· Private foundation
Suzanne Smelcer Robinson Foundation
Its FY2025 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, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PAWS CHICAGO | $25,000 |
| ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $8,000 |
| ANTI-CRUELTY SOCIETY OF ILLINOIS | $3,500 |
| NOAH'S ARK FOUNDATION INC | $3,500 |
| CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| LINCOLN PARK ZOO | $2,000 |
| ANN & ROBERT LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $2,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $1,000 |
| LOVING INDEED | $500 |
| HEAVENLY PET SANCTUARY | $500 |
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 (FY22–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 57% 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.
23 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PCPAWS CHICAGO7× · 2018–2025 · $175k · revenue +159%
- CHCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY7× · 2018–2025 · $17k · revenue +38%
- IWILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY2× · 2024–2025 · $16k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- JJJDRF JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FDNone grant, 2024 · $1k
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.
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
To maximize programs intended to stop killing of adoptable animals.
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
To inspire conservation leadership by connecting people with wildlife and nature.
The friends are dedicated to the rescue, protection, and adoption of companion animals in need while inspiring the human-animal bond. we meet our mission by:-saving 100% of healthy and treatable animals.-providing high-quality animal care…
The animal agriculture alliance is a nonprofit organization that helps bridge the communication gap between farm and fork. we connect food industry stakeholders, engage food chain influencers and promote consumer choice by helping key…
Feeding illinois is a coalition of eight feeding america food banks that provide food to over 2,400 food pantries, soup kitchens, and shelters that feed nearly 1.4 million residents across the entire state of illinois.
As america's first animal shelter, founded in 1869, women's humane society dba women's animal center (wac), assists people in the community, saves the lives of animals, and improves the health of pets through its shelter and adoptions…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 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.
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 PAWS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Noahs Ark Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds VEAP Inc ↗
- Who funds FIRST LOVE INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds LOVING INDEED INC ↗
- Who funds THURSTON COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Heavenly Pet Sanctuary ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Suzanne Smelcer Robinson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Suzanne Smelcer Robinson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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