· Private foundation
The Kellcie Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k84 grants · $120k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $120k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRX INCORPORATED | $50,000 |
| NPR FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| LAKE TANGANYIKA FLOATING HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| PRX INCORPORATED | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL PUBLIC HOUSING MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| COLGATE UNIVERSITY TREASURERS OFFICE | $20,000 |
| ROGER BALDWIN FOUNDATION OF ACLU INC | $15,000 |
| CIRCLE OF HOPE HEALTH CARE SERVICES | $15,000 |
| LA RABIDA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| JAMES B MORAN CENTER FOR YOUTH ADVOCACY | $10,000 |
| CW MARKET FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| WHITE STORK - UNITED STATES LTD | $5,000 |
| MARSHALL PROJECT INC | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF ILLINOIS | $5,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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 +23% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
136 repeat relationships — 77 still active in FY2025, 59 since wound down; 6 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k 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
- JBJAMES B MORAN CENTER FOR YOUTH ADVOCACY5× · 2020–2025 · $58k · revenue +157%
- JFJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +7%
- PPPlanned Parenthood of Illinois6× · 2020–2025 · $45k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- NRNational Redistricting Foundation (ActBlue)one grant, 2020 · $25k
- AACLUone grant, 2020 · $10k
- OWOPERATION WHITE STORKone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
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.
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
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 chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
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.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health and Medicine Policy Research Group and the most unlike its peers is C and W Market Foundation. 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 38 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% 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.
139 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. 139 of the 201 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 NPR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE TANGANYIKA FLOATING HEALTH CLINIC ↗
- Who funds JAMES B MORAN CENTER FOR YOUTH ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds JTP PROFESSIONAL SERVICE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL REDISTRICTING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood of Illinois ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE OF HOPE HEALTH CARE SVCS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROGER BALDWIN FOUNDATION OF ACLU INC ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds La Rabida Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Evanston Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The National Public Housing Museum ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PEACE CORPS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago ↗
- Who funds THE MARSHALL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Erie Family Health Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds Trust Women Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Repro TLC ↗
- Who funds Project& ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL POLICY INC ↗
- Who funds White Stork - United States Ltd ↗
- Who funds C AND W MARKET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS ↗
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 D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Circle of Service Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Evanston Community Foundation · The Lehman-Stamm Family Fund · Finnegan Family Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Northwestern University · Francis Beidler 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 Kellcie Fund 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.
- Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc — 19% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- World Ocean School Inc — 4% of income from government
- Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated — 0% of income from government
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.
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