· Private foundation
Stephen and Christy King 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $181k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $409k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BIG SHOULDERS FUND | $400,000 |
| ARCHDIOCESE OF CHICAGO | $400,000 |
| CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGHSCHOOL | $250,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $150,000 |
| BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE | $100,000 |
| CHICAGO JESUIT ACADEMY | $59,000 |
| DANNY DID FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL | $50,000 |
| THE FIREHOUSE | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO | $25,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $25,000 |
| THE ACADEMY AT ST JO AN OF | $20,000 |
| U-GO | $16,000 |
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 (FY24–25, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
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 +127% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 9 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, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $772k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BSBig Shoulders Fund8× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +67%
University of Illinois Foundation3× · 2017–2023 · $223k · revenue +127%- HIHOPE IGNITES CHICAGO4× · 2022–2025 · $215k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- CCChicago Cred Incone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -1%
- OIOPPORTUNITY INCone grant, 2018 · $55k · revenue -66%
- NCNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue ×103 · 89% of their budget
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.
Endeavor Health Clinical Operations follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."
The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.
Stanley manne children's research institute strives to generate new knowledge and advance the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of pediatric diseases.
We are dedicated to the health and well-being of all children. as the pediatric teaching facility for the northwestern university feinberg school of medicine, this commitment drives us to be a leader in: -pediatric health care delivery…
Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…
The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…
To support the mission of osf healthcare system, a catholic integrated health care delivery system, through the provision of quality health care services related to comprehensive inpatient and outpatient care for children.
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 58 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 Big Shoulders Fund ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds THE ACADEMY AT ST JOAN OF ARC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US ↗
- Who funds Chicago Cred Inc ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds DANNY DID FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ↗
- Who funds START EARLY ↗
- Who funds CONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SOLIDARITY BRIDGE 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: The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation · Helen V Brach Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Greater Chicago Food Depository · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · AbbVie Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Stephen and Christy King Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stephen and Christy King Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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