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Anna May Babe Ahern Foundation at a glance

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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.

$173k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$332kReligion$189kHousing & Shelter$127kHealth$117kEducation$95kRecreation & Sports$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $168k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
OASIS FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED$10,000
SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS$10,000
PADS TO HOPE INC$5,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CRISIS CENTER FOR SOUTH SUBURBIA: $15k → 14%CRISIS CENTER FOR SOUTH SUBURBIA: $15k → 14%MY JOYFUL HEART NFP: $15k → 7%MY JOYFUL HEART NFP: $15k → 7%MY JOYFUL HEART NFP: $15k → 7%MY JOYFUL HEART NFP: $10k → 7%UCP SEGUIN OF GREATER CHICAGO: $30k → 14%MY JOYFUL HEART NFP: $10k → 7%UCP SEGUIN OF GREATER CHICAGO: $25k → 14%UCP SEGUIN OF GREATER CHICAGO: $25k → 14%MY JOYFUL HEART NFP: $10k → 7%UCP SEGUIN OF GREATER CHICAGO: $25k → 14%UCP SEGUIN OF GREATER CHICAGO: $20k → 14%PORT MINISTRIES: $15k → 14%UCP SEGUIN OF GREATER CHICAGO: $15k → 14%SHARE YOUR SOLES FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 14%SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS: $30k → 14%SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS: $27k → 14%SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS: $20k → 14%ELMS UNIVERSITY CENTER: $30k → 14%SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS: $10k → 14%ELMS UNIVERSITY CENTER: $18k → 14%SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS: $10k → 14%ELMS UNIVERSITY CENTER: $17k → 14%SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS: $10k → 14%PADS TO HOPE INC: $5k → 14%PADS TO HOPE INC: $5k → 14%PADS TO HOPE INC: $5k → 14%PADS TO HOPE INC: $5k → 14%PORT MINISTRIES: $25k → 14%PORT MINISTRIES: $22k → 14%PORT MINISTRIES: $15k → 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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$903k · 13 repeat orgs$77k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against -26% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
5

Total granted

$903k
$52k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
-26%

Still filing today

85%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthReligionEducationOther
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

  • UC
    UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY SEGUIN OF GREATER CHICAGO
    6× · 2020–2025 · $140k · revenue +41%
  • SS
    SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS
    6× · 2020–2025 · $107k · revenue +100%
  • MJ
    MY JOYFUL HEART NFP
    6× · 2020–2025 · $75k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • WF
    WINDMOOR FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $17k · revenue -2%
  • SY
    SHARE YOUR SOLES FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -26%
  • RC
    RIVERSIDE CLUB FOR ADVENTURE
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
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
Christian Services Inc

To prevent childhood deprivation of families in Lancaster County, SC by meeting basic nutritional needs, providing Christmas assistance and workplace training and literacy

Human Services
2
Depaul Community Services Inc

To provide residential and rehabilitation services to clients with mental illnesses

Health
3
Center for Family Services

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…

Human Services
4
Illinois Presbyterian Home

Operate homes for the aged and to conduct charitable and benevolent enterprises

Human Services
5
St Michael's Home Inc

To run a religious adult home

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6
Sheltered Living Inc

Sheltered Living Inc supports the efforts of individuals with intellectual disabilities to achieve independence and actively participate in the community.

Human Services
7
Servants of the Word Inc

A Christian ministry dedicated to reaching out and serving the needs of the poor and homeless of our community.

—
8
Centers for Living Inc

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.

Human Services
9
Christian Service Center Inc

Service to low income and homeless

Human Services
10
South Metro Human Services

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,…

Human Services
11
His Helping Hands Ministries

Provide safe housing and training to women who were victims of addiction,sex trafficking, abuse, homelesness or previously incarcerated.

Religion
12
Chicago Christian Counseling Center

To promote healing and wholeness through professional counseling, consultation and education from a Christian perspective

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Elim Christian Services; 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.
04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 20 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY SEGUIN OF GREATER CHICAGO: $140,000 · Human ServicesUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY SEGUIN OF GREATER CHICAGOSOUTH SUBURBAN PADS: $107,000 · Human ServicesSOUTH SUBURBAN PADSThe Port Ministries: $77,000 · Human ServicesThe Port MinistriesMY JOYFUL HEART NFP: $75,000 · Human ServicesMY JOYFUL HEART NFPELMS UNIVERSITY CENTER: $64,803 · Human ServicesELMS UNIVERSITY CENTERCrisis Center for South Suburbia: $30,000 · Human ServicesCrisis Center for South SuburbiaPADS TO HOPE DBA-JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME: $20,000 · Human Services+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR INDEPENCENCE: $130,000 · OtherCENTER FOR INDEPENCENCEIndividual grant recipient: $95,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRIVERSIDE CLUB FOR ADVENTURE: $10,000 · OtherST COLETTA'S OF ILLINOIS: $10,000 · Other+1 more: $5,000 · OtherHOLISTIC RIDING EQUESTRIAN THERAPY: $71,800 · HealthHOLISTIC RID…THE SECOND STORY FOUNDATION: $30,000 · HealthTHE SECOND S…OASIS FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED NFP: $10,000 · HealthOASIS FOR TH…SHELLBOURNE INC: $42,000 · ReligionWINDMOOR FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 · ReligionELIM CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $20,000 · Education
Human Services$523,803Other$265,000Health$111,800Religion$59,000Education$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY SEGUIN OF GREATER CHICAGO: $140,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH SUBURBAN PADS: $107,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetThe Port Ministries: $77,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetMY JOYFUL HEART NFP: $75,000 over 6y, 5.6% of budgetHOLISTIC RIDING EQUESTRIAN THERAPY: $71,800 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetELMS UNIVERSITY CENTER: $64,803 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetSHELLBOURNE INC: $42,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCrisis Center for South Suburbia: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SECOND STORY FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetPADS TO HOPE DBA-JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetELIM CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWINDMOOR FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSHARE YOUR SOLES FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetOASIS FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED NFP: $10,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetST COLETTA'S OF ILLINOIS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

George M Eisenberg Fo…Blowitz-Ridgeway Foun…The Coleman Foundatio…United Way of Metropo…The Chicago Community…Vanguard Charitable E…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…American Endowment Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…Charities Aid Foundat…
George M Eisenberg Foundation for CharitiesIL17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Anna May Babe Ahern Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Anna May Babe Ahern Foundation. 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%10%20%30%40%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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    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 20 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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