· Private foundation
Wesley Luehring Foundation
Its FY2024 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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k13 grants · $245k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CASA OF DUPAGE COUNTY | $55,000 |
| WHEATON PARK DISTRICT | $50,000 |
| ELK GROVE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION | $35,000 |
| PEOPLES RESOURCE CENTER | $30,000 |
| ST JOSEPH'S LITTLE SISTERS | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| LITTLE FRIENDS | $20,000 |
| BRIDGE COMMUNITIES | $20,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE - CDH | $20,000 |
| MERCY HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS | $15,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $15,000 |
| THE HADLEY SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND | $10,000 |
| DOODLEBUG WORKSHOP | $10,000 |
| BOHEMIAN LAWYERS ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $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 (FY17–24, $235k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +70% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- COCASA OF DUPAGE COUNTY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $415k · revenue +71%
- PRPEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $205k · revenue +70%
- LFLITTLE FRIENDS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $135k · revenue +101%
Funded once
- FTFEED THE CHILDREN INCone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -6%
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.
Child Link provides foster care, family counseling, and therapy services to Chicago area adolescents who are at risk of homelessness. Child Link also refers adolescents to other agencies that are able to provide additional resources and…
Friends of the children - chicago has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…
Founded in 1883, brightpoint (formerly known as children's home & aid) is a leading statewide organization supporting families so children can thrive.
To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.
The chicago children's advocacy center unites public, private, and community partners to ensure the safety, health, and well-being of abused children.
The Arc of Illinois is committed to empowering persons with disabilities to achieve full participation in community life through informed choices.
To help people with developmental disabilities meet life's challenges and reach their highest potential.
To assist children who have been victims of abuse
Provide community-based residential housing to adults with autism and/or severe developmental disabilities. also provide developmental training and other supports to this same population.
CASA of Cook County's vision is to protect abused and neglected children by providing them in court, a safe and permanent home, and an opportunity to grow, learn and thrive.
Caritas family solutions strengthens the social and emotional well-being of individuals and families in order to create healthy relationships, loving homes and strong communities.
To ensure that people with intellectual and developmental disabilities are provided with the best options and opportunities to live safely, work productively, explore creatively, learn continuously and play pleasurably throughout their…
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 23 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 CASA OF DUPAGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds LITTLE FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds HADLEY INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds Kids Above All Illinois ↗
- Who funds Connection of Friends ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Giant Steps Illinois Inc ↗
- Who funds FEED THE CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS 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: The Dupage Community Foundation · Topfer Family Foundation · Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley · The Chicago Community Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Wesley Luehring Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wesley Luehring Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
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