· Private foundation
Muskal Family Charitable Trust
Its FY2019 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 FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k14 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $32k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN ACADEMY DRAMATIC ARTS | $32,000 |
| DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS | $5,000 |
| RAVINIA FESTIVAL | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $4,500 |
| ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO | $4,500 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $3,000 |
| COMPASSION & CHOICES | $2,500 |
| VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS | $2,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $2,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $2,000 |
| BATTERED ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN | $2,000 |
| ACTORS FUND | $1,000 |
| MIDWEST SHELTER FOR HOMELESS VETS | $1,000 |
| MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & INDUSTRY | $504 |
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 (FY17–19, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
42 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2019, 28 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $504 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
RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION3× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +54%- TATHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO3× · 2017–2019 · $14k · revenue +45%
- CSChicago Symphony Orchestra3× · 2017–2019 · $12k · revenue +58%
Funded once
GARY SINISE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +196%
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 Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
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 fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
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,…
We believe in the life-changing, transformational, revelatory power of great art and opera. Lyric Opera of Chicago exists to provide a broad, deep, and relevant cultural service to the Chicago region and the nation, and to advance the…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Shore Senior Center and the most unlike its peers is Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. 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 54 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% 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 13% 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.
28 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. 28 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 AMERICAN ACADEMY OF DRAMATIC ARTS ↗
- Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds Victory Gardens Theater ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION & CHOICES ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST SHELTER FOR HOMELESS VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds DUPAGE SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHELTERBOX USA INC ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds House of the Good Shepherd ↗
- Who funds FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
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: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Muskal Family Charitable Trust 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% 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.