How much does Accent Charitable Fund give?

Accent Charitable Fund reported 34 grants totaling $309,896 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 46 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Accent Charitable Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (28%), Food & Nutrition (21%), Youth Development (12%).

Who are Accent Charitable Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Youth Services of Glenviewnorthbrook ($207k), Greater Chicago Food Depository ($168k), Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc ($161k).

Does Accent Charitable Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Accent Charitable Fund accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Accent Charitable Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Baxter International Foundation, Arthur J Gallagher Foundation.

Where is Accent Charitable Fund based?

Accent Charitable Fund is based in IL.

Accent Charitable Fund

Accent Charitable Fund at a glance

· Private foundation

Accent Charitable Fund

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.

$310k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$55k

Largest

01What it funds

0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k24 grants · $100k
$10k–50k9 grants · $155k
$50k–250k1 grant · $55k

$7,500

Median grant

States reached

$1.6M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION	$54,855
YOUTH SERVICES	$25,650
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY	$24,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC	$24,000
CHRISTMAS COMMANDOS	$15,750
PICKLES GROUP	$15,511
CHILD'S PLAY	$13,977
AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM	$12,240
VILLAGE TREASURE HOUSE	$12,000
NORTHERN ILLINIOS FOOD BANK	$12,000
FOOD BANK OF ALASKA	$8,010
THE NIGHT MINISTRY	$7,772
CRADLES TO CRAYONS	$7,500
CHICAGO ABORTION FUND	$7,500
CHICAGO COALITION FOR FAMILY BUILDING	$7,500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $429k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.6M · 44 repeat orgs$348k to everyone else

44 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.6M

$322k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%

+27%

Still filing today

77%

38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationFood & NutritionPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther

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

YS
YOUTH SERVICES OF GLENVIEWNORTHBROOK
7× · 2019–2025 · $207k · revenue +277%
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY
6× · 2020–2025 · $168k · revenue +17%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
5× · 2021–2025 · $161k · 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

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.

Nourishing Hope

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

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United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition

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

The Global FoodBanking Network

To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.

International

Philabundance

PHILABUNDANCE WAS FOUNDED IN 1984 WITH THE SIMPLE BELIEF THAT NO ONE SHOULD GO HUNGRY WHILE HEALTHY FOOD GOES TO WASTE. OUR MISSION IS TO DRIVE HUNGER FROM OUR COMMUNITIES TODAY AND TO END HUNGER FOR GOOD. We have a commitment to always…

Food & Nutrition

Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition

Junior Achievement of Chicago

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

International

Chicago Blend Group Inc

Creating a more inclusive venture capital and entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Community Improvement

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

Feeding Matters Inc

Furthering advances in pediatric feeding disorders by accelerating identification, igniting research, and promoting collaborative care for children and families. feeding matters' vision is a world in which children with pediatric feeding…

Health

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

Childfund Alliance

Childfund alliance is a global network of 11 child-focused development and humanitarian organizations working in more than 70 countries. we help nearly 30 million children and their families to overcome poverty and the underlying…

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections for the Homeless Inc; the most unlike its peers is Path. 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

63 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 63 of the 109 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

63/63

Grantees still filing

42/63

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$669,865Human Services$429,319Health$376,608Food & Nutrition$279,010Education$169,197Philanthropy$68,207Arts & Culture$47,740

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.

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 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

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 Accent Charitable Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Accent Charitable Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

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

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 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.

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The camps

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By state

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