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Assurance Caring Together Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$372k
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Philanthropy$573kHealth$250kHuman Services$158kYouth Development$107kHousing & Shelter$51kPublic Safety & Disaster$45kFood & Nutrition$45kEmployment$35kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 28 grants below total $289,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $372,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $82,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $239k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Special Speces, Inc.$25,000
Special Olympics Illinois$20,000
National Alliance on Mental Illness$20,000
The Chicago Lighthouse$20,000
Northern Illinois Food Bank$20,000
Above & Beyond Family Recovery Center$15,000
The Gathering Place$15,000
Kaleidoscope Youth Center$12,000
Brave Space Alliance$12,000
Mid-Ohio Food Collective$10,000
Cincinnati Worksw Inc.$10,000
Honor Flight Chicago Corp$10,000
AMG Fitness Foundation$10,000
Femergy$10,000
Ohio's Hospice Foundation Inc.$10,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $69k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Camp Kesem: $3k → 14%Honor Flight Chicago: $16k → 14%CHRISTOPHER HOUSE: $5k → 14%HONOR FLIGHT CHICAGO: $5k → 14%ASPIRE: $3k → 14%JENNIFER S FALLICK CANCER SUPPORT: $8k → 14%INSPIRATION CORPORATION: $3k → 14%ALMOST HOME KIDS: $3k → 7%TOGETHER WE COPE: $2k → 14%Cancer Support Center: $3k → 14%LITTLE CITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%Inspiration Corporation: $3k → 14%OPERATION NORTH POLE: $3k → 14%CLEARBROOK: $3k → 14%COMMUNITY CRISIS CENTER: $3k → 14%BARRINGTON AREA COUNCIL ON AGING: $5k → 14%Cradles to Crayons: $419 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

IL
NY
NJ
CA
MO
AZ
TN
TX
FL

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.

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.

32%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$307k · 12 repeat orgs$651k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
60

Total granted

$307k
$386k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+44%

Still filing today

75%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $265k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’21’22’24
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentAnimalsPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    2× · 2018–2021 · $55k · revenue +26%
  • HF
    Honor Flight Chicago Corp
    4× · 2017–2024 · $41k · revenue +31%
  • SS
    SPECIAL SPACES INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $33k · revenue +242%

Funded once

  • HF
    HONOR FLIGHT, INC
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
  • VF
    VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue ×45
  • AR
    American Red Cross
    one grant, 2018 · $25k

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.

1
A Better Chicago

A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.

Human Services
2
Nourishing Hope

Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.

—
3
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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4
Childrens Advocacy Center of East Central Illinois

To assist children who have been victims of abuse

Crime & Legal
5
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.

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6
Chicago Heightening Opportunity and Potential for

Providing academic support to children experiencing homelessness in Chicago and providing resources and services to families experiencing homelessness in Chicago.

Education
7
Children's Advocates for Change

Children's advocates for change was organized to improve the lives of children in illinois by bringing about significant changes public policies and programs for children through research, policy analysis and advocacy, public education and…

Human Services
8
Kids Above All Illinois

Helping chicagoland's at-risk children and their families build, achieve and sustain better lives.

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9
Child Link Inc

Child Link provides foster care, family counseling, and therapy services to Chicago area adolescents who are at risk of homelessness. Child Link also refers adolescents to other agencies that are able to provide additional resources and…

Human Services
10
Lakeside Community Committee

To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.

Human Services
11
Central Illinois Foodbank Inc

The Foodbank's mission is to provide food, and develop awareness of and creative solutions for food insecurity. Annually, the Foodbank distributes approximately 9.5 million pounds of food to 130 food pantries, soup kitchens, children's…

Food & Nutrition
12
Legal Aid Chicago

At legal aid chicago, we work together to provide high quality civil legal aid to people living in poverty and other vulnerable groups.through advocacy, education, collaboration, and litigation we empower individuals, protect fundamental…

Crime & Legal

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 Project Mobility Cycles for Life. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%4%<5yr14%7%5–10yr18%25%10–20yr17%26%20–35yr14%26%35–55yr16%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%5%<5yr14%7%5–10yr18%31%10–20yr17%23%20–35yr14%23%35–55yr16%12%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/61
the rest of the field
15%
5,789/38,597

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.

04the grantee network

58 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. 58 of the 98 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/58
Grantees still filing
40/58
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HONOR FLIGHT, INC — $30,000 · OtherHONOR FLIGHT, INCSpecial Speces, Inc. — $25,000 · OtherAmerican Red Cross — $25,000 · OtherNATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS (NAMI) — $20,000 · OtherNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE — $20,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION — $20,000 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS — $20,000 · OtherHEALING HEARTS WITH HOOVES AND HOUNDS — $20,000 · Other+53 more — $291,383 · Other+53 moreHonor Flight Chicago Corp — $40,730 · Human ServicesHonor Flight Chicago …Inspiration Corporation — $25,000 · Human ServicesInspiration Corporati…Victims First Inc — $20,000 · Human ServicesVictims First IncTHE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED — $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUS…BRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE — $12,000 · Human ServicesBRAVE SPACE ALLIANCEFEMERGY — $10,000 · Human ServicesFEMERGYJENNIFER S FALLICK CANCER SUPPORT CENTER — $10,000 · Human ServicesJENNIFER S FALLICK CA…+14 more — $43,419 · Human Services+14 moreAmerican Heart Association Inc — $55,000 · HealthAmerican Heart As…SPECIAL SPACES INC — $33,000 · HealthSPECIAL SPACES IN…Above and Beyond Family Recovery Center NFP — $25,000 · HealthAbove and Beyond …NAMI National — $20,000 · HealthNAMI NationalOHIO'S HOSPICE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · HealthOHIO'S HOSPICE FO…Project Mobility Cycles For Life — $5,000 · HealthRole Model Movement Inc (NFP) — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentKaleidoscope Youth Center Inc — $12,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLFORWARD — $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentBERNIE'S BOOK BANK — $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK — $20,000 · Food & NutritionGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $15,000 · Food & NutritionVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · PhilanthropySOARING EAGLE ACADEMY — $5,000 · PhilanthropyGROWING HOME INC — $20,000 · Employment
Other$471,383Human Services$181,149Health$148,000Youth Development$72,000Food & Nutrition$35,000Philanthropy$30,000Employment$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRole Model Movement Inc (NFP) — $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHonor Flight Chicago Corp — $40,730 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSPECIAL SPACES INC — $33,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetAbove and Beyond Family Recovery Center NFP — $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetInspiration Corporation — $25,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNAMI National — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVictims First Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGROWING HOME INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKaleidoscope Youth Center Inc — $12,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE — $12,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFEMERGY — $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetOHIO'S HOSPICE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMid-Ohio Foodbank — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC — $7,760 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOARING EAGLE ACADEMY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA KID AGAIN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetESPERANZA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE CHICAGO INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInvisible Institute — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBARRINGTON AREA COUNCIL ON AGING INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLITTLE CITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTOPHER HOUSE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS IN THE GAME NFP — $4,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMARKLUND CHARITIES — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEEN PARENT CONNECTION INC — $3,123 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOperation North Pole Inc — $3,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBERNIE'S BOOK BANK — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASPIRE OF ILLINOIS — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHeartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlmost Home Kids — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLEARBROOK — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Kesem National — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY CRISIS CENTER INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDUPAGE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPILLARS COMMUNITY SERVICES — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRIO ANIMAL FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFILL A HEART 4 KIDS — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

United Way of Metropo…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Chicago Community…AbbVie FoundationMotorola Solutions Fo…The Dupage Community …John D and Catherine …Polk Bros Foundation …George M Eisenberg Fo…Cme Group Community F…The Coleman Foundatio…Arthur J Gallagher Fo…
United Way of Metropolitan Chicago IncIL26.9× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · AbbVie Foundation · Motorola Solutions Foundation · The Dupage Community Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Cme Group Community Foundation F/K/A Nymex Foundation · The Coleman Foundation Inc · Arthur J Gallagher 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 organization Assurance Caring Together 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 98 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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