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Aldridge Gives Foundation

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.

$749k
Granted FY2025still arriving
74
Grants FY2025still arriving
18
States reached
$143k
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, FY2023 to 2025.

Health$688kHuman Services$263kEmployment$170kEducation$80kPhilanthropy$77kFood & Nutrition$64kHousing & Shelter$53kCommunity Improvement$49kOther$0
02FY2025 · 74 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k58 grants · $121k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $246k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $383k
$1,000
Median grant
18
States reached
$9k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BREAKTHROUGH T1D$142,500
USO$115,000
ANN AND ROBERT LURIE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO FOUNDATION$75,000
BEAVERS CHARITABLE TRUST$50,000
MAYO CLINIC$31,379
BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK$27,250
SPECIAL CHILDRENS CHARITIES$26,815
ACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF AMERICA$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
YOUTH & FAMILY COUNSELING$25,000
BUCKS FOR BURN CAMP$20,920
MOVEMBER FOUNDATION$20,394
THE LEADERS INSTITUTE LLC$12,900
LITTLE CITY FOUNDATION$11,000
THE OSCAR MIKE FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $92k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COMMIT FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%READY SET RIDE: $1k → 7%ONE FOR THE KIDS: $2k → 14%VB HOME NOW INC: $500 → 10%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $29k → 15%QUAD COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE: $3k → 8%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $27k → 15%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $4k → 15%CHICAGO WHITE SOX CHARITIES: $1k → 14%IBEW LOCAL 134 HELPING HANDS CHARITABLE FUNDS: $1k → 14%PROJECT FIRE BUDDIES: $500 → 14%CONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN: $4k → 14%LITTLE CITY FOUNDATION: $11k → 14%LITTLE CITY FOUNDATION: $1k → 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

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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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$725k · 26 repeat orgs$676k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +4% since the first grant, against +0% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 49 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
46

Total granted

$725k
$242k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+0%

Still filing today

65%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $434k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther
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

  • MDRC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $150k · revenue +6%
  • BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $61k · revenue +4%
  • US
    UNITED SUICIDE SURVIVORS INTERNATIONAL INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1D - ILLINOIS CHAPTER
    one grant, 2024 · $145k
  • TC
    THE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -12%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    one grant, 2024 · $8k
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 Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
2
The Chicago Scholars Foundation

Chicago scholars is transforming the leadership landscape of our city by resolving the fundamental barriers to success for academically driven, first generation college students from under-resourced communities.

Education
3
Lakeshore Foundation

To provide opportunity for individuals with disability to live a healthy lifestyle through physical activity, research, advocacy and health promotion.

Health
4
Alternatives Inc

Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…

Health
5
Pediatric Faculty Foundation Inc

We value excellence and innovation in clinical and basic research, coordinated and comprehensive patient care, ongoing physician education, and evidence-based child advocacy. our goal is to provide leadership in endeavors that promote the…

Health
6
Lurie Children's Surgical Foundation Inc

Provide pediatric and subspecialty surgical, research, and educational services.

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7
Friends of the Children - Chicago

Friends of the children - chicago has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…

Human Services
8
Goodwill Industries of Metropolitan Chicago Inc

Goodwill industries of metropolitan chicago, inc. ("goodwill-chicago") is a nonstock, not-for-profit illinois corporation, whose sole member is goodwill industries of southeastern wisconsin, inc. ("goodwill"), a wisconsin nonstock,…

Human Services
9
Chicagoland Associated General Contractors

To deliver exceptional value to our members through industry leadership, superior services, and innovative programs.

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10
Start Early

Start early advances quality early learning for families with children, before birth through their earliest years, to help close the opportunity gap.

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11
Junior Achievement of Chicago

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

International
12
Stanley Manne Childrens Research Institute

Stanley manne children's research institute strives to generate new knowledge and advance the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of pediatric diseases.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Lake County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Beavers Charitable Trust. 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

69 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. 69 of the 122 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)
69/69
Grantees still filing
30/69
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

USO: $225,000 · OtherUSOBREAKTHROUGH T1D - ILLINOIS CHAPTER: $145,000 · OtherBREAKTHROUGH T1D - ILLINOIS CHAPTERYOUTH & FAMILY COUNSELING: $50,000 · OtherYOUTH & FAMILY COUNSELINGSpecial Children's Charities: $26,815 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · Other+76 more: $230,735 · Other+76 moreBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $142,500 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1DMAYO CLINIC: $131,379 · HealthMAYO CLINICAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation: $75,000 · HealthAnn & Robert H Lurie Children'…MOVEMBER FOUNDATION: $31,142 · HealthMOVEMBER FOUNDATIONUNITED SUICIDE SURVIVORS INTERNATIONAL INC: $20,000 · Health+4 more: $9,500 · HealthMDRC: $150,000 · EmploymentMDRC+1 more: $5,000 · EmploymentBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $60,678 · Human ServicesLITTLE CITY FOUNDATION: $12,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesCONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN: $4,110 · Human Services+8 more: $10,500 · Human ServicesBEAVERS CHARITABLE TRUST: $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE OSCAR MIKE FOUNDATION: $22,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $3,300 · Philanthropy+1 more: $2,000 · PhilanthropyACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF AMERICA INC: $50,000 · EducationPERSPECTIVES CHARTER SCHOOLS: $5,000 · EducationLILA FOUNDATION: $4,000 · Education+6 more: $6,000 · EducationHABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHICAGO: $13,500 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY METRO MARYLAND INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSE OF RUTH: $1,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$702,550Health$409,521Employment$155,000Human Services$92,288Philanthropy$77,300Education$65,000Housing & Shelter$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMDRC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $142,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $131,379 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $60,678 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBEAVERS CHARITABLE TRUST: $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF AMERICA INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMOVEMBER FOUNDATION: $31,142 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE OSCAR MIKE FOUNDATION: $22,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED SUICIDE SURVIVORS INTERNATIONAL INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF CONSTRUCTION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHICAGO: $13,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLITTLE CITY FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY METRO MARYLAND INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO WOMEN IN TRADES: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROCHELLE LITTLE LEAGUE INC: $8,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetHabitat for Humanity Orange County NC Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOU RUN THIS TOWN FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetYOUTHBUILD LAKE COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEL VALOR CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPERSPECTIVES CHARTER SCHOOLS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN: $4,110 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLILA FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $3,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPEFUL WAYS: $2,500 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetTHE COMMIT FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDisabled American Veterans: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQUAD COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHair & Hope: $2,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMid-Ohio Foodbank: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetONE FOR THE KIDS: $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPRIMERA FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetFIELD STATION COOPERATIVE INCORPORATED: $1,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetChicago White Sox Charities Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarquette University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG JOHN KARES: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDON'T EVER GIVE UP INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSE OF RUTH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIDE FOR HOPE: $1,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetLightning Youth Athletics Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER: $690 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERTYVILLE LITTLE LEAGUE: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LAKE COUNTY HAVEN: $500 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.

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.

United Way of Metropo…The Chicago Community…Baxter International …John and Kathleen Sch…Trustmark FoundationUsg Foundation IncCircle of Service Fou…The Ayco Charitable F…AbbVie FoundationThe Allstate Foundati…Motorola Solutions Fo…Aldridge Family Found…
United Way of Metropolitan Chicago IncIL25.9× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Baxter International Foundation · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · Trustmark Foundation · Usg Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Allstate Foundation · Motorola Solutions Foundation · Aldridge Family Foundation 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 Aldridge Gives Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Aldridge Gives Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
13report 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 Aldridge Gives 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 122 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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