· Private foundation
The Egerter 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k31 grants · $518k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO | $25,000 |
| CARA PROGRAM | $20,000 |
| THE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP | $20,000 |
| ALLIES FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESS INC | $20,000 |
| DANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $20,000 |
| REFUGEEONE | $20,000 |
| LAWNDALE EDUCATIONAL AND REGIONAL NETWORK CHARTER | $20,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC | $20,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO | $20,000 |
| ROGER BALDWIN FOUNDATION OF ACLU INC | $20,000 |
| INFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF CHICAGO | $20,000 |
| WETA | $20,000 |
| BUILD INCORPORATED | $20,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO INC | $20,000 |
| GENESYS WORKS | $20,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $281k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% 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.
72 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 9 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $108k 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
- BIBUILD INC5× · 2021–2025 · $62k · revenue +151%
- BUBREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC4× · 2022–2025 · $61k · revenue +48%
- DMDANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND5× · 2021–2025 · $60k · revenue +31%
Funded once
CARE FOR REALgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +28%- MHMERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONTgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +42%
- TTTHE THRESHOLDSgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +35%
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.
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…
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 chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
Chh honors every person's right to a home and health care, by bridging the housing and health care systems, to improve the lives of chicagoans experiencing homelessness.
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…
The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…
Thrive chicago's mission is to prepare chicago's youth for a vibrant future by aligning efforts and outcomes from cradle to career.
To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.
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…
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…
To achieve parity in economic opportunity for people of color by advancing multiracial leadership in corporate governance, expanding the talent pipline for executive-level management, and growing minority businesses.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evidence Action and the most unlike its peers is Working Bikes. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 37 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
110 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. 110 of the 122 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
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.
- Who funds Lawndale Educational and Regional Network Charter School ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds BUILD INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds DANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds REFUGEEONE ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds INFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds ALLIES FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESS INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds The Cara Program ↗
- Who funds THE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP ↗
- Who funds BERNIE'S BOOK BANK ↗
- Who funds URBAN INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds THE ROGER BALDWIN FOUNDATION OF ACLU INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTOPHER HOUSE ↗
- Who funds The Resurrection Project ↗
- Who funds GROWING HOME INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NOURISHING HOPE ↗
- Who funds JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH LAWNDALE EMPLOYMENT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Family Focus ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES SOCCER FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood of Illinois ↗
- Who funds Horizons for Youth ↗
- Who funds Youth Guidance ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Inspiration Corporation ↗
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: The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · AbbVie Foundation · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation · North Shore Exchange Nfp · Blowitz-Ridgeway 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 Egerter 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
- 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.