· Private foundation
Shodeen 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k46 grants · $91k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS | $10,000 |
| ASSOCIATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEV | $5,000 |
| SUNNYSIDE FARMS | $5,000 |
| ROB KORANDA SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ECKER CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH | $5,000 |
| OPEN ARMS FREE CLINIC | $5,000 |
| IL FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MILL CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO | $5,000 |
| HESED HOUSE | $5,000 |
| VIP SERVICES INC | $5,000 |
| WAUBONSEE COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $4,000 |
| CASA KANE COUNTY | $4,000 |
| FELLOW MORTALS WILDLIFE HOSPITAL | $2,500 |
| GHS SCHOLARSHIP-INDIANA UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF THE BURSAR | $2,000 |
| GHS SCHOLARSHIP-UNIV KANSAS FINANCIAL AID & SCHOLARSHIPS | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $174k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 8% 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 +47% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
71 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 50 since wound down; 22 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- AFASSOCIATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT7× · 2019–2025 · $74k · revenue +83%
- LHLAZARUS HOUSE8× · 2017–2025 · $69k · revenue +71%
- VSVIP SERVICES INC8× · 2017–2025 · $31k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF FOX RIVER VALLEYone grant, 2023 · $14k
- WCWI CONFERENCE CENTERone grant, 2017 · $10k
- NMNORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
To assist children who have been victims of abuse
Offer crisis intervention, supportive counseling and comprehensive referral services to surviving family members throughout chicago following homicide; provide training in sensitive and effective communication with and treatment of…
Care to terminal patients/families
Rock river valley blood center, in partnership with our community, is dedicated to providing safe, high value blood products and services to people in need.
The 100 club of illinois provides resources, several forms of financial support, access to training, and moral support to the families of first responders who have lost their lives in the line of duty and active duty first responders. all…
To advocate for the highest quality care for patients with psychiatric disorders
Seniors Assistance Center provides necessary services to senior citizens of unincorporated Norwood Park Township, and the villages of Norridge and Harwood Heights. These services include home delivered meals, information and assistance,…
Educating and serving children and adults with autism to achieve their highest level of independence within their home, family and community.
The epilepsy foundation of michigan leads the fight to overcome the challenges of living with epilepsy and to accelerate therapies to stop seizures, find cures, and save lives.
Promote the health and independence of lake county, il, older adults
Help those affected with epilepsy
To ensure that all people impacted by cancer are empowered by knowledge, strengthened by action, and sustained by community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fellow Mortals Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rob Koranda Scholarship Foundation. 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 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
68 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. 68 of the 178 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 CASA KANE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds LAZARUS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds VIP SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SUNNYSIDE FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds Living Well Cancer Resource Center ↗
- Who funds OPEN ARMS FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds SUICIDE PREVENTION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GENEVA FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds WHEATON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FELLOW MORTALS INC ↗
- Who funds ECKER CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds ROB KORANDA SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY SEGUIN OF GREATER CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds ECOLOGY PROJECT INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds MILL CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO ↗
- Who funds NAMI KDK ↗
- Who funds TRICITY FAMILY SERVICES ↗
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: Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley · Fox Valley United Way · Kunes Family Foundation · Inc Mental Health Alliance · The Raymond C and Linda M Stachowiak Foundation · Hansen-Furnas Foundation Inc · Dunham Fund · Dunham Foundation · The Bersted Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Geneva Community Chest · Harvey and Ethel Daeumer 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 Shodeen Family 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.
- Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc — 23% 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.