· Private foundation
Winnie and Bob Crawford 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 20 grants below total $411,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $538,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $126,500 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 · FY2022
- Under $10k14 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lake Forest College | $250,000 |
| Field Museum -Pledge | $100,000 |
| Wolcott School | $10,000 |
| Field Museum | $10,000 |
| Lake County Community Foundation/NEL Lake C | $10,000 |
| DesPlaines Wetland Conservancy (Halter) | $10,000 |
| AUSL | $2,500 |
| Art Institute of Chicago | $2,500 |
| U of Pennsylvania - Wharton | $2,500 |
| University of Pennsylvania/Wharton | $2,500 |
| Dickinson College | $2,500 |
| Ragdale | $1,500 |
| Gorton Community Center | $1,000 |
| City Lights/Fourth Presbyterian | $1,000 |
| WTTW | $1,000 |
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 (FY19–20, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2022, 3 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $412k 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
Lake Forest College2× · 2019–2020 · $250k · revenue +58%
RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION2× · 2019–2020 · $200k · revenue +41%- RCRENEW COMMUNITIES NFP2× · 2019–2020 · $10k · revenue -18%
Funded once
- TCTHE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRSone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -24%
- LOLyric Opera of Chicagograduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +34%
- MTMCCORMICK THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY 22-22148one grant, 2020 · $8k
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.
Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…
Lake forest academy strives to embody in its practices - and to cultivate in its students -excellence of character, scholarship, citizenship, and responsibility.
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.
To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The niu foundation's mission is to energize and connect the private sector with the niu community to secure and steward resources that support the future and growth of niu.
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
East-west university is an independent institution of higher learning located in downtown chicago. its mission is the pursuit of excellence by all through relevant, effective and convenient education and service to humankind with a global,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lake Forest College and the most unlike its peers is Faraja Fund Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 49 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
22 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. 22 of the 47 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 Lake Forest College ↗
- Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS ↗
- Who funds Lyric Opera of Chicago ↗
- Who funds RENEW COMMUNITIES NFP ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL RECREATION FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds DICKINSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds LAKE FOREST FOUNDATION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Lake County ↗
- Who funds SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FARAJA FUND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FREE SPIRIT MEDIA NFP ↗
- Who funds Lake Forest Police Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds University of New England ↗
- Who funds Gorton Community Center ↗
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 Chicago Community Trust · Clarks Fork Foundation · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · Anne Hunting Foundation · Hunting Foundation · Red Bird Hollow Foundation · Harold M & Adeline S Morrison Family Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Winnie and Bob Crawford 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.
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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