· Private foundation
The Thomas L and Kathleen G Bindley Charitable Trust
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 $10k24 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $71k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHICAGO JESUIT ACADEMY | $17,500 |
| BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES | $12,000 |
| CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST | $11,000 |
| HANDS TOGETHER | $10,000 |
| DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| AID FOR WOMEN | $10,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO | $6,000 |
| LEARN TO EARN SOUTH AFRICA | $6,000 |
| BY THE HAND CLUB FOR KIDS | $5,000 |
| ST ALBANS SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| CRU | $3,000 |
| HOPE FOR SILENT VOICES | $3,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $3,000 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
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 (FY19–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 13% 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.
56 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AFAID FOR WOMEN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $121k · revenue +256%
- BUBREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $99k · revenue +207%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $45k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- TCTHE CHICAGO CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -95%
- VCVigo County Historical Society Incone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +6%
- TITHE IMMOKALEE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +25%
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.
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.
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Walk thru the bible (wtb) ignites passion for god's word. by developing a global network of influential pastors and leaders and then resourcing them with tools and training, wtb fulfills its role in the great commission.
Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
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…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
How this is measured
36 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. 36 of the 77 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 AID FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Hands Together Inc ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Mens Golf Fellowship Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERSON MUSIC MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds By The Hand Club For Kids ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Chicago Bible Society ↗
- Who funds HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES AND MAINTENANCE FOR THE ELDERLY INC ↗
- Who funds Fun Time Early Childhood Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOME 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 Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · AbbVie Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Thomas L and Kathleen G Bindley Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Thomas L and Kathleen G Bindley Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
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