· Private foundation
The Arrington 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| McGraw YMCA | $10,000 |
| Northwestern University Feinberg School Of Medicine | $7,000 |
| St Mark's Episcopal Church | $6,500 |
| Round Canopy Parachutibng Team - USA Foundation Inc | $5,000 |
| Evanston Township High School | $3,550 |
| Chicago Symphony Orchestra | $3,242 |
| Kuumba Evanston | $2,500 |
| Chief Executives Organization | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Evanston 4th of July Association | $1,000 |
| Evanston Historical Society | $1,000 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Chicago - Pedersen McCormick Club | $1,000 |
| Evanston Township High School | $1,000 |
| Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $22k) 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 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 +70% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 10 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, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
University of Illinois Foundation2× · 2022–2023 · $40k · revenue +70%- CSChicago Symphony Orchestra9× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +58%
- FOFRIENDS OF PRENTICE5× · 2017–2022 · $23k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $11k
- BNBEAR NECESSITIES PEDIATRIC CANCERone grant, 2019 · $8k
- ETEVANSTON TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT 202 ED FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue +798%
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.
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The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
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How this is measured
33 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. 33 of the 59 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.
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- Who funds THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds EVANSTON TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT 202 ED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds Round Canopy Parachuting Team - USA Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds EQUITY & EMPOWERMENT FOR EVANSTON FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds NORTHLIGHT THEATRE INC ↗
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- Who funds Mudlark Theater Company NFP ↗
- Who funds CHIEF EXECUTIVES ORGANIZATION INC ↗
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- Who funds CLEARBROOK ↗
- Who funds The Economic Club of Chicago ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
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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: The Chicago Community Trust · Evanston Community Foundation · Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation · Northwestern University · Elizabeth Beidler Tisdahl Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Arrington Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Arrington Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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