective truth, integrity, and excellence; and practices…
To promote public appreciation, understanding and support of the humanities through festivals and educational programs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hyde Park Art Center and the most unlike its peers is Chicago Architecture Biennial Inc. 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 44 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 52 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 RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds MISERICORDIA HOME ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DIGESTIVE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO JEWISH DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HYDE PARK ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES ↗
- Who funds CPS LIVES NFP ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO CHILDREN'S THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Lyric Opera of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Baptist Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds TRILOGY INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COUNCIL FOR YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PASS WITH FLYING COLORS INC ↗
- Who funds Highland Park Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER ↗
- Who funds SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds BRIARWOOD SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds CLEARBROOK ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds BUILD 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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Kovler Family Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Sacks Family Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Jerrold Ruskin Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Highland Park Community Foundation · Leon and Sharon Kaufman Foundation
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 Rosslevee Charitable 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.