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Tawani Charitable Distribution Fund
Its FY2024 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k30 grants · $93k
- $10k–50k53 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k29 grants · $3.0M
- $250k+7 grants · $5.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OPERATION WHITE STORK | $1,553,000 |
| CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $1,145,000 |
| LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO | $700,000 |
| TULANE UNIVERSITY | $606,520 |
| SETI INSTITUTE | $580,122 |
| PRITZKER MILITARY FOUNDATION | $483,752 |
| GLAD (GLBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES & DEFENDERS) | $250,000 |
| WORLD PEDIATRICS | $230,000 |
| HOWARD BROWN HEALTH CENTER | $200,000 |
| PHILANDER SMITH COLLEGE | $200,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | $175,000 |
| NEW ISRAEL FUND | $160,000 |
| WHITMAN-WALKER INSTITUTE INC | $150,000 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION INC | $150,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION | $130,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $428k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +29% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
160 repeat relationships — 80 still active in FY2024, 80 since wound down; 32 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $910k 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
- NUNorwich University2× · 2018–2019 · $7.8M · revenue +12%
- LPLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY5× · 2018–2022 · $7.6M · revenue +16%
- SISETI INSTITUTE7× · 2018–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +36%
Funded once
- LULOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO WATER TOWER CAMPUSone grant, 2021 · $700k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION MCNAMARA ALUMNI CENTERone grant, 2021 · $543k
- IDILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS' AFFAIRSone grant, 2020 · $166k
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
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…
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
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…
The Chicago History Museum strives to be a destination for learning, inspiration, and civic engagement. Through dynamic exhibitions, tours, programs, digital resources, and special events, the Museum connects people to Chicago's history…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
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…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communitygiving and the most unlike its peers is Rengifo Parkinson's Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
225 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. 225 of the 317 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRITZKER MILITARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITY TEMPLE RESTORATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds EVANSTON HISTORY CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds Howard Brown Health Center ↗
- Who funds Philander Smith College ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds Family Tree Inc ↗
- Who funds TRANSGENDER LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD PEDIATRICS ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds WORLD PROF ASSN FOR TRANSGENDER HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Chicago Architecture Foundation ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
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 · The Chicago Community Trust · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · The Sidley Austin Foundation · Alphawood Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation
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 Tawani Charitable Distribution Fund 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.
- Norwich University — 4% of income from government
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Hartford Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% 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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