· Private foundation
The Kerr Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER | $2,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $1,250 |
| CIVIC LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION | $1,250 |
| HUMANITARIAN SOCIAL INNOVATIONS | $1,125 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| THE LICORICE PROJECT | $1,000 |
| CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN | $1,000 |
| CHARLESTOWN MOTHERS ASSOCIATION | $625 |
| Individual grant recipient | $625 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 68% of your 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 +7% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 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, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- TCTHE CENTER2× · 2020–2021 · $1k · revenue +7%
SMILE TRAIN INC2× · 2020–2021 · $200 · revenue +24%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC2× · 2020–2021 · $200 · revenue +39%
Funded once
- NUNORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY WOMEN'S BOARDone grant, 2024 · $1k
- NHNORTHSHORE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $900
MARCH OF DIMES INCone grant, 2024 · $900 · revenue 0%
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.
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…
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…
Chicago scholars is transforming the leadership landscape of our city by resolving the fundamental barriers to success for academically driven, first generation college students from under-resourced communities.
To promote and support, directly or indirectly, by donation, loan or otherwise, the interests and purposes of ingalls memorial hospital and the university of chicago medical center.
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 define and advance quality, effective, equitable, and accessible cancer care and prevention so all people can live better lives.
Medtech innovator organizes and runs a global competition and virtual accelerator for medical device, digital health, and diagnostic startup companies.
We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.
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.
Through philanthropy, the nccn foundation empowers people through knowledge and advances the mission of nccn to define and advance quality, effective, equitable, and accessible cancer care and prevention so all people can live better lives.
The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…
The institute for nonprofit practice's mission is to transform communities by equipping the most promising nonprofit leaders with the skills, confidence, and resources they need to make their organizations effective, innovative, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Mentoring Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 30 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 CIVIC LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTOWN MOTHERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO LIGHTS ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HUMANITARIAN SOCIAL INNOVATIONS ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MENTORING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PACIFICA HIGH SCHOOL CHORAL BOOSTERS ↗
- Who funds LUNCH BREAK INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds CANDO CANCER ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Kerr Foundation Inc 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.
- Lunch Break Inc — 4% 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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