· Private foundation
The Francis L Lederer Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $132k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO | $15,000 |
| CHICAGO SCHOLARS | $15,000 |
| ERIKSON INSTITUTE | $12,000 |
| UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM - MIDWEST REGION | $10,000 |
| MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON | $10,000 |
| MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART OF CHICAGO | $10,000 |
| CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS | $10,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| WTTW CHANNEL 11 | $10,000 |
| MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON | $10,000 |
| LEGACY COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES | $7,000 |
| JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO | $5,000 |
| JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TMTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON7× · 2019–2025 · $145k · revenue +33%
- TCTHE CHICAGO SCHOLARS FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $105k · revenue +21%
- TATHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO7× · 2019–2025 · $100k · revenue +23%
Funded once
GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +44%
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.
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.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
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…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Mission - the institute of medicine of chicago is an independent non-profit organization of distinguished leaders in the health field who collaborate to improve the health of the public. drawing upon the expertise of a diverse membership…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
To unite donors' passions with the university of hawai'i's (uh) aspirations by raising philanthropic support and managing investments to benefit uh, the people of hawai'i and our future generations.
To be the trusted partner in all healthcare decisions and to improve health by providing highly accessible, world-class care and services.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 25 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO SCHOLARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Erikson Institute ↗
- Who funds LEGACY COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Medical Bridges Inc ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Francis L Lederer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Francis L Lederer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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