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Ulta Beauty Charitable Foundation

The Ulta Beauty Charitable Foundation is an organization committed to making a positive impact by supporting the well-being of women and teens in under-resourced communities in the u.s.

$13M
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
—
States reached
$5.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Health$34MInternational$12MYouth Development$3.9MEducation$1.7MHuman Services$1.6MHousing & Shelter$1.1MCivil Rights$783kEmployment$626kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 27 grants below total $12,551,975 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $13,453,975 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $902,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.0M
  • $250k+12 grants · $11M
$200,000
Median grant
—
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC$5,489,127
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF AMERICA$2,512,336
YWCA OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO$551,500
DRESS FOR SUCCESS WORLDWIDE$500,000
ACTIVE MINDS INC$350,000
COVENANT HOUSE$350,000
Girls Inc$350,000
The JED Foundation$350,000
COMMERCIAL CLUB FOUNDATION$250,000
American Red Cross$250,000
THE ADLER PLANETARIUM$250,000
SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC$250,000
STEP UP WOMEN'S NETWORK$200,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO$200,000
APIA SCHOLARS$100,512
02Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$57M · 34 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

34 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
9

Total granted

$57M
$478k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+13%

Still filing today

97%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationCivil RightsInternationalPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $33M · revenue +34%
  • Save The Children Federation Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $11M · revenue +14%
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
    3× · 2023–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +3% · 41% of their budget

Funded once

  • CN
    Charity Navigator
    one grant, 2024 · $350k · revenue +13%
  • TC
    THE CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +40%
  • START EARLY
    one grant, 2023 · $22k · revenue -4%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

03Your field

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.

1
Alternatives Inc

Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…

Health
2
Out & Equal

To provide leadership and professional development, education and research to create workplaces free from discrimination.

Social Science
3
Chicago Public Education Fund

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.

Education
4
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
5
City Year Inc

City year helps students and schools succeed, while preparing the next generation of civically engaged leaders who can work across lines of difference. partnering with teachers, teams of city year americorps members cultivate learning…

Unclassified
6
Chicago United

To achieve parity in economic opportunity for people of color by advancing multiracial leadership in corporate governance, expanding the talent pipline for executive-level management, and growing minority businesses.

Philanthropy
7
Youthbuild Global Inc

With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…

Employment
8
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
9
Kipp Chicago Schools

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…

Education
10
Citizen Schools Inc

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…

Education
11
American Association of University Women Inc

Aauw advances gender equity for women and girls through research, education, and advocacy.

Education
12
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is After School Matters Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Adler Planetarium. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLgbtq+ Community SupportWomen & Girls Leadership De…Local History MuseumsImmigrant Worker SupportCommunity FoundationsMilitary Veterans SupportDevelopmental Disabilities …Youth Development ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyCancer Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%35%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%1%10–20yr16%66%20–35yr13%4%35–55yr16%28%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/51
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,514

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.

03the grantee network

50 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. 50 of the 51 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/50
Grantees still filing
26/50
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $32,899,260 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INCSave The Children Federation Inc — $10,908,683 · InternationalSave The Children Federat…DRESS FOR SUCCESS WORLDWIDE — $1,902,013 · InternationalDRESS FOR SUCCESS WORLDWI…+2 more — $72,500 · InternationalBIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $3,012,336 · OtherBIG BROTHERS…COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO — $641,500 · OtherCOMMUNITIES …THE COMMERCIAL CLUB FOUNDATION — $250,000 · OtherPFLAG — $217,500 · OtherDONORSCHOOSEORG — $390,000 · OtherDONORSCHOOSE…CENTERLINK INC — $250,000 · Other+22 more — $1,529,548 · Other+22 moreYWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $1,151,500 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE — $950,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $550,000 · Human ServicesCharity Navigator — $350,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC — $150,000 · Human Services+5 more — $250,000 · Human ServicesTHE JED FOUNDATION — $700,000 · HealthActive Minds Inc — $350,000 · Health+1 more — $25,000 · HealthSTEP UP WOMEN'S NETWORK — $600,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ADLER PLANETARIUM — $250,000 · Arts & CultureGIRLS INC OF CHICAGO — $700,000 · Youth DevelopmentIMENTOR INC — $65,000 · Youth Development+1 more — $7,500 · Youth Development
Public Safety & Disaster$32,899,260International$12,883,196Other$6,290,884Human Services$3,401,500Health$1,075,000Arts & Culture$850,000Youth Development$772,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $32,899,260 over 6y, 7.2% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $10,908,683 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $3,012,336 over 3y, 41% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS WORLDWIDE — $1,902,013 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetYWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $1,151,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — $950,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE JED FOUNDATION — $700,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetGIRLS INC OF CHICAGO — $700,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO — $641,500 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetSTEP UP WOMEN'S NETWORK — $600,000 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $550,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG — $390,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCharity Navigator — $350,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetActive Minds Inc — $350,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetTHE ADLER PLANETARIUM — $250,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCENTERLINK INC — $250,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetTHE COMMERCIAL CLUB FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPFLAG — $217,500 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC — $200,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetIOLA Foundation — $150,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetPOINT FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC — $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGlam4Good Foundation — $130,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetGLSEN INC — $125,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMetropolitan Family Services — $101,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $100,512 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTRUE COLORS UNITED INC — $100,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE INC — $70,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetIMENTOR INC — $65,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHICAGO URBAN LEAGUE — $51,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEQUALITY ILLINOIS — $50,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetCLEARBROOK — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLUE STAR FAMILIES INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYouth Guidance — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChinese for Affirmative Action — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSTART EARLY — $21,836 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Conscious Kid — $20,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetYWCA USA INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHISPANIC ALLIANCE FOR CAREER ENHANCEMENT — $11,200 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSKILLS FOR CHICAGO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA WOMAN'S NATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
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.

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.

Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Tides FoundationAbbVie FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…The Allstate Foundati…Polk Bros Foundation …Arie and Ida Crown Me…Lloyd a Fry FoundationNorthwestern Universi…The Blackbaud Giving …Pwc Foundation IncArthur J Gallagher Fo…
Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY19.8× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Tides Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Allstate Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Northwestern University · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Pwc Foundation Inc · Arthur J Gallagher 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 Ulta Beauty Charitable 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Centerlink Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 51 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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