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Albert & Anne Mansfield Foundation at a glance

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Albert & Anne Mansfield Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$533k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$147k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Crime & Legal$1.5MCivil Rights$496kArts & Culture$492kCommunity Improvement$406kEmployment$388kEducation$362kHuman Services$99kReligion$92kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $377k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $147k
$20,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$6.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS$146,500
GROWING HOME$30,000
MIGRANT JUSTICE$30,000
ILLINOIS PRISON PROJECT$30,000
ASCEND JUSTICE$25,000
CONECT$25,000
JEWISH COUNCIL ON URBAN AFFAIRS$25,000
WE-WIN INSTITUTE$25,000
CENTRO COMUNITARIO ARTS$21,300
AVODAH$20,000
CHICAGO ARTS PARTNERSHIPS IN EDUCATION$20,000
A SAFE HAVEN (WOMEN'S JUSTICE INSTITUTE)$20,000
FRIENDS OF EDUCATION JUSTICE$20,000
ARISE CHICAGO$16,000
COMPANIONS JOURNEYING TOGETHER$15,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $187k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BECAUSE PEOPLE MATTER: $15k → 12%RAINBOW BRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 9%RAINBOW BRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER: $14k → 9%PRIDE CENTER OF VERMONT: $15k → 10%PRIDE CENTER OF VERMONT: $10k → 10%HALLIE Q BROWN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $15k → 14%HALLIE Q BROWN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $15k → 14%UJAMAA PLACE: $20k → 14%UJAMAA PLACE: $20k → 14%UJAMAA PLACE: $18k → 14%CHICAGO VOLUNTEER DOULAS: $10k → 14%UJAMAA PLACE: $15k → 14%THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE: $5k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
NJ
CT
CA
DC
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.8M · 33 repeat orgs$220k to everyone else

33 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
12

Total granted

$3.8M
$166k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+40%

Still filing today

70%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementEmploymentEducationCivil RightsArts & 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

  • EJ
    EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +33%
  • JC
    Jewish Council on Urban Affairs
    9× · 2017–2025 · $185k · revenue +64%
  • GH
    GROWING HOME INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $155k · revenue +86%

Funded once

  • GF
    GATEWAY FOUNDATION - WOMEN'S JUSTICE INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF EJP
    one grant, 2021 · $16k
  • EJ
    EDUCATION JUSTICE PROJECT
    one grant, 2017 · $16k
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
Chicago Torture Justice Center

Seeks to address the traumas of police violence and institutionalized racism through access to healing and wellness services, trauma-informed resources, and community connection. The Center is a part of and supports a movement to end all…

Crime & Legal
2
Chicago United for Equity

Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.

Civil Rights
3
Live Free Chicago

Live Free Illinois is a statewide organization partnering with over 120 congregations and directly impacted individuals to build safer more equitable communities across Illinois. Operating at the intersection of criminal justice reform and…

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4
Chicago Refugee Coalition

The Chicago Refugee Coalition is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated ot the alleviation of human suffering through innovative partnerships, advocacy and community empowerment.

Human Services
5
Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Inc

Secure racial equity and economic opportunity for all

Crime & Legal
6
Latino Union of Chicago

Latino Union works to defend the rights and dignity of contingent workers, including the right to immigrate, work, live free of oppression and violence, and provide for oneself and one's family.

Human Services
7
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
8
Chicago Votes

Chicago Votes is a non-partisan, non-profit organization building a more inclusive democracy by putting power in the hands of young Chicagoans. We're engaging and developing a new generation of leaders by opening the doors of government,…

Civil Rights
9
Legal Aid Chicago

At legal aid chicago, we work together to provide high quality civil legal aid to people living in poverty and other vulnerable groups.through advocacy, education, collaboration, and litigation we empower individuals, protect fundamental…

Crime & Legal
10
Chicago Workers' Collaborative Nfp

Chicago Workers' Collaborative's mission is to promote full employment and equality for the lowest wage-earners, primarily temporary staffing workers, in the Chicago region through leadership and skills training, critical assistance and…

Education
11
Chicago United

To achieve parity in economic opportunity for people of color by advancing multiracial leadership in corporate governance, expanding the talent pipline for executive-level management, and growing minority businesses.

Philanthropy
12
Chicago Jobs Council

Chicago Jobs Council (CJC) pursues its mission through advocacy, applied research, public education and capacity-building initiatives focused on influencing the development or reform of public policies and programs. From 18 original…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ascend Justice; the most unlike its peers is Rainbow Bridge Community Center. 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

33 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. 33 of the 50 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/33
Grantees still filing
21/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Roosevelt University: $180,000 · OtherRoosevelt UniversityCENTRO COMUNITARIO ARTS: $166,300 · OtherCENTRO COMUNITARIO ARTSI Grow Chicago NFP: $115,000 · OtherI Grow Chicago NFPASCEND JUSTICE: $82,000 · OtherASCEND JUSTICEILLINOIS PRISON PROJECT: $80,000 · OtherILLINOIS PRISON PROJECTFRIENDS OF EDUCATION JUSTICE: $73,000 · OtherYOUNG CHICAGO AUTHORS: $100,000 · OtherYOUNG CHICAGO AUTHORSFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $81,000 · OtherFRACTURED ATLAS INCMIGRANT JUSTICE INC: $88,000 · OtherMIGRANT JUSTICE INC+22 more: $492,924 · Other+22 moreEQUAL JUSTICE WORKS: $1,064,500 · Crime & LegalEQUAL JUSTICE WORKSJewish Council on Urban Affairs: $185,000 · Community ImprovementJewish Coun…AVODAH THE JEWISH SERVICE CORPS INC: $120,000 · Community ImprovementAVODAH THE …CONGREGATION ORGANIZED FOR A NEW CT: $106,000 · Community ImprovementCONGREGATIO…GROWING HOME INC: $155,000 · EmploymentGROWING HO…ARISE CHICAGO: $140,000 · EmploymentARISE CHIC…CURT'S CAFE: $93,000 · EmploymentCURT'S CAF…WE WIN INSTITUTE INC: $125,000 · EducationCHICAGO ARTS PARTNERSHIPS IN EDUCATION: $115,000 · EducationSARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE: $10,000 · EducationJEWISH COMMUNITY ACTION: $150,000 · Civil RightsRESTORE JUSTICE FOUNDATION: $97,500 · Civil RightsUJAMAA PLACE: $73,000 · Human ServicesChicago Volunteer Doulas Inc: $58,341 · Human ServicesHALLIE Q BROWN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesRAINBOW BRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER: $29,000 · Human ServicesPride Center of Vermont Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesBECAUSE PEOPLE MATTER: $15,000 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human Services
Other$1,458,224Crime & Legal$1,064,500Community Improvement$411,000Employment$388,000Education$250,000Civil Rights$247,500Human Services$235,341

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEQUAL JUSTICE WORKS: $1,064,500 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetJewish Council on Urban Affairs: $185,000 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetRoosevelt University: $180,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGROWING HOME INC: $155,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY ACTION: $150,000 over 6y, 6.5% of budgetARISE CHICAGO: $140,000 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetWE WIN INSTITUTE INC: $125,000 over 9y, 4.2% of budgetAVODAH THE JEWISH SERVICE CORPS INC: $120,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetCHICAGO ARTS PARTNERSHIPS IN EDUCATION: $115,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetI Grow Chicago NFP: $115,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetCONGREGATION ORGANIZED FOR A NEW CT: $106,000 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetYOUNG CHICAGO AUTHORS: $100,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetRESTORE JUSTICE FOUNDATION: $97,500 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetCURT'S CAFE: $93,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetMIGRANT JUSTICE INC: $88,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetASCEND JUSTICE: $82,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $81,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetILLINOIS PRISON PROJECT: $80,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetUJAMAA PLACE: $73,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetChicago Volunteer Doulas Inc: $58,341 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetYOGACARE: $47,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetREFUGEEONE: $46,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHALLIE Q BROWN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRAINBOW BRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER: $29,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetPride Center of Vermont Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetGoodCity NFP: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBECAUSE PEOPLE MATTER: $15,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCOMPANIONS JOURNEYING TOGETHER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCHICAGO SURVIVORS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNOURISH BRIDGEPORT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Council on Urban Affairs ↗
  • Who funds Roosevelt University ↗
  • Who funds GROWING HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
  • Who funds ARISE CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds WE WIN INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds AVODAH THE JEWISH SERVICE CORPS INC ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO ARTS PARTNERSHIPS IN EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds I Grow Chicago NFP ↗
  • Who funds CONGREGATION ORGANIZED FOR A NEW CT ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG CHICAGO AUTHORS ↗
  • Who funds RESTORE JUSTICE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CURT'S CAFE ↗
  • Who funds MIGRANT JUSTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds ASCEND JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds ILLINOIS PRISON PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds UJAMAA PLACE ↗
  • Who funds Chicago Volunteer Doulas Inc ↗
  • Who funds YOGACARE ↗
  • Who funds REFUGEEONE ↗
  • Who funds HALLIE Q BROWN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN ↗
  • Who funds RAINBOW BRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Pride Center of Vermont Inc ↗
  • Who funds GoodCity NFP ↗
  • Who funds BECAUSE PEOPLE MATTER ↗

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.

Chicago Foundation fo…The Chicago Community…John D and Catherine …Polk Bros Foundation …Joseph & Bessie Feinb…Reva and David Logan …Circle of Service Fou…United Way of Metropo…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Amalgamated Charitabl…Mayer and Morris Kapl…Illinois Humanities C…
Chicago Foundation for WomenIL23.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chicago Foundation for Women · The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation · Reva and David Logan Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Mayer and Morris Kaplan Foundation · Illinois Humanities Council Inc

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 Albert & Anne Mansfield Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Albert & Anne Mansfield Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 19%
  • Pride Center of Vermont Inc: 37% of income from government
  • Nourish Bridgeport Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Migrant Justice Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to Albert & Anne Mansfield 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 50 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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