· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO | $75,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS | $75,000 |
| MILKEN INSTITUTE | $72,500 |
| MIDWEST ACADEMY INC | $50,000 |
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 (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 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 +38% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.
79 repeat relationships: 53 still active in FY2024, 26 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
How this is measured
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
- CCCEL Charitable Fund Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $3.8M · revenue +128%
- FCFIDELITY CHARITABLE FUND JESSICA AND DOMINIC GREEN FAMILY FUNDone grant, 2023 · $3.8M
- FCFIDELITY CHARITABLE FUND KIMBERLY T DUCHOSSOIS DONOR ADVISED FUNDone grant, 2023 · $3.8M
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 organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
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…
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How this is measured
151 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. 151 of the 210 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds CEL Charitable Fund Inc ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Duchossois Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Duchossois Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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