· Private foundation
Anna May Babe Ahern Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $168k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UCP SEGUIN OF GREATER CHICAGO | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| ELMS UNIVERSITY CENTER | $17,803 |
| CRISIS CENTER FOR SOUTH SUBURBIA | $15,000 |
| SECOND STORY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| PORT MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| MY JOYFUL HEART NFP | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS | $10,000 |
| OASIS FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED | $10,000 |
| PADS TO HOPE INC | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $524k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% 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.
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 +23% since the first grant, against -26% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- UCUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY SEGUIN OF GREATER CHICAGO6× · 2020–2025 · $140k · revenue +41%
- SSSOUTH SUBURBAN PADS6× · 2020–2025 · $107k · revenue +100%
- MJMY JOYFUL HEART NFP6× · 2020–2025 · $75k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- WFWINDMOOR FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $17k · revenue -2%
- SYSHARE YOUR SOLES FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -26%
- RCRIVERSIDE CLUB FOR ADVENTUREone grant, 2024 · $10k
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 prevent childhood deprivation of families in Lancaster County, SC by meeting basic nutritional needs, providing Christmas assistance and workplace training and literacy
To provide residential and rehabilitation services to clients with mental illnesses
Administering an array of critical, intensive therapeutic interventions and/or facilitation services to emotionally and behaviorally disturbed clients for whom DCFS is legally responsible in order to stabilize their traditional or home of…
Operate homes for the aged and to conduct charitable and benevolent enterprises
To run a religious adult home
Sheltered Living Inc supports the efforts of individuals with intellectual disabilities to achieve independence and actively participate in the community.
A Christian ministry dedicated to reaching out and serving the needs of the poor and homeless of our community.
Providing housing and transitional services for the marginalized population coming from homelessness, following rehab, incarceration, or resulting from set-back related to physical or mental health conditions.
Service to low income and homeless
Radias health is a non-profit mental health & substance use disorders services organization customizing community based services through the integration of knowledge, compassion, and collaboration. we are committed to being an inclusive,…
Provide safe housing and training to women who were victims of addiction,sex trafficking, abuse, homelesness or previously incarcerated.
To promote healing and wholeness through professional counseling, consultation and education from a Christian perspective
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Elim Christian Services and the most unlike its peers is Oasis for the Visually Impaired Nfp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 20 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 UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY SEGUIN OF GREATER CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS ↗
- Who funds The Port Ministries ↗
- Who funds MY JOYFUL HEART NFP ↗
- Who funds HOLISTIC RIDING EQUESTRIAN THERAPY ↗
- Who funds ELMS UNIVERSITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SHELLBOURNE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SECOND STORY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Crisis Center for South Suburbia ↗
- Who funds ELIM CHRISTIAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PADS TO HOPE DBA-JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME ↗
- Who funds WINDMOOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE YOUR SOLES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OASIS FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED NFP ↗
- Who funds ST COLETTA'S OF ILLINOIS ↗
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: George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation · The Coleman Foundation Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Anna May Babe Ahern 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.
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.