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At Properties-Friends & Neighbors Community Fund

The friends and neighbors community fund was created out of the desire to give back to chicago and to help support the city that has allowed our company to grow and prosper during even the most challenging of economic times.

$70k
Granted FY2021
4
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Health$416kYouth Development$255kEducation$45kRecreation & Sports$42kArts & Culture$36kHousing & Shelter$23kCivil Rights$15kFood & Nutrition$13kOther$0
02FY2021 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $40,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $69,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $29,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$449k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF COOK COUNTY$10,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHICAGO$10,000
WORKING IN THE SCHOOLS$10,000
NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$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 (FY19–20, $101k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%KISSES FROM KEEGAN & FRIENDS: $1k → 10%SOCIALWORKS: $100k → 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.

20%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$171k · 4 repeat orgs$694k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +213% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2021, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
17

Total granted

$171k
$674k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+213%
+36%

Still filing today

100%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
HealthPhilanthropyEducationArts & CultureHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesOther
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

  • WI
    WORKING IN THE SCHOOLS INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $40k · revenue +30%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHICAGO
    5× · 2019–2023 · $23k · revenue +324%
  • AJ
    A JUST HARVEST
    2× · 2019–2020 · $8k · revenue +213%

Funded once

  • IA
    IMERMAN ANGELSgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $200k · revenue +72%
  • CB
    Chicago Blackhawks Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue +120%
  • LS
    LYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +106%
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
True Chicago
Arts & Culture
2
Students Run Chicago
Health
3
The Chicago Innovation Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Chicago Parks Foundation

The Chicago Parks Foundation is a separate 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization that also serves as the strategic partner for the coordination of fundraising and charitable resources for the Chicago Park District.

Recreation & Sports
5
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
6
Gastro Intestinal Research Foundation Inc

The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…

Health
7
Gilda's Club Chicago

To ensure that all people impacted by cancer are empowered by knowledge, strengthened by action, and sustained by community.

Health
8
Chicago Sun Times Charity Trust
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9
Chicago Toy & Game Foundation
—
10
Pitch in

Established in 2011 by retired Chicago Cubs pitcher Kerry Wood, and his wife Sarah, Pitch In (fka Wood Family Foundation) seeks to improve the lives of children in four high-need neighborhoods in Chicago: North Lawndale, Humboldt Park,…

Philanthropy
11
Chicago Bulls Charities

Chicago Bulls charities is committed to community violence prevention through four focus areas; education, investment, health & wellness, and access to opportunities.

Philanthropy
12
Chicago United for Equity

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

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago; the most unlike its peers is The Chicago Academy of Sciences. 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

22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
17/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Chicago Blackhawks Foundation: $150,000 · PhilanthropyChicago Blackhawks FoundationANTHONY RIZZO FAMILY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyANTHONY RIZZO FAMILY FOUNDATIONIMERMAN ANGELS: $200,000 · HealthIMERMAN ANGELSA JUST HARVEST: $7,500 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · HealthLYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterLYNN SAGE BREAST…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHICAGO: $23,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMA…SOCIALWORKS: $100,000 · Human ServicesSOCIALWORKS+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesWORKING IN THE SCHOOLS INC: $40,000 · EducationBig Shoulders Fund: $5,000 · EducationJUSTIN J WATT FOUNDATION INC: $41,887 · Recreation & SportsTHE ART CENTER OF HIGHLAND PARK: $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $6,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE: $10,000 · OtherNORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE: $10,000 · OtherNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $10,000 · OtherCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF COOK COUNTY: $10,000 · OtherTHE MAGNIFICENT MILE ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · OtherSTRIDES FOR PEACE INC: $5,000 · OtherGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $5,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO: $5,000 · OtherART OMI INC: $5,000 · Other
Philanthropy$250,000Health$212,500Housing & Shelter$123,000Human Services$101,000Education$45,000Recreation & Sports$41,887Arts & Culture$26,000Other$65,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIMERMAN ANGELS: $200,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetLYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetSOCIALWORKS: $100,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetANTHONY RIZZO FAMILY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetJUSTIN J WATT FOUNDATION INC: $41,887 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetWORKING IN THE SCHOOLS INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHICAGO: $23,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ART CENTER OF HIGHLAND PARK: $20,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF COOK COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetA JUST HARVEST: $7,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MAGNIFICENT MILE ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSTRIDES FOR PEACE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBig Shoulders Fund: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetART OMI INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCitizens United for Research in Epilepsy: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKISSES FROM FRIENDS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

The Chicago Community…Baird Foundation IncAbbVie FoundationJewish Federation of …Chicago White Sox Cha…Imc Chicago Charitabl…Field Foundation of I…National Philanthropi…Robert R McCormick Fo…United Way of Metropo…John D and Catherine …Charities Aid Foundat…
The Chicago Community TrustIL19.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Baird Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Chicago White Sox Charities Inc · Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · National Philanthropic Trust · Robert R McCormick Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · 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 At Properties-Friends & Neighbors Community Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from At Properties-Friends & Neighbors Community Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to At Properties-Friends & Neighbors Community Fund 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 23 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $31k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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