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The Gorter Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$2.5M
Granted FY2023
130
Grants FY2023
14
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$4.0MHealth$1.0MHuman Services$636kReligion$481kYouth Development$256kFood & Nutrition$235kPhilanthropy$212kHousing & Shelter$151kOther$0
02FY2023 · 130 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 130 grants below total $2,022,915, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,519,776 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $496,861 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k73 grants · $158k
  • $10k–50k47 grants · $975k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $490k
  • $250k+1 grant · $400k
$5,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$34M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
North Chicago Community Partners$400,000
Cristo Rey St. Martin College$80,000
The Josselyn Center$60,000
Boys & Girls Club of Lake County$50,000
Community Youth Network$50,000
Lake County Health Dept & Community Health Center$50,000
Boys & Girls Club of Lake County$50,000
The Golden Apple Foundation$50,000
The Lake County Community Foundation$50,000
Lawndale Educationl and Regional Network Charter School$50,000
Northern Illinois Food Bank$40,000
Lake County Tech Campus$40,000
Duke University$40,000
Erie Family Health Center$35,000
Waukegan To College$30,000
02Its 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.
$6.6M · 108 repeat orgs$910k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +29% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

108
45

Total granted

$6.6M
$369k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+29%

Still filing today

68%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $541k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • NC
    North Chicago Community Partners
    4× · 2020–2023 · $1.9M · revenue +115% · 25% of their budget
  • LE
    Lawndale Educational and Regional Network Charter School
    3× · 2020–2022 · $230k · revenue +35%
  • NI
    NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK
    4× · 2020–2023 · $230k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • LH
    LC Health Dept & Community Health Centre
    one grant, 2021 · $62k
  • CO
    College of Lake County Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue +17%
  • EF
    Erie Family Health Centre
    one grant, 2021 · $35k
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.

03Its 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
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management

Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.

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2
Kipp Chicago Schools

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…

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
The University of Chicago Charter School Corporation

To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.

Education
5
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
6
Illinois College

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…

Education
7
Lycee Francais de Chicago Inc

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.

Education
8
Chicago Collegiate Inc

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.

Education
9
President and Trustees of Bates College

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…

Education
10
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
11
Pediatric Faculty Foundation Inc

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…

Health
12
Chicago Free School

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Lake County Community Foundation; 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.
03the grantee network

111 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. 111 of the 182 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)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
108/111
Grantees still filing
83/111
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

North Chicago Community Partners: $1,905,761 · EducationNorth Chicago Community PartnersLawndale Educational and Regional Network Charter School: $230,000 · EducationLawndale Educational and Regional Network Cha…DUKE UNIVERSITY: $165,250 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYWaukegan To College NFP: $155,000 · EducationLake Forest College: $135,000 · EducationThe Partnership for College Completion: $106,000 · Education+21 more: $351,870 · Education+21 moreCristo Rey St. Martin: $340,000 · OtherCristo Rey St. MartinNorth Chicago CUSD #187: $159,411 · OtherNorth Chicago CUSD #187Highwood Public Library: $130,500 · OtherRound Lake Area School Dist. 116: $123,000 · OtherRosalind Franklin Univ of Med & Science: $103,500 · OtherCASA: $100,000 · OtherLC Health Dept & Community Health Center: $90,000 · Other+107 more: $1,560,831 · Other+107 moreCOMMUNITY YOUTH NETWORK INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY…The Beacon Place NFP: $140,000 · Human ServicesThe Beaco…MANO A MANO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $71,500 · Human ServicesMANO A MA…The Roberti Community House: $69,000 · Human ServicesThe Rober…Family Focus: $52,000 · Human ServicesFamily Fo…Mothers Trust Foundation: $41,000 · Human ServicesMothers T…YOUTH AND FAMILY COUNSELING: $30,000 · Human ServicesInvest for Kids Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY FOCUS LEGACY: $25,000 · Human Services+3 more: $16,175 · Human ServicesBoys & Girls Club of Lake County: $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentBERNIE'S BOOK BANK: $80,000 · Youth DevelopmentREADING POWER INC: $55,000 · Youth DevelopmentBaton Rouge Youth Coalition Inc: $43,675 · Youth DevelopmentART IMPACT PROJECT NOT FOR PROFIT: $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY: $14,500 · Youth Development+3 more: $20,100 · Youth DevelopmentNORTH CHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $106,200 · PhilanthropyTHE LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $105,000 · PhilanthropyHOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC: $95,000 · PhilanthropyJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $65,000 · Philanthropy+4 more: $5,177 · PhilanthropyErie Family Health Center Inc: $95,000 · HealthTHE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP: $90,000 · HealthPADS Lake County Inc: $60,000 · HealthJUPITER ISLAND MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $35,000 · HealthAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation: $33,334 · Health+5 more: $27,500 · HealthNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $230,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $3,000 · Food & Nutrition
Education$3,048,881Other$2,607,242Human Services$619,675Youth Development$398,275Philanthropy$376,377Health$340,834Food & Nutrition$233,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorth Chicago Community Partners: $1,905,761 over 4y, 25% of budgetLawndale Educational and Regional Network Charter School: $230,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $230,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $165,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWaukegan To College NFP: $155,000 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Lake County: $150,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY YOUTH NETWORK INC: $150,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetThe Beacon Place NFP: $140,000 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetLake Forest College: $135,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $106,200 over 4y, 13% of budgetThe Partnership for College Completion: $106,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetTHE LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $105,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetHOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC: $95,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetErie Family Health Center Inc: $95,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP: $90,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBERNIE'S BOOK BANK: $80,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetErikson Institute: $80,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMANO A MANO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $71,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCOLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES: $70,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetNICASA NFP: $70,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetThe Roberti Community House: $69,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF LAKE COUNTY: $69,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $65,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKOHL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC: $65,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetPADS Lake County Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetREADING POWER INC: $55,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetFamily Focus: $52,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetLAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION: $52,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGOLDEN APPLE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBaton Rouge Youth Coalition Inc: $43,675 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetMothers Trust Foundation: $41,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetCollege of Lake County Foundation: $40,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetART IMPACT PROJECT NOT FOR PROFIT: $35,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetJUPITER ISLAND MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $35,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation: $33,334 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER: $32,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $31,136 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY LAKE COUNTY: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetYOUTH AND FAMILY COUNSELING: $30,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBeyond Sports Foundation: $25,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetBRUSHWOOD CENTER AT RYERSON WOODS: $25,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetInvest for Kids Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HIGHWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY: $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetFAMILY FOCUS LEGACY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetKids Above All Illinois: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $19,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $16,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% 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 North Chicago Community Partners ↗
  • Who funds Lawndale Educational and Regional Network Charter School ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Waukegan To College NFP ↗
  • Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Lake County ↗
  • 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 HOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC ↗
  • Who funds Erie Family Health Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP ↗
  • Who funds BERNIE'S BOOK BANK ↗
  • Who funds Erikson Institute ↗
  • Who funds MANO A MANO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES ↗
  • Who funds NICASA NFP ↗
  • Who funds The Roberti Community House ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF LAKE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds KOHL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC ↗
  • Who funds PADS Lake County Inc ↗
  • Who funds Round Lake Area Schools CUSD 116 Education Foundation ↗
  • Who funds READING POWER INC ↗
  • Who funds Family Focus ↗
  • Who funds LAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION ↗

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.

John and Kathleen Sch…The Lake County Commu…The Chicago Community…The Grainger Foundati…Hunter Family Foundat…First Bank Chicago Fo…Healthcare Foundation…United Way of Lake Co…Northwestern Memorial…Harold M & Adeline S …Vivo FoundationCircle of Service Fou…
John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber PhilanthropyIL63.5× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.
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How do I get to The Gorter Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Gorter Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 182 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $3.2M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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