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The FJK Private 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 $10k16 grants · $75k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $320k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $405k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BY THE HAND CLUB FOR KIDS | $100,000 |
| MISERICORDIA HOME | $100,000 |
| WESTERN DUPAGE SPECIAL RECREATION ASSOCIATION FOUN | $85,000 |
| NORTHWEST COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $69,000 |
| CLEARBROOK | $51,000 |
| THE HAP FOUNDATION INC | $40,000 |
| PARTNERS FOR OUR COMMUNITIES | $30,000 |
| CHILDRENS PERFORMING ARTS | $30,000 |
| MARKLUND CHILDRENS HOME | $25,000 |
| JEFFREY PRIDE FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| PHILEMON HOUSE | $20,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN | $20,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $10,000 |
| BRIGHT PROMISE | $10,000 |
| CHRISTUS VICTOR LUTHERAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 85% 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 +52% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 6 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
- MHMISERICORDIA HOME8× · 2017–2024 · $800k · revenue +76%
- BTBy The Hand Club For Kids8× · 2017–2024 · $800k · revenue +54%
- CCLEARBROOK8× · 2017–2024 · $622k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- TPTRINITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $20k
- MZMINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +82%
- GBGREEN BERET ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2017 · $20k
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.
Provide community-based residential housing to adults with autism and/or severe developmental disabilities. also provide developmental training and other supports to this same population.
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…
It is the mission of sinnissippi centers, inc. to provide quality, coordinated and responsive behavioral healthcare services to individuals, families and the communities we serve.
The mission of easter seals is to increase independence, maximize opportunities, minimize barriers, and enhance the quality of life for children and adults with disabilities, those with special needs and thier families through direct…
The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…
Infant welfare society of chicago (iws) (d/b/a iws family health) provides quality medical, dental and behavioral health services for the health, physical and mental development of children and their families in the chicagoland community.
The mission of advocate health care is to serve the health needs of individuals, families and communities through a wholistic philosophy rooted in our fundamental understanding of human beings as created in the image of god.
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
To provide residential and rehabilitation services to clients with mental illnesses
The aids foundation of chicago mobilizes communities to create equity and justice for people living with and vulnerable to hiv and related chronic disease.
Strengthening the community by providing behavioral health, healthcare and social services to all ages, faiths and backgrounds.
Living Well Disability Services transforms the lives of people impacted by disabilities through the delivery of exceptional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shelter Inc and the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 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 38 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
62 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. 62 of the 82 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 MISERICORDIA HOME ↗
- Who funds By The Hand Club For Kids ↗
- Who funds CLEARBROOK ↗
- Who funds Northwest Community Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation) ↗
- Who funds WESTERN DUPAGE SRA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds MARKLUND CHILDRENS HOME ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR OUR COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds SBAC EMPOWERMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KENNETH YOUNG CENTER ↗
- Who funds JONAHRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VETERANS FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL FORCES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PHILEMON HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Almost Home Kids ↗
- Who funds HOOVED ANIMAL RESCUE & PROTECTION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds EMMAUS CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL-ST LOUIS AKA SET FREE ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT PROMISE ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR PALATINE ST JOSEPHS HOME FOR THE ELDERLY ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST CULTURAL COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds JEFFREY PRIDE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL FORCES SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds ROSELLE HISTORICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ECS Ministries ↗
- Who funds ELDERWERKS EDUCATIONAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL ARCHDIOCESE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROBERT IRVINE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SUPPORT OUR TROOPS - AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds DUPAGE PADS INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL 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: AbbVie Foundation · The Dupage Community Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Rotary Club of Palatine Foundation · John Marshall Family Foundation · Foglia Family Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Motorola Solutions Foundation · Northwest Community Hospital · Baxter International Foundation · Synchrony 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 FJK Private 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% 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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