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Bluco Cares Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Bluco Cares Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1k
Granted FY2022
2
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2022.

Health$15kFood & Nutrition$9kRecreation & Sports$7kPhilanthropy$5kHuman Services$5kHousing & Shelter$5kReligion$4kYouth Development$2kOther$0
02FY2022 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,095
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Loaves & Fishes Communtiy Services$1,095
Individual grant recipient$150
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 (FY19–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Families Helping Families: $1k → 9%Midwest shelter for homeless vets: $53 → 7%Hesed House: $1k → 8%Loaves & Fishes Communtiy Services: $4k → 7%Loaves & Fishes Communtiy Services: $1k → 7%Little Friends Inc: $1k → 7%Loaves & Fishes Communtiy Services: $1k → 7%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MN
IL
NY
IA
PA
CT
CA
DC
GA
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 15% of Bluco Cares Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 59% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 54%.

Bluco Cares Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$20k · 6 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2022, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
31

Total granted

$20k
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+68%

Still filing today

83%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’21’22
Human ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterInternationalYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • LF
    LOAVES & FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES
    3× · 2019–2022 · $6k · revenue +124%
  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC
    2× · 2019–2021 · $4k · revenue +38%
  • WD
    WESTERN DUPAGE SRA FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2021 · $3k · revenue +115%

Funded once

  • KP
    KNOX PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
  • MD
    Muscular Dystrophy Foundation DuPage
    one grant, 2019 · $2k
  • CL
    Cure LGMD2i
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
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
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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2
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
3
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
4
National Comprehensive Cancer Network

To define and advance quality, effective, equitable, and accessible cancer care and prevention so all people can live better lives.

Health
5
Personal Care Products Council Foundation Inc

The foundation is set up to deliver one program - look good feel better. the mission of this nationwide program is to improve the quality of life of women, men, and teens undergoing cancer treatment by offering advice on how to cope with…

Health
6
Common Impact Inc

Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…

Unclassified
7
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
8
Homeward Bound Inc

Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.

Human Services
9
National Association of Corporate Directors

We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.

Public Benefit
10
Devworks International

Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.

Human Services
11
Cicp Foundation Inc

Cicp foundation, inc. (the foundation) operates exclusively for the benefit of and carries out the mission of central indiana corporate partnership, inc. (cicp) by engaging in and supporting activities in furtherance of purposes that are…

Community Improvement
12
Delta Dental Fund

Delta dental fund's mission is to improve the oral health of the public and to advance dental science and the dental profession through research and education.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Naperville Responds for Our Veterans. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 40 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
16/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Juvenille Diabetes Research Foundation: $3,750 · OtherJuvenille Diabetes Research FoundationKNOX PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $3,000 · OtherKNOX PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHMuscular Dystrophy Foundation DuPage: $2,448 · OtherMuscular Dystrophy Foundation DuPageCure LGMD2i: $2,060 · OtherCure LGMD2iJWESTRONG: $2,000 · OtherJWESTRONGUIC Celiac Center: $1,750 · OtherUIC Celiac CenterDUPAGE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $1,750 · OtherDUPAGE HABITAT FOR HUMANITYOperation Support Our Troops: $1,057 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherBRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC: $1,500 · OtherBRIDGE COMMUNITIES INCYOUNG LIFE: $1,025 · Other+14 more: $4,062 · Other+14 moreLOAVES & FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES: $6,125 · Human ServicesLOAVES & FISHES COMM…PUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC D/B/A HESED HOUSE: $1,250 · Human ServicesPUBLIC ACTION TO DEL…FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES: $1,250 · Human ServicesFAMILIES HELPING FAM…LITTLE FRIENDS INC: $1,030 · Human ServicesLITTLE FRIENDS INC+1 more: $53 · Human ServicesSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $3,860 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPIC…WESTERN DUPAGE SRA FOUNDATION: $3,324 · Recreation & SportsWESTERN DUPAGE …DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $3,536 · PhilanthropyST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC: $256 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,305 · HealthPROJECT PURPLE INC: $525 · HealthPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $150 · HealthFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $1,810 · InternationalNETWORK FOR GOOD: $1,803 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$26,402Human Services$9,708Recreation & Sports$7,184Philanthropy$3,792Health$1,980International$1,810Public Safety & Disaster$1,803

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 budgetLOAVES & FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES: $6,125 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $3,860 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN DUPAGE SRA FOUNDATION: $3,324 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $1,810 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $1,803 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUPAGE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,305 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC D/B/A HESED HOUSE: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES: $1,250 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLITTLE FRIENDS INC: $1,030 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $1,025 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT PURPLE INC: $525 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION: $515 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC: $256 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBaykeeper: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAPERVILLE RESPONDS FOR OUR VETERANS: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIDWEST SHELTER FOR HOMELESS VETERANS INC: $53 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF DUPAGE COUNTY ANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL FOUNDATION: $50 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Dupage Community …Renaissance Charitabl…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Dupage Community FoundationIL15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Dupage Community Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Bluco Cares Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bluco Cares Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%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
    1get no government money at all
    7report 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.

    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 40 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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