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Belvedere Cares 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.

$652k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Youth Development$1.5MEducation$862kHealth$527kHuman Services$119kHousing & Shelter$112kEmployment$75kFood & Nutrition$53kPhilanthropy$31kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $528k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Urban Initiatives$200,187
Big Brothers Big Sisters$85,500
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$85,000
Jackson Chance Foundation$82,500
Girls 4 Science$75,000
Cristo Rey Jesuit High School Chicago$25,000
Autism Speaks$25,000
A Better Chicago$25,000
Chicago Youth Centers$10,000
Beat The Streets Chicago$10,000
Habitat for Humanity$8,500
T4Youth$7,500
The Connor Hunt Memorial Foundation$5,000
Chicago Childrens Advocacy Center$5,000
Chicago Cat Rescue$1,500
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 (FY17–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Cradles to Crayons: $20k → 16%CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $15k → 16%Cradles to Crayons: $13k → 16%Cradles to Crayons: $13k → 16%Cradles to Crayons: $10k → 16%Cradles to Crayons: $10k → 16%CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $100 → 16%SocialWorks: $18k → 14%SocialWorks: $5k → 14%ALMOST HOME KIDS: $10k → 14%ALMOST HOME KIDS: $10k → 14%Urban Initiatives: $400k → 14%Urban Initiatives: $200k → 14%Urban Initiatives: $81k → 14%Urban Initiatives: $60k → 14%Urban Initiatives: $50k → 14%Urban Initiatives: $50k → 14%URBAN INITIATIVES INC: $50k → 14%GREENWOOD PROJECT: $50k → 14%GREENWOOD PROJECT: $25k → 14%URBAN INITIATIVES INC: $15k → 14%URBAN INITIATIVES INC: $5k → 14%URBAN INITIATIVES INC: $3k → 14%URBAN INITIATIVES INC: $3k → 14%CAWC: $50 → 14%A Better Chicago: $25k → 14%SOS CHILDREN VILLAGE: $10k → 14%SOS CHILDREN VILLAGE: $5k → 14%SOS CHILDREN VILLAGE: $3k → 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

NH
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
CA
NC
DC
AL
TX

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.9M · 28 repeat orgs$485k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
44

Total granted

$2.9M
$429k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+16%

Still filing today

75%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthInternationalHousing & 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

  • UI
    URBAN INITIATIVES INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $917k · revenue +125%
  • University of Chicago
    4× · 2021–2024 · $340k · revenue +34%
  • TJ
    THE JACKSON CHANCE FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $338k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • LE
    LaSalle Elementary Academy
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
  • LR
    LEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +136%
  • CH
    Chicago Heightening Opportunity and Potential forgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +35%

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
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
2
The University of Chicago Charter School Corporation

To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.

Education
3
Kipp Chicago Schools

The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…

Education
4
Thrive Chicago Nfp

Thrive chicago's mission is to prepare chicago's youth for a vibrant future by aligning efforts and outcomes from cradle to career.

Human Services
5
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.

Education
6
Junior Achievement of Chicago

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy

International
7
Advocates for Illinois Children

Improve the lives of children in illinois by bringing about significant changes in public policies and programs for children through research, policy analysis and advocacy, public education and community outreach.

Human Services
8
Alternatives Inc

Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…

Health
9
Arise Chicago

Arise chicago builds partnerships between faith communities and workers to fight workplace injustice through education, organizing, and advocating for public policy changes.

Employment
10
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
11
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
12
Aids Foundation of Chicago

The aids foundation of chicago mobilizes communities to create equity and justice for people living with and vulnerable to hiv and related chronic disease.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Youth Centers and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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 30 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr19%23%20–35yr14%23%35–55yr14%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%3%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr19%43%20–35yr14%4%35–55yr14%25%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/53
the rest of the field
13%
7,816/58,353

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

51 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. 51 of the 78 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/51
Grantees still filing
33/51
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

URBAN INITIATIVES INC — $916,942 · Human ServicesURBAN INITIATIVES INCCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC — $80,100 · Human ServicesCRADLES TO CRAYONS INCGREENWOOD PROJECT — $75,000 · Human ServicesGREENWOOD PROJECT+5 more — $85,050 · Human Services+5 moreBig Brothers-Big Sisters Chicago — $190,000 · OtherBig Brothers-Big Sisters Chi…Big Brothers Big Sisters — $170,500 · OtherBig Brothers Big SistersLaSalle Elementary Academy — $100,000 · OtherLaSalle Elementary AcademyAutism Speaks — $70,550 · OtherAutism SpeaksCulinary Care Chicago — $32,500 · Other+39 more — $282,675 · Other+39 moreUniversity of Chicago — $340,000 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoUniversity of Illinois Foundation — $181,000 · EducationUniversity of Illinois Fou…GIRLS 4 SCIENCE — $121,775 · EducationGIRLS 4 SCIENCEChicago Heightening Opportunity and Potential for — $50,000 · EducationChicago Heightening Opport…+7 more — $79,167 · Education+7 moreTHE JACKSON CHANCE FOUNDATION — $337,600 · HealthTHE JACKSON C…LEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $50,000 · HealthLEUKEMIA RESE…+3 more — $15,167 · HealthBEAT THE STREETS CHICAGO — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentChicago Youth Centers — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentHorizons for Youth — $27,500 · Youth DevelopmentInternational Neighborhood Collaborative — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentA LEG TO STAND ON INC — $10,000 · Youth Development+1 more — $250 · Youth DevelopmentHOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN INC — $35,052 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $362 · Housing & ShelterPHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC — $20,000 · PhilanthropyWAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,920 · Philanthropy
Human Services$1,157,092Other$846,225Education$771,942Health$402,767Youth Development$117,750Housing & Shelter$35,414Philanthropy$30,920

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetURBAN INITIATIVES INC — $916,942 over 8y, 5.7% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $340,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JACKSON CHANCE FOUNDATION — $337,600 over 6y, 12% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation — $181,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS 4 SCIENCE — $121,775 over 4y, 20% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC — $80,100 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGREENWOOD PROJECT — $75,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetChicago Heightening Opportunity and Potential for — $50,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetHOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN INC — $35,052 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBEAT THE STREETS CHICAGO — $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetChicago Youth Centers — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHorizons for Youth — $27,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetA Better Chicago — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEMERGE Fellowship — $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSOCIALWORKS — $22,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCHICAGO TECH ACADEMY — $22,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetInternational Neighborhood Collaborative — $20,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetAlmost Home Kids — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $17,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE FAMILY ILLINOIS — $17,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetACADEMY FOR URBAN SCHOOL LEADERSHIP — $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,920 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetA LEG TO STAND ON INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCONNOR HUNT MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetONE BOOK ONE WORLD — $10,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetCHICAGO CARES INC — $6,255 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBig Shoulders Fund — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHT PINK NFP — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOutreach with Lacrosse Schools — $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED CHINESE AMERICANS — $2,415 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCHICAGO CAT RESCUE — $1,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNAMI Chicago — $1,180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GRAY MATTER EXPERIENCE INC — $667 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION — $550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSARAH'S CIRCLE — $362 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRole Model Movement Inc (NFP) — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISTIC SELF ADVOCACY NETWORK INC — $167 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Chicago Community…United Way of Metropo…AbbVie FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…Imc Chicago Charitabl…Cme Group Community F…Robert R McCormick Fo…Circle of Service Fou…John D and Catherine …Drw FoundationJoseph & Bessie Feinb…Cme Group Foundation
The Chicago Community TrustIL27.4× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation · Cme Group Community Foundation F/K/A Nymex Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Drw Foundation · Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation · Cme Group 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 Belvedere Cares 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 · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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
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 78 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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