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The Duchossois Family Foundation
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k26 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k46 grants · $858k
- $50k–250k18 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+7 grants · $3.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $1,000,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $550,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $350,000 |
| VETERAN BUSINESS PROJECT | $310,000 |
| WARRIOR-SCHOLAR PROJECT | $300,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $250,000 |
| HEAD STRONG PROJECT INC | $250,000 |
| TEAM RED WHITE & BLUE INC | $200,000 |
| SERVICE TO SCHOOL | $125,000 |
| MILKEN INSTITUTE | $97,500 |
| METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES | $75,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS | $75,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO | $75,000 |
| MILKEN INSTITUTE | $72,500 |
| ROSIE NETWORK INC | $50,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $796k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% 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 +38% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
77 repeat relationships — 53 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 22 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $753k 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
University of Chicago5× · 2019–2024 · $31M · revenue +25%
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY5× · 2019–2024 · $4.2M · revenue +78%- MFMetropolitan Family Services5× · 2019–2024 · $880k · revenue +196%
Funded once
- FCFIDELITY CHARITABLE FUND KIMBERLY T DUCHOSSOIS DONOR ADVISED FUNDone grant, 2023 · $3.8M
- FCFIDELITY CHARITABLE FUND LENCZUK FAMILY CHARITABLE FUNDone grant, 2023 · $3.8M
- FCFIDELITY CHARITABLE FUND JESSICA AND DOMINIC GREEN FAMILY FUNDone grant, 2023 · $3.8M
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.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
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The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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 mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
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 University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
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.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Aiken Horse Park Foundation. 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 35 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% 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.
151 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. 151 of the 213 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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- Who funds Metropolitan Family Services ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR-SCHOLAR PROJECT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VETERAN BUSINESS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HEAD STRONG PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM RED WHITE & BLUE INC ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLUE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds ASPIRE OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds SERVICE TO SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds AIKEN HORSE PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MILKEN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SKILLS FOR CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds BARRINGTON AREA COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds Culver Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds BIG SKY BRAVERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Robert R McCormick Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · The Canning Foundation · Foglia Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago 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 Duchossois Family 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc — 4% of income from government
- Vizcaya Museum and Gardens Trust Inc — 3% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% 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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