· Private foundation
Shade Family 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, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $61k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNION LEAGUE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS | $61,000 |
| MIAMI UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| SERVICE LEAGUE OF CRYSTAL LAKE | $13,340 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH | $7,500 |
| EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION | $5,500 |
| OCEAN REEF CULTURAL CENTER INC | $5,000 |
| UNION LEAGUE CLUB OF CHICAGO | $4,837 |
| FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $3,000 |
| KELLOGG SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT | $2,500 |
| MATTHIAS ACADEMY CORPORATION | $1,500 |
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $1,064 |
| OCEAN REEF CHAPEL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $6k) 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 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 +61% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.
31 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 7 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ULUNION LEAGUE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS7× · 2019–2025 · $315k · revenue +61%
- SLSERVICE LEAGUE OF CRYSTAL LAKE INC7× · 2019–2025 · $63k · revenue +126%
- OROCEAN REEF CHAPEL FOUNDATION INC7× · 2019–2025 · $30k · revenue ×19
Funded once
- JHJOHNSBURG HIGH SCHOOL5× · 2021–2025 · $6k
- JDJOHNSBURG DISTRICT 12one grant, 2019 · $5k
- NMNORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $5k
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.
Provide post-secondary education leading to a baccalaureate degree. Program service expenditures are made in conjunction with the operation of a liberal arts college spread over 107 acres with approximately 63 educational and support…
The Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, is an independent and separate nonprofit entity from the University of Illinois. Our mission is to encourage and administer private gifts and serve the UI System by working closely with…
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.
The chicago club is and shall continue to be the premier club in the city of chicago, serving the business, civic, educational, and philanthropic leaders, and their families, by providing a private club with outstanding dining, service,…
Operation of a nautical history museum.
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…
Support state and federally chartered credit unions in illinois by providing education, advocacy and compliance services allowing them to prosper in the financial marketplace.
To promote foster and support both sweep rowing and sculling to youth and adults in the Greater Chicago Metropolitan Area and to educate coach and train the general public in skills relating to rowing and in-water safety.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…
To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.
Provide pediatric and subspecialty surgical, research, and educational services.
How this is measured
28 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. 28 of the 48 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 UNION LEAGUE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS ↗
- Who funds SERVICE LEAGUE OF CRYSTAL LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF CHAPEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Armed Forces Council of Chicago ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LUMINARTS CULTURAL FOUNDATION THE UNION LEAGUE CLUB OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS RAILWAY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds OCCUPAWS GUIDE DOG ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNION LEAGUE CLUB OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds MATTHIAS ACADEMY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLEARBROOK ↗
- Who funds PHI KAPPA TAU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lambda Chi Alpha Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALPHA XI DELTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LAND CONSERVANCY OF MCHENRY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CYT Chicago 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.
Open a dossier: AbbVie Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Shade Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shade Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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