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Alliant Credit Union Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
213
Grants FY2025still arriving
31
States reached
$175k
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, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$681kHuman Services$546kCommunity Improvement$428kHealth$377kArts & Culture$347kPublic Benefit$246kEmployment$189kCivil Rights$158kOther$0
02FY2025 · 213 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k198 grants · $98k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $144k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $870k
$500
Median grant
31
States reached
$6.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PC'S FOR PEOPLE: $360k → 14%NORTHSIDE INTERAGENCY COMMUNITY: $5k → 11%CHAD TOUGH FOUNDATION: $200 → 14%KC DIGITAL DRIVE: $10k → 15%BAY VIEW COMMUNITY CENTER: $250 → 17%FLY INITIATIVE: $2k → 14%THE TAYLOR MADE FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS OF AMERICA: $900 → 8%CINCINNATII WORKS: $3k → 16%BAPS CHARITIES INC: $1k → 11%PC'S FOR PEOPLE: $2k → 14%SOWN (CONNECTEDLY): $8k → 22%BAY VIEW COMMUNITY CENTER: $250 → 17%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS: $500 → 8%CINCINNATI WORKS: $3k → 16%YOUTHCARE: $2k → 9%BILLY'S PLACE: $1k → 11%PC'S FOR PEOPLE: $1k → 14%COMPUTER REACH: $10k → 11%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS: $500 → 8%BILLY'S PLACE: $1k → 11%PC'S FOR PEOPLE: $448 → 14%DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN: $500 → 17%MILE HIGH MINISTRIES: $5k → 12%HESED HOUSE: $500 → 8%CHINESE MUTUAL AID ASSOCIATION: $250 → 14%ENVISION UNLIMITED: $5k → 14%ENVISION UNLIMITED: $5k → 14%MISERICORDIA FAMILY ASSOCIATION: $225 → 14%SELF HELP CLOSET & PANTRY OF DES PLAINES: $500 → 14%UNITED WE CARE EMPLOYEE RELIEF FUND (MAINLINER): $2k → 14%UNITED WE CARE EMPLOYEE RELIEF FUND (MAINLINER): $600 → 14%JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME: $250 → 14%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $2k → 14%SISTERHOUSE: $5k → 14%EMPOWERING WOMEN NFP: $5k → 14%EMPOWERING WOMEN NFP: $500 → 14%EMPOWERING WOMEN NFP: $500 → 14%IT'S OKAY CAMPAIGN INC: $500 → 14%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $4k → 14%IGNITE: $500 → 14%OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS: $3k → 14%OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS: $3k → 14%OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS: $1k → 14%OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS: $700 → 14%PEDIATRIC ONCLOGY TREASURE CHEST FOUNDATION: $485 → 14%OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS: $500 → 14%OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS: $250 → 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

NH
WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
KS
TN
NC
DC
HI
OK
LA
GA
TX
FL
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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 82 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

82 repeat relationships: 43 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 127 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

82
267

Total granted

$2.0M
$863k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+9%

Still filing today

79%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $469k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthAnimalsInternationalArts & CultureOther
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

  • PF
    PCS FOR PEOPLE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $363k · revenue +15%
  • TR
    THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $329k · revenue +49%
  • CI
    COMP-U-DOPT INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $310k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • IC
    ILLINOIS CONNECTED SUMMIT RECEPTION
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • AA
    ASIAN AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +18%
  • ES
    EASTER SEALS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +9%
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
Junior Achievement of Chicago

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

International
2
Goodwill Industries of Northern Il and Wi Stateline Area Inc

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.…

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3
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

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…

Health
4
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
5
The Common Application Inc

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…

Education
6
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
7
Internet Society Foundation

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…

International
8
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

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.

Health
9
Common Impact Inc

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…

Unclassified
10
Volunteers of America of Illinois

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.

—
11
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
12
Techbridge Inc

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…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

272 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. 272 of the 481 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
42
Early backer (in before they grew)
269/272
Grantees still filing
165/272
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LATINX DIGITAL LEADERS NOW (DLN): $108,000 · OtherLATINX DIGITAL LEADERS NOW (DLN)NATIONAL DIGITAL INCLUSION ALLIANCE (NDIA) (NET INCLUSION 2025 SPONSORSHIP): $100,000 · OtherNATIONAL DIGITAL INCLUSION ALLIANCE (NDIA) …DIGITUNITY BY 722: $80,000 · OtherDIGITUNITY BY 722NATIONAL DIGITIAL INCLUSION ALLIANCE (NDIA): $65,000 · OtherILLINOIS CONNECTED SUMMIT RECEPTION: $50,000 · OtherEASTER SEALS INC: $50,000 · OtherNATIONAL DIGITAL INCLUSION ALLIANCE: $95,000 · OtherNATIONAL DIGITAL INCLUSION ALLIANCEUNITED WAY OF GREATER UNION COUNTY % JULIENNE CHERRY: $50,000 · Other+122 more: $673,215 · Other+122 moreCOMP-U-DOPT INC: $310,000 · EducationCOMP-U-DOPT INCPEER 2 PEER UNIVERSITY INC: $35,000 · EducationPEER 2 PEER UNIVER…NON-PROFIT TECHNOLOGY ENTERPRISE NETWORK DBA NTEN: $30,000 · EducationNON-PROFIT TECHNOL…ADA DEVELOPERS ACADEMY: $25,000 · EducationCOMPUTERS FOR CHILDREN INC: $25,000 · Education+22 more: $112,950 · Education+22 morePCS FOR PEOPLE: $363,198 · Human ServicesPCS FOR PEOPLEASIAN AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesASIAN AMERICAN CI…+21 more: $97,895 · Human Services+21 moreTHE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC: $328,800 · Arts & CultureTHE ROCK AN…+3 more: $8,000 · Arts & CultureCONNECT TO COMPETE INC: $231,040 · Public BenefitTHROUGH THE TREES: $10,000 · Public Benefit+1 more: $5,000 · Public BenefitDIGITUNITY INC: $180,000 · Community ImprovementCREDIT UNION NATIONAL ASSOCIATION INC: $30,000 · Community ImprovementTHE QUILT CORPORATION NFP INC: $30,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $5,000 · Community ImprovementAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $50,430 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $50,150 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $28,125 · HealthCity Incite Inc: $17,500 · HealthBear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation: $8,600 · Health+4 more: $5,935 · Health
Other$1,271,215Education$537,950Human Services$511,093Arts & Culture$336,800Public Benefit$246,040Community Improvement$245,000Health$160,740

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPCS FOR PEOPLE: $363,198 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC: $328,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMP-U-DOPT INC: $310,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCONNECT TO COMPETE INC: $231,040 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetDIGITUNITY INC: $180,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetNATIONAL DIGITAL INCLUSION ALLIANCE: $95,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $50,430 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $50,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetEASTER SEALS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER UNION COUNTY % JULIENNE CHERRY: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPEER 2 PEER UNIVERSITY INC: $35,000 over 1y, 54% of budgetCREDIT UNION NATIONAL ASSOCIATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNON-PROFIT TECHNOLOGY ENTERPRISE NETWORK DBA NTEN: $30,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $28,125 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINNER-CITY COMPUTER STARS FOUNDATION: $26,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetADA DEVELOPERS ACADEMY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSTEM ALLIANCE OF LARCHMONT- MAMARONECK INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCOMPUTERS FOR CHILDREN INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetRESPIRATORY HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $22,757 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOMPUTERS FOR THE BLIND: $18,750 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetCity Incite Inc: $17,500 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTED NATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetClassroom 2 Community Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTOGETHER WE RISE: $12,597 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBAYAUD ENTERPRISES INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR BALTIMORE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $12,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetEMPOWERING WOMEN NFP: $11,875 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetComputer Reach: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetEnvision Unlimited: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS TWIN CITIES: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOMPUTER CORE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetNATIONAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFREE GEEK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHADLEY INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHROUGH THE TREES: $10,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetKC DIGITAL DRIVE INC: $9,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation: $8,600 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetOPPORTUNITY KNOCKS INCORPORATED: $7,670 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTECH GOES HOME INCORPORATED: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRACINE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetCOMPASS HOUSING ALLIANCE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCB COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCONNECTEDLY: $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSAHUARITA FOOD BANK: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCINCINNATI WORKS: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDONKA INCORPORATED: $5,500 over 3y, 0.5% 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.

Baxter International …Motorola Solutions Fo…George M Eisenberg Fo…United Way of Metropo…Northwestern Memorial…AbbVie FoundationFifth Third Chicagola…Circle of Service Fou…Cme Group Community F…Robert R McCormick Fo…Arthur J Gallagher Fo…Polk Bros Foundation …
Baxter International FoundationIL34.2× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Alliant Credit Union Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alliant Credit Union Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
54report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 Alliant Credit Union Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Alliant Credit Union 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 481 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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