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Cheryl & John Omeara Charitable Fo
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $47k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $15,000 |
| NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BK | $12,000 |
| CENTER ON HALSTED | $10,000 |
| DLC DOMINICAN LEARNING CENTER | $10,000 |
| THE CARING PLACE | $5,181 |
| CASA CORNELIA LAW CENTER | $5,150 |
| NATIONAL IMMIGRATION JUSTICE CENTE | $5,149 |
| POINT FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HOBART FOOD PANTRY INC | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| SOJOURNER TRUTH HOUSE | $5,000 |
| HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL | $4,586 |
| ZACHARIS SEXUAL ADUSE CEN | $4,500 |
| WORLD CONCERN | $4,500 |
| SMILE TRAIN | $4,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $56k) 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.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- COCenter on Halsted7× · 2019–2025 · $51k · revenue +62%
- PFPOINT FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2025 · $39k · revenue +161%
- CCCasa Cornelia Legal Services7× · 2019–2025 · $29k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- AFAngel Flight Central Incgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +40%
- SSSOUTH SHORE FRIENDS OF VETSone grant, 2024 · $5k
- NINORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANKone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -8%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission is to end relationship and sexual violence by being a catalyst for caring communities and social justice. the vision is for all people to live full, free, expressive, and empowered lives in a safe, healthy, vibrant, and…
Walk with people facing violence, offering safety, support, and hope as they heal and rebuild. with every step forward, we build stronger, more resilient communities.
The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.
To prevent domestic violence and sexual assault in dekalb county
LACASA Center protects, supports, empowers and advocates for survivors of child abuse, domestic violence, and sexual violence; and promotes interpersonal safety through education, awareness, and prevention programs.
Organization's mission or most significant activities the advocates of lake county will assist any victim of crime, violence, or other traumatic event, primarily victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. the advocates work for…
Provides housing and support services to individuals and families impacted by hiv/aids
To transform the lives of children and adults by providing opportunities to build self-confidence, resilience and hope.
The mission of women against abuse is to provide quality, compassionate, and nonjudgmental services in a manner that fosters self-respect and independence in persons experiencing intimate partner violence and to lead the struggle to end…
Covenant house new orleans (the organization) is a not-for-profit organization affiliated with 34 similar organizations across five countries, all of which are affiliates of covenant house international (parent affiliate) and share a…
News is dedicated to providing safety, hope, healing and empowerment for survivors of domestic and sexual abuse. equally, news is committed to promoting safe communities and social change through prevention, intervention, education, and…
Our mission is to assist survivors and their children in learning to overcome the cycle of physical, sexual, mental, and emotional health.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hobart Food Pantry Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 26 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Center on Halsted ↗
- Who funds POINT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Casa Cornelia Legal Services ↗
- Who funds Lake County Childrens Advocacy Center ↗
- Who funds LAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THE LAKE COUNTY HAVEN ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds ZACHARIAS SEXUAL ABUSE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE CARING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds Angel Flight Central Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Sojourner Truth House Inc ↗
- Who funds HOBART FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
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.
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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 Cheryl & John Omeara Charitable Fo 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.
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.
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