· Private foundation
Usg Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k252 grants · $413k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $185k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $188k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP CORPORATION | $87,535 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC | $50,000 |
| American Red Cross | $50,000 |
| Lumity | $25,000 |
| Youth Conservation Corps | $25,000 |
| Career Transistions Center of Chicago | $15,000 |
| Preservation Foundation of the Lake County Forest Preserves | $15,000 |
| MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE | $15,000 |
| YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO | $15,000 |
| Communities In Schools of Chicago | $15,000 |
| Easter Seals DuPage and the Fox Valley Region | $15,000 |
| South Suburban PADS | $15,000 |
| Wreaths Across America | $10,000 |
| Naperville Heritage Society | $10,000 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $415k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% 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 +24% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
235 repeat relationships: 120 still active in FY2025, 115 since wound down; 121 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, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $282k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NMNational Merit Scholarship Corporation5× · 2021–2025 · $371k · revenue +18%
- LLUMITY5× · 2020–2025 · $153k · revenue +143%
- MHMERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT5× · 2020–2024 · $126k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- NMNATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP CORPORATone grant, 2020 · $50k
- UWUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INCone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue -50%
- NSNATIONAL SAFETY COUNCILone grant, 2023 · $25k · 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.
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…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
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…
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
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…
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.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
Rock river valley blood center, in partnership with our community, is dedicated to providing safe, high value blood products and services to people in need.
Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
How this is measured
575 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. 575 of the 886 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 National Merit Scholarship Corporation ↗
- Who funds LUMITY ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT ↗
- Who funds CAREER TRANSITIONS CENTER OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds CHICAGOLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY JAMES HARRIS TREASURER ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS DUPAGE & THE FOX VALLEY REGION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS ↗
- Who funds YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds NAPERVILLE HERITAGE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS ↗
- Who funds ALL STARS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION FOUNDATION OF THE LAKE COUNTY FOREST PRESERVES ↗
- Who funds SWEETWATER HOUSE OF PEACE ↗
- Who funds Maryfield Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds THE MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds MUSIC OF THE BAROQUE ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO UNITED ↗
- Who funds PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS ↗
- Who funds GIRLS IN THE GAME NFP ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIORS UNITED-MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds DUPAGE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
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: George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Circle of Service Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Dr Scholl Foundation · Baxter International Foundation · Motorola Solutions Foundation · Cme Group Community Foundation F/K/A Nymex Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · First Bank Chicago Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Usg Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Usg Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Ellie Fund Inc: 15% of income from government
- Family Promise Inc: 2% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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