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The Fogelson Foundation at a glance

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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.

$2.6M
Granted FY2022
18
Grants FY2022
4
States reached
$2.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Philanthropy$2.6MEducation$709kHealth$699kArts & Culture$330kHuman Services$295kFood & Nutrition$86kReligion$62kRecreation & Sports$32kOther$0
02FY2022 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k12 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $90k
  • $250k+1 grant · $2.5M
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIDELITY CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED$2,490,251
THE FOUNDATION FOR PALM SPRINGS$25,000
CLEARBROOK$25,000
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL$15,000
THE ARTISTS COUNCIL$15,000
MAOT CHITIM OF GREATER CHICAGO$10,000
INTONATION MUSIC WORKSHOP$5,000
COACHELLA VALLEY REPERTORY$5,000
PROJECT SYNCERE$5,000
THE EMBER FOUNDATION$5,000
COALITION FOR A BETTER CHINESE$2,500
CHINESE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF CHICAGO$2,500
NOSTIGMAS$1,500
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY$1,500
SHALVA$1,500
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE DESERT: $75k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE DESERT: $51k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE DESERT: $28k → 11%THE VOICES AND FACES PROJECT: $2k → 14%CLEARBROOK: $80k → 14%CLEARBROOK: $50k → 14%CLEARBROOK: $26k → 14%CLEARBROOK: $25k → 14%CLEARBROOK: $25k → 14%CLEARBROOK: $20k → 14%JEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $61k → 14%JEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $13k → 14%JEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 14%JEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 14%JEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 14%LITTLE CITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%SHALVA: $2k → 14%CJE SENIOR LIFE: $20k → 14%SHALVA: $1k → 14%CJE SENIOR LIFE: $10k → 14%COUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY: $10k → 14%SHALVA: $360 → 14%CJE SENIOR LIFE: $10k → 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
WI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
DC
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.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 44 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
43

Total granted

$2.3M
$172k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+43%

Still filing today

73%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyReligionOther
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

  • DH
    DAP Health Inc
    4× · 2017–2021 · $302k · revenue +632%
  • C
    CLEARBROOK
    6× · 2017–2022 · $226k · revenue +97%
  • PS
    PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM
    4× · 2017–2020 · $172k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • EM
    Eisenhower Medical Centergraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +66%
  • C
    COACHELLA
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • KF
    KITCHENS FOR GOODgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +105%
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
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

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.

Education
2
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
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
University of Chicago Medical Center

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…

Health
6
The Chicago High School for the Arts

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…

Education
7
Saint Xavier University

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…

Education
8
The Chicago School - California Inc

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.

—
9
Concordia University Chicago

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…

Education
10
The Chicago Scholars Foundation

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.

Education
11
University of Miami

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

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kipp Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

61 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. 61 of the 97 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/61
Grantees still filing
47/61
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDELITY CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED: $2,490,251 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISEDPALM SPRINGS SCHOOL DISTRICT: $180,000 · OtherPALM SPRINGS SCHOOL DISTRICT+54 more: $650,687 · Other+54 moreCLEARBROOK: $225,500 · Human ServicesCLEARBROOKJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE DESERT: $153,500 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMI…Jewish Child and Family Services: $81,800 · Human ServicesJewish Chil…COUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY: $50,000 · Human ServicesCOUNCIL FOR…+3 more: $9,560 · Human ServicesResurrection University: $102,500 · EducationResurrect…BERNARD ZELL ANSHE EMET DAY SCHOOL: $59,000 · EducationBERNARD Z…KIPP CHICAGO SCHOOLS: $47,500 · EducationKIPP CHIC…Illinois Institute of Technology: $45,000 · EducationIllinois …ONE MILLION DEGREES: $45,000 · EducationONE MILLI…Columbia College Chicago: $36,500 · EducationColumbia …KIPP FOUNDATION: $35,000 · EducationKIPP FOUN…WE CONNECT THE DOTS INC: $26,000 · EducationWE CONNEC…+9 more: $40,000 · Education+9 moreDAP Health Inc: $302,200 · HealthEisenhower Medical Center: $25,000 · HealthNoStigmas: $16,500 · Health+3 more: $12,250 · HealthPALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM: $172,079 · Arts & CultureINTONATION MUSIC WORKSHOP: $62,500 · Arts & CultureArtists Council: $55,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $12,100 · Arts & CultureMAOT CHITIM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC: $45,000 · Food & NutritionTHE EMBER FOUNDATION: $19,500 · ReligionFAITH IN PLACE: $8,500 · Religion
Other$3,320,938Human Services$520,360Education$436,500Health$355,950Arts & Culture$301,679Food & Nutrition$45,000Religion$28,000

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 budgetDAP Health Inc: $302,200 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCLEARBROOK: $225,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM: $172,079 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE DESERT: $153,500 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetResurrection University: $102,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Child and Family Services: $81,800 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRoosevelt University: $64,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINTONATION MUSIC WORKSHOP: $62,500 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetBERNARD ZELL ANSHE EMET DAY SCHOOL: $59,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPRESENCE HEALTH FOUNDATION BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $57,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetArtists Council: $55,000 over 2y, 34% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKIPP CHICAGO SCHOOLS: $47,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIllinois Institute of Technology: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAOT CHITIM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC: $45,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetONE MILLION DEGREES: $45,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetColumbia College Chicago: $36,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKIPP FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWE CONNECT THE DOTS INC: $26,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EMBER FOUNDATION: $19,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetNoStigmas: $16,500 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKITCHENS FOR GOOD: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE DELTA INSTITUTE: $13,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNorthwestern University: $11,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPILOT LIGHT: $11,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetThe Innovation Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPalm Springs Cultural Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDESERT ARC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVocel Viewing our Children as Emerging Leaders: $9,975 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetFAITH IN PLACE: $8,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLITTLE CITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRANCHO MIRAGE WRITERS FESTIVAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT SYNCERE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOACHELLA VALLEY REPERTORY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION: $4,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetIMPACT GRANTS CHICAGO: $4,300 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarwen Foundation Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHALVA INC: $3,060 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLINK Unlimited Scholars: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUS GIORDANO'S JAZZ DANCE CHICAGO INC D/B/A GIORDANO DANCE CHICAGO: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORKING IN THE SCHOOLS INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG CHICAGO AUTHORS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • 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 Illinois Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds MAOT CHITIM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC ↗
  • Who funds ONE MILLION DEGREES ↗
  • 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds KITCHENS FOR GOOD ↗
  • Who funds MATH CIRCLES OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds THE DELTA INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds PILOT LIGHT ↗
  • Who funds The Innovation Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗

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…Jewish Federation of …Polk Bros Foundation …John D and Catherine …Milwaukee Jewish Fede…Lloyd a Fry FoundationArie and Ida Crown Me…Circle of Service Fou…United Way of Metropo…Arkes Family Foundati…Jarvis FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…
The Chicago Community TrustIL36.9× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    23report 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 97 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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