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100 Thousand 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOXING OUT NEGATIVITY | $30,000 |
| BACK OF THE YARDS NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| METRO SQUASH | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| THE BASE | $20,000 |
| JUICE HOOPS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CHICAGO BASEBALL AND EDUCATIONAL ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| FIRST TEE OF GREATER CHICAGO | $5,000 |
| BEAT THE STREETS CHICAGO | $5,000 |
| PEACE RUNNERS 773 | $5,000 |
| URBAN INITIATIVES | $5,000 |
| OWLS LACROSSE | $5,000 |
| BOX UNITED | $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 (FY21–25, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
10 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 7 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, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k 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
- BTBEAT THE STREETS CHICAGO3× · 2021–2025 · $45k · revenue +110%
- OWOutreach with Lacrosse Schools3× · 2022–2025 · $45k · revenue +7%
- CBCHICAGO BASEBALL AND EDUCATIONAL ACADEMY INC2× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- TBTHE BASE CHICAGOone grant, 2021 · $40k
- COCITY OF REFUGE - CHICAGOone grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue -22%
- GIGIRLS IN THE GAME NFPone grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +4%
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.
To promote the health and wellness of Chicago children through innovative, engaging, and sustainable youth running programs.
Sports program for youth
Teaching the ideals of sports, including sportsmanship, teamwork, fair play,discipline, respect, honesty, loyalty and courage; developing healthier, happier and more confident youth; combating juvenile delinquency by keeping youths…
To decrease violence, improve social and emotional conditions, and provide financial opportunities among youth in chicago's south shore community.
Provide at-risk youth with after school/summer programs for training and life skills.
Intentional Sports is a nonprofit organization that stands committed to inspiring Chicago's youth through the power of sports. Our mission is to provide accessible opportunities in sports, wellness, and education through programming that…
To bring Olympic sport and the ideals of the Olympic movement to the youth of Chicago through sports training programs, international competitions and exchanges, and integration with Olympic athletes and coaches.
Teaching social responsibility
We provide all Chicago youth with equitable access to chess education empowering them with essential life skills for success on and off the board.
Improving chicago's future by using the sport of boxing to provide resources and opportunities to chicago's youth and communities.
Guided by the belief that lives can be transformed through the game of tennis USTA Chicago a District of the USTA Midwest Section creates sustains and grows enthusiasm for the game of tennis throughout Chicagoland. As the governing body…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Beat the Streets Chicago and the most unlike its peers is East Side Little League. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 26 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 BEAT THE STREETS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Outreach with Lacrosse Schools ↗
- Who funds ABC-PILSEN ↗
- Who funds BOX UNITED ↗
- Who funds CITY OF REFUGE - CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds GIRLS IN THE GAME NFP ↗
- Who funds UCAN ↗
- Who funds Boxing Out Negativity Inc ↗
- Who funds BUILD INC ↗
- Who funds BACK OF THE YARDS NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds METROSQUASH NFP ↗
- Who funds URBAN INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO BASEBALL AND EDUCATIONAL ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST TEE OF CHICAGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds XS Tennis and Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds Juice Hoops Foundation ↗
- Who funds Chicago Training Center ↗
- Who funds EAST SIDE LITTLE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES CHICAGO ↗
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 · Laureus Sport for Good Foundation USA · Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation · Good Sports Inc · Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Chicago Cubs Charities · Charities Aid Foundation America · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · AbbVie Foundation
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 100 Thousand 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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