· Private foundation
The Michael J and Carla J Kilbane Family 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 62% of The Michael J and Carla J Kilbane Family 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $153k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D | $40,000 |
| BRADLEY UNIVERSITY | $33,333 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D | $30,000 |
| MARIST HIGH SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| THE IRISH AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP INC | $15,000 |
| CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $10,000 |
| ERIKAS LIGHTHOUSE A BEACON OF HOPE FOR ADOLESCENT | $10,000 |
| MARIST BROTHERS | $2,500 |
| CHICAGO CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER | $2,500 |
| IC CATHOLIC PREP | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–18, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of The Michael J and Carla J Kilbane Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +47% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 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, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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
- TITHE IRISH AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP INC9× · 2017–2025 · $87k · revenue +140%
- BUBRADLEY UNIVERSITY3× · 2017–2025 · $68k · revenue +5%
- ELErikas Lighthouse A Beacon of Hope for Adolescent Depression9× · 2017–2025 · $37k · revenue +346%
Funded once
- AOARCHDIOCESE OF DETROITone grant, 2018 · $5k
- COCHIKAMING OPEN LANDSone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +17%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +145%
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.
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…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
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…
To be the trusted partner in all healthcare decisions and to improve health by providing highly accessible, world-class care and services.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
To deliver preeminent medical care and service to our patients and communities through outstanding and innovative medical leadership and practice, while participating in and supporting excellence in education and research. We achieve this…
Provide pediatric and subspecialty surgical, research, and educational services.
The corporation is organized and is operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes. all children's research institute supports, encourages, and engages in and conducts medical research and other research in…
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…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Candor Health Education and the most unlike its peers is Lemars Community Theatre Inc Britton. 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 59 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 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.
22 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. 22 of the 34 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 IRISH AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds BRADLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Erikas Lighthouse A Beacon of Hope for Adolescent Depression ↗
- Who funds DELTA UPSILON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds TAYA AND CHRIS KYLE FOUNDATION SERVICE FAMILY STRONG ↗
- Who funds BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CANDOR HEALTH EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHIKAMING OPEN LANDS ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ↗
- Who funds APERTURE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN AGORA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds RUSSELL BRIAN GUSLOFF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPEN HEART MAGIC ↗
- Who funds LEMARS COMMUNITY THEATRE INC BRITTON ↗
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 · Baxter International Foundation · Motorola Solutions Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Baird Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Michael J and Carla J Kilbane Family 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.