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Center for Neighborhood Technology

Deliver innovative analysis and solutions that support community-based organizations and local governments to create neighborhoods that are equitable, sustainable, and resilient.

$691k
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$109k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2022–2024.

Environment$406kCommunity Improvement$296kHuman Services$129kHousing & Shelter$92kHealth$87kEducation$75kEmployment$15kYouth Development$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 30 grants below total $670,084 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $690,751 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $20,667 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 $10k3 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $486k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $163k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE ENDELEO INSTITUTE INC$108,667
EQUITICITY$54,500
LITTLE VILLAGE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ORGANIZATION$48,500
METROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL$46,750
ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION ALLIANCE$31,750
NORTHWEST SIDE HOUSING CENTER$31,000
FAR SOUTH CDC$31,000
LOGAN SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION$29,417
EMERALD SOUTH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COLLABORATIVE$28,250
ACCESS LIVING OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO$25,000
BRONZEVILLE HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP$21,000
FOUNDATION FOR HOMAN SQUARE$15,000
OAI INC$15,000
AUSTIN COMING TOGETHER$15,000
COALITION FOR A BETTER CHINESE AMERICAN COMMUNITY$15,000
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 (FY24–24, $160k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NORTHWEST SIDE HOUSING CENTER: $31k → 17%KOREAN AMERICAN SENIOR CENTER INC: $10k → 14%INDO-AMERICAN CENTER INC: $10k → 14%THE ENDELEO INSTITUTE INC: $109k → 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.

41%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$464k · 5 repeat orgs$661k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +82% since the first grant, against -11% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
4

Total granted

$464k
$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+82%
-11%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $566k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Community ImprovementHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterEnvironmentEmploymentOther

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

  • LV
    Little Village Environmental Justice Org
    3× · 2022–2024 · $189k · revenue +55%
  • SE
    SOUTHEAST ENVIRONMENTAL TASK FORCE
    2× · 2022–2023 · $85k · revenue +32%
  • MP
    METROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL
    2× · 2022–2024 · $72k · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • BN
    BIG NFP DBA Blacks in Green
    one grant, 2023 · $45k · revenue +382%
  • NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CITY TRANSPORTATION OFFICIALS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -11%
  • PA
    PROPEL ATL INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -28%

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
Chicago United for Equity

Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.

Civil Rights
2
South East Chicago Commission

SECC collaborates with other University of Chicago businesses and organizations to foster a spirit of community and to enhance ongoing quality of life across neighborhoods it serves

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3
Local Economic and Employment Development Council Inc

North Branch Works is a membership-supported nonprofit neighborhood organization that for more than three decades has promoted balanced, job-creating economic development along the North Branch of the Chicago River.

Employment
4
McKinley Park Development Council

The McKinley Park Development Council works to organize, inform, and support neighbors in building the community we want to live in - physically, culturally, and economically.

Community Improvement
5
Chicago Gateway Green Committee

To beautify chicagoland's expressway system, its gateways andneighborhoods surrounding the expressways.

Environment
6
Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness

Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness (CCH) builds community power and advances racial equity through organizing, advocacy, legal assistance, and education to prevent and end homelessness because housing is a human right.

Housing & Shelter
7
Alianza Leadership Institute

The Alliance of the SouthEast (ASE) builds the capacity of leaders, organizers, and associations that carry out community and social change. We envision a powerful grassroots base that impacts decision makers and wins real improvements in…

Human Services
8
Ravenswood Community Council

Ravenswood Community Council is one of the first urban conservation commissions in Chicago.They focus their efforts on programs and partnerships that are designed to improve life for the entire community. They do this by advocating on…

Crime & Legal
9
Organizing Neighborhoods for Equality Northside

A mixed-income, multi-ethnic, intergenerational organization that unites our diverse communities. We build collective power to eliminate injustice through bold and innovative community organizing. We accomplish this through developing…

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10
The Neighborhood Network Alliance

Neighborhood Network Alliance (The NNA) connect, convene, and collaborate block-by-block with residents, nonprofits, and institutions to equip neighbors with the resources that will empower cooperative community management and…

Community Improvement
11
Green Chicago Restaurant Coalition

Green Chicago Restaurant Coalition's Guaranteed Green Sustainability Education Program educates foodservice operators about assessing the present state of their operation's environmental sustainability and helps them to develop a plan to…

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12
Eastlake Tenants Union

The East Lake Tenants Union (ELTU) is a nonprofit organization focused on grassroots organizing to empower low-income tenants in Chicago, particularly in predominantly Black and BIPOC communities. Our main activities include tenant…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago and the most unlike its peers is Neighbors for Environmental Justice. 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 22 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%3%<5yr14%23%5–10yr18%14%10–20yr17%37%20–35yr15%20%35–55yr16%3%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%5%<5yr14%17%5–10yr18%14%10–20yr17%42%20–35yr15%16%35–55yr16%6%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/36
the rest of the field
16%
5,000/31,474

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

33 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. 33 of the 36 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/33
Grantees still filing
12/33
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

METROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL — $71,704 · Community ImprovementMETROPOLITAN PLANNING …FAR SOUTH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP — $31,000 · Community ImprovementFAR SOUTH COMMUNITY DE…NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CITY TRANSPORTATION OFFICIALS INC — $30,000 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL ASSOCIATION O…Logan Square Neighborhood Association — $29,417 · Community ImprovementLogan Square Neighborh…GREATER SOUTHWEST DEVELOPMENT CORP — $15,000 · Community ImprovementGREATER SOUTHWEST DEVE…GREATER AUBURN GRESHAM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $15,000 · Community ImprovementGREATER AUBURN GRESHAM…FOUNDATION FOR HOMAN SQUARE F/K/A HOMAN ARTHINGTON FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Community ImprovementFOUNDATION FOR HOMAN S…NEIGHBORSPACE — $13,250 · Community ImprovementNEIGHBORSPACE+1 more — $6,000 · Community ImprovementLittle Village Environmental Justice Org — $188,500 · Recreation & SportsLittle Village Env…PEOPLE FOR COMMUNITY RECOVERY — $55,000 · OtherPEOPLE FOR COMMUNITY RE…ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION ALLIANCE — $31,750 · OtherACTIVE TRANSPORTATION A…EMERALD SOUTH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COLLOBORATIVE — $28,250 · OtherEMERALD SOUTH ECONOMIC …Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago — $25,000 · OtherAccess Living of Metrop…COALITION FOR A BETTER CHINESE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CBCAC — $15,000 · OtherCOALITION FOR A BETTER …BATAVIA COMMUNITY DIVERSITY INITIATIVE — $10,000 · OtherNAACP ILLINOIS STATE CONFERENCE — $10,000 · OtherELGIN BIKE HUB NFP — $10,000 · OtherOAI Inc — $15,000 · OtherOAI IncGreater Englewood Chamber of Commerce — $10,000 · OtherYOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER OF McHENRY CTY — $10,000 · OtherFAITH IN PLACE — $10,000 · Other+1 more — $6,000 · OtherTHE ENDELEO INSTITUTE INC — $108,667 · Human ServicesTHE ENDELEO INST…NORTHWEST SIDE HOUSING CENTER — $31,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST SIDE H…Indo-American Center — $10,000 · Human ServicesIndo-American Ce…HANUL FAMILY ALLIANCE F/K/A THE KOREAN-AMERICAN SR CTR — $10,000 · Human ServicesHANUL FAMILY ALL…SOUTHEAST ENVIRONMENTAL TASK FORCE — $85,200 · EnvironmentSOUTHEAST ENVIR…Neighbors for Environmental Justice — $64,000 · EnvironmentNeighbors for E…Equiticity — $54,500 · EducationEquiticit…Austin Coming Together — $15,000 · EducationAustin Co…PROPEL ATL INC — $10,000 · EducationPROPEL AT…BICYCLE COLORADO — $10,000 · EducationBICYCLE C…BIG NFP DBA Blacks in Green — $45,000 · Housing & ShelterBRONZEVILLE HOUSING & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $21,000 · Housing & ShelterALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS IN SUBURBAN COOK COUNTY — $10,000 · Housing & Shelter
Community Improvement$226,371Recreation & Sports$188,500Other$236,000Human Services$159,667Environment$149,200Education$89,500Housing & Shelter$76,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLittle Village Environmental Justice Org — $188,500 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetTHE ENDELEO INSTITUTE INC — $108,667 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetSOUTHEAST ENVIRONMENTAL TASK FORCE — $85,200 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetMETROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL — $71,704 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNeighbors for Environmental Justice — $64,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetPEOPLE FOR COMMUNITY RECOVERY — $55,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetEquiticity — $54,500 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetACTIVE TRANSPORTATION ALLIANCE — $31,750 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFAR SOUTH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP — $31,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNORTHWEST SIDE HOUSING CENTER — $31,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CITY TRANSPORTATION OFFICIALS INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLogan Square Neighborhood Association — $29,417 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEMERALD SOUTH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COLLOBORATIVE — $28,250 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetAccess Living of Metropolitan Chicago — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRONZEVILLE HOUSING & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $21,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetGREATER SOUTHWEST DEVELOPMENT CORP — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER AUBURN GRESHAM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAustin Coming Together — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOAI Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR HOMAN SQUARE F/K/A HOMAN ARTHINGTON FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCOALITION FOR A BETTER CHINESE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CBCAC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetNEIGHBORSPACE — $13,250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPROPEL ATL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetYOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER OF McHENRY CTY — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFAITH IN PLACE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIndo-American Center — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHANUL FAMILY ALLIANCE F/K/A THE KOREAN-AMERICAN SR CTR — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS IN SUBURBAN COOK COUNTY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Englewood Chamber of Commerce — $10,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetBICYCLE COLORADO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGROW GREATER ENGLEWOOD INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGarfield Park Community Council — $6,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

John D and Catherine …The Chicago Community…United Way of Metropo…ForefrontThe Joyce FoundationBuilders Vision Found…Natural Resources Def…United States Energy …Julian Grace Foundati…Field Foundation of I…Walder FoundationConant Family Foundat…
John D and Catherine T Macarthur FoundationIL38× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Forefront · The Joyce Foundation · Builders Vision Foundation · Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · United States Energy Foundation · Julian Grace Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · Walder Foundation · Conant Family 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 Center for Neighborhood Technology 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 · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 36 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.

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