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Smith and Reilly Family Foundation at a glance

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Smith and Reilly Family Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$17k
Granted FY2022
8
Grants FY2022
4
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

Education$92kArts & Culture$43kReligion$30kRecreation & Sports$26kHuman Services$22kHealth$16kCrime & Legal$10kPhilanthropy$7kOther$0
02FY2022 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THIRD MILLENNIUM ALLIANCE$6,000
FARAJA SCHOOL FOUNDATION$3,000
NEW FRIEND EDUCATION FOUNDATION$2,500
GLEN VIEW CLUB SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION$2,000
ROBERT R MCCORMICK FOUNDATION$1,000
ADVANCE ILLINOIS$1,000
GOLDEN APPLE FOUNDATION$1,000
CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT FUTURES$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.

area typical 11%JACK & JILL CHILDREN'S CENTER: $10k → 13%JACK & JILL CHILDREN'S CENTER: $5k → 13%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $7k → 14%CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT FUTURES: $500 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of Smith and Reilly Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Smith and Reilly Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$218k · 11 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2022, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
8

Total granted

$218k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+68%

Still filing today

73%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureRecreation & SportsCrime & LegalEmploymentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • NL
    National Louis University
    2× · 2020–2021 · $60k · revenue +47%
  • Northwestern University
    2× · 2020–2021 · $25k · revenue +33%
  • JA
    JACK AND JILL CHILDREN'S CENTER INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $15k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • TY
    The YMCA of Metropolitan Chicagograduated
    one grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +68%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -42%
  • GE
    Greater Englewood Chamber of Commercegraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +48%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management

Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.

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2
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
3
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
4
Great Mn Schools

We believe that great schools are the cornerstone of a just and thriving community. ensuring that every child is able to attend a school that works is our moral and social imperative - our children deserve no less.

Education
5
The University of Chicago Charter School Corporation

To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.

Education
6
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
7
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
8
National Association of College and University Attorneys

To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.

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9
University of Illinois Foundation

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…

Education
10
Lake Forest College

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…

Education
11
Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce

The chicagoland chamber of commerce combines the power of people, with our legacy of leadership and business advocacy, to drive a dynamic economy. we focus on delivering value for our members, making chicagoland a world-class place to live…

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12
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Robert R Mccormick Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Greater Englewood Chamber of Commerce. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 25 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
11/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

National Louis University: $60,000 · EducationNational Louis UniversityCHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $10,000 · EducationCHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FUNDGLEN VIEW CLUB SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $3,500 · Education+2 more: $4,500 · Education+2 moreCHRIST CHURCH INC: $30,000 · OtherCHRIST CHURCH INCNORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherNORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATI…YALE UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYFARAJA SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $3,000 · OtherNEW FRIEND EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $2,500 · OtherTHIRD MILLENNIUM ALLIANCE: $6,000 · OtherTHIRD MILLENNIUM ALLIANCEGreater Englewood Chamber of Commerce: $3,000 · Other+5 more: $4,500 · Other+5 moreChicago Humanities Festival: $42,500 · Arts & CultureChicago Humanities …Northwestern University: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsNorthwester…JACK AND JILL CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesJACK AND …The YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago: $6,500 · Human ServicesThe YMCA …+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $10,000 · Crime & LegalUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyROBERT R MCCORMICK FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Philanthropy
Education$78,000Other$69,000Arts & Culture$42,500Recreation & Sports$25,000Human Services$22,000Crime & Legal$10,000Philanthropy$7,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNational Louis University: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Humanities Festival: $42,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNorthwestern University: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJACK AND JILL CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHIRD MILLENNIUM ALLIANCE: $6,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLEN VIEW CLUB SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Englewood Chamber of Commerce: $3,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetNEW TRIER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetADVANCE ILLINOIS NFP: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROBERT R MCCORMICK FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOLDEN APPLE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR INDEPENDENT FUTURES: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNSELING CENTER OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

The Chicago Community…Circle of Service Fou…Finnegan Family Found…Cme Group FoundationFulk Family Foundatio…Robert R McCormick Fo…Arie and Ida Crown Me…The Osa FoundationFrank Family Foundati…Lewis-Sebring Family …Lloyd a Fry FoundationNational Philanthropi…
The Chicago Community TrustIL18.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Circle of Service Foundation · Finnegan Family Foundation · Cme Group Foundation · Fulk Family Foundation Inc · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · The Osa Foundation · Frank Family Foundation · Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Smith and Reilly Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Smith and Reilly Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Jack and Jill Children's Center Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Smith and Reilly Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Smith and Reilly Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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