· Private foundation
Shulman-Rochambeau Charitable 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 $10k21 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $201k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHATTERED GLOBE THEATRE COMPANY | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,625 |
| CHIKAMING OPEN LANDS | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| DIAN FOSSEY GORILLA FUND | $10,000 |
| MICHIANA HUMANE SOCIETY & SPCA | $5,000 |
| PORCHLIGHT MUSIC THEATRE | $5,000 |
| ACLU OF ILLINOIS | $4,500 |
| REMY BUMPPO THEATRE COMPANY | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND | $2,500 |
| HAITI SCHOOL FUNDST PAUL & THE REDEEMER | $1,500 |
| ACORN THEATER | $1,500 |
| ADVANCE ILLINOIS | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–17, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +36% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 11 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; $15k 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
- SGShattered Globe Theatre6× · 2017–2022 · $308k · revenue +104%
- COCHIKAMING OPEN LANDS9× · 2017–2025 · $226k · revenue +282%
- TATHE AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM9× · 2017–2025 · $178k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- TFTRUST FOR VIRGIN ISLANDS LANDSone grant, 2021 · $11k · revenue +7%
- PPorchlightone grant, 2022 · $6k
- GTGOODMAN THEATERone grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
Operation of a nautical history museum.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.
To support healthy communities and a healthy earth, the institute for conservation leadership strengthens leaders, organizations, coalitions and networks.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The music institute of chicago ("music institute") leads people toward a lifelong engagement with music, by providing widely accessible resources for high quality music teaching, performing, and service activities.
To enrich life by perpetuating tropical plants, ecosystems and cultural heritage through discovery, scientific research, conservation, and education.
To inspire conservation leadership by connecting people with wildlife and nature.
The chicago theatre group is committed to producing both classic and contemporary works giving full voice to a wide range of artists and visions. by dedicating itself to three guiding principles - quality, equity, and community - the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Old Town School of Folk Music and the most unlike its peers is Medical Aid to Northern Uganda. 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 37 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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 12% 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 69 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 Shattered Globe Theatre ↗
- Who funds CHIKAMING OPEN LANDS ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds TRUST FOR VIRGIN ISLANDS LANDS ↗
- Who funds Remy Bumppo Theatre Company ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO'S GREEN CITY MARKET PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds LAKEVIEW ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOFFREY BALLET ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN NATURE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ADVANCE ILLINOIS NFP ↗
- Who funds OLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC ↗
- Who funds PONY EXPRESS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS ↗
- Who funds BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Museum of Glass ↗
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 Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Circle of Service Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Shulman-Rochambeau 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.
- United States Naval Institute — 3% 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.