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Carl R Hendrickson Family Fdn

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$530k
Granted FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Human Services$484kReligion$378kHealth$369kYouth Development$287kHousing & Shelter$221kEducation$135kEmployment$75kCommunity Improvement$65kOther$0
02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 36 grants below total $374,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $530,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $156,000 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 $10k6 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k30 grants · $344k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INSPIRATION CORPORATION$25,000
THE HOPE CENTER$20,000
GUEST HOUSE$15,000
JACKSON CREEK FELLOWSHIP CHURCH$15,000
LORENZO'S HOUSE$15,000
INTERACT MINISTRIES$12,000
EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE MISSION$12,000
ALBANY YOUTH CENTER COMMUNITY C$10,000
CONCORDIA PLACE$10,000
PIONEER CENTER FOR HUMAN SERVICE$10,000
BARTLETT LEARNING CENTER, INC.$10,000
SISTERHOUSE$10,000
FREEPORT REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FDN$10,000
CASA CENTRAL$10,000
SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN$10,000
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 (FY19–21, $315k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MORNING STAR MISSION MINISTRIES: $10k → 7%Lazarus House: $10k → 8%OMNI YOUTH SERVICES INC: $17k → 8%CYN COUNSELING CENTER: $10k → 8%MY JOYFUL HEART: $10k → 7%THE CANCER SUPPORT CENTER: $10k → 14%HUMANITY RELIEF: $1k → 7%THE CANCER SUPPORT CENTER: $5k → 14%MARYVILLE ACADEMY: $10k → 14%DEVICES 4 THE DISABLED: $10k → 14%CENTER OF CONCERN: $10k → 14%SEASONS HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%WORLD VENTURES GROUP: $10k → 14%OPERATION NORTH POLE: $5k → 14%WORLD VENTURES GROUP: $5k → 14%HOPE CNTER FOUNDATION OF CHGO: $10k → 14%NEW MOMS INC: $15k → 14%SISTERHOUSE: $15k → 14%ASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO: $10k → 14%SOUTH SUBURBAN PADS: $15k → 14%CHILDRENS HOME & AID SOCIETY: $45k → 14%SALT AND LIGHT COALITION: $5k → 14%CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT FUTURE: $11k → 14%BARRINGTON AREA COUNCIL ON AGING: $10k → 14%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 14%C247 FATHER'S ARM MINISTRIES: $20k → 14%IGNITE: $10k → 14%HARBOUR INC: $6k → 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.

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.

40%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$925k · 28 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

28 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
84

Total granted

$925k
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+33%

Still filing today

75%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $260k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterReligionEmploymentOther

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

  • CE
    CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF ILLINOIS INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $80k · revenue +3%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BLOOMINGTON-NORMAL
    4× · 2019–2022 · $70k · revenue +98%
  • IM
    InterAct Ministries Inc
    5× · 2019–2024 · $69k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILLgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $45k · revenue +32%
  • BO
    BBACK ON MY FEETWORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
    one grant, 2022 · $40k
  • LS
    LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR
    one grant, 2019 · $30k

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
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
2
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
3
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
4
Illinois Presbyterian Home

Operate homes for the aged and to conduct charitable and benevolent enterprises

Human Services
5
Childrens Advocacy Center of East Central Illinois

To assist children who have been victims of abuse

Crime & Legal
6
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
7
Illinois Community for Displaced Immigrants

Serving recently arrived migrants and asylum seekers in the Chicagoland area and is committed to upholding the dignity and human rights of immigrants.

Human Services
8
Depaul Community Services Inc

To provide residential and rehabilitation services to clients with mental illnesses

Health
9
Chicago Children's Advocacy Center

The chicago children's advocacy center unites public, private, and community partners to ensure the safety, health, and well-being of abused children.

Crime & Legal
10
Oak Leyden Developmental Services Inc

To help people with developmental disabilities meet life's challenges and reach their highest potential.

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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
A Better Chicago

A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Home & Aid Society of Ill and the most unlike its peers is Albany Youth Centers Ministries. 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 35 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr14%7%5–10yr18%12%10–20yr17%29%20–35yr15%31%35–55yr16%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%2%<5yr14%5%5–10yr18%8%10–20yr17%29%20–35yr15%26%35–55yr16%31%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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%0/96
the rest of the field
15%
5,555/36,663

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

90 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 90 of the 137 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
89/90
Grantees still filing
66/90
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF ILLINOIS INC — $80,000 · OtherCHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF ILLINOIS INCEVANGELICAL ALLIANCE MISSION — $72,000 · OtherEVANGELICAL ALLIANCE MISSIONBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BLOOMINGTON-NORMAL — $70,000 · OtherWYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS INC — $69,000 · Other+74 more — $1,056,100 · Other+74 moreCHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL — $45,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCI…OMNI YOUTH SERVICES INCORPORATED — $36,500 · Human ServicesOMNI YOUTH SERVICES INCORP…Maryville Academy — $35,000 · Human ServicesMaryville AcademySAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE — $30,000 · Human ServicesSAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN…IGNITE — $30,000 · Human ServicesIGNITECENTER FOR INDEPENDENT FUTURES — $25,000 · Human ServicesSISTERHOUSE — $25,000 · Human ServicesInspiration Corporation — $25,000 · Human ServicesC24 7 FATHER'S ARMS MINISTRIES — $20,000 · Human ServicesLAZARUS HOUSE — $20,000 · Human ServicesLABRANCHE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · Human Services+22 more — $232,000 · Human Services+22 moreInterAct Ministries Inc — $69,000 · ReligionMARGARETS VILLAGE — $20,000 · ReligionTHE CHRISTIAN CENTER — $20,000 · ReligionSHELTER INC — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterCenter for Changing Lives — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterSARAH'S CIRCLE — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterGOOD NEWS PARTNERS — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterLINCOLN PARK COMMUNITY SERVICES — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterSenior Home Sharing — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterIMD Guest House Foundation — $20,000 · HealthSaint Anthony Hospital Foundation — $15,000 · HealthDUPAGE HEALTH COALITION — $15,000 · HealthMIDWEST BRAIN INJURY CLUBHOUSE — $10,000 · HealthFREEPORT REGIONAL HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · HealthL'ARCHE CHICAGO INC — $10,000 · HealthOSF Healthcare Foundation — $8,000 · HealthThe Cara Program — $50,000 · EmploymentCHICAGO CENTER FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY INC — $25,000 · EmploymentHAVE DREAMS — $9,000 · EmploymentALEXANDER LEIGH CENTER FOR AUTISM — $15,000 · EducationAssociated Colleges of Illinois Inc — $10,000 · EducationNORTH PARK UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · EducationBARTLETT LEARNING CENTER INC — $10,000 · EducationBOOKS AND BREAKFAST — $10,000 · EducationYouth Guidance — $10,000 · EducationSIT STAY READ INC — $10,000 · Education
Other$1,347,100Human Services$543,500Religion$109,000Housing & Shelter$90,000Health$88,000Employment$84,000Education$75,000

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 budgetCHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF ILLINOIS INC — $80,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BLOOMINGTON-NORMAL — $70,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetInterAct Ministries Inc — $69,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetThe Cara Program — $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL — $45,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCADENCE INTERNATIONAL — $44,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOMNI YOUTH SERVICES INCORPORATED — $36,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMaryville Academy — $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAlexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIGNITE — $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR INDEPENDENT FUTURES — $25,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCHICAGO CENTER FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSISTERHOUSE — $25,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetInspiration Corporation — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE AUTISM COLLECTIVE — $25,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetST JOSEPH SERVICES INC — $22,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetC24 7 FATHER'S ARMS MINISTRIES — $20,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetSHELTER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetALBANY YOUTH CENTERS MINISTRIES — $20,000 over 3y, 54% of budgetLAZARUS HOUSE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetIMD Guest House Foundation — $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMARGARETS VILLAGE — $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE CHRISTIAN CENTER — $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE HARBOUR INC — $16,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetREADING IN MOTION — $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCenter for Changing Lives — $15,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetSARAH'S CIRCLE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES PLUS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH SUBURBAN PADS — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJENNIFER S FALLICK CANCER SUPPORT CENTER — $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGOOD NEWS PARTNERS — $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSaint Anthony Hospital Foundation — $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLINCOLN PARK COMMUNITY SERVICES — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLORENZO'S HOUSE — $15,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetDUPAGE HEALTH COALITION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetALEXANDER LEIGH CENTER FOR AUTISM — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOOL MINISTRIES — $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNEW MOMS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHSIDE CENTER OF HOPE — $11,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBy The Hand Club For Kids — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLIES FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDEVICES 4 THE DISABLED — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetChicago Foundation for Education — $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetHorizons for Youth — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY YOUTH NETWORK INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

George M Eisenberg Fo…United Way of Metropo…Helen V Brach Foundat…The Chicago Community…The a Montgomery Ward…Blowitz-Ridgeway Foun…Polk Bros Foundation …Andrew and Alice Fisc…The Service Club of C…Northwestern Memorial…Dr Scholl FoundationGoldenberg Max Tw M G…
George M Eisenberg Foundation for CharitiesIL58.5× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Helen V Brach Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The a Montgomery Ward Foundation · Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Andrew and Alice Fischer Charitable Trust · The Service Club of Chicago · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Dr Scholl Foundation · Goldenberg Max Tw M G 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 Carl R Hendrickson Family Fdn 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 · 10%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 137 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.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $603k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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