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Acclivus Inc

To support community health and well-being for chicago area populations at risk for violence and other negative health outcomes.

$4.1M
Granted FY2023
31
Itemized grants FY2023
31
Organizations funded FY2023
32%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$2.3M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$78,254
Largest grant, FY2023
$280,050
Organizations funded a year
19 to 31
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$6.5M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 32% of the organizations Acclivus Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $272k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
Human ServicesCrime & LegalEducationCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202331$2.3M32%
FY202223$2.6M48%
FY202119$1.9Mn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2023.

Crime & Legal$3.0MYouth Development$1.3MHuman Services$791kArts & Culture$524kRecreation & Sports$522kHousing & Shelter$236kEducation$178kCommunity Improvement$92kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Second Chance Initiative Inc$789,3293n/a
Beyond Athletics Chicago$393,716392%
The Support Group Inc$361,249316%
True Star Foundation Inc$323,567313%
Think Outside Da Block Inc$323,115345%
Restorative Project Inc$317,1703n/a
Major Adams Community Committee$286,121227%
Urban Perspectives$282,6292n/a
Girls Like Me Project Inc$276,199339%
XS Tennis and Education Foundation$260,40933%
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All grantees of Acclivus Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Second Chance Initiative Inc$789,3293n/a
Beyond Athletics Chicago$393,716392%
The Support Group Inc$361,249316%
True Star Foundation Inc$323,567313%
Think Outside Da Block Inc$323,115345%
Restorative Project Inc$317,1703n/a
Major Adams Community Committee$286,121227%
Urban Perspectives$282,6292n/a
Girls Like Me Project Inc$276,199339%
XS Tennis and Education Foundation$260,40933%
Hyde Park Art Center$241,89325%
Hyde Park Neighborhood Club$239,503310%
Urban Perspecitves$235,8281n/a
Giving Others Dreams God Inc$227,157282%
Grand Boulevard Prevention Services$214,975326%
Work Foundation$199,311281%
Future Ties Inc Nfp$198,442318%
I Said What I Said$189,4662n/a
The Blessed Child$178,446357%
Peace Center of Roseland$158,6352n/a
Gordie Foundation$155,780252%
Advocates of Change$112,541258%
Northeastern Illinois University Foundation$87,80914%
Ex-Cons for Community and Social Change$87,286116%
Art of Noyz Ministries Inc$80,6391n/a
The Neighborhood Network Alliance$71,147112%
Kids Off the Block Inc$59,9991n/a
Target Area Development Corporation$30,6011n/a
Unstacked Inc$27,141135%
Reign Project Limited$25,0001n/a
Korrecting Our Own Lives$23,509126%
African American Association Preservation of Life and Family In$20,5031n/a
District Outreach Industries NFP$19,77517%
I&F Incorporated NFP$17,48012%
John W Buckner Youth Initiative NFP$12,186148%
Lifescore Foundation$7,58515%
Share Your Cloud$6,3541n/a

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($233k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Acclivus Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 13 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBeyond Athletics Chicago: $393,716 over 3y, 92% of budgetThe Support Group Inc: $361,249 over 3y, 16% of budgetTrue Star Foundation Inc: $323,567 over 3y, 13% of budgetThink Outside Da Block Inc: $323,115 over 3y, 45% of budgetMajor Adams Community Committee: $286,121 over 2y, 27% of budgetGirls Like Me Project Inc: $276,199 over 3y, 39% of budgetXS Tennis and Education Foundation: $260,409 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetHyde Park Art Center: $241,893 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetHyde Park Neighborhood Club: $239,503 over 3y, 9.6% of budgetGiving Others Dreams God Inc: $227,157 over 2y, 82% of budgetGrand Boulevard Prevention Services: $214,975 over 3y, 26% of budgetWork Foundation: $199,311 over 2y, 81% of budgetFuture Ties Inc Nfp: $198,442 over 3y, 18% of budgetThe Blessed Child: $178,446 over 3y, 57% of budgetGordie Foundation: $155,780 over 2y, 52% of budgetAdvocates of Change: $112,541 over 2y, 58% of budgetNortheastern Illinois University Foundation: $87,809 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetEx-Cons for Community and Social Change: $87,286 over 1y, 16% of budgetThe Neighborhood Network Alliance: $71,147 over 1y, 12% of budgetUnstacked Inc: $27,141 over 1y, 35% of budgetKorrecting Our Own Lives: $23,509 over 1y, 26% of budgetDistrict Outreach Industries NFP: $19,775 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetI&F Incorporated NFP: $17,480 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetJohn W Buckner Youth Initiative NFP: $12,186 over 1y, 48% of budgetLifescore Foundation: $7,585 over 1y, 5.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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 TrustIL26.6× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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How do I get to Acclivus Inc?

Find your warmest path to Acclivus Inc 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.

About Acclivus Inc

How much does Acclivus Inc give?
Acclivus Inc reported 31 itemized grants totaling $2,300,715, out of $4,145,147 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 31 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Acclivus Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2023, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (44%), Youth Development (19%), Human Services (12%).
Who are Acclivus Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2023: Second Chance Initiative Inc ($789k), Beyond Athletics Chicago ($394k), The Support Group Inc ($361k).
Does Acclivus Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Acclivus Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, University of Chicago Medical Center, Greater Chicago Food Depository.
Where is Acclivus Inc based?
Acclivus Inc is based in IL.

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 40 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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