· Private foundation
Stack Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BUILD Inc Chicago | $20,000 |
| St Coletta's of Illinois | $20,000 |
| Special Olympics Illinois Gala | $20,000 |
| Gigi's Playhouse | $20,000 |
| Mercy Home for Boys & Girls | $11,000 |
| Little Sisters of the Poor | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 +131% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GPGIGIS PLAYHOUSE INC4× · 2021–2024 · $70k
- BIBUILD INC4× · 2021–2024 · $65k · revenue +151%
- SOSpecial Olympics2× · 2022–2023 · $40k
Funded once
- DUDEPAUL UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +14%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES INCone grant, 2020 · $25k
- JMJohn McNicholas Pediatric Brain Tumorone grant, 2020 · $11k
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.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
DePaul Group, Inc. is a parent corporation that provides administrative support to further the strategic purposes and missions of affliated 501(c)3 corporations and affilated for profit corporations which DePaul Group is the sole…
The Foundation was formed to provide funding and other support to DePaul Group, Inc. and its affiliates.
Support catholic high schools and grade schools in the diocese of sioux city.
Holy Cross College is a Catholic, residential liberal arts college located in Notre Dame, Indiana and is part of a tri campus community that includes the University of Notre Dame and Saint Mary's College. The College was founded in 1966 by…
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
For seniors who are unable to live alone, Catholic Charities provided fully licensed nursing home with a round-the-clock nursing staff. The Home offered physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, social services, pastoral…
Saint vincent college is an educational community rooted in the tradition of the catholic faith, the heritage of benedictine monasticism, and the love of values inherent in the liberal approach to life and learning. its mission is to…
Rooted in the Catholic and Franciscan traditions of Faith and Reason, the University of Saint Francis engages a diverse community in learning, leadership, and service.
At Catholic Charities, we focus our efforts around three core pillars: Food Access, Mental Health and Housing. Guided by our mission - to serve and enhance human dignity for all people - we provide essential services and foster a sense of…
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
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…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 23 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 BUILD INC ↗
- Who funds CALUMET COLLEGE OF ST JOSEPH ↗
- Who funds ST COLETTAS OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DEPAUL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ST COLETTA'S OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds Maryville Academy ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ROCKFORD COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHRIST THE KING SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Stack Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stack Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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