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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $730,422 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,560,768 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,830,346 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Chicago Community Justice Foundation | $197,251 |
| Association House | $176,239 |
| Build | $137,045 |
| New Life Centers | $113,667 |
| YMCA | $106,220 |
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 (FY23–24, $295k) 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 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.
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.
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.
The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
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…
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.
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.
To strengthen communities through educational dialogue, leadership development, emotional resilience, and intercultural competence programs that help people bridge differences and build trust.
A safe place is the leading advocate for eliminating domestic violence & human trafficking in northern illinois.
Ywca northeast indiana actively empowers individuals and communities through advocacy, education, and support services, ensuring dignity for all.
The chicago children's advocacy center unites public, private, and community partners to ensure the safety, health, and well-being of abused children.
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,…
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.…
Tubman is a multi-service agency with nearly 50 years of experience providing crisis and support services, formed from the merger of chrysalis, a center for women; harriet tubman center; family violence network; and eldercare rights…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections for Abused Women and Their Children and 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.
9 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. 9 of the 10 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 CHICAGO COMMUNITY JUSTICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds MEN CAN STOP RAPE ↗
- Who funds BUILD INC ↗
- Who funds New Life Centers of Chicagoland ↗
- Who funds The YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR SURVIVOR AGENCY ANDJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds CONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND THEIR 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.
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
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 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.
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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