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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.

$180k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0179% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Youth Development$304kRecreation & Sports$95kHuman Services$80kCommunity Improvement$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $150k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$118k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOXING OUT NEGATIVITY$30,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
THE BASE$20,000
BACK OF THE YARDS NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL$20,000
METRO SQUASH$20,000
CHICAGO BASEBALL AND EDUCATIONAL ACADEMY$10,000
JUICE HOOPS FOUNDATION$10,000
OWLS LACROSSE$5,000
FIRST TEE OF GREATER CHICAGO$5,000
URBAN INITIATIVES$5,000
PEACE RUNNERS 773$5,000
BEAT THE STREETS CHICAGO$5,000
BOX UNITED$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CITY OF REFUGE CHICAGO: $35k → 14%URBAN INITIATIVES: $10k → 14%URBAN INITIATIVES: $5k → 14%UCAN CHICAGO: $30k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$350k · 10 repeat orgs$329k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
9

Total granted

$350k
$204k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+33%

Still filing today

70%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
Youth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BT
    BEAT THE STREETS CHICAGO
    3× · 2021–2025 · $45k · revenue +110%
  • OW
    Outreach with Lacrosse Schools
    3× · 2022–2025 · $45k · revenue +7%
  • CB
    CHICAGO BASEBALL AND EDUCATIONAL ACADEMY INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • TB
    THE BASE CHICAGO
    one grant, 2021 · $40k
  • CO
    CITY OF REFUGE - CHICAGO
    one grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue -22%
  • GI
    GIRLS IN THE GAME NFP
    one grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +4%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Students Run Chicago
Health
2
Chicago Run

To promote the health and wellness of Chicago children through innovative, engaging, and sustainable youth running programs.

Philanthropy
3
Matteson Youth Athletic Association

Sports program for youth

Recreation & Sports
4
Illinois Hawks Baseball Association

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…

Recreation & Sports
5
Lost Boyzinc

To decrease violence, improve social and emotional conditions, and provide financial opportunities among youth in chicago's south shore community.

Recreation & Sports
6
Chicago Youth Boxing Club

Provide at-risk youth with after school/summer programs for training and life skills.

Recreation & Sports
7
Intentional Sports

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…

Recreation & Sports
8
World Sport Chicago

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.

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9
Chicagoland Zephyrs Athletic

Teaching social responsibility

Recreation & Sports
10
Chicago Chess Foundation

We provide all Chicago youth with equitable access to chess education empowering them with essential life skills for success on and off the board.

Recreation & Sports
11
The Bloc

Improving chicago's future by using the sport of boxing to provide resources and opportunities to chicago's youth and communities.

Human Services
12
United States Tennis Association Inc

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Beat the Streets Chicago; 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.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 26 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
11/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $60,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $45,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE BASE CHICAGO: $40,000 · OtherTHE BASE CHICAGOGIRLS IN THE GAME NFP: $35,000 · OtherGIRLS IN THE GAME NFPIndividual grant recipient: $35,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBUILD INC: $30,000 · OtherBUILD INCBACK OF THE YARDS NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL: $20,000 · OtherBACK OF THE YARDS NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCILIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE BASE: $20,000 · OtherTHE BASE+2 more: $9,000 · OtherBEAT THE STREETS CHICAGO: $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentBEAT THE STREETS CHICAGOABC-PILSEN: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentABC-PILSENBOX UNITED: $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOX UNITEDBoxing Out Negativity Inc: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentBoxing Out Negativity IncCHICAGO BASEBALL AND EDUCATIONAL ACADEMY INC: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHICAGO BASEBALL AND EDUCATIO…Juice Hoops Foundation: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentJuice Hoops FoundationOutreach with Lacrosse Schools: $45,000 · Recreation & SportsOutreach with Lacr…METROSQUASH NFP: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsMETROSQUASH NFPTHE FIRST TEE OF CHICAGO FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE FIRST TEE OF C…XS Tennis and Education Foundation: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsXS Tennis and Educ…Chicago Training Center: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsChicago Training C…EAST SIDE LITTLE LEAGUE: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsEAST SIDE LITTLE L…CITY OF REFUGE - CHICAGO: $35,000 · Human ServicesCITY OF REFUG…UCAN: $30,000 · Human ServicesUCANURBAN INITIATIVES INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesURBAN INITIAT…
Other$314,000Youth Development$175,000Recreation & Sports$110,000Human Services$80,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBEAT THE STREETS CHICAGO: $45,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetOutreach with Lacrosse Schools: $45,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetABC-PILSEN: $40,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetBOX UNITED: $35,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetCITY OF REFUGE - CHICAGO: $35,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetGIRLS IN THE GAME NFP: $35,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetUCAN: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBUILD INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMETROSQUASH NFP: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetURBAN INITIATIVES INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO BASEBALL AND EDUCATIONAL ACADEMY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF CHICAGO FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetXS Tennis and Education Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJuice Hoops Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetChicago Training Center: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetEAST SIDE LITTLE LEAGUE: $10,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetHOPE IGNITES CHICAGO: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

The Chicago Community…Laureus Sport for Goo…Imc Chicago Charitabl…Good Sports IncDick's Sporting Goods…United Way of Metropo…Chicago Cubs CharitiesCharities Aid Foundat…Ch Robinson Worldwide…Baird Foundation IncArthur J Gallagher Fo…AbbVie Foundation
The Chicago Community TrustIL26.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization 100 Thousand Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from 100 Thousand Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to 100 Thousand Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to 100 Thousand Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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