How much does The Francis J and Patricia a Houlihan give?

The Francis J and Patricia a Houlihan reported 62 grants totaling $149,010 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 58 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Francis J and Patricia a Houlihan fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (31%), Arts & Culture (20%), Health (17%).

Who are The Francis J and Patricia a Houlihan's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Mother McAuley High School ($285k), Elgin Symphony Orchestra Association ($199k), Advocate Charitable Foundation ($55k).

Does The Francis J and Patricia a Houlihan fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Francis J and Patricia a Houlihan accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Francis J and Patricia a Houlihan?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Grace and Li Yu Family Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, Anastasia & KR Jenkins Foundation.

Where is The Francis J and Patricia a Houlihan based?

The Francis J and Patricia a Houlihan is based in IL.

The Francis J and Patricia a Houlihan

The Francis J and Patricia a Houlihan at a glance

· Private foundation

The Francis J and Patricia a Houlihan

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.

$149k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$9k

Largest

01What it funds

0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$386kArts & Culture$251kHealth$206kReligion$129kHuman Services$76kInternational$55kPhilanthropy$24kPublic Safety & Disaster$17kOther$0

02FY2025 · 62 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
TUNNEL TO THE TOWERS	$9,000
RAUE CENTER FOR THE ARTS	$7,500
ST JUDE	$7,000
SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN	$7,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR	$6,000
ANN AND ROBERT H LURIE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL	$5,000
SAMARITANS PURSE	$5,000
Individual grant recipient	$5,000
Individual grant recipient	$5,000
NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL	$5,000
BELFRY MUSIC THEATRE	$4,510
ST ANNE'S CHURCH	$4,500
FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION	$4,400
JACO BOOYENS MINISTRIES	$4,000
THE SALVATION ARMY	$4,000

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.2M · 90 repeat orgs$164k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

90 repeat relationships: 46 still active in FY2025, 44 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.2M

$135k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%

+11%

Still filing today

44%

35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CulturePublic BenefitOther

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

ES
ELGIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $199k · revenue +21%
FO
FRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA
6× · 2017–2023 · $31k · revenue +10%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
5× · 2019–2023 · $27k · revenue ×12

Funded once

AC
ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $55k · revenue +75%
FS
FEINBERG SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
one grant, 2019 · $6k
WL
WORLD LEADERS FOUNDATION
one grant, 2019 · $5k

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.

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health

MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech

Shield of Faith Missions

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.

Religion

Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International

Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health

National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

—

American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit

The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit

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

American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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Air & Space Forces Association

The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc; the most unlike its peers is Catlow 1927 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

69 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. 69 of the 172 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

69/69

Grantees still filing

49/69

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$930,743Arts & Culture$230,392Health$80,800Education$66,400International$50,400Human Services$17,735Philanthropy$15,690

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

Grace and Li Yu Family FoundationCA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Grace and Li Yu Family Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Anastasia & KR Jenkins Foundation · The McGrew-Philipp Family Foundation · Seckinger Foundation Corporation · Ebs Foundation · Farrell Family Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Ge Aerospace Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · AbbVie 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 Francis J and Patricia a Houlihan funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Francis J and Patricia a Houlihan. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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.

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