· Private foundation
Alliant Credit Union 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k198 grants · $98k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $144k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $870k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME | $175,000 |
| COMPUDOPT | $166,667 |
| ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME | $150,000 |
| LATINX DIGITAL LEADERS NOW (DLN) | $108,000 |
| NATIONAL DIGITAL INCLUSION ALLIANCE (NDIA) (NET INCLUSION 2025 SPONSORSHIP) | $100,000 |
| DIGITUNITY | $90,000 |
| DIGITUNITY BY 722 | $80,000 |
| QUILT CORPORATION NFP | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK HOSPITAL (IN THE CELLAR 2024) | $20,000 |
| CREDIT UNION POLITICAL ACTION COUNCIL (CUPAC) | $17,500 |
| CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK HOSPITAL (EAGLE SPONSOR) | $15,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $14,784 |
| RESPIRATORY HEALTH ASSOCIATION | $12,140 |
| ST JUDE ALSAC NO IL & WI (FOR THE KIDS) | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $462k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
81 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 127 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, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $469k 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
- PFPCS FOR PEOPLE2× · 2023–2024 · $363k · revenue +15%
- TRTHE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC3× · 2022–2025 · $329k · revenue +49%
- CICOMP-U-DOPT INC3× · 2022–2025 · $310k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- ICILLINOIS CONNECTED SUMMIT RECEPTIONone grant, 2024 · $50k
UNITED WAY OF GREATER UNION COUNTY % JULIENNE CHERRYone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +5%- ESEASTER SEALS INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +9%
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.
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…
Volunteers of america of illinois partners with the people we serve to create transformational and lasting change in their lives through programs that support, empower, and transform.
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
Techbridge breaks the cycle of generational poverty through the innovative use of technology to transform nonprofit and community impact. techbridge's work is focused on four pillars: hunger relief, homeless support, social justice and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Les Live Every Second. 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 29 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.3% 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.
272 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. 272 of the 482 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 PCS FOR PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds COMP-U-DOPT INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECT TO COMPETE INC ↗
- Who funds DIGITUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DIGITAL INCLUSION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER UNION COUNTY % JULIENNE CHERRY ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PEER 2 PEER UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds NON-PROFIT TECHNOLOGY ENTERPRISE NETWORK DBA NTEN ↗
- Who funds THE QUILT CORPORATION NFP INC ↗
- Who funds CREDIT UNION NATIONAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds INNER-CITY COMPUTER STARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEM ALLIANCE OF LARCHMONT- MAMARONECK INC ↗
- Who funds COMPUTERS FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds ADA DEVELOPERS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds RESPIRATORY HEALTH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COMPUTERS FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds City Incite Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Classroom 2 Community Inc ↗
- Who funds CONNECTED NATION INC ↗
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: Baxter International Foundation · Motorola Solutions Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · AbbVie Foundation · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Cme Group Community Foundation F/K/A Nymex Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation 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 Alliant Credit Union 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.
- Casa Esperanza Inc — 59% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Asian American Civic Association Inc — 19% of income from government
- Tech Goes Home Incorporated — 10% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Free Geek — 5% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Metroeast Community Media — 1% of income from government
- Guitars Over Guns Organization Inc — 1% 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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