· Private foundation
Trillium 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, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| URBAN GATEWAYS | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY PARTNERS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING | $10,000 |
| FAMILY FOCUS INC | $9,000 |
| FENIX HEALTH CENTER INC | $8,000 |
| ZACHARIAS SEXUAL ABUSE CENTER | $8,000 |
| ROTARY CLUB OF HIGHLAND PARKHIGHWOOD | $8,000 |
| HIGHLAND PARK COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL | $7,500 |
| RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOC | $5,000 |
| CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN | $5,000 |
| NORTH SUBURBAN LEGAL AID CLINIC | $5,000 |
| JEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES | $2,500 |
| ASPIRITECH NFP | $2,500 |
| HIGHLAND PARK SENIOR CENTER | $1,000 |
| HIGHLAND PARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against -30% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 0 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
RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION5× · 2021–2025 · $59k · revenue +52%
Family Focus5× · 2021–2025 · $51k · revenue +154%- ZSZACHARIAS SEXUAL ABUSE CENTER5× · 2021–2025 · $42k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- FSFAMILY SERVICE OF LAKE COUNTYone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -30%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5k
- LOLYRIC OPERAone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
At legal aid chicago, we work together to provide high quality civil legal aid to people living in poverty and other vulnerable groups.through advocacy, education, collaboration, and litigation we empower individuals, protect fundamental…
The mission is to preserve Highland Park's unique heritage and to promote its vast horticultural, educational and recreational resources. Continued on Schedule OWe support planning, management and restoration, and engage the community…
To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.
Chicago Free School provides pre-kindergarten through 8th grade instruction and support activities. The faculty consists of qualified indiviuals with the appropriate education and experiende to provide students with the education that…
The chicago high school for the arts (chiarts) develops the next generation of diverse, artistically promising scholar-artists through intensive pre-professional training in the arts, combined with a comprehensive college preparatory…
Chicago family health center will promote health, work to prevent disease and provide treatment through the delivery of quality, accessible primary healtcare that is culturally sensitive, affordable, and responsive to community and…
To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.
Jewish Family Service is a nonprofit social service organization that supports people of all faiths as they navigate through lifes's challenges - illness, aging , finanical uncertainty, mental health concerns, family problems, or personal…
Local chamber of commerce
Administering an array of critical, intensive therapeutic interventions and/or facilitation services to emotionally and behaviorally disturbed clients for whom DCFS is legally responsible in order to stabilize their traditional or home of…
Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.
Northbrook community nursery school, through the cooperation of staff, board and parents, is committed to meeting the social, emotional, intellectual and physical needs of each child. the preschool strives to facilitate this development…
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 17 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 RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds URBAN GATEWAYS ↗
- Who funds Family Focus ↗
- Who funds ZACHARIAS SEXUAL ABUSE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF HIGHLAND PARK- HIGHWOOD ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND PARK COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NORTH SUBURBAN LEGAL AID CLINIC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF LAKE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ASPIRITECH NFP ↗
- Who funds Jewish Child and Family Services ↗
- Who funds Highland Park Community Foundation ↗
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: AbbVie Foundation · Highland Park Community Foundation · Healthcare Foundation of Highland Park · The Lake County Community Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Mills Family Charitable Foundation · First Bank Chicago Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Trillium Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Trillium Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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