· Private foundation
The Fogelson Foundation
Its FY2022 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 FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k12 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $90k
- $250k+1 grant · $2.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED | $2,490,251 |
| CLEARBROOK | $25,000 |
| THE FOUNDATION FOR PALM SPRINGS | $25,000 |
| THE ARTISTS COUNCIL | $15,000 |
| UNITED JEWISH APPEAL | $15,000 |
| MAOT CHITIM OF GREATER CHICAGO | $10,000 |
| COACHELLA VALLEY REPERTORY | $5,000 |
| PROJECT SYNCERE | $5,000 |
| THE EMBER FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| INTONATION MUSIC WORKSHOP | $5,000 |
| CHINESE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF CHICAGO | $2,500 |
| COALITION FOR A BETTER CHINESE | $2,500 |
| SHALVA | $1,500 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| NOSTIGMAS | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–22, $520k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
44 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2022, 34 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.5M 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
- DHDAP Health Inc4× · 2017–2021 · $302k · revenue +632%
- CCLEARBROOK6× · 2017–2022 · $226k · revenue +97%
- PSPALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM4× · 2017–2020 · $172k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- EMEisenhower Medical Centergraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +66%
- CCOACHELLAone grant, 2019 · $20k
- KFKITCHENS FOR GOODgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +105%
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.
The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.
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.
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.
Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…
The chicago high school for the arts (chiarts) develops the next generation of diverse, artistically promising scholar-artists through intensive pre-professional training in the arts, combined with a comprehensive college preparatory…
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 Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.
Steadfast in jesus christ as revealed in the holy scriptures, concordia university chicago promotes academic rigor in its liberal arts and professional programs; grounds students in objective truth, integrity, and excellence; and practices…
Chicago scholars is transforming the leadership landscape of our city by resolving the fundamental barriers to success for academically driven, first generation college students from under-resourced communities.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kipp Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Csc Foundation. 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 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 16% 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.
61 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. 61 of the 97 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 DAP Health Inc ↗
- Who funds CLEARBROOK ↗
- Who funds PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE DESERT ↗
- Who funds Resurrection University ↗
- Who funds Jewish Child and Family Services ↗
- Who funds Roosevelt University ↗
- Who funds INTONATION MUSIC WORKSHOP ↗
- Who funds BERNARD ZELL ANSHE EMET DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PRESENCE HEALTH FOUNDATION BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds Artists Council ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY ↗
- Who funds KIPP CHICAGO SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds MAOT CHITIM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds ONE MILLION DEGREES ↗
- Who funds Illinois Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds Columbia College Chicago ↗
- Who funds KIPP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WE CONNECT THE DOTS INC ↗
- Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
- Who funds THE EMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NoStigmas ↗
- Who funds KITCHENS FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds MATH CIRCLES OF CHICAGO ↗
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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 · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Circle of Service Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Arkes Family Foundation · Jarvis Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Fogelson 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.
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.