How much did ARKES FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 62% of ARKES FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

bnaieducationnfpchildrensuburbanjusticecook

2019

cookmetropolitan chicagosuburban

2020

nfpjusticeart chicagostatescookmetropolitan chicago

2021

lawrence hallcommitteeimmigrantstatesart chicagosuburbancancer

2022

nfpstatescookjusticewomen

2023

holocaust museumgarden

2024

gardenholocaust museumalumni

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 118 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k108 grants · $140k
$10k–50k8 grants · $166k
$50k–250k1 grant · $76k
$250k+1 grant · $851k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$10M

Total assets

Largest grants

HHPLIFT$850,600
JUF$75,900
ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE$46,200
WESTLAWN CEMETARY$30,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA$20,000
ANSHE EMET SYNAGOGUE$19,451
ENCHANTED BACKPACK$15,000
JCUA$15,000
A BETTER CHICAGO$10,000
RESPOND NOW INC$10,000
AMY KROUSE ROSENTHAL FOUNDATION$7,500
DIGESTIVE HEALTH$6,000
THE ARK$5,400
HIGH SIGHT$5,000
NOURISHING HOPE$5,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $171k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$6.8M · 194 repeat orgs$183k to everyone else

194 repeat relationships — 102 still active in FY2024, 92 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

194

Total granted

$6.8M

$137k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%

+39%

Still filing today

58%

44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthOther

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

H
HHPLIFT
2× · 2023–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +12% · 71% of their budget
AB
A BETTER CHICAGO
8× · 2017–2024 · $65k · revenue +76%
VV
VOCEL VIEWING OUR CHILDREN AS EMERGING LEADERS NFP
5× · 2017–2022 · $41k · revenue +88%

Funded once

LH
LAWRENCE HALL
one grant, 2021 · $50k
FW
FRANCIS W PARKER SCHOOLgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +38%
BA
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB FOUNDATION
one grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue -47%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education

True Chicago

Arts & Culture

Illinois Institute of Technology

To provide distinctive and relevant education in an environment of scientific, technological, and professional knowledge creation and innovation.

Education

The Chicago Innovation Foundation

Philanthropy

University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission is to provide superior health care in a compassionate manner, ever mindful of each patient's dignity and individuality. to accomplish our mission, we call upon the skills and expertise of all who work together to advance…

Health

Chicago Crime Commission

Through advocacy and collaboration, we aim to reduce crime and improve public safety, focusing on initiatives like criminal justice reform, violence prevention, and robust support for law enforcement.

Crime & Legal

University of Illinois Alumni

The mission of the university of illinois alumni association is to enhance and advance the relationship between the university of illinois and all of its alumni.

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Chicago United for Equity

Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.

Civil Rights

Chicago Zoological Society

To inspire conservation leadership by connecting people with wildlife and nature.

Animals

Chicago Shakespeare Theater

To create vivid, entertaining theatrical experiences that invigorate and engage people of all ages and identities by illuminating the complexity, ambiguity, and wonder of our world.

Arts & Culture

Chicago Board of Trade Foundation

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Loyola University of Chicago

We are one of the nation's largest jesuit, catholic universities with over 17,000 students. we work to expand knowledge through learning, justice, and faith.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc and the most unlike its peers is Enchanted Backpack. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 38 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/170

the rest of the field

11%

7,683/72,189

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.

05the grantee network

152 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

150/152

Grantees still filing

119/152

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$4,483,828Employment$1,434,731Education$304,202Philanthropy$278,941Civil Rights$247,950Human Services$201,355Community Improvement$63,650

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.

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.

Jewish Federation of MetropolitanIL68.6× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Circle of Service Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation · AbbVie 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 organisation ARKES FAMILY 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: HHPLIFT.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~0 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 460800614 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on HHPLIFT, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 0 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 71% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Arkes Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Arkes Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

ARKES FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

152 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Arkes Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

ARKES FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

152 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Arkes Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph