· Private foundation
The Christopher L & M Susan Gust Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k10 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $275k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $655k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST IGNATIUS COLLEGE PREP | $525,000 |
| TEAM IMPACT | $300,000 |
| CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION | $265,529 |
| MISSION OF OUR LADY OF ANGELS CHURCH | $164,539 |
| SHIRLEY RYAN ABILITYLAB (FKA REHAB INSTIUTE OF CHICAGO) | $138,040 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $100,000 |
| CHICAGO MISSION HOCKEY | $52,500 |
| THE NIGHT MINISTRY | $50,000 |
| NOURISHING HOPE (FKA LAKEVIEW FOOD PANTRY) | $50,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL SPORTS CORP | $50,000 |
| USA HOCKEY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| HAVE DREAMS | $25,000 |
| ROLFE PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT REFUGEE RIGHTS | $25,000 |
| CHICAGO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS | $20,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $526k) 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 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 +28% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.
68 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 45 since wound down; 14 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $301k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RIRehabilitation Institute of Chicago8× · 2017–2024 · $4.9M · revenue +31%
- UOUniversity of Michigan7× · 2018–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +195% · 93% of their budget
- TITEAM IMPACT INC7× · 2017–2025 · $580k · revenue +181%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $25k
- VGVISTA GRANDE VILLAone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +18%
- SIST IGNATIUS HOCKEY CLUBone grant, 2021 · $13k
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 chicago bar foundation brings the legal community together through advocacy, funding, and innovation to improve access to justice for people in need and to make the legal system more fair, equitable, and effective.
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…
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…
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
Chh honors every person's right to a home and health care, by bridging the housing and health care systems, to improve the lives of chicagoans experiencing homelessness.
To achieve parity in economic opportunity for people of color by advancing multiracial leadership in corporate governance, expanding the talent pipline for executive-level management, and growing minority businesses.
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
At legal aid chicago, we work together to provide high quality civil legal aid to people living in poverty and other vulnerable groups.through advocacy, education, collaboration, and litigation we empower individuals, protect fundamental…
Volunteers of america of illinois partners with the people we serve to create transformational and lasting change in their lives through programs that support, empower, and transform.
The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…
How this is measured
47 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. 47 of the 121 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.
- Who funds Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds TEAM IMPACT INC ↗
- Who funds CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds ASPIRITECH NFP ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds HAVE DREAMS ↗
- Who funds Intentional Sports ↗
- Who funds OPTIONS FOR COLLEGE SUCCESS ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO JETS HOCKEY CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Michael Rolfe Pancreatic Cancer Foundation ↗
- Who funds NORTH CHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEPHZIBAH CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO MUDCATS SPORTS & SOCIAL CLUB ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds HAITI NURSING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO MISSION AAA HOCKEY CLUB ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds USA HOCKEY 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: AbbVie Foundation · Baxter International Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Circle of Service Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Fred J Brunner Foundation · WP & HB White Foundation · Cme Group Community Foundation F/K/A Nymex Foundation · The Coleman Foundation Inc · Helen V Brach Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Motorola Solutions Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Christopher L & M Susan Gust Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Christopher L & M Susan Gust Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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