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The Edward and Lucy Minor Family Foundation at a glance

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The Edward and Lucy Minor Family 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.

$182k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Civil Rights$237kArts & Culture$219kHealth$121kEducation$102kEnvironment$66kReligion$40kPhilanthropy$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $125k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION - ROGER BALDWIN FDTN$50,000
RUSH UNIVERSITY$30,000
CHICAGO SCHOLARS FOUNDATION$15,000
CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION$10,000
DWIGHT ENGLEWOOD SCHOOL$10,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$10,000
THE NEW SHUL$10,000
626 LANDMARK FOUNDATION$10,000
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND$10,000
NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL$10,000
NATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER$10,000
Individual grant recipient$4,070
LOU MALNATI CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION$2,500
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, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.

area typical 11%SELF HELP HOME: $500 → 14%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

IL
MI
NY
MA
NJ
CA
CO
DC
AL
TX
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$720k · 26 repeat orgs$153k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
29

Total granted

$720k
$133k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+12%

Still filing today

69%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHealthInternationalAnimalsOther
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

  • RU
    Rush University Medical Center
    3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +4%
  • RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $60k · revenue +251%
  • TC
    THE CHICAGO SCHOLARS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2025 · $47k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +34%
  • WR
    Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
Columbia College Chicago

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

Education
2
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
3
The Adler Planetarium

The adler planetarium ('adler') is a not-for-profit cultural institution whose mission is to connect people to the universe and each other under the sky we all share. it aspires to be the world's premier center for engaging in astronomy…

Arts & Culture
4
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
5
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
6
Chicago Theatre Group Inc

The chicago theatre group is committed to producing both classic and contemporary works giving full voice to a wide range of artists and visions. by dedicating itself to three guiding principles - quality, equity, and community - the…

Arts & Culture
7
Lookingglass Theatre Company

Lookingglass theatre company is a national leader in the creation and presentation of innovative, cutting-edge theatrical work. lookingglass interweaves movement, circus arts and narrative in original and captivating ways. guided by an…

Arts & Culture
8
University of Chicago

The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.

Education
9
Lyric Opera of Chicago

We believe in the life-changing, transformational, revelatory power of great art and opera. Lyric Opera of Chicago exists to provide a broad, deep, and relevant cultural service to the Chicago region and the nation, and to advance the…

Arts & Culture
10
True Chicago
Arts & Culture
11
Chicago Shakespeare Theater

To create vivid, entertaining theatrical experiences that invigorate and engage people of all ages and identities by illuminating the complexity, ambiguity, and wonder of our world. shared humanity and unforgettable stories - now this is…

Arts & Culture
12
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Horticultural Society; the most unlike its peers is Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project. 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

38 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. 38 of the 58 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/38
Grantees still filing
30/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION - ROGER BALDWIN FDTN: $151,416 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION - ROGER BALDWIN FDTNTHE NEW SHUL: $40,000 · OtherTHE NEW SHULAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF ILLINOIS: $35,834 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF ILLINOISIndividual grant recipient: $29,720 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MUSEUM: $20,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WOMEN'S BOARD: $15,000 · OtherWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $15,000 · Other+26 more: $106,420 · Other+26 moreRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $60,050 · Arts & CultureRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCI…THE JOFFREY BALLET: $46,400 · Arts & CultureTHE JOFFREY BALLET626 LANDMARK FOUNDATION: $23,500 · Arts & Culture626 LANDMARK FOUNDATIONNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $15,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FE…BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE: $10,000 · Arts & CultureBERKELEY REPERTORY THEA…Writers Theatre Inc: $8,500 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $19,050 · Arts & Culture+5 moreRush University Medical Center: $75,000 · HealthRush Univers…Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project: $15,000 · HealthWomen's Repr…NATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthNATIONAL BRE…THE CHICAGO SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $47,000 · EducationTHE CHICA…DWIGHT-ENGLEWOOD SCHOOL: $15,000 · EducationDWIGHT-EN…CHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $7,500 · EducationCHICAGO P…THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $2,875 · Education+1 more: $100 · EducationWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $30,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $25,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $10,000 · Environment+1 more: $1,000 · EnvironmentANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $25,000 · Civil RightsUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $20,000 · Philanthropy
Other$413,390Arts & Culture$182,500Health$100,000Education$72,475Environment$66,000Civil Rights$25,000Philanthropy$20,000

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 budgetRush University Medical Center: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $60,050 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHICAGO SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $47,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE JOFFREY BALLET: $46,400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF ILLINOIS: $35,834 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget626 LANDMARK FOUNDATION: $23,500 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDWIGHT-ENGLEWOOD SCHOOL: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWomen's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDR SUSAN LOVE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWriters Theatre Inc: $8,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TIME IN CHILDRENS ARTS INITIATIVE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORWARD MOMENTUM CHICAGO: $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $2,875 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Foundation for Education: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Chicago Chamber Music Society: $1,270 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetPAWS CHICAGO: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE THRESHOLDS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SELFHELP HOME INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Humanities Festival: $50 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…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Lloyd a Fry FoundationNational Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Chicago Community TrustIL15× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Edward and Lucy Minor Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Edward and Lucy Minor Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.

    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 58 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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