· Private foundation
Sumac 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, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $340k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $59,500 |
| CASA CENTRAL | $45,000 |
| SECOND STORY YOUTH SERVICES AND SAF | $40,000 |
| MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE | $40,000 |
| ERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE | $35,000 |
| RESURRECTION PROJECT | $35,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $30,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $25,000 |
| GLOBAL REFUGE | $20,000 |
| BEYOND HUNGER | $15,000 |
| NORTHBROOK FOOD PANTRY | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| CASA CATALINA FOOD PANTRY | $15,000 |
| CAPITAL AREA IMMIGRANTS RIGHT | $10,000 |
| OAK PARK HOMELESS COALITION | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $447k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% 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.
24 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TRThe Resurrection Project8× · 2018–2025 · $255k · revenue +247%
- ENERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE8× · 2018–2025 · $235k · revenue +88%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC7× · 2019–2025 · $185k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- AAABUSED AND HOMELESS CHILDREN'S REFUGE INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +75%
- 1S1ST STAGE INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +264%
- OTOLNEY THEATRE CENTERone grant, 2020 · $12k
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.
Latino Union works to defend the rights and dignity of contingent workers, including the right to immigrate, work, live free of oppression and violence, and provide for oneself and one's family.
To deliver legal and social services to people and families who want to put down roots in the u.s. and cultivate welcoming communities that uphold our collective freedoms.
At legal aid chicago, we work together to provide high quality civil legal aid to people living in poverty and other vulnerable groups.through advocacy, education, collaboration, and litigation we empower individuals, protect fundamental…
Legal, immigration and community organizing
The Chicago Refugee Coalition is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated ot the alleviation of human suffering through innovative partnerships, advocacy and community empowerment.
Strive to improve the health and well being of migrant and seasonal farmworkers and other medically vulnerable populations by providing quality accessable, affordable, and culturally responsive health care within the community we serve.
Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…
Serving recently arrived migrants and asylum seekers in the Chicagoland area and is committed to upholding the dignity and human rights of immigrants.
The greater chicago food depository is the nonprofit food bank serving cook county. our mission - is to end hunger. we believe food is a basic human right. to achieve our mission, we work in partnership with a network of community-based…
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
Arise chicago builds partnerships between faith communities and workers to fight workplace injustice through education, organizing, and advocating for public policy changes.
To assist children who have been victims of abuse
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 32 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 MALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds The Resurrection Project ↗
- Who funds ERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds CASA CENTRAL SOCIAL SERVICES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GALA INC GRUPO DE ARTISTAS LATINO AMERICANOS ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND HUNGER ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION ↗
- Who funds SARAH'S INN ↗
- Who funds ABUSED AND HOMELESS CHILDREN'S REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds Illinois Coalition for Community Services ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE ↗
- Who funds 1ST STAGE INC ↗
- Who funds Purple Asparagus ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC FEDERATION 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 · Healthy Communities Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sumac Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sumac Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge: 100% of income from government
How this is measured
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