· Private foundation
The Ten Talents Foundation Ltd
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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| METRO SQUASH | $12,500 |
| SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS | $8,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CHICAGO | $6,000 |
| CHICAGO LIGHTS | $5,000 |
| CHICAGO HOPE ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| MATH CIRCLES OF CHICAGO | $5,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SW MICHIGAN | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF AUSTIN | $5,000 |
| HIRE HEROES | $4,000 |
| WORKFORCE OPPORTUNITY SERVICES | $4,000 |
| GLENVIEW CLUB SCHOLARSHIP FNDN | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| SAFER FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| CHICAGO CRED | $2,000 |
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 (FY21–21, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KFKIPP FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2021 · $40k · revenue +143%
- SASUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC5× · 2021–2025 · $31k · revenue +89%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO5× · 2021–2025 · $26k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- ABA Better Chicagoone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -16%
- USUNITED STATES SOCCER FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +2%
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +26%
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.
The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…
See schedule othe mission of skills is to stand as a life-changing employment resource connecting underrepresented job seekers to employers with opportunities across industries. we do this by building multi-level, trusted relationships…
Chicago scholars is transforming the leadership landscape of our city by resolving the fundamental barriers to success for academically driven, first generation college students from under-resourced communities.
Goodwill industries of metropolitan chicago, inc. ("goodwill-chicago") is a nonstock, not-for-profit illinois corporation, whose sole member is goodwill industries of southeastern wisconsin, inc. ("goodwill"), a wisconsin nonstock,…
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
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…
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
To equip all students in grades six through twelve with the academic skills, intellectual habits and character traits to succeed in the college of their choice, strenghten their communities and change the world.
To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.
Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.
In fiscal year 2025, the agency operated an americorps maker fellowship, placing 7 americorps vista members at 6 different education focused organizations in ca, ma, and ny. americorps members worked on capacity building projects to expand…
Youth job center connects youth ages 14-25 to meaningful careers through early exposure, workforce training, individualized coaching, and strong employer partnerships. we meet young people where they are and guide them toward living-wage…
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 21 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 METROSQUASH NFP ↗
- Who funds KIPP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HOPE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MATH CIRCLES OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds GLEN VIEW CLUB SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO LIGHTS ↗
- Who funds Chicago Cred Inc ↗
- Who funds A Better Chicago ↗
- Who funds HIRE HEROES USA INC ↗
- Who funds WORKFORCE OUTSOURCE SERVICES INC dba WORKFORCE OPPORTUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Safer Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES SOCCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds ALL STARS PROJECT 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: The Chicago Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Finnegan Family Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Greater Chicago Food Depository · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · AbbVie Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Ten Talents Foundation Ltd funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ten Talents Foundation Ltd. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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