· Private foundation
Yagan Family 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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+2 grants · $550k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of Chicago Center for Free Expression | $300,000 |
| The Institute for Political Innovation | $250,000 |
| Harvard University-Opportunity Insights | $200,000 |
| Yale University | $200,000 |
| Lawndale Christian Legal Center | $150,000 |
| The Honeycomb Project | $128,820 |
| Urban Initiatives | $100,000 |
| Represent US | $100,000 |
| Unite America Institute Inc | $100,000 |
| Start Early FKA Ounce of Prevention | $100,000 |
| Fund for Constitutional Government | $100,000 |
| Overdose Crisis Response Fund | $79,921 |
| One Goal | $50,000 |
| Invest for Better | $50,000 |
| Rush University Medical Center | $50,000 |
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, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% 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.
34 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 7 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $542k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- THTHE HONEYCOMB PROJECT INC NFP7× · 2017–2024 · $623k · revenue +32% · 45% of their budget
- LCLAWNDALE CHRISTIAN LEGAL CENTER6× · 2017–2024 · $495k · revenue +173%
- OONEGOAL8× · 2017–2024 · $335k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- YUYALE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $200k
- CCChicago Community Trust Donor Advised Fundone grant, 2020 · $160k
- UOUniversity of Chicago Center for Free Enterpriseone grant, 2022 · $150k
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.
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…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
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…
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…
The global impact investing network, inc. is dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing to solve systemic problems facing people and the planet. impact investments are investments made into companies,…
Chief executives for corporate purpose (cecp) is the only business counsel and network dedicated to driving measurable returns on purpose. we promote responsible purpose-driven business as it increases customer loyalty, builds employee…
Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…
Ai4all's mission is to ensure that the next generation of ai leaders reflects humanity. ai4all is transforming the pipeline of ai practitioners who will shape ai for the benefit of humanity.
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…
Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…
How this is measured
75 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. 75 of the 111 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 THE HONEYCOMB PROJECT INC NFP ↗
- Who funds LAWNDALE CHRISTIAN LEGAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds RepresentUs ↗
- Who funds ONEGOAL ↗
- Who funds URBAN INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR POLITICAL INNOVATION INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT ↗
- Who funds KARAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds ISSUE ONE ↗
- Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds LEADERS IN TECH INC ↗
- Who funds INVEST FOR BETTER INC ↗
- Who funds OVERDOSE CRISIS RESPONSE FUND ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL HARM REDUCTION COALITION ↗
- Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds IMPACTASSETSINC ↗
- Who funds Freedmen Heirs Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Vocal Justice ↗
- Who funds JERSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
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: John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Motorola Solutions Foundation · The Rockefeller Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Yagan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Yagan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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