· Private foundation
The Coyle Foundation
Its FY2019 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k38 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CHRISTO REY ST MARTIN | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| UNIV OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| UNIV OF CHICAGO - BOOTH | $2,500 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $1,500 |
| SAN MIGUEL SCHOOLS | $1,500 |
| CHRISTEL HOUSE | $1,000 |
| LFLB ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SHELTERBOX USA | $1,000 |
| PADS LAKE COUNTY INC | $500 |
| CAREER RESOURCE CENTER | $500 |
| SALVATORIAN MISSION | $500 |
| MOST BLESSED TRINITY ACADEMY | $500 |
| BIG SHOULDERS FUND | $500 |
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 (FY17–19, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
40 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2019, 2 since wound down.
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 FY2019, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2019 · $5k · revenue +43%
- SUSHELTERBOX USA INC3× · 2017–2019 · $3k · revenue +147%
- CHCHRISTEL HOUSE INTERNATIONAL INC3× · 2017–2019 · $3k · revenue +96%
Funded once
- UOUNIV OF WISCONSIN FDTNone grant, 2017 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $250
- PEPROJECT EXPLORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $250 · revenue +193%
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.
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
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…
Provide post-secondary education leading to a baccalaureate degree. Program service expenditures are made in conjunction with the operation of a liberal arts college spread over 107 acres with approximately 63 educational and support…
Lake forest academy strives to embody in its practices - and to cultivate in its students -excellence of character, scholarship, citizenship, and responsibility.
To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.
To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.
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…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.
Lakeshore community health care provides access to comprehensive, integrated health care, regardless of ability to pay, eliminating health disparities among the underserved.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Lake County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Project Exploration. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% 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 15% 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.
17 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. 17 of the 49 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 UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHELTERBOX USA INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTEL HOUSE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Big Shoulders Fund ↗
- Who funds CAREER RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PADS Lake County Inc ↗
- Who funds LAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Providence St Mel School ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF LAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Mothers Trust Foundation ↗
- Who funds HEARTS IN MOTION ↗
- Who funds The CROYA Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LAND CONNECTION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROBERT R MCCORMICK FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · AbbVie Foundation · John Marshall Family Foundation · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · Helen V Brach Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Circle of Service Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation
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 Coyle Foundation 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.
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.