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Accent Charitable Fund

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.

$329k
Granted FY2024still arriving
39
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$32k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Health$482kFood & Nutrition$360kYouth Development$204kEducation$190kHuman Services$145kArts & Culture$41kInternational$35kPublic Safety & Disaster$35kOther$0
02FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k28 grants · $134k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $195k
$7,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC$31,500
EDUCATIONAL ACCESS GROUP$30,000
YOUTH SERVICES$30,000
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY$22,500
CHILD'S PLAY$17,338
NORTHERN ILLINIOS FOOD BANK$12,000
CHRISTMAS COMMANDOS$11,607
AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM$10,000
MILE HIGH 360$10,000
THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND CHILDREN$10,000
ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS USA$10,000
ERIKA'S LIGHTHOUSE$8,500
PICKLES GROUP$7,756
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY COLORADO$7,500
CHICAGO ABORTION FUND$7,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $349k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $35k → 14%NATIONAL DIAPER BANK NETWORK: $3k → 12%CHRISTMAS UNLIMITED: $3k → 9%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES CHICAGOLAND AND NORTHWEST INDIANA: $2k → 7%THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $10k → 10%THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $10k → 10%BABY BASICS OF COLLIER COUNTY: $1k → 10%CHRISTMAS COMMANDOS: $12k → 12%CHRISTMAS COMMANDOS: $3k → 12%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $8k → 14%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $5k → 14%HUNGER RESOURCE NETWORK: $10k → 14%HUNGER RESOURCE NETWORK: $8k → 14%VILLAGE TREASURE HOUSE: $7k → 14%HUNGER RESOURCE NETWORK: $5k → 14%HUNGER RESOURCE NETWORK: $5k → 14%VILLAGE TREASURE HOUSE: $5k → 14%VILLAGE TREASURE HOUSE: $3k → 14%VILLAGE TREASURE HOUSE: $3k → 14%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $8k → 14%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $8k → 14%JOURNEY CARE: $5k → 14%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $5k → 14%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $3k → 14%JOURNEY CARE: $2k → 14%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $3k → 14%YOUTH SERVICES: $46k → 14%YOUTH SERVICES: $43k → 14%YOUTH SERVICES: $32k → 14%YOUTH SERVICES: $30k → 14%YOUTH SERVICES: $20k → 14%YOUTH SERVICES: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

NH
WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
NV
IA
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
DC
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 43 repeat orgs$327k to everyone else

43 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
45

Total granted

$1.4M
$295k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+33%

Still filing today

77%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionInternationalOther

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

  • YS
    YOUTH SERVICES OF GLENVIEWNORTHBROOK
    6× · 2019–2024 · $181k · revenue +277%
  • GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $144k · revenue +17%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $137k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $83k
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue +27%
  • MC
    MESULAM CENTER FOR COGNITIVE NEUROLOGY AND ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE
    one grant, 2019 · $25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Nourishing Hope

Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.

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2
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
3
A Better Chicago

A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.

Human Services
4
Feeding Illinois

Feeding illinois is a coalition of eight feeding america food banks that provide food to over 2,400 food pantries, soup kitchens, and shelters that feed nearly 1.4 million residents across the entire state of illinois.

Food & Nutrition
5
Chicago Blend Group Inc

Creating a more inclusive venture capital and entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Community Improvement
6
Aids Foundation of Chicago

The aids foundation of chicago mobilizes communities to create equity and justice for people living with and vulnerable to hiv and related chronic disease.

Health
7
Goodwill Industries of Northern Il and Wi Stateline Area Inc

The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…

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8
Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
9
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
10
Junior Achievement of Chicago

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy

International
11
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis

Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.

Human Services
12
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections for the Homeless Inc and the most unlike its peers is Christmas Unlimited Inc. 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 32 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%4%<5yr13%9%5–10yr18%18%10–20yr15%21%20–35yr14%32%35–55yr22%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%1%<5yr13%11%5–10yr18%9%10–20yr15%25%20–35yr14%47%35–55yr22%6%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/59
the rest of the field
12%
8,891/72,300

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.

04the grantee network

56 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. 56 of the 99 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/56
Grantees still filing
41/56
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $82,602 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBASSER CENTER FOR BRCA AT PENN MEDICINE'S ABRAMSON CANCER CENTER — $80,000 · OtherBASSER CENTER FOR BRCA AT PENN MEDICIN…Northwest Family Assistance Center — $58,399 · OtherNorthwest Family Assistance CenterIndividual grant recipient — $26,000 · OtherMESULAM CENTER FOR COGNITIVE NEUROLOGY AND ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE — $25,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE — $25,000 · OtherNORTHFIELD FOOD PANTRY — $21,000 · OtherMILE HIGH 360 — $20,000 · Other+53 more — $247,417 · Other+53 moreYOUTH SERVICES OF GLENVIEWNORTHBROOK — $181,008 · Human ServicesYOUTH SERVICES OF GLEN…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $35,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red …HUNGER RESOURCE NETWORK — $27,602 · Human ServicesHUNGER RESOURCE NETWOR…CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC — $26,000 · Human ServicesCRADLES TO CRAYONS INCTHE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC — $20,200 · Human ServicesTHE SHELTER FOR ABUSED…VILLAGE TREASURE HOUSE — $17,500 · Human ServicesCHRISTMAS COMMANDOS — $14,107 · Human ServicesTHE NIGHT MINISTRY — $12,500 · Human Services+5 more — $15,030 · Human ServicesPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $137,224 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FE…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $49,727 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE &…CHILD'S PLAY — $37,487 · HealthCHILD'S PLAYErikas Lighthouse A Beacon of Hope for Adolescent Depression — $27,550 · HealthErikas Lighthouse A B…THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $20,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOU…CHICAGO COALITION FOR FAMILY BUILDING — $20,000 · HealthCHICAGO COALITION FOR…ALS UNITED GREATER CHICAGO — $12,500 · Health+4 more — $19,000 · Health+4 moreGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $144,000 · Food & NutritionGREATER CHICAGO…NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK — $83,500 · Food & NutritionNORTHERN ILLINO…+1 more — $7,500 · Food & NutritionEDUCATIONAL ACCESS GROUP — $106,197 · EducationEDUCATIONAL…ROOM TO READ — $25,000 · EducationROOM TO REA…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $15,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF…Youth Guidance — $12,500 · EducationYouth Guida…Big Shoulders Fund — $9,800 · EducationBig Shoulde…+2 more — $700 · EducationENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS-USAINC — $30,000 · InternationalPATH — $5,000 · InternationalTHE AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM — $30,000 · Arts & CultureSouthern Smoke Foundation — $3,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$585,418Human Services$348,947Health$323,488Food & Nutrition$235,000Education$169,197International$35,000Arts & Culture$33,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetYOUTH SERVICES OF GLENVIEWNORTHBROOK — $181,008 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $144,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $137,224 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATIONAL ACCESS GROUP — $106,197 over 6y, 18% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK — $83,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwest Family Assistance Center — $58,399 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $49,727 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD'S PLAY — $37,487 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS-USAINC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM — $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHUNGER RESOURCE NETWORK — $27,602 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetErikas Lighthouse A Beacon of Hope for Adolescent Depression — $27,550 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC — $26,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetROOM TO READ — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC — $20,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMILE HIGH 360 — $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO COALITION FOR FAMILY BUILDING — $20,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetPickles Group Inc — $18,097 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetVILLAGE TREASURE HOUSE — $17,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTMAS COMMANDOS — $14,107 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetCHICAGO ABORTION FUND — $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALS UNITED GREATER CHICAGO — $12,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NIGHT MINISTRY — $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYouth Guidance — $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBig Shoulders Fund — $9,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLawrence Hall — $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetA JUST HARVEST — $8,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSIERRA CLUB — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetElea Institute — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetElevated Access Inc — $5,200 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNTAIN FAMILY CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPATH — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY — $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACT GRANTS CHICAGO — $3,300 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSouthern Smoke Foundation — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTMAS UNLIMITED INC — $2,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE CHICAGO NORTH SHORE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL DIAPER BANK NETWORK INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JED FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION — $2,394 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHT PINK NFP — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

The Chicago Community…Baxter International …Arthur J Gallagher Fo…AbbVie FoundationJewish Federation of …Chubb Charitable Foun…Polk Bros Foundation …Dr Scholl FoundationThe Blackbaud Giving …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Baird Foundation IncNational Philanthropi…
The Chicago Community TrustIL25.3× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Baxter International Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Dr Scholl Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Accent Charitable Fund 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
  • The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Accent Charitable Fund?

Find your warmest path to Accent Charitable Fund 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 99 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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