· Private foundation
Albert & Anne Mansfield Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $377k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $147k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS | $146,500 |
| ILLINOIS PRISON PROJECT | $30,000 |
| GROWING HOME | $30,000 |
| MIGRANT JUSTICE | $30,000 |
| JEWISH COUNCIL ON URBAN AFFAIRS | $25,000 |
| WE-WIN INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| ASCEND JUSTICE | $25,000 |
| CONECT | $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 |
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 (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 your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k 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
- EJEQUAL JUSTICE WORKS9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +33%
- JCJewish Council on Urban Affairs9× · 2017–2025 · $185k · revenue +64%
- GHGROWING HOME INC9× · 2017–2025 · $155k · revenue +112%
Funded once
- GFGATEWAY FOUNDATION - WOMEN'S JUSTICE INSTITUTEone grant, 2023 · $30k
- FOFRIENDS OF EJPone grant, 2021 · $16k
- EJEDUCATION JUSTICE PROJECTone grant, 2017 · $16k
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.
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…
Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.
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…
The Chicago Refugee Coalition is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated ot the alleviation of human suffering through innovative partnerships, advocacy and community empowerment.
Secure racial equity and economic opportunity for all
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.
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
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,…
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…
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…
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ascend Justice and 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.
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 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 50 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.
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 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 I Grow Chicago NFP ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO ARTS PARTNERSHIPS IN EDUCATION ↗
- 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 GoodCity NFP ↗
- Who funds Pride Center of Vermont Inc ↗
- Who funds BECAUSE PEOPLE MATTER ↗
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: 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
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 Albert & Anne Mansfield Foundation 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.
- 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
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.
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