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Alliance of Local Service Organizations

ALSO works in partnership with people living in the risk of violence to promote safer streets and homes.

$3.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$475k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Youth Development$412kHuman Services$295kCrime & Legal$235k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $1,164,747, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,807,758 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,643,011 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $389k
  • $250k+2 grants · $760k
$208,405
Median grant
2
States reached
$9.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Association House$474,750
Build$284,884
Chicago Community Justice Foundation$208,405
New Life Centers$180,823
Center for Survivor Agency and Justice$15,885
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $770k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Association House: $475k → 14%Association House: $176k → 14%YMCA: $106k → 14%Connections for Abuse Women & Children: $13k → 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.
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 5 repeat orgs$286k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
5

Total granted

$1.8M
$286k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+10%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Crime & LegalHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • AH
    ASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO
    2× · 2024–2025 · $651k · revenue +19%
  • BI
    BUILD INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $422k · revenue +33%
  • CC
    CHICAGO COMMUNITY JUSTICE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $406k · 38% of their budget

Funded once

  • MC
    MEN CAN STOP RAPEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $137k · revenue +31%
  • TY
    The YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago
    one grant, 2024 · $106k · revenue 0%
  • SI
    SWEETRUSH INC
    one grant, 2023 · $24k
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 Cred Inc
Employment
2
Center for Community Solutions

The mission is to end relationship and sexual violence by being a catalyst for caring communities and social justice. the vision is for all people to live full, free, expressive, and empowered lives in a safe, healthy, vibrant, and…

Health
3
Ywca Metropolitan Chicago

The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.

Human Services
4
Covenant House Chicago
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5
Chicago Law and Education Foundation

Using public schools and libraries as community centers, the Chicago Law and Education Foundation provides free legal services and education to low-income communities in Chicago.

Crime & Legal
6
Chicago Area Fair Housing Alliance

Cafha provides training and technical assistance to a wide array of stakeholders combating housing discrimination and promoting equitable place-based opportunity through education, advocacy, and collaborative action.

—
7
Heal Chicago

To strengthen communities through educational dialogue, leadership development, emotional resilience, and intercultural competence programs that help people bridge differences and build trust.

Public Benefit
8
Chicago Children's Advocacy Center

The chicago children's advocacy center unites public, private, and community partners to ensure the safety, health, and well-being of abused children.

Crime & Legal
9
Lake County Crisis Center

A safe place is the leading advocate for eliminating domestic violence & human trafficking in northern illinois.

—
10
The Network Advocating Against Domestic Violence

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
11
Ywca Northeast Indiana Inc

Ywca northeast indiana actively empowers individuals and communities through advocacy, education, and support services, ensuring dignity for all.

Human Services
12
Safehouse Denver Inc

Safehouse denver assists adult, children, and youth in reclaiming their right to a life free from domestic violence. the agency provides a broad spectrum of culturally competent, trauma-informed services, including but not limited to,…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections for Abused Women and Their Children; the most unlike its peers is Center for Survivor Agency Andjustice. 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

9 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. 9 of the 10 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO: $650,989 · Human ServicesASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGOThe YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago: $106,220 · Human ServicesThe YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago+1 more: $12,607 · Human ServicesCHICAGO COMMUNITY JUSTICE FOUNDATION: $405,656 · Crime & LegalCHICAGO COMMUNITY JUSTICE FOUNDA…MEN CAN STOP RAPE: $137,313 · Crime & LegalMEN CAN STOP RAPECENTER FOR SURVIVOR AGENCY ANDJUSTICE: $47,996 · Crime & LegalCENTER FOR SURVIVOR AGENCY ANDJU…+1 more: $6,030 · Crime & LegalBUILD INC: $421,929 · OtherBUILD INCSWEETRUSH INC: $23,895 · OtherSWEETRUSH INCNew Life Centers of Chicagoland: $294,490 · Youth DevelopmentNew Life Center…
Human Services$769,816Crime & Legal$596,995Other$445,824Youth Development$294,490

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO: $650,989 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetBUILD INC: $421,929 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCHICAGO COMMUNITY JUSTICE FOUNDATION: $405,656 over 2y, 38% of budgetNew Life Centers of Chicagoland: $294,490 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMEN CAN STOP RAPE: $137,313 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetThe YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago: $106,220 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR SURVIVOR AGENCY ANDJUSTICE: $47,996 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetCONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN: $12,607 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGreater Chicago Legal Clinic: $6,030 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Arie and Ida Crown Me…The Chicago Community…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Arie and Ida Crown MemorialIL13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · The Chicago Community Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Alliance of Local Service Organizations funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alliance of Local Service Organizations. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Alliance of Local Service Organizations?

    Find your warmest path to Alliance of Local Service Organizations 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 10 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 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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