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Supera 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $130k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $263k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE ARK | $200,929 |
| TEMPLE SHOLOM | $62,365 |
| NORTHSIDE HOUSING AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICES | $25,000 |
| LAKEVIEW DOG PARK INC NFP | $25,000 |
| IGNITE | $25,000 |
| SARAH'S CIRCLE | $25,000 |
| JEWISH UNITED FUND | $20,000 |
| CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| WORLD VISION | $7,500 |
| BRAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| LYNN SAGE CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| THE GRANT PARK ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION | $792 |
| LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO | $250 |
| ASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF ST ROSE CHAPEL | $200 |
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 (FY23–25, $55k) 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 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 +54% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 6 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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
- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO7× · 2018–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +34%
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC2× · 2018–2022 · $35k · revenue +10%- CSChicago Symphony Orchestra2× · 2018–2025 · $11k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- RURush University Medical Centergraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +30%
- UWUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INCone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -50%
- NPNAVY PIER INCone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +20%
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.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.
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…
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
We believe in the life-changing, transformational, revelatory power of great art and opera. Lyric Opera of Chicago exists to provide a broad, deep, and relevant cultural service to the Chicago region and the nation, and to advance the…
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
We are chicago's jesuit, catholic university - a diverse community seeking god in all things and working to expand knowledge in the service of humanity through learning, justice, and faith.
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…
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.
Steadfast in jesus christ as revealed in the holy scriptures, concordia university chicago promotes academic rigor in its liberal arts and professional programs; grounds students in objective truth, integrity, and excellence; and practices…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hyde Park Art Center and the most unlike its peers is Lakeview Dog Park Inc Nfp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% 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 16% 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 61 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 JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds NAVY PIER INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds LAKEVIEW DOG PARK INC NFP ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds NORTH SIDE HOUSING AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SARAH'S CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds IGNITE ↗
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds LYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRANT PARK ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds BRAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds A Red Orchid Theatre ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds SWIPE OUT HUNGER ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago Medical Center ↗
- Who funds LUMINARTS CULTURAL FOUNDATION THE UNION LEAGUE CLUB OF CHICAGO ↗
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: John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Circle of Service Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Caerus Foundation Inc · John & Jacolyn Bucksbaum Family Found · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · AbbVie Foundation · Ncrc Community Development Fund 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 Supera Family 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% 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.
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