· Private foundation
The Rich 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k40 grants · $119k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $180k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $344k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GIANT STEPS | $182,214 |
| NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY | $111,449 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| RUSH COPLEY FOUNDATION | $30,730 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $28,500 |
| BIG ROCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| ST BEDE ACADEMY | $15,750 |
| LPGA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| US ADAPTIVE GOLF ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| COMPASSION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SUGAR GROVE CORN BARREL NFP | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| NIU FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| LYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $83k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 75% of The Rich Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 23%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
88 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2025, 57 since wound down; 24 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GSGiant Steps Illinois Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $412k · revenue +23%
- PTPINE TREE GOLF CLUB INCORPORATED2× · 2019–2023 · $156k · revenue +55%
- RCRush Copley Foundation5× · 2021–2025 · $152k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $81k
- ESEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $62k · revenue +114%
- CGCHILDREN'S GOLF FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +3%
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.
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…
Provide pediatric and subspecialty surgical, research, and educational services.
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 chicago bar foundation brings the legal community together through advocacy, funding, and innovation to improve access to justice for people in need and to make the legal system more fair, equitable, and effective.
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.
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…
To provide effective and rewarding ways for donors to fulfill their philanthropic objectives by administering charitable funds that distribute grants and scholarships to benefit the citizens of kane and kendall counties of illinois…
The kids golf foundation of illinois is dedicated to bringing the sport of golf into the lives of young children and providing them with an opportunity for personal growth and career enhancement.
We value excellence and innovation in clinical and basic research, coordinated and comprehensive patient care, ongoing physician education, and evidence-based child advocacy. our goal is to provide leadership in endeavors that promote the…
To optimize philanthropy in support of the mission and future of the children's hospital of chicago medical center.
George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.
How this is measured
85 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. 85 of the 193 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 Giant Steps Illinois Inc ↗
- Who funds PINE TREE GOLF CLUB INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Rush Copley Foundation ↗
- Who funds THREE FIRES COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #127 ↗
- Who funds Living Well Cancer Resource Center ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY INTERACTIVE CENTER Scitech Fox Valley STEM Programs ↗
- Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM GOLF ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Bethesda Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GIVE ME A CHANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEARS CARE ↗
- Who funds PARAMOUNT ARTS CENTRE ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINTE AUTISM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Bisoncares ↗
- Who funds BIG ROCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S GOLF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRESH START SURGICAL GIFTS ↗
- Who funds SERTOMA CENTRE INC ↗
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: Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Dunham Fund · Dunham Foundation · The Dupage Community Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Motorola Solutions Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Neil & Ginny Gerald Family Foundation · McGowan Gin Rosica Family Foundation Inc · Ft Cares Foundation · The Bersted Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Rich Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rich Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc: 12% of income from government
- Children's Golf Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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