Organization
Big Shoulders Fund
See who has funded you, who else those funders support, and which potential new funders your network brings into view.
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Your funders
217 funders have made program grants to you since 2016. The 5 shown below are the most recent; each row shows how many years they funded you and the total amount recorded. Of these, 159 are locally focused, 41 have national reach, and 17 are no longer active.
- Dean & Barbara White Family Foundation Inc5 years$8,175,000
- Robert R Mccormick Foundation5 years$6,318,921
- Canning Foundation5 years$5,615,575
- The@Bruce and Beth White Family Foundation6 years$4,567,980
- Patrick G and Shirley W Ryan Foundation5 years$4,500,000
Showing 5 of 217. See all 258 funders
41 others are DAFs (donor-advised funds), matching-gift programs or similar pass-throughs — intermediaries carrying someone else's choice, so no step below uses them.
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Your funding peers
Funding peers are organizations that share one or more of your funders. Start with organizations in a related field that share at least three of them. Explore all 16,074 funding connections →
221 Education funding peers share at least three of your funders.
- Accelerate InstituteIL15 shared funders
- Kids First Chicago for EducationIL15 shared funders
- Depaul College Prep FoundationIL13 shared funders
- High JumpIL12 shared funders
- Cristo Rey NetworkIL11 shared funders
- Chiarts FoundationIL9 shared funders
- Holy Family MinistriesIL9 shared funders
- City Colleges of Chicago FoundationIL8 shared funders
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Potential new funders
Potential new funders have not funded you since 2016, but they fund organizations in your funding network. They are ranked by the strength of their connections through your funders and funding peers.
In historical data, funders connected this way later funded an organization like yours about twenty times as often as a random eligible funder, and still only about one in fifty times. This is a historical pattern, not a prediction.
Showing the first 3 strongly connected funders.