· Private foundation
William and Evelyn Fuchs Family 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $148k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $235k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO CANCER | $130,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $55,000 |
| TRELLUS OPPORTUNITIES FOR LIFE | $50,000 |
| RAVINA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| ELMHURST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| ROBERT SHIELDS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP | $20,000 |
| TIMOTHY CHRTISTIAN SCHOOL | $12,500 |
| MONTINI CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| HEART HEAVEN OUTREACH | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| ALPORT SYNDROME FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| WEST SUBURBAN HUMANE SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL LEWIS UNIVERSITY | $7,000 |
| NORTH CENTRAL REGIONAL BETTERMENT | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
28 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CVCHILD'S VOICE SCHOOL7× · 2017–2023 · $150k · revenue +2%
- OBOPEN BOOKS LTD3× · 2021–2023 · $125k · revenue +5%
- NLNational Louis University4× · 2022–2025 · $76k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- EWEXODUS WORLD SERVICEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +28%
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORYone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +17%- ICIC CATHOLIC PREP HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Providing and promoting waldorf education from early childhood through the twelfth grade and promoting waldorf education through community outreach.
Thrive chicago's mission is to prepare chicago's youth for a vibrant future by aligning efforts and outcomes from cradle to career.
The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
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…
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
Academy for global citizenship charter school (agc) develops mindful leaders who take action both now and in the future to positively impact their communities and the world beyond.
Cjds creates for its students a standard of excellence in both jewish and general studies. students develop a passion for learning and a strong sense of themselves as jews and as human beings. students are inspired to develop a strong…
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.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
The mission of the daniel murphy scholarship fund is to give high school scholarship assistance and educational support to chicago students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. the fund seeks to make a life-altering difference in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cradles to Crayons Inc and the most unlike its peers is Heart Haven Outreach. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 35 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CHILD'S VOICE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds OPEN BOOKS LTD ↗
- Who funds National Louis University ↗
- Who funds WEST SUBURBAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE MORTON ARBORETUM ↗
- Who funds CIVIC LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TIMOTHY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF DUPAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HEART HAVEN OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds EXODUS WORLD SERVICE ↗
- Who funds Hanover Township Foundation ↗
- Who funds ELMHURST-YORKFIELD FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds ALPORT SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Dupage Community Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Northern Illinois Food Bank · The Chicago Community Trust · The Allstate Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Edward Jones Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 William and Evelyn Fuchs Family 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.
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
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.
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