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The Walter S & Lucienne B Driskill 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: 48% of THE WALTER S & LUCIENNE B DRISKILL 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 $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $140k
- $250k+1 grant · $282k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CURIOSITY 2 CREATE | $281,510 |
| LITTLE FRIENDS INC | $30,000 |
| CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (PEGGY NOTEBEART NATURE MUSEUM) | $30,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB CHICAGO | $25,000 |
| BRIDGE COMMUNITIES | $25,000 |
| LEWIS UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| NUTS BOLTS & THINGAMAJIGS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ELGIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $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 (FY18–24, $284k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +39% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- CECREATIVE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC2× · 2022–2023 · $3.1M · revenue +13%
Northwestern University2× · 2017–2018 · $890k · revenue +41%- LFLITTLE FRIENDS INC7× · 2018–2024 · $118k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- OHOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $1.4M
- DFDRISKILL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $985k · 77% of their budget
- ARANN & ROBERT LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITALone grant, 2021 · $303k
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.
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 spark curiosity and creativity in all young children through positive, play-based learning experiences.
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 lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Edward-Elmhurst Healthcare follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."
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…
Steadfast in jesus christ as revealed in the holy scriptures, concordia university chicago promotes academic rigor in its liberal arts and professional programs; grounds students in objective truth, integrity, and excellence; and practices…
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The elmhurst memorial healthcare group follows the mission of endeavor health (f/k/a ns-ee holdings). the mission of endeavor health is to "help everyone in our communities be their best." central to this mission is a commitment to…
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Little Friends Inc and the most unlike its peers is Masons Voice Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 59 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 CREATIVE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DRISKILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds SHORE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO LIGHTS ↗
- Who funds Lewis University ↗
- Who funds CHILD'S VOICE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE DUPAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago ↗
- Who funds 360 YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds DUPAGE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MASONS VOICE INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds ELMHURST ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds INDIAN PRAIRIE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Edward Foundation ↗
- Who funds DUPAGE PADS INC ↗
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: The Dupage Community Foundation · Dunham Fund · Naperville Rotary Charities Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Tara Foundation · Edward-Elmhurst Healthcare · Exchange Club Charitable Organization · Neil & Ginny Gerald Family Foundation · Tellabs Foundation · Best Walter & Edith Foundation · The a Montgomery Ward 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 Walter S & Lucienne B Driskill 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.
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.
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