· Private foundation
Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Heartland Alliance International | $20,000 |
| KAN-WIN (Korean American Women in Need) | $20,000 |
| South Suburban PADS | $20,000 |
| Connections for Abused Women and their Children | $20,000 |
| Franciscan Outreach Association | $20,000 |
| Community Health | $20,000 |
| Deborah's Place | $17,500 |
| Chinese American Service League | $15,000 |
| Will-Grundy Health Partnership | $15,000 |
| Sarah's Circle | $15,000 |
| Zacharias Sexual Abuse Center (formerly LaCASA) | $15,000 |
| Mobile CARE Foundation | $15,000 |
| St Leonard's Ministries | $15,000 |
| New Moms | $15,000 |
| Ignite (formerly Teen Living Programs) | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
108 repeat relationships — 72 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SSSOUTH SUBURBAN PADS5× · 2021–2025 · $113k · revenue +45%
- DPDEBORAH'S PLACE5× · 2021–2025 · $85k · revenue +59%
- RREFUGEEONE4× · 2021–2024 · $70k · revenue +193%
Funded once
- KKAN-WINgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +132%
- ACALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORYone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -52%
- HHHEARTLAND HEALTH CENTERSone grant, 2021 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Chh honors every person's right to a home and health care, by bridging the housing and health care systems, to improve the lives of chicagoans experiencing homelessness.
To provide residential and rehabilitation services to clients with mental illnesses
To provide additional supportive housing, social, health, and other human services to the indigent and special needs individuals of chicago's inner city population and transitioning the homeless to a life of self- sufficiency and stability.
Provides housing and support services to individuals and families impacted by hiv/aids
To disrupt cycles of poverty with dignified transitional housing that hoslistically connects young men to opportunities that create and sustain personal, professional and relational growth.
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…
Providing interim housing for men, women and children, social services, homeless services, emergency shelter, and housing in chicago community for the homeless, poor and disadvantaged.
To reduce inter-generational poverty by promoting strategies that encourage racial and economic diversity in the housing market, primarily in the chicago area and nationally as well.
Chs empowers individuals and families to live in stable housing, connect to community resources, build relationships and access quality food.
Shelter's mission is to end the cycle of child abuse by providing a comprehensive network of support to children, their families, and our community to create safe, health, and nurturing homes.
House of Good Shepherd serves with love and compassion women and children affected by domestic violence by offering a safe place with opportunities for emotional, educational and spiritual growth, giving hope and continued support for a…
To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections for the Homeless Inc and the most unlike its peers is Zion Benton Children's Service. 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 40 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
115 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. 115 of the 162 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS ↗
- Who funds DEBORAH'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds SHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW ↗
- Who funds REFUGEEONE ↗
- Who funds Law Center for Better Housing ↗
- Who funds THE HARBOUR INC ↗
- Who funds IGNITE ↗
- Who funds Turning Point Inc ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds CASA CENTRAL SOCIAL SERVICES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds DUPAGE PADS INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds CHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW MOMS INC ↗
- Who funds Home of the Sparrow Inc ↗
- Who funds Alexian Brothers Bonaventure House ↗
- Who funds OLD IRVING PARK COMMUNITY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds BEDS PLUS INC ↗
- Who funds THE LAKE COUNTY HAVEN ↗
- Who funds MUTUAL GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds SISTERHOUSE ↗
- Who funds ZACHARIAS SEXUAL ABUSE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Crisis Center for South Suburbia ↗
- Who funds PADS TO HOPE DBA-JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME ↗
- Who funds INFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER OF CONCERN ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT ↗
- Who funds SOUTHSIDE CENTER OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds SARAH'S CIRCLE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · All Chicago Making Homelessness History · Chicago Foundation for Women · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Michael Reese Health Trust · Helen V Brach 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 Blowitz-Ridgeway 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.
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.
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