· Private foundation
The Caleel Foundation Inc
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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION | $90,000 |
| ICON MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $22,500 |
| MARIST HIGH SCHOOL | $12,000 |
| WESTERN GOLF ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| SAINT MICHAEL MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE CHICAGOLAND WEST | $7,500 |
| GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| ST JOSEPHINE BAKHITA CHURCH | $2,000 |
| WATER MISSION | $1,000 |
| ST DOROTHY'S CHURCH | $1,000 |
| MARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES | $500 |
| MADISON SCHOOL | $400 |
| DANCERS AGAINST CANCER | $250 |
| HINSDALE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $250 |
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 (FY20–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +28% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 9 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k 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
- FMFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY3× · 2019–2022 · $42k · revenue +28%
- TATHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO2× · 2019–2021 · $17k · revenue +23%
- ALASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF CHICAGOLAND WEST2× · 2023–2024 · $8k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- NHNORTHWESTERN HEALTHone grant, 2021 · $80k
- NHNORTHWEST HEALTHone grant, 2022 · $42k
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY INCone grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue -13%
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.
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…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
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 fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
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…
Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safe Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Icon Ministries 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 41 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 78 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
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.
- Who funds FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds CROWN POINT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ICON MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds WESTERN GOLF ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE OF MONT CO ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF CHICAGOLAND WEST ↗
- Who funds OLD TOWN ARTISAN STUDIO INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO BASEBALL CANCER CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Junior Golf Association Inc ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation of Northwest Indiana Inc ↗
- Who funds Grand Canyon University ↗
- Who funds WORKING DOGS FOR VETS ↗
- Who funds MARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST INDIANA CANCER KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ADLER PLANETARIUM ↗
- Who funds Friends of Oak Brook Public Library ↗
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.
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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 The Caleel Foundation Inc 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.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% 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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