· Private foundation
The Koepfgen 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $99k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHRIST CHURCH WINNETKA | $47,100 |
| CHICAGO JESUIT ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| CHRIST CHURCH | $12,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| GICIA | $10,000 |
| THE WOMENS BOARD RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | $5,000 |
| BOCA GRANDE DISASTER FUND | $5,000 |
| THOMPSON FOUNDATION FOR AUTISM | $5,000 |
| THE LONGLEAF ALLIANCE | $1,000 |
| KEEP OLNEY BEAUTIFUL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $1,000 |
| BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| OLD ELM SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $750 |
| GREENVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $750 |
| MADONNA MISSION | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
34 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 8 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, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Northwestern University5× · 2017–2024 · $51k · revenue +41%- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches2× · 2017–2022 · $11k · revenue +46%
- SHSTRATFORD HALL3× · 2017–2019 · $7k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- PEPROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH DIOCESE OF CHICAGO BISHOPS AND TRUSTEESone grant, 2017 · $30k
- RIRehabilitation Institute of Chicagograduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +31%
- ASA1 SPIRIT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $10k
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.
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.
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.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
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…
Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…
To support, promote, and advance the mission of the naval academy.
See Disclosure Above.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
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.
How this is measured
38 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. 38 of the 81 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds OLD ELM SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds STRATFORD HALL ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM RAIN INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THOMPSON FOUNDATION FOR AUTISM & NEURODEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds ASPIRITECH NFP ↗
- Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC ↗
- Who funds BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC ↗
- Who funds THE LONGLEAF ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Madonna Mission ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds SLC6A1 CONNECT ↗
- Who funds Indian Hill Club Scholarship Foundation ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Koepfgen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Koepfgen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- American Antiquarian Society: 7% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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