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The Gorter Family 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 124 grants below total $1,894,113 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,519,776 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $625,663 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k71 grants · $145k
- $10k–50k44 grants · $909k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $440k
- $250k+1 grant · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| North Chicago Community Partners | $400,000 |
| Cristo Rey St. Martin College | $80,000 |
| The Josselyn Center | $60,000 |
| Community Youth Network | $50,000 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Lake County | $50,000 |
| The Lake County Community Foundation | $50,000 |
| Lawndale Educationl and Regional Network Charter School | $50,000 |
| Lake County Health Dept & Community Health Center | $50,000 |
| The Golden Apple Foundation | $50,000 |
| Lake County Tech Campus | $40,000 |
| Northern Illinois Food Bank | $40,000 |
| Duke University | $40,000 |
| Erie Family Health Center | $35,000 |
| Waukegan To College | $30,000 |
| Beacon Place | $30,000 |
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 +29% for the ones you funded once.
108 repeat relationships — 80 still active in FY2023, 28 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $530k 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
- NCNorth Chicago Community Partners4× · 2020–2023 · $1.9M · revenue +115% · 25% of their budget
- NINORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK4× · 2020–2023 · $230k · revenue +8%
- LELawndale Educational and Regional Network Charter School3× · 2020–2022 · $230k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- LHLC Health Dept & Community Health Centreone grant, 2021 · $62k
- COCollege of Lake County Foundationone grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue +17%
- EFErie Family Health Centreone grant, 2021 · $35k
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.
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.
The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…
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.
To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.
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.
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
The Lycee Francais de Chicago, driven by our core values of respect, responsibility and the joy of learning, empowers students to grow into active global citizens.
To equip all students in grades six through twelve with the academic skills, intellectual habits and character traits to succeed in the college of their choice, strenghten their communities and change the world.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
We value excellence and innovation in clinical and basic research, coordinated and comprehensive patient care, ongoing physician education, and evidence-based child advocacy. our goal is to provide leadership in endeavors that promote the…
Chicago Free School provides pre-kindergarten through 8th grade instruction and support activities. The faculty consists of qualified indiviuals with the appropriate education and experiende to provide students with the education that…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Lake County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Roberti Community House. 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 39 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 38% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% 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.
111 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. 111 of the 182 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 North Chicago Community Partners ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Lawndale Educational and Regional Network Charter School ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Waukegan To College NFP ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY YOUTH NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds The Beacon Place NFP ↗
- Who funds Lake Forest College ↗
- Who funds NORTH CHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Partnership for College Completion ↗
- Who funds THE LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Erie Family Health Center Inc ↗
- Who funds HOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP ↗
- Who funds BERNIE'S BOOK BANK ↗
- Who funds Erikson Institute ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Lake County ↗
- Who funds NICASA NFP ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF LAKE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds KOHL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PADS Lake County Inc ↗
- Who funds The Roberti Community House ↗
- Who funds MANO A MANO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Round Lake Area Schools CUSD 116 Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds READING POWER INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Family Focus ↗
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: John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · The Lake County Community Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Grainger Foundation Inc · Hunter Family Foundation · First Bank Chicago Foundation · Healthcare Foundation of Northern Lake County · United Way of Lake County Inc · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Harold M & Adeline S Morrison Family Foundation · Vivo Foundation · Circle of Service 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.
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