· Public charity
Ageguide Northeastern Illinois Ne Il Area on Aging
We strive to make aging easier through the development of a network of services for older persons designed to optimize the quality of their lives.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of AGEGUIDE NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS AREA ON AGING’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k4 grants · $132k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $891k
- $250k+12 grants · $33M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DUPAGE SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL | $7,687,726 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF CHICAGO | $4,643,976 |
| COMMUNITY NUTRITION NETWORK | $4,446,585 |
| AGE GUIDE | $4,110,165 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $3,848,551 |
| SENIOR SERVICES ASSOCIATES INC | $3,553,238 |
| DUPAGE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES | $2,349,348 |
| PRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES | $905,649 |
| BARRINGTON AREA COUNCIL ON AGING | $484,493 |
| LEGAL AID CHICAGO | $385,881 |
| SENIOR SERVICES OF WILL COUNTY | $373,322 |
| METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES OF DUPAGE COUNTY | $360,807 |
| ADVOCATE GOOD SHEPHERD HOSPITAL | $249,632 |
| ELA TOWNSHIP | $202,773 |
| COUNTY OF WILL | $145,517 |
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 (FY23–24, $14.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +96% since the first grant, against +80% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $774k 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
- DSDUPAGE SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL8× · 2017–2024 · $13M · revenue +202% · 89% of their budget
- CCCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago8× · 2017–2024 · $7.8M · revenue +4%
- ANAGEGUIDE NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS AREA ON AGING4× · 2021–2024 · $7.0M · revenue +54%
Funded once
- FSFAMILY SERVICE OF LAKE COUNTY7× · 2017–2023 · $381k · revenue +4%
- FCFAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE OF AURORAgraduated7× · 2017–2023 · $163k · revenue +173%
- OSOSWEGOLAND SENIORS INCgraduated7× · 2017–2023 · $24k · revenue +80%
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.
Central illinois agency on aging believes in the independence and dignity of older persons, and that each older person should be empowered to exert control over their own life & have access to needed services. we do planning, program…
Seniors Assistance Center provides necessary services to senior citizens of unincorporated Norwood Park Township, and the villages of Norridge and Harwood Heights. These services include home delivered meals, information and assistance,…
To enable older persons to live in dignity and independence.
Through internal expertise, external partnerships, and advocacy, the area agency on aging of western michigan provides older adults, adults with disabilities, and their caregivers equitable access to services that promote independence and…
Our mission is to maximize independence for individuals with disabilities through choice, advocacy and service access.
Adult day care for frail older adults, particularly those suffering from some form of dementia.
Working together, our mission is to enhance the quality of life in our communities, generation through generation to assist older adults, persons with disabilities, and persons that have needs, to access opportunities that will allow them…
Our mission at Marinette County Elderly Services is to assist older persons in maintaining a longer, healthier, and more fulfilled life.
Providing seniors with services and programs to promote overall wellness.
Serving the community to improve the quality of life for our senior citizens focusing on healthy eating, active living and socializing as well as assisting the community with durable medical supplies and some basic needs.
To promote independent and meaningful living for older adults through direct services and programs in the home and community.
Assisting individuals to maintain independence and personal choice by providing resource options and services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Joliet and the most unlike its peers is American Association of Retired Asians. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
31 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.
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 DUPAGE SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago ↗
- Who funds AGEGUIDE NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS AREA ON AGING ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF JOLIET ↗
- Who funds SENIOR SERVICES ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR SERVICES CENTER OF WILL COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Family Services ↗
- Who funds ELDERCARE LAKE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BARRINGTON AREA COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF LAKE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COALITION OF LIMITED ENGLISH SPEAKING ELDERLY INC ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATE HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORP ↗
- Who funds FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE OF AURORA ↗
- Who funds Independence Health & Therapy ↗
- Who funds OSWEGOLAND SENIORS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF YORK TOWNSHIP ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVING INDEPENDENCE AND MOBILITY CIL ↗
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: Ageoptions Inc (Fka Suburban Area Agency on Aging) · United Way of Grundy County · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · The Dupage Community Foundation · Northern Illinois Food Bank · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Community Foundation of Will County · United Way of Will County · Dan Gibbons Turkey Trot Foundation Nfp · Fox Valley United Way · Russell and Josephine Kott Memorial Charitable Trust · The Bersted 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 Ageguide Northeastern Illinois Ne Il Area on Aging 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.