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Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation at a glance

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Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
78
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$2.0MHealth$1.2MHuman Services$1.2MYouth Development$205kReligion$154kCrime & Legal$135kCommunity Improvement$130kCivil Rights$126kOther$0
02FY2025 · 78 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Connections for Abused Women and their Children: $20k → 7%Mutual Ground: $15k → 8%Turning Point: $15k → 6%Mutual Ground: $15k → 7%NAMI of Dupage County: $15k → 7%TURNING POINT: $15k → 6%Turning Point: $15k → 6%Lazarus House: $15k → 8%Christian Outreach of Lutherans: $15k → 8%Christian Outreach of Lutherans: $15k → 7%Of Color Inc: $15k → 8%The Network Advocating Against Domestic Violence: $15k → 8%Christian Outreach of Lutherans: $15k → 8%Mutual Ground: $15k → 7%Brave Space Alliance: $15k → 14%Turning Point: $15k → 14%Between Friends: $15k → 14%Between Friends: $15k → 14%The Night Ministry: $15k → 14%The Night Ministry: $15k → 14%Casa Central: $15k → 14%Casa Central: $15k → 14%CASA CENTRAL: $15k → 14%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $15k → 14%CENTER ON HALSTED: $20k → 14%Family Rescue: $15k → 14%Sarah's Inn: $15k → 14%Connections for Abused Women and their Children (CAWC): $20k → 14%Association House of Chicago: $15k → 14%New Moms: $15k → 14%New Moms: $15k → 14%South Suburban PADS: $20k → 14%New Moms: $15k → 14%Sarah's Inn: $15k → 14%Of Color Inc: $15k → 14%Respond Now: $15k → 14%Sister House: $15k → 14%Journeys-The Road Home: $15k → 14%Journeys-The Road Home: $15k → 14%Ignite (formerly Teen Living Programs): $15k → 14%Family Rescue: $15k → 14%Association House of Chicago: $15k → 14%KAN-WIN: $20k → 14%THE HARBOUR: $15k → 14%South Suburban PADS: $20k → 14%South Suburban PADS: $20k → 14%SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS: $20k → 14%South Suburban PADS: $20k → 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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.7M · 108 repeat orgs$663k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

108
48

Total granted

$4.7M
$573k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+19%

Still filing today

75%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SS
    SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS
    5× · 2021–2025 · $113k · revenue +45%
  • DP
    DEBORAH'S PLACE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $85k · revenue +59%
  • R
    REFUGEEONE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $70k · revenue +193%

Funded once

  • HH
    HEARTLAND HEALTH CENTERS
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • K
    KAN-WINgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +132%
  • CO
    Center on Halsted
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +19%
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
Center for Housing and Health

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.

Housing & Shelter
2
Depaul Community Services Inc

To provide residential and rehabilitation services to clients with mental illnesses

Health
3
Community Supportive Living Systems

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.

Housing & Shelter
4
Chicago House & Social Service Agency

Provides housing and support services to individuals and families impacted by hiv/aids

Health
5
Collective Chicago

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.

Housing & Shelter
6
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
7
You Can Make It

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.

Human Services
8
Hcp of Illinois Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
9
Community Human Services Corporation

Chs empowers individuals and families to live in stable housing, connect to community resources, build relationships and access quality food.

Human Services
10
Shelter Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
11
House of the Good Shepherd

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…

Human Services
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections for the Homeless Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

115 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
114/115
Grantees still filing
91/115
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Franciscan Outreach Association: $101,250 · Other+78 more: $2,020,300 · Other+78 moreSOUTH SUBURBAN PADS: $112,500 · Human ServicesSOUTH SUBURBAN PADSTHE HARBOUR INC: $60,300 · Human ServicesIGNITE: $60,000 · Human ServicesTurning Point Inc: $60,000 · Human ServicesCASA CENTRAL SOCIAL SERVICES CORPORATION: $60,000 · Human ServicesNEW MOMS INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesSISTERHOUSE: $55,000 · Human ServicesMUTUAL GROUND INC: $55,000 · Human ServicesCrisis Center for South Suburbia: $52,500 · Human ServicesPADS TO HOPE DBA-JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME: $51,000 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER OF CONCERN: $50,000 · Human Services+26 more: $762,500 · Human Services+26 moreDEBORAH'S PLACE: $85,000 · Housing & ShelterDEBORAH'S PLACEBRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC: $60,000 · Housing & ShelterBRIDGE COMMUNITIE…DUPAGE PADS INC: $60,000 · Housing & ShelterDUPAGE PADS INCCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $60,000 · Housing & ShelterCHICAGO COALITION…Home of the Sparrow Inc: $60,000 · Housing & ShelterHome of the Sparr…THE LAKE COUNTY HAVEN: $60,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE LAKE COUNTY H…CONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $55,000 · Housing & ShelterCONNECTIONS FOR T…MERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterMERCY HOUSING LAK…WINGS PROGRAM INC: $45,000 · Housing & ShelterWINGS PROGRAM INCSARAH'S CIRCLE: $45,000 · Housing & ShelterSARAH'S CIRCLELA CASA NORTE: $45,000 · Housing & ShelterLA CASA NORTEMATTHEW HOUSE INC: $36,250 · Housing & ShelterLINCOLN PARK COMMUNITY SERVICES: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterAPNA GHAR INC: $30,000 · Housing & Shelter+6 more: $90,000 · Housing & Shelter+6 moreOLD IRVING PARK COMMUNITY CLINIC: $60,000 · HealthOLD IRVIN…ALTERNATIVES INC: $50,000 · HealthALTERNATI…HEALTH AND MEDICINE POLICY RESEARCH GROUP: $45,000 · HealthHEALTH AN…SUBURBAN PRIMARY HEALTH CARE COUNCIL D/B/A ACCESS TO CARE: $45,000 · HealthSUBURBAN …RESILIENCE: $35,000 · HealthRESILIENC…DUPAGE HEALTH COALITION: $34,000 · HealthDUPAGE HE…PADS Lake County Inc: $30,000 · HealthPADS Lake…Family Health Partnership Clinic: $30,000 · HealthFamily He…Above and Beyond Family Recovery Center NFP: $25,000 · HealthAbove and…HEALTHCARE ALTERNATIVE SYSTEMS INC: $20,000 · HealthCHICAGO COALITION TO SAVE OUR MENTAL HEALTH CENTERS: $20,000 · Health+5 more: $70,000 · Health+5 moreSHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW: $75,000 · Crime & LegalLaw Center for Better Housing: $66,250 · Crime & LegalCHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $60,000 · Crime & LegalZACHARIAS SEXUAL ABUSE CENTER: $55,000 · Crime & LegalCHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE INC: $60,000 · Community ImprovementEnlace Chicago: $45,000 · Community ImprovementTHE RENAISSANCE COLLABORATIVE INC: $15,000 · Community ImprovementBECOME INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementREFUGEEONE: $70,000 · ReligionSt Leonard's Ministries: $30,000 · Religion
Other$2,121,550Human Services$1,438,800Housing & Shelter$811,250Health$464,000Crime & Legal$256,250Community Improvement$130,000Religion$100,000

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 budgetSOUTH SUBURBAN PADS: $112,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetDEBORAH'S PLACE: $85,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW: $75,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetREFUGEEONE: $70,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLaw Center for Better Housing: $66,250 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE HARBOUR INC: $60,300 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetIGNITE: $60,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTurning Point Inc: $60,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC: $60,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $60,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCASA CENTRAL SOCIAL SERVICES CORPORATION: $60,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDUPAGE PADS INC: $60,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $60,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE INC: $60,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEW MOMS INC: $60,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHome of the Sparrow Inc: $60,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAlexian Brothers Bonaventure House: $60,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetOLD IRVING PARK COMMUNITY CLINIC: $60,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetBEDS PLUS INC: $60,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LAKE COUNTY HAVEN: $60,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSISTERHOUSE: $55,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetCONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMUTUAL GROUND INC: $55,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetZACHARIAS SEXUAL ABUSE CENTER: $55,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCrisis Center for South Suburbia: $52,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetPADS TO HOPE DBA-JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME: $51,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetINFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF CHICAGO: $50,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CENTER OF CONCERN: $50,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetALTERNATIVES INC: $50,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT: $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWINGS PROGRAM INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSARAH'S CIRCLE: $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHoward Brown Health Center: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA EvanstonNorth Shore: $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHSIDE CENTER OF HOPE: $45,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetLA CASA NORTE: $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOOL MINISTRIES: $45,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetRESPOND NOW: $45,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetPRIMO CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN: $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHEALTH AND MEDICINE POLICY RESEARCH GROUP: $45,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSUBURBAN PRIMARY HEALTH CARE COUNCIL D/B/A ACCESS TO CARE: $45,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSARAH'S INN: $45,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetYOUTH CROSSROADS INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE NIGHT MINISTRY: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEnlace Chicago: $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY RESCUE INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN: $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLAZARUS HOUSE: $40,000 over 3y, 0.7% 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.

  • 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 BRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
  • 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 SISTERHOUSE ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
  • Who funds MUTUAL GROUND INC ↗
  • 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 THE CENTER OF CONCERN ↗
  • Who funds ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
  • Who funds MERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT ↗
  • Who funds WINGS PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds SARAH'S CIRCLE ↗

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.

United Way of Metropo…George M Eisenberg Fo…Visiting Nurse Associ…Circle of Service Fou…Polk Bros Foundation …The Chicago Community…Arie and Ida Crown Me…All Chicago Making Ho…Chicago Foundation fo…Northwestern Memorial…Michael Reese Health …Helen V Brach Foundat…
United Way of Metropolitan Chicago IncIL115.4× affinity60 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 · 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

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 Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    51report 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
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation 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 162 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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