· Private foundation
The John C and Carolyn Noonan Parmer Private 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of THE JOHN C AND CAROLYN NOONAN PARMER PRIVATE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k15 grants · $320k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| DE LA SALLE INSTITUTE | $150,000 |
| CATHOLIC THEOLOGICAL UNION | $125,000 |
| ST MARY'S UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $100,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CHICAGO | $100,000 |
| DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| MOBILE LOAVES AND FISHES | $100,000 |
| FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES | $70,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $50,000 |
| DEBORAH'S PLACE | $50,000 |
| SINSINAWA DOMINICAN SISTERS | $50,000 |
| CHILDREN OF PEACE SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION FOR MAXIMUM POTENTIAL | $30,000 |
| THE HOLDSWORTH CENTER | $25,000 |
| BETHLEHEM UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $570k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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 +36% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $375k · revenue +52%- MLMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $325k · revenue +160%
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY5× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- EEEstrella Educational Foundationone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +10%
- CFCARING FOR CAMBODIA INCone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -50%
- DPDEBORAH'S PLACE CHICAGOone grant, 2020 · $25k
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.
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
The mission of misericordia home is to support children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities who choose our community by providing the highest quality residential, training, and employment services. we provide the…
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…
The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)
Shaped by the catholic benedictine heritage, the college of st. scholastica provides intellectual and moral preparation for responsible living and meaningful work. in conjunction with this mission statement, the college's vision statement…
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…
Texas wesleyan university, guided by its deep methodist heritage, provides transformational learning experiences and research opportunities to a diverse group of students to develop their full potential as individuals and as members of the…
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.
We educate women to lead and influence. we educate at all degree levels through valuing and integrating the liberal arts and professional education within the catholic intellectual tradition, see schedule oemphasizing scholarly inquiry and…
To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
To serve as a transformative environment that empowers students through democratic, cooperative living. we provide affordable housing to foster community, support education, and promote personal development and well-being.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Misericordia Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Women's Ordination Conference. 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 48 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 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 53 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 The Chicago Community Trust ↗
- Who funds MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DEBORAH'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Bethany House of Hospitality ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ASSOC FOR MAXIMUM POTENTIAL ( ↗
- Who funds Cristo Rey St Martin College Prep ↗
- Who funds THE HOLDSWORTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE GREAT SPRINGS PROJECT INC (AUDIT) ↗
- Who funds SPARKFORCE ↗
- Who funds Estrella Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER NORTH SUBURBAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds CARING FOR CAMBODIA INC ↗
- Who funds CARITAS OF AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds LITTLE BROTHERS - FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY ↗
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: Helen V Brach Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The John C and Carolyn Noonan Parmer Private Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.