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The Power Family Foundation Joseph a Power Jr

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.

$2.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$2.1MEducation$1.1MPhilanthropy$1.0MInternational$131kHealth$115kFood & Nutrition$97kYouth Development$78kHuman Services$76kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $170k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $160k
  • $250k+2 grants · $2.2M
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME$1,150,000
POWER FAMILY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND$1,049,138
BIG SHOULDERS FUND$110,000
BEVERLY AREA PLANNING ASSOCIATION$50,000
ST BARNABAS CATHOLIC CHURCH$35,000
THE IRELAND FUNDS$25,000
HISTORIC ROYAL PALACES FOUNDATION$25,000
CLEVELAND CLINIC$20,000
MERCY HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS$15,000
LYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION$10,000
ST BARNABAS SCHOOL PARENT FOUNDATION$10,000
MAPLE MORGAN PARK COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY$10,000
LEO HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD BANK$10,000
ST IGNATIUS COLLEGE PREP$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $47k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SHARE FOUNDATION: $3k → 15%MISERICORDIA FAMILY ASSOCIATION: $14k → 14%MISERICORDIA FAMILY ASSOCIATION: $5k → 14%MISERICORDIA FAMILY ASSOCIATION: $5k → 14%MISERICORDIA FAMILY ASSOCIATION: $5k → 14%MISERICORDIA FAMILY ASSOCIATION: $5k → 14%MARYVILLE ACADEMY: $10k → 14%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 25 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

25 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
25

Total granted

$1.8M
$173k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+18%

Still filing today

48%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthCivil RightsHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • LU
    LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
    4× · 2018–2024 · $253k · revenue +29%
  • BS
    Big Shoulders Fund
    4× · 2020–2025 · $213k · revenue +67%
  • DU
    DEPAUL UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2022–2023 · $175k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • HU
    HOWARD UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • HC
    HEAL CHICAGO
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -78% · 27% of their budget
  • CU
    Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -19%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.

Education
2
Gastro Intestinal Research Foundation Inc

The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…

Health
3
University of Illinois Foundation

The Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, is an independent and separate nonprofit entity from the University of Illinois. Our mission is to encourage and administer private gifts and serve the UI System by working closely with…

Education
4
Saint Xavier University

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…

Education
5
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.

Social Science
6
Loyola University

Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…

Education
7
Cedille Chicago Nfp

Cedille Chicago, NFP is devoted to the activity of producing and marketing recordings of classical music by Chicago-area musicians and composers.

Arts & Culture
8
Illinois College

Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…

Education
9
Chicago State Foundation

The mission of Chicago State Foundation is to advance the interest and welfare of CSU by building relationships, securing philanthropic support, stewarding assets and otherwise procuring private support on behalf of the University. Working…

Education
10
True Chicago
Arts & Culture
11
Chicago Humanities Festival

To promote public appreciation, understanding and support of the humanities through festivals and educational programs.

Arts & Culture
12
Chicago Parks Foundation

The Chicago Parks Foundation is a separate 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization that also serves as the strategic partner for the coordination of fundraising and charitable resources for the Chicago Park District.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Chicago Bar Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Heal Chicago. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 58 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/30
Grantees still filing
18/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Notre Dame du Lac: $1,821,000 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du LacLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $252,500 · EducationLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGOBig Shoulders Fund: $212,500 · EducationBig Shoulders FundDEPAUL UNIVERSITY: $175,000 · EducationDEPAUL UNIVERSITY+8 more: $77,250 · EducationPOWER FAMILY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $1,049,138 · OtherPOWER FAMILY CHARITABLE GIFT FUNDFRIENDS OF UNIV OF NOTRE DAME: $300,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF UNIV OF NOTRE DAMELEO HIGH SCHOOL: $285,000 · OtherLEO HIGH SCHOOLTHE IRELAND FUNDS: $130,000 · OtherTHE IRELAND FUNDS+32 more: $487,000 · Other+32 moreBeverly Area Planning Association: $50,000 · Community ImprovementMISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $33,500 · Human ServicesMaryville Academy: $10,000 · Human ServicesSHARE FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesCitizens United for Research in Epilepsy: $25,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $5,000 · HealthHEAL CHICAGO: $25,000 · Public BenefitLYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $1,000 · Housing & Shelter
Education$2,538,250Other$2,251,138Community Improvement$50,000Human Services$47,000Health$30,000Public Benefit$25,000Housing & Shelter$21,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $1,821,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNIV OF NOTRE DAME: $300,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $252,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBig Shoulders Fund: $212,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDEPAUL UNIVERSITY: $175,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $33,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHEAL CHICAGO: $25,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetCitizens United for Research in Epilepsy: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFrancis W Parker School: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFREE SPIRIT MEDIA NFP: $15,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetInjustice Watch NFP: $12,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetThe St Barnabas School Parent Foundation: $12,500 over 2y, 14% of budgetMaryville Academy: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHICAGO BAR FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJESSE WHITE FOUNDATION LTD: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE LINCOLN ACADEMY OF ILLINOIS: $8,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetIllinois Bar Foundation: $6,250 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY DOMINGUEZ HILLS PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEGACY LAW SCHOOL CORPORATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIGNATIA FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCENTER FOR JUSTICE AND DEMOCRACY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNOURISHING HOPE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NIGHT MINISTRY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF UNIV OF NOTRE DAME ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds Big Shoulders Fund ↗
  • Who funds DEPAUL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Beverly Area Planning Association ↗
  • Who funds MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HEAL CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy ↗
  • Who funds LYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Francis W Parker School ↗
  • Who funds FREE SPIRIT MEDIA NFP ↗
  • Who funds Injustice Watch NFP ↗
  • Who funds The St Barnabas School Parent Foundation ↗
  • Who funds MAPLE MORGAN PRK COMM FOOD PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds Maryville Academy ↗
  • Who funds THE CHICAGO BAR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JESSE WHITE FOUNDATION LTD ↗
  • Who funds THE LINCOLN ACADEMY OF ILLINOIS ↗
  • Who funds Illinois Bar Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY DOMINGUEZ HILLS PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION ↗

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.

The Chicago Community…Polk Bros Foundation …The Robert Thomas Bob…Lloyd a Fry FoundationThe Sidley Austin Fou…John D and Catherine …Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…
The Chicago Community TrustIL17.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · The Sidley Austin Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Power Family Foundation Joseph a Power Jr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Power Family Foundation Joseph a Power Jr. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to The Power Family Foundation Joseph a Power Jr through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 58 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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