· Private foundation
Tim and Maureen Hunter Charitable 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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k31 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Housing Forward | $25,000 |
| Cara Chicago | $20,000 |
| Old Town School | $10,000 |
| A House in Austin | $5,000 |
| St Giles Church | $5,000 |
| St Giles School | $2,500 |
| ISU Foundation | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Ladder Up | $1,000 |
| Erie Family Health Foundation | $1,000 |
| Art Institute of Chicago | $550 |
| BEAT THE STREETS CHICAGO | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| Sarahs Inn | $500 |
| Frank Lloyd Wright TrustTrust | $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 (FY20–25, $4k) 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
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 +36% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.
32 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 11 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TCThe Cara Program6× · 2020–2025 · $75k · revenue +83%
- HFHOUSING FORWARD6× · 2020–2025 · $68k · revenue +68%
- AHA HOUSE IN AUSTIN6× · 2020–2025 · $56k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- WSWEST SIDE CONNECTORone grant, 2024 · $5k
- OIOPRF Infant Welfare Societyone grant, 2020 · $500
- AAALS Association Ohioone grant, 2023 · $500
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 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.
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
Chh honors every person's right to a home and health care, by bridging the housing and health care systems, to improve the lives of chicagoans experiencing homelessness.
Volunteers of america of illinois partners with the people we serve to create transformational and lasting change in their lives through programs that support, empower, and transform.
Providing academic support to children experiencing homelessness in Chicago and providing resources and services to families experiencing homelessness in Chicago.
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 aids foundation of chicago mobilizes communities to create equity and justice for people living with and vulnerable to hiv and related chronic disease.
To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
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…
How this is measured
31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 65 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 The Cara Program ↗
- Who funds HOUSING FORWARD ↗
- Who funds A HOUSE IN AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds LADDER UP (F/K/A CITY-WIDE TAX ASSISTANCE PROGRAM) ↗
- Who funds Erie Family Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE CONNECTOR ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SARAH'S INN ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds CLARINDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BUILD INC ↗
- Who funds Inspiration Corporation ↗
- Who funds Chicago Architecture Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN GATEWAYS ↗
- Who funds FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT TRUST ↗
- Who funds BEAT THE STREETS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Chicago Humanities Festival ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THRIVE COUNSELING CENTER ↗
- Who funds AFS-USA 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 · Good Heart Work Smart Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation · Joseph R & Helen Shaker Family Foundation · Healthy Communities Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · T Kendall Hunt Family Foundation Inc · Carol Bernick Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Tim and Maureen Hunter Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tim and Maureen Hunter Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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