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· Public charity
Alliance of Local Service Organizations
ALSO works in partnership with people living in the risk of violence to promote safer streets and homes.
$2.6M
Granted FY2024
5
Grants
1
Communities
$197k
Largest
01What you fund
0183% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2023–2024.
Crime & Legal$373kHuman Services$295kYouth Development$114kOther$161k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2023
see schedule
2024
sub-recipient partnerpartner responsibleworkforcehealthaccesschildcareresponsible case
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 5 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$137,045
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
- Chicago Community Justice Foundation$197,251
- Association House$176,239
- Build$137,045
- New Life Centers$113,667
- YMCA$106,220
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $295k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
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.
1
Chicago Crime Commission
Through advocacy and collaboration, we aim to reduce crime and improve public safety, focusing on initiatives like criminal justice reform, violence prevention, and robust support for law enforcement.
Crime & Legal
2
University of Chicago
The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.
Education
3
North Chicago Community Partners
Education
4
The Network Advocating Against Domestic
The Network is a group of 40+ member organizations dedicated to improving the lives of those impacted by gender-based violence through education, public policy and advocacy, and connecting community members with direct service providers.…
Human Services
5
Chicago Votes
Leadership development and non partisan civic education.
Civil Rights
6
Chicago Learning Exchange
The Chicago Learning Exchange (CLX) is a nonprofit organization that connects and supports our city's array of out-of-school time youth-focused organizations in order to prepare youth, youth workers, and our city for the future.
Youth Development
7
Columbia College Chicago
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Education
8
University of Chicago Medical Center
Our mission is to provide superior health care in a compassionate manner, ever mindful of each patient's dignity and individuality. to accomplish our mission, we call upon the skills and expertise of all who work together to advance…
Health
9
Mchc Chicago Hospital Council
The organization provides various services to the hospital community and the general public, including the operation of the illinois poison control center.
Health
10
Chicago United for Equity
Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.
Civil Rights
11
Covenant House Chicago
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12
Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness
Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness (CCH) builds community power and advances racial equity through organizing, advocacy, legal assistance, and education to prevent and end homelessness because housing is a human right.
Housing & Shelter
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Men Can Stop Rape and the most unlike its peers is The Ymca of Metropolitan Chicago. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Crime & Legal$372,705Human Services$295,066Other$160,940Youth Development$113,667
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 Chicago Community Justice Foundation ↗
- Who funds Association House ↗
- Who funds Men Can Stop Rape ↗
- Who funds Build ↗
- Who funds New Life Centers ↗
- Who funds YMCA ↗
- Who funds Center for Survivor Agency and Justice ↗
- Who funds Connections for Abuse Women & Children ↗
- Who funds Greater Chicago Legal Clinic ↗
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.
The Chicago Community TrustIL13.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organisation Alliance of Local Service Organizations 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Men Can Stop Rape.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~2 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 522007652 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Men Can Stop Rape, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 10% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Alliance of Local Service Organizations?
Find your warmest path to Alliance of Local Service Organizations through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines