· Private foundation
Vivo 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k33 grants · $124k
- $10k–50k33 grants · $878k
- $50k–250k52 grants · $5.4M
- $250k+12 grants · $4.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY COLLEGES OF CHICAGO FOUNDATION | $525,000 |
| SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM | $500,000 |
| CHICAGO SPECIAL PROJECTS GROUP | $500,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $410,000 |
| NATIONAL LOUIS UNIVERSITY | $350,000 |
| ENDEAVOR HEALTH CLINICAL OPERATIONS FKA NORTHSHORE UNIVERSITY HEALTHSYSTEM | $275,000 |
| NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS | $260,000 |
| NEW LIFE CENTERS OF CHICAGOLAND | $257,500 |
| YOUTH GUIDANCE | $250,000 |
| BRAVEN | $250,000 |
| ILLINOIS ACTION FOR CHILDREN | $250,000 |
| RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | $250,000 |
| CAROLE ROBERTSON CENTER FOR LEARNING | $200,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS | $200,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $175,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 100% of Vivo Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 0%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
118 repeat relationships: 87 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 40 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IAIllinois Action for Children4× · 2021–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +18%
- BIBRAVEN INC4× · 2021–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +115%
- NLNational Louis University3× · 2022–2024 · $800k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- BFBETTER FUTURE FORWARD INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +58%
- COCollege of Lake County Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +180%
- RURUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER SPECIAL FUNDone grant, 2021 · $100k
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 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…
To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.
The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.
To equip all students in grades six through twelve with the academic skills, intellectual habits and character traits to succeed in the college of their choice, strenghten their communities and change the world.
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
To create a school that dramatically transforms the lives of k-8 students and prepares them for success in college and in life through: the delivery of a rigorous and personalized academic program, a focus on holistic education, and the…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Thrive chicago's mission is to prepare chicago's youth for a vibrant future by aligning efforts and outcomes from cradle to career.
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.
Communities in schools of chicago (cis of chicago) connects social, health, and enrichment programs and services to chicago public school students. cis of chicago helps schools address students' most pressing needs by training them to…
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…
How this is measured
172 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. 172 of the 217 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 Illinois Action for Children ↗
- Who funds City Colleges of Chicago Foundation ↗
- Who funds BRAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds National Louis University ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Youth Guidance ↗
- Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds KIDS FIRST CHICAGO FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds Carole Robertson Center for Learning ↗
- Who funds Endeavor Health Clinical Operations ↗
- Who funds EMBARC INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds START EARLY ↗
- Who funds ONEGOAL ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO SCHOLARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO SPECIAL PROJECTS GROUP ↗
- Who funds New Life Centers of Chicagoland ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL ↗
- Who funds HOPE CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds MIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds Chicago State Foundation ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SYNCERE ↗
- Who funds NEW MOMS INC ↗
- Who funds ADVANCE ILLINOIS NFP ↗
- Who funds ALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY ↗
- Who funds INGENUITY INCORPORATED CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
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: Circle of Service Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Fulk Family Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · The Joyce Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Finnegan Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Vivo Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vivo Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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