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The Anstiss and Ronald Krueck Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Anstiss and Ronald Krueck Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$85k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$463kEnvironment$52kHealth$50kReligion$20kEducation$18kInternational$12kRecreation & Sports$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
$7,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$636k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO$25,000
ST JAMES CATHEDRAL$20,000
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$15,000
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (KATINKA KLEIJN)$7,500
WBEZ$5,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$5,000
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL$5,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL: $1k → 14%JOURNEYCARE: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
NJ
RI
CA
VA
MD
DC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$546k · 14 repeat orgs$82k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
14

Total granted

$546k
$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+8%

Still filing today

71%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthInternationalHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TA
    THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
    6× · 2017–2025 · $109k · revenue +45%
  • CS
    Chicago Symphony Orchestra
    7× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +58%
  • TC
    THE CHINATI FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +104%

Funded once

  • UC
    UROLOGY CARE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +36%
  • RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +8%
  • OW
    Operation Walk Chicago
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Chicago Opera Theater

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.

Arts & Culture
2
Chicago Sinfonietta Inc

Chicago Sinfonietta is a professional orchestra dedicated to modeling and promoting diversity, inclusion, and both racial and cultural equity in the arts through the universal language of symphonic music. Our core values are built around…

Arts & Culture
3
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
4
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
5
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
6
Music Institute of Chicago

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.

Arts & Culture
7
Chicago Art Department

Cultivates new and emerging Chicago artists, and aims to benefit artists by exploring art and learning. Through exhibitions, artist residencies, classes/workshops and community building, we are dedicated to cultivating new voices, ideas,…

Arts & Culture
8
Chicago Historical Society

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Design Museum of Chicago

The Design Museum of Chicago strives to inspire, educate and innovate through design. As a resource for the Chicago design community and beyond, the museum facilitates an open dialogue about contemporary and historical design through…

Arts & Culture
10
The Chicago High School for the Arts

The chicago high school for the arts (chiarts) develops the next generation of diverse, artistically promising scholar-artists through intensive pre-professional training in the arts, combined with a comprehensive college preparatory…

Education
11
Chamber Opera of Chicago
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12
Lyric Opera of Chicago

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Shakespeare Theater; the most unlike its peers is Surge for Water Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 34 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
15/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER: $210,000 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATERChicago Symphony Orchestra: $80,000 · Arts & CultureChicago Symphony OrchestraTHE CHINATI FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CHINATI FOUNDATION+4 more: $6,200 · Arts & CultureTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $108,619 · EducationTHE ART INSTITUTE OF C…SHADY HILL SCHOOL: $11,000 · EducationSHADY HILL SCHOOLRHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $2,000 · EducationNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL: $33,500 · OtherNATURAL RESOURCES D…ST JAMES CATHEDRAL: $20,000 · OtherST JAMES CATHEDRALFACETS: $15,000 · OtherFACETSTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $13,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVA…CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (KATINKA KLEIJN): $7,500 · OtherCHICAGO SYMPHONY OR…WBEZ: $5,000 · OtherSPEKTRAL QUARTET: $4,000 · Other+7 more: $10,000 · Other+7 moreUROLOGY CARE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · HealthPOST-FINASTERIDE SYNDROME FOUNDATION: $18,348 · HealthOperation Walk Chicago: $5,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $12,000 · InternationalSurge for Water Inc: $4,000 · InternationalLINCOLN PARK CONSERVANCY: $9,000 · Recreation & SportsElea Institute: $1,000 · Human ServicesCHICAGO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL INC: $1,000 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$331,200Education$126,619Other$108,000Health$49,348International$16,000Recreation & Sports$9,000Human Services$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER: $210,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $108,619 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Symphony Orchestra: $80,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHINATI FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetUROLOGY CARE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPOST-FINASTERIDE SYNDROME FOUNDATION: $18,348 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHADY HILL SCHOOL: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN PARK CONSERVANCY: $9,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetRHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Walk Chicago: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSurge for Water Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFacets Film Forum: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPARK DAY SCHOOL CORPORATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetElea Institute: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClassical Music Chicago: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCPS LIVES NFP: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE SOLTI FOUNDATION US CO Fiona Queen: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Chicago Community…Zell Family FoundationRichard and Mary L Gr…Ira and Janina Marks …John D and Catherine …Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…
The Chicago Community TrustIL14.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Zell Family Foundation · Richard and Mary L Gray Foundation · Ira and Janina Marks Charitable Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Anstiss and Ronald Krueck Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Anstiss and Ronald Krueck Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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