· Private foundation
The Darrell R Windle and David a Samber Charitable Fund
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 $10k58 grants · $124k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $102k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRANCHES | $35,000 |
| AUDITORIUM THEATRE | $20,820 |
| HOWARD BROWN HEALTH CENTER | $17,000 |
| ST JAMES FOOD PANTRY | $16,190 |
| Individual grant recipient | $13,166 |
| ACLU | $7,000 |
| SAINT JAMES CHURCH | $6,139 |
| Tutoring Chicago | $6,000 |
| EQUALITY FLORIDA | $6,000 |
| FORRESTVILLE EDU FOUNDATION | $5,786 |
| VARIOUS OTHER CHARITIES | $5,606 |
| WFMT | $5,438 |
| CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA-WEB | $5,360 |
| AGLO CHICAGO | $5,000 |
| Erika's Lighthouse | $5,000 |
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, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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 +22% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
68 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 21 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HBHoward Brown Health Center4× · 2022–2025 · $35k · revenue +7%
- LLLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC9× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +196%
- RIREADER INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY JOURNALISM INC5× · 2021–2025 · $21k · revenue +308%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $11k
- AFAIDS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $6k
- ACAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF ILLINOISgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +353%
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 aids foundation of chicago mobilizes communities to create equity and justice for people living with and vulnerable to hiv and related chronic disease.
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.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
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…
Npr international operations, inc. ("nprio") supports the international newsgathering activities of national public radio, inc. through bureaus and offices established locally in foreign countries.
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
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…
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…
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
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…
How this is measured
58 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. 58 of the 146 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 MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Chicago Dance Health Fund ↗
- Who funds TUTORING CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds EQUALITY ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds NIB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NOURISHING HOPE ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW RAILROAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES AND MAINTENANCE FOR THE ELDERLY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds ONE HEART UGANDA INCORPORATED ↗
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 · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Miami Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation · Walder Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Darrell R Windle and David a Samber Charitable Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Darrell R Windle and David a Samber Charitable Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- New World Symphony Inc: 0% of income from government
- South Florida Pbs Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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