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The Egerter Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$591k
Granted FY2025still arriving
48
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$504kYouth Development$335kEmployment$192kHealth$190kHousing & Shelter$185kReligion$121kHuman Services$118kPublic Safety & Disaster$81kOther$0
02FY2025 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $73k
  • $10k–50k31 grants · $518k
$15,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO$25,000
CARA PROGRAM$20,000
WETA$20,000
BIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO$20,000
ROGER BALDWIN FOUNDATION OF ACLU INC$20,000
BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC$20,000
INFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF CHICAGO$20,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO INC$20,000
YOUTH GUIDANCE$20,000
THE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP$20,000
LAWNDALE EDUCATIONAL AND REGIONAL NETWORK CHARTER$20,000
ALLIES FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESS INC$20,000
BUILD INCORPORATED$20,000
DANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND$20,000
REFUGEEONE$20,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $500 → 8%THE BEACON PLACE NFP: $500 → 8%JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 14%JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 14%SUNFLOWER OF PEACE: $500 → 8%JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $8k → 14%JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $6k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $8k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $5k → 14%INSPIRATION CORPORATION: $7k → 14%INSPIRATION CORPORATION: $7k → 14%FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS: $4k → 14%INSPIRATION CORPORATION: $5k → 14%FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS: $4k → 14%CARE FOR REAL: $5k → 14%CAROLE ROBERTSON CENTER FOR LEARNING: $750 → 14%INSPIRATION CORPORATION: $1k → 14%BETWEEN FRIENDS: $4k → 14%CHRISTOPHER HOUSE: $15k → 14%CHRISTOPHER HOUSE: $10k → 14%CHRISTOPHER HOUSE: $10k → 14%CHRISTOPHER HOUSE: $8k → 14%GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC: $1k → 14%GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC: $1k → 14%URBAN INITIATIVES INC: $15k → 14%URBAN INITIATIVES INC: $15k → 14%URBAN INITIATIVES INC: $10k → 14%URBAN INITIATIVES INC: $7k → 14%URBAN INITIATIVES INC: $1k → 14%FAMILY FOCUS: $8k → 14%FAMILY FOCUS: $8k → 14%FAMILY FOCUS: $6k → 14%FAMILY FOCUS: $5k → 14%A BETTER CHICAGO: $2k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT: $15k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT: $13k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT: $8k → 14%IGNITE ORG: $3k → 14%IGNITE ORG: $2k → 14%BETWEEN FRIENDS: $5k → 14%BETWEEN FRIENDS: $5k → 14%BETWEEN FRIENDS: $5k → 14%THE HARBOUR INC: $4k → 14%THE HARBOUR INC: $3k → 14%CHICAGO FURNITURE BANK INC: $1k → 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
WY
OH
PA
CT
CA
VA
MD
NC
DC
AL
GA
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 72 repeat orgs$159k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

72
36

Total granted

$1.8M
$52k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+21%

Still filing today

92%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $108k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthInternationalYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • BI
    BUILD INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $62k · revenue +151%
  • BU
    BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $61k · revenue +48%
  • DM
    DANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    5× · 2021–2025 · $60k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • CARE FOR REALgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +28%
  • MH
    MERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONTgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +42%
  • TT
    THE THRESHOLDSgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +35%
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
Junior Achievement of Chicago

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy

International
2
Alternatives Inc

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…

Health
3
Chicago Public Education Fund

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.

Education
4
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.

Social Science
5
Center for Housing and Health

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.

Housing & Shelter
6
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

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…

Health
7
Kipp Chicago Schools

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…

Education
8
Thrive Chicago Nfp

Thrive chicago's mission is to prepare chicago's youth for a vibrant future by aligning efforts and outcomes from cradle to career.

Human Services
9
The University of Chicago Charter School Corporation

To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.

Education
10
National Opinion Research Center

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…

Social Science
11
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
12
Chicago United

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.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evidence Action; 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.
04the grantee network

110 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. 110 of the 122 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
110/110
Grantees still filing
70/110
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO: $68,000 · OtherCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGOGENESYS WORKS: $63,500 · OtherGENESYS WORKSBUILD INC: $61,700 · OtherBUILD INCBREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC: $60,500 · OtherBREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INCDANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $60,275 · OtherDANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUNDINFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF CHICAGO: $54,500 · OtherINFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF CHICAGOBIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $52,500 · OtherTHE ROGER BALDWIN FOUNDATION OF ACLU INC: $47,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $61,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLEREFUGEEONE: $59,500 · OtherREFUGEEONEALLIES FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESS INC: $53,000 · Other+50 more: $369,010 · Other+50 moreLawndale Educational and Regional Network Charter School: $92,500 · EducationLawndale Educati…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $75,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRU…DUKE UNIVERSITY: $35,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYWEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationWEST CHESTER UNI…Youth Guidance: $20,000 · EducationYouth GuidanceEVANSTON SCHOLARS: $18,000 · EducationEVANSTON SCHOLAR…THE CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: $12,000 · EducationPRIMO CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN: $10,750 · Education+6 more: $20,100 · Education+6 moreURBAN INITIATIVES INC: $47,500 · Human ServicesURBAN INITIATIV…CHRISTOPHER HOUSE: $43,000 · Human ServicesCHRISTOPHER HOU…NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $35,500 · Human ServicesNORTHWESTERN UN…JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $33,000 · Human ServicesJUVENILE PROTEC…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $27,500 · Human ServicesAmerican Nation…Family Focus: $25,500 · Human ServicesFamily FocusInspiration Corporation: $20,000 · Human ServicesInspiration Cor…BETWEEN FRIENDS: $18,750 · Human ServicesBETWEEN FRIENDS+12 more: $30,250 · Human Services+12 moreBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO: $58,000 · Youth DevelopmentBERNIE'S BOOK BANK: $48,500 · Youth DevelopmentHorizons for Youth: $20,500 · Youth DevelopmentThe Doug Coombs Foundation: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentRole Model Movement Inc (NFP): $8,500 · Youth Development+2 more: $5,750 · Youth DevelopmentTHE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP: $50,500 · HealthPlanned Parenthood of Illinois: $24,500 · HealthA SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION: $18,000 · HealthTETON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $10,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $9,000 · HealthFenix Family Health Center: $7,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $6,000 · Health+4 more: $5,000 · HealthThe Cara Program: $52,500 · EmploymentGROWING HOME INC: $42,500 · EmploymentNORTH LAWNDALE EMPLOYMENT NETWORK: $33,000 · EmploymentHABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHICAGO: $47,000 · Housing & ShelterThe Resurrection Project: $43,000 · Housing & ShelterMERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT: $4,000 · Housing & ShelterDEBORAH'S PLACE: $3,750 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN INC: $3,500 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,010,985Education$313,350Human Services$281,000Youth Development$156,250Health$130,000Employment$128,000Housing & Shelter$101,750

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 budgetLawndale Educational and Regional Network Charter School: $92,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $75,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO: $68,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBUILD INC: $61,700 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $61,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC: $60,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $60,275 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetREFUGEEONE: $59,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO: $58,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetINFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF CHICAGO: $54,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetALLIES FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESS INC: $53,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $52,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe Cara Program: $52,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP: $50,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBERNIE'S BOOK BANK: $48,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetURBAN INITIATIVES INC: $47,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHICAGO: $47,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ROGER BALDWIN FOUNDATION OF ACLU INC: $47,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe Resurrection Project: $43,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTOPHER HOUSE: $43,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGROWING HOME INC: $42,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $35,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNOURISHING HOPE: $33,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $33,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNORTH LAWNDALE EMPLOYMENT NETWORK: $33,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $27,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $27,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Focus: $25,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES SOCCER FEDERATION: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Illinois: $24,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHorizons for Youth: $20,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetYouth Guidance: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInspiration Corporation: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBETWEEN FRIENDS: $18,750 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetA SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEVANSTON SCHOLARS: $18,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC: $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Doug Coombs Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRIMO CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN: $10,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTETON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% 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…United Way of Metropo…Arie and Ida Crown Me…Polk Bros Foundation …Circle of Service Fou…Robert R McCormick Fo…George M Eisenberg Fo…Jewish Federation of …AbbVie FoundationFifth Third Chicagola…North Shore Exchange …Blowitz-Ridgeway Foun…
The Chicago Community TrustIL53.4× affinity44 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Egerter Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Egerter Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
35report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 122 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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