· Private foundation
The Kirch Foundation
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NIU Foundation | $10,000 |
| Special Spaces | $10,000 |
| Edwards Hospital Foundation | $6,310 |
| Yerkes Future Foundation | $6,000 |
| Gulfshore Playhouse | $5,000 |
| Artis Naples | $5,000 |
| Enchanted Backpack | $3,000 |
| FGCU Foundation | $2,000 |
| Moorings Pres Church | $1,715 |
| Our Saviours Church | $1,300 |
| First Ev Lutheran Church | $1,000 |
| Lurie Children's Hospital Foundation | $200 |
| Lyric Opera | $100 |
| Conservancy of SW Florida | $100 |
| Hesed House | $100 |
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, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
25 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 3 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- YFYERKES FUTURE FOUNDATION INC3× · 2023–2025 · $22k · revenue +149%
- NINORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2025 · $22k · revenue +276%
GULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC2× · 2024–2025 · $15k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- LFLITTLE FRIENDS INC2× · 2024–2025 · $5k · revenue +13%
- NBNew Beginings4× · 2022–2025 · $2k
- DCDUPAGE CHILDREN'S MUSEUMone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +9%
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.
To spark curiosity and creativity in all young children through positive, play-based learning experiences.
The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.
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.
Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.
The operation of a children's museum.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
We are a place that provides experiences and memories to build a foundation for a lifetime of learning.
Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.
Naples zoo is accredited by the american zoo & aquarium association (aza) and has numerous animal exhibits placed on its 45-acre site. (continued on schedule o)each exhibit is unique and designed to simulate typical conditions for the…
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
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…
Museum has a mission to create opportunties for everyone to experience art that broadens understanding of the past, fosters community connections to the present, and creates diverse possbilities for the future.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Little Friends Inc and the most unlike its peers is Enchanted Backpack. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 44 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 Edward Foundation ↗
- Who funds YERKES FUTURE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL SPACES INC ↗
- Who funds GULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ARTIS-NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds ENCHANTED BACKPACK ↗
- Who funds PRIMERA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LITTLE FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds GENEVA LAKE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GENEVA LAKE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds DUPAGE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FILL A HEART 4 KIDS ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds CATALYST SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Childrens Oncology Services Inc ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GOLISANO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
- Who funds GENEVA LAKE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC D/B/A HESED HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE COVE SCHOOL 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: The Chicago Community Trust · The John a Miller Family Foundation · Dean L & Rosemarie Buntrock Foundation · Lavin Family Foundation · Alben F & Clara G Bates Foundation · Otzen Family Foundation Incorporated · A G Cox Charity Trust Xxxxx9001 · The Simms Family Foundation · The Anna Emery Hanson Charitable Foundation 1 · John & Linda Anderson Charitable Foundation · Joy In Childhood Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Kirch 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Gulfshore Playhouse Inc — 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.