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Bunker Hill Charities

BUNKER HILL CHARITIES' mission is to affect societal change and improve the quality of living for northwestern illinois communities and neighboring areas.

$128k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$511kReligion$462kEducation$372kYouth Development$213kPhilanthropy$207kHuman Services$90kRecreation & Sports$79kAnimals$21kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 10 grants below total $89,271 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $127,759 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $38,488 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $38k
$9,297
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ANTHONY RIZZO FAMILY FOUNDATION$16,000
ARCHANGELS ACADEMY$12,050
HOOVED ANIMAL HUMANE SOCIETY$10,420
MACYN'S JARS$9,790
GAVERS COMMUNITY CANCER FOUNDATION$9,297
CASA OF MCHENRY COUNTY$8,750
UNITED WAY OF GREATER MCHENRY COUNTY$6,328
TLC CENTERS FOR THERAPY$6,016
ST MARYS CHURCH$5,448
MARIAN CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL$5,172
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $333k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YOUTH VILLAGES FOUNDATION INC: $35k → 17%MICHAEL PHELPS FOUNDATION: $8k → 7%PIONEER CENTER FOR HUMAN SERVICES: $35k → 6%CLEARBROOK: $10k → 14%PIONEER CENTER FOR HUMAN SERVICES: $26k → 6%PIONEER CENTER FOR HUMAN SERVICES: $15k → 6%PIONEER CENTER FOR HUMAN SERVICES: $10k → 6%PIONEER CENTER FOR HUMAN SERVICES: $6k → 6%TURNING POINT INC: $10k → 6%TLC CENTERS FOR THERAPY: $46k → 6%TLC CENTERS FOR THERAPY: $45k → 6%TLC CENTERS FOR THERAPY: $28k → 6%TLC CENTERS FOR THERAPY: $21k → 6%TLC CENTERS FOR THERAPY: $20k → 6%TLC CENTERS FOR THERAPY: $15k → 6%TLC CENTERS FOR THERAPY: $6k → 6%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

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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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 16 repeat orgs$496k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
33

Total granted

$1.5M
$455k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+32%

Still filing today

75%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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
PhilanthropyHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationHealthAnimalsOther

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

  • TC
    TLC CENTERS FOR THERAPY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $181k · revenue ×15
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF GREATER McHENRY COUNTY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $168k · revenue +7%
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MCHENRY COUNTY INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $103k · revenue +178%

Funded once

  • CH
    COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL DIST 155
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • YV
    YOUTH VILLAGES FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $35k · revenue +94%
  • JS
    Johnsburg School District 12
    one grant, 2020 · $33k

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
Child Advocacy Center of Mchenry Co Inc

Provide Counselors in Child Abuse Situations

Crime & Legal
2
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
3
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
4
Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation
Human Services
5
Options and Advocacy for Mchenry County Inc

Empowering individuals with developmental disabilities and their families through advocacy and the coordination of service options

Human Services
6
Children's Home Foundation

The mission of the children's home is to help the kids and families who need it the most.

Human Services
7
Center for Family Services

Administering an array of critical, intensive therapeutic interventions and/or facilitation services to emotionally and behaviorally disturbed clients for whom DCFS is legally responsible in order to stabilize their traditional or home of…

Human Services
8
Childrens Advocacy Center of East Central Illinois

To assist children who have been victims of abuse

Crime & Legal
9
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Illinois Capital Region Inc

To help children reach their full potential through life-changing, professionally supported, one-to-one mentoring relationships.

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10
Prevent Child Abuse Illinois

To prevent child abuse in Illinois through education, awareness, advocacy, and community support

Crime & Legal
11
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
12
Mid-Il Big Brothers Big Sisters

Provide mentoring services to at-risk children in central il

Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mchenry County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Archangels Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyMedical Research FundingIndependent Schools and Aca…Veterans Service Organizati…Developmental Disabilities …College and School Foundati…Christian Gospel ChurchesLocal Business ChambersCommunity Support ServicesCommunity Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%5%<5yr13%14%5–10yr17%23%10–20yr15%18%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr23%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr13%8%5–10yr17%21%10–20yr15%9%20–35yr13%10%35–55yr23%51%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/53
the rest of the field
15%
7,268/47,586

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

40 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. 40 of the 53 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/40
Grantees still filing
27/40
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ST MARYS CHURCH — $444,968 · OtherST MARYS CHURCHMARIAN CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL — $128,378 · OtherMARIAN CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLFACES OF NARCOLEPSY — $71,885 · OtherFACES OF NARCOLEPSYCOMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL DIST 155 — $50,000 · OtherMONTINI CATHOLIC SCHOOL — $33,725 · Other+20 more — $269,164 · Other+20 moreUNITED WAY OF GREATER McHENRY COUNTY INC — $168,372 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREAT…ANTHONY RIZZO FAMILY FOUNDATION — $63,500 · PhilanthropyANTHONY RIZZO FAMIL…NISRA FOUNDATION — $35,971 · PhilanthropyNISRA FOUNDATIONGAVERS COMMUNITY CANCER FOUNDATION — $31,623 · PhilanthropyGAVERS COMMUNITY CA…DECISION POINT MINISTRIES — $18,000 · PhilanthropyPitch In — $14,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $6,650 · PhilanthropyTLC CENTERS FOR THERAPY — $180,504 · Human ServicesTLC CENTERS FOR TH…Pioneer Center for Human Services — $90,589 · Human ServicesPioneer Center for…YOUTH VILLAGES FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH VILLAGES FOU…+3 more — $27,150 · Human Services+3 moreBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MCHENRY COUNTY INC — $102,782 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHER…CRYSTAL LAKE TEEN CENTER — $55,995 · Youth DevelopmentCRYSTAL LAK…BARRINGTON CHILDRENS CHARITIES — $27,048 · Youth DevelopmentBARRINGTON …KIDS IN NEED OF MCHENRY COUNTY INC — $8,760 · Youth Development+1 more — $6,200 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON THE RUN OF NORTHWEST ILLINOIS — $12,773 · EducationFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION — $12,350 · EducationARCHANGELS ACADEMY — $12,050 · EducationTHE COVE SCHOOL INC — $7,000 · EducationUNCHARTED LEARNING NFP — $6,945 · EducationTHE H FOUNDATION — $12,405 · HealthMACYNS JARS NFP — $9,790 · HealthFRANKIE V POLLETTA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $8,500 · HealthMIDWEST COUNCIL FOR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES — $8,160 · HealthThe Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation) — $28,713 · Religion
Other$998,120Philanthropy$338,116Human Services$333,243Youth Development$200,785Education$51,118Health$38,855Religion$28,713

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTLC CENTERS FOR THERAPY — $180,504 over 8y, 8.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER McHENRY COUNTY INC — $168,372 over 9y, 4.5% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MCHENRY COUNTY INC — $102,782 over 7y, 4.5% of budgetPioneer Center for Human Services — $90,589 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetANTHONY RIZZO FAMILY FOUNDATION — $63,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCRYSTAL LAKE TEEN CENTER — $55,995 over 4y, 40% of budgetNISRA FOUNDATION — $35,971 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetYOUTH VILLAGES FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGAVERS COMMUNITY CANCER FOUNDATION — $31,623 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetChicago Cubs Charities — $29,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation) — $28,713 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBARRINGTON CHILDRENS CHARITIES — $27,048 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetLAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER — $21,209 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDECISION POINT MINISTRIES — $18,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPitch In — $14,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN OF NORTHWEST ILLINOIS — $12,773 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetTHE H FOUNDATION — $12,405 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION — $12,350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARCHANGELS ACADEMY — $12,050 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetONE ACRE FUND — $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLORY BOUND RESCUE RANCH — $10,600 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetHOOVED ANIMAL HUMANE SOCIETY — $10,420 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSERVICE LEAGUE OF CRYSTAL LAKE INC — $9,818 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetTurning Point Inc — $9,650 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCLEARBROOK — $9,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS IN NEED OF MCHENRY COUNTY INC — $8,760 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCASA OF MCHENRY COUNTY INC — $8,750 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFRANKIE V POLLETTA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $8,500 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetMIDWEST COUNCIL FOR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES — $8,160 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetWOODSTOCK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & IND — $8,050 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTHE MICHAEL PHELPS FOUNDATION — $8,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSHELTER INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE COVE SCHOOL INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNCHARTED LEARNING NFP — $6,945 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCLUB 400 — $6,650 over 1y, 10% of budgetNot-For-Profit Resources Inc — $6,475 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTrue Mentors — $6,200 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK — $5,500 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 Community Foundat…AbbVie FoundationFoglia Family Foundat…Northwestern Memorial…Mental Health Resourc…Northwestern Memorial…Aptargroup Charitable…The Chicago Community…The Gerhard & Patrici…Trustmark FoundationKunes Family Foundati…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
The Community Foundation for McHenry CountyIL28.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for McHenry County · AbbVie Foundation · Foglia Family Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Mental Health Resource League for McHenry County Inc · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare · Aptargroup Charitable Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Gerhard & Patricia Weiler Family Foundation · Trustmark Foundation · Kunes Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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 Bunker Hill Charities 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 · 20%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Bunker Hill Charities?

    Find your warmest path to Bunker Hill Charities 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 53 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $530k 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 FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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