· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| PHILANDER SMITH COLLEGE | $200,000 |
| HOWARD BROWN HEALTH CENTER | $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 |
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 (FY18–24, $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 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 +30% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
225 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Norwich University ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SETI INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- 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 Cornell University ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
- 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 WOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds Chicago Architecture Foundation ↗
- Who funds TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Tawani Charitable Distribution Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tawani Charitable Distribution Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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