Loading…
· Public charity
Chicago Association of REALTORS Educational Foundation Inc
To encourage, promote & provide education in the field of real estate and to provide grants for philanthropic purposes.
$141k
Granted FY2024
11
Grants
2
Communities
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
0177% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Housing & Shelter$118kPublic Safety & Disaster$113kHuman Services$73kYouth Development$22kEnvironment$15kEducation$10kCommunity Improvement$10kArts & Culture$7kOther$107k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
children
2020
—
2021
youth
2022
homelessyouth
2023
activitiesstrengthenhomeless
2024
industrystabilityhomelessnessaffordable
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 11 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $88k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
- EVANSTON REBUILDING WAREHOUSE$15,000
- MERCY HOUSING LAKE FRONT$12,500
- RENAISSANCE SOCIAL SERVICES$10,000
- Voice of the People in Uptown$10,000
- Spanish Coalition for Housing$10,000
- All Chicago Making Homelessness History$10,000
- BACK ON MY FEET$10,000
- The Southwest Collective$10,000
- Chicago Association of Realtors$7,500
- Sarah's Circle$7,000
- BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO INC$5,000
02The need
04
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 (FY18–24, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.
64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$305k · 7 repeat orgs$169k to everyone else
7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
7
10
Total granted
$305k
$99k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+82%
+104%
Still filing today
86%
100%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Housing & ShelterHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterYouth DevelopmentEducationEnvironmentOther
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
- RRRealtor Relief Foundation2× · 2018–2021 · $113k · revenue +51%
- ACAll Chicago Making Homelessness History4× · 2018–2024 · $55k · revenue +639%
- KAKids Above All4× · 2018–2022 · $40k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- CHCovenant House Illinois Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +388%
- KCKipp Chicago Schoolsgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +104%
- CRChicago Rehabilitation Networkgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +190%
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 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
2
Community Housing Partnership
Providing affordable housing to underserved communities locally and around the world.
Housing & Shelter
3
Chicago United for Equity
Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.
Civil Rights
4
The Affordable Housing Corporation of
To provide decent, safe and sanitary housing that is affordable to low and moderate-income persons and to stabilize and strengthen communities by improving the local housing stock. the corporation shall administer programs that revitalize…
Human Services
5
Neighborhood Housing Services
Build stronger neighborhoods through homeownership and other quality housing opportunities.
Housing & Shelter
6
Open Communities
Fair housing testing and enforcement; hud certified counseling services for renters and homeowners; advocacy for fair and inclusive housing in north and northwest suburban chicago.
Housing & Shelter
7
California Housing Partner Corporation
The California Housing Partnership Corporation creates and preserves affordable and sustainable homes for Californians with low incomes by providing expert financial and policy solutions to nonprofit and public partners.
Unclassified
8
Southwestern Illinois Board of Realtors
The association provides resources, advocacy and education for a diverse community of professionals and is dedicated to the highest standards of service in a changing real estate market.
—
9
Chicago Neighborhood Initiatives Inc
Generating economic development and affordable housing & combating community deterioration in low-income communities.
Community Improvement
10
Housing Action Illinois
To increase and preserve the supply of decent, affordable and accessible housing in Illinois for low and moderate income households
—
11
Chn Housing Partners
Chn's mission is to leverage the power of affordable housing to improve lives and communities.
Housing & Shelter
12
Neighborhood Nonprofit Housing Corp
Create quality affordable housing opportunities, enhance communities and provide households with skills to become self-sufficient.
Housing & Shelter
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is All Chicago Making Homelessness History and the most unlike its peers is Homes for Heroes Foundation. 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 39 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
0.0%0/24
the rest of the field
14%
4,320/31,486
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.
05the grantee network
23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
20/23
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Housing & Shelter$117,722Public Safety & Disaster$112,500Other$124,000Human Services$72,500Youth Development$22,450Environment$15,000Education$10,000
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 Realtor Relief Foundation ↗
- Who funds All Chicago Making Homelessness History ↗
- Who funds Kids Above All ↗
- Who funds Renaissance Social Services ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Mercy Housing Lake Front ↗
- Who funds EVANSTON REBUILDING WAREHOUSE ↗
- Who funds Covenant House Illinois Inc ↗
- Who funds Kipp Chicago Schools ↗
- Who funds Spanish Coalition for Housing ↗
- Who funds Chicago Rehabilitation Network ↗
- Who funds Voice of the People in Uptown ↗
- Who funds The 100 Club of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Hephzibah Children's Association ↗
- Who funds Uptown United ↗
- Who funds Chicagoland Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds Ada S McKinley Community Services ↗
- Who funds The Southwest Collective ↗
- Who funds BACK ON MY FEET ↗
- Who funds Chicago Association of Realtors ↗
- Who funds Homes for Heroes Foundation ↗
- Who funds National Public Housing Museum ↗
- Who funds Sarah's Circle ↗
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 Chicago Community TrustIL29.3× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur · Cuore e Mani Foundation · The Pierce Family Charitable Foundation · Helen V Brach Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The a Montgomery Ward Foundation · All Chicago Making Homelessness History · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial
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 organisation Chicago Association of REALTORS Educational Foundation Inc 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
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. 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
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Homes for Heroes Foundation.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~11 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +96% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 263538794 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Homes for Heroes Foundation, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 11 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 4% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Chicago Association of REALTORS Educational Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to Chicago Association of REALTORS Educational Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines