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The Dr Edward S Orzac Foundation at a glance

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The Dr Edward S Orzac 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.

$15k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$58kEducation$54kPublic Benefit$7kCrime & Legal$6kReligion$5kCommunity Improvement$3kHousing & Shelter$2kHealth$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$99k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY$5,000
COOK COUNTY COLLEGE TEACHERS UNION$3,500
YES MA'AM CIRCUS$2,000
EXPERIMENTAL SOUND STUDIO$2,000
CHICAGO LATINO THEATER ALLIANCE$1,000
INTERNATIONAL WOMAN ASSOCIATES$900
CHICAGO VOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES$600
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TIDES: $3k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
PA
CA
AZ
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$88k · 9 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
20

Total granted

$88k
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+9%

Still filing today

67%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • DU
    DEPAUL UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2018–2021 · $21k · revenue +15%
  • ES
    Experimental Sound Studio
    8× · 2018–2025 · $18k · revenue +232%
  • TP
    TURNING POINT USA INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $5k · revenue +304%

Funded once

  • CS
    CHICAGO SYMPHONIC ORCHESTRA ASSOCIA
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • LO
    LYRIC OPERA
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • GC
    Greater Chicago Legal Clinic
    one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +9%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
True Chicago
Arts & Culture
2
The Chicago Innovation Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Chamber Opera of Chicago
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4
Chicago Opera Theater

Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.

Arts & Culture
5
International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago

Develop, promote and increase awareness of latino cultures among latino communities through film and video events, education and other art forms

—
6
The Richard H Driehaus Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Saint Xavier University

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…

Education
8
Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University Inc

The Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University ("The Auditorium"), an Illinois not-for-profit corporation, is committed to presenting the finest in international, cultural, community and educational programming to Chicago and to the…

Arts & Culture
9
Chicago Cultural Mile Association
—
10
Students Run Chicago
Health
11
Third Coast International Audio Festival

To cultivate a growing international culture of listening.

Arts & Culture
12
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Homes for Heroes Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 31 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
11/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COOK COUNTY COLLEGE TEACHERS UNION: $14,000 · OtherCOOK COUNTY COLLEGE TEACHERS UNIONCHICAGO SYMPHONIC ORCHESTRA ASSOCIA: $10,000 · OtherCHICAGO SYMPHONIC ORCHESTRA ASSOCIALYRIC OPERA: $10,000 · OtherLYRIC OPERAYES MAAM CIRCUS: $8,000 · OtherYES MAAM CIRCUSTURNING POINT USA INC: $4,500 · OtherTURNING POINT USA INCFEAST INCARNATE: $4,500 · OtherFEAST INCARNATEFRIENDS OF SCHURZ NFP: $3,350 · OtherCOMMUNITY MUSIC PROGRAM: $2,500 · Other+9 more: $9,800 · Other+9 moreDEPAUL UNIVERSITY: $20,500 · EducationDEPAUL UNIVERSITYLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $13,000 · EducationLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO+2 more: $1,500 · EducationExperimental Sound Studio: $18,100 · Arts & CultureExperimental Sound S…OISTRAKH SYMPHONY OF CHICAGO: $2,000 · Arts & CultureOISTRAKH SYMPHONY OF…NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MEXICAN ART FKA MEXICAN FINE ARTS CENTER MUSEUM: $2,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL MUSEUM OF M…FRACTURED ATLAS INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INCCHICAGO LATINO THEATER ALLIANCE: $1,000 · Arts & CultureGreater Chicago Legal Clinic: $3,200 · Crime & LegalHOMES FOR HEROES FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Housing & ShelterInternational Women Associates Inc: $900 · Housing & ShelterTIDES INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $2,200 · Public Benefit
Other$66,650Education$35,000Arts & Culture$25,100Crime & Legal$3,200Housing & Shelter$2,900Human Services$2,500Public Benefit$2,200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDEPAUL UNIVERSITY: $20,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetExperimental Sound Studio: $18,100 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYES MAAM CIRCUS: $8,000 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Chicago Legal Clinic: $3,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTIDES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $2,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO VOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES FOUNDATION: $2,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOMES FOR HEROES FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF MEXICAN ART FKA MEXICAN FINE ARTS CENTER MUSEUM: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKids Above All Illinois: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO LATINO THEATER ALLIANCE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetInternational Women Associates Inc: $900 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetIllinois Institute of Technology: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Chicago Community…AbbVie FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Chicago Community TrustIL14.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · AbbVie Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Dr Edward S Orzac Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dr Edward S Orzac Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to The Dr Edward S Orzac Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Dr Edward S Orzac Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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