· Private foundation
The Raymond C and Linda M Stachowiak 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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of THE RAYMOND C AND LINDA M STACHOWIAK 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $72k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST EDWARD PREPARTORY ACADEMY ELGIN | $50,000 |
| POPE JOHN PAUL II PREP ACADEMY AURORA | $50,000 |
| LAZARUS HOUSE | $20,000 |
| CAMPTON TOWNSHIP OPEN SPACE FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| HESED HOUSE | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY - ST CHARLES | $10,000 |
| TRI-CITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP | $10,000 |
| LIVING WELL CANCER RESOURCE CENTER | $10,000 |
| TYLER TRENT PEDIATRIC CANCER RESEARCH CENTER | $8,500 |
| TURNING POINT INC | $7,500 |
| ST CHARLES HISTORY MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ST PATRICK CATHOLIC CHURCH | $5,000 |
| HORSEPOWER THERAPEUTIC RIDING | $5,000 |
| ANDERSON ANIMAL SHELTER | $5,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $321k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 3% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 5 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, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $126k 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
- TCTRI CITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP5× · 2020–2024 · $55k · revenue +80%
- PAPUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC D/B/A HESED HOUSE4× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +81%
- TPTurning Point Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- SGSCHOLARSHIP GRANTING ORGANIZATION OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INCone grant, 2022 · $50k
- FVFOX VALLEY FOOD FOR HEALTH INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +63%
- TLTHE LITTLE TIMMY PROJECT INCone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue -7%
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.
Empowering individuals with developmental disabilities and their families through advocacy and the coordination of service options
To provide Hospice care and Palliative care services to terminally ill patients and their families.
To assist children who have been victims of abuse
Strive to improve the health and well being of migrant and seasonal farmworkers and other medically vulnerable populations by providing quality accessable, affordable, and culturally responsive health care within the community we serve.
To provide low or no cost medical care to low income and uninsured people.
The mission of the lightways hospice and serious illness care is to provide comprehensive, holistic, community based support services and care for terminally ill persons, their caregivers and loved ones without regard to economic status,…
Chicago family health center will promote health, work to prevent disease and provide treatment through the delivery of quality, accessible primary healtcare that is culturally sensitive, affordable, and responsive to community and…
Susie's Place promotes the prevention, justice and healing of child victims of abuse and violence while maintaining the comfort and safety of the child as the first priority.
Administering an array of critical, intensive therapeutic interventions and/or facilitation services to emotionally and behaviorally disturbed clients for whom DCFS is legally responsible in order to stabilize their traditional or home of…
Provide Counselors in Child Abuse Situations
Illinois Partners for Human Service's primary activities are (1) strengthening human services in communities throughout Illinois by building a unified human services sector; (2) working with leaders, the public, and others engaged in the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Advocates Inc and the most unlike its peers is Project Mobility Cycles for Life. 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 32 years old; the field is 18. 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 — 3% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 58 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 LAZARUS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Living Well Cancer Resource Center ↗
- Who funds TRI CITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC D/B/A HESED HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Turning Point Inc ↗
- Who funds HORSEPOWER THERAPEUTIC RIDING ↗
- Who funds WESTERN DUPAGE SRA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CASA KANE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds CASA OF MCHENRY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Third Phase Christian Center ↗
- Who funds Purdue Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds CAMPTON TOWNSHIP OPEN SPACE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR HAITIANS INC ↗
- Who funds FOX VALLEY HANDS OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds Fox Valley Pregnancy Center ↗
- Who funds FOX VALLEY FOOD FOR HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds THE LITTLE TIMMY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE WISH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Zionsville Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ECKER CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds St Charles Kiwanis Foundation ↗
- Who funds PREVAIL INC OF HAMILTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds St Charles History Museum ↗
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: Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Shodeen Family Foundation · Harvey and Ethel Daeumer Foundation · The Bersted Foundation · Geneva Community Chest · AbbVie Foundation · Hansen-Furnas Foundation Inc · Fox Valley United Way · Efs Foundation · Bernauer Family Charitable Trust · The Kara 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 Raymond C and Linda M Stachowiak 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project 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.