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Chicago Association of REALTORS Educational Foundation Inc

A 501(c)(3) charitable organization, we are the education, philanthropic, and research arm of the Chicago Association of REALTORS.

$141k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
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.

Housing & Shelter$318kPublic Safety & Disaster$133kHuman Services$42kYouth Development$42kEducation$30kCommunity Improvement$28kEmployment$15kArts & Culture$7k
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 11 grants below total $107,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $141,159 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $34,159 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 · $20k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $88k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EVANSTON REBUILDING WAREHOUSE$15,000
MERCY HOUSING LAKE FRONT$12,500
RENAISSANCE SOCIAL SERVICES$10,000
All Chicago Making Homelessness History$10,000
Spanish Coalition for Housing$10,000
The Southwest Collective$10,000
Voice of the People in Uptown$10,000
BACK ON MY FEET$10,000
Chicago Association of Realtors$7,500
Sarah's Circle$7,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO INC$5,000
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 (FY17–24, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Covenant House Illinois Inc: $15k → 14%Renaissance Social Services: $10k → 14%Renaissance Social Services: $10k → 14%RENAISSANCE SOCIAL SERVICES: $10k → 14%Renaissance Social Services: $10k → 14%Renaissance Social Services: $8k → 14%Ada S McKinley Community Services: $10k → 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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$364k · 7 repeat orgs$250k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +91% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

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
14

Total granted

$364k
$180k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+91%
+7%

Still filing today

86%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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
Housing & ShelterHuman ServicesEducationPublic Safety & DisasterYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther

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

  • RR
    Realtors Relief Foundation
    3× · 2017–2021 · $133k · revenue +51%
  • AC
    ALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY
    5× · 2017–2024 · $74k · revenue +639%
  • RS
    Renaissance Social Services Inc
    5× · 2017–2024 · $48k · revenue +244%

Funded once

  • RU
    Realtor University
    one grant, 2017 · $55k · revenue -97%
  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +58%
  • TA
    The Asian Real Estate Aso of Am Edu Fndt
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -22%

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
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
3
Chicago Metropolitan Housing Dev Corp

Cmhdcs mission is to retain and develop properties with both affordable and market rate housing in the chicago metropolitan area . cmhdc targets areas vulnerable to affordable housing shortages.

Housing & Shelter
4
Southwestern Illinois Board of Realtors

To provide 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.

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5
The Affordable Housing Corporation of Lake County

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
6
Chicago Community Land Trust

The mission of the chicago community land trust (cclt) is to provide and sustain quality, affordable homeownership opportunities and a community of support for working families and individuals in chicago and to preserve these opportunities…

Housing & Shelter
7
Community Supportive Living Systems

To provide additional supportive housing, social, health, and other human services to the indigent and special needs individuals of chicago's inner city population and transitioning the homeless to a life of self- sufficiency and stability.

Housing & Shelter
8
Housing Action Illinois

To increase and preserve the supply of decent, affordable and accessible housing in Illinois for low-income and moderate-income households

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9
True Chicago
Arts & Culture
10
Chicago Neighborhood Initiatives Inc

Generating economic development & combating community deterioration in low-income communities.

Community Improvement
11
Chicago Area Fair Housing Alliance

Cafha provides training and technical assistance to a wide array of stakeholders combating housing discrimination and promoting equitable place-based opportunity through education, advocacy, and collaborative action.

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12
Chicago South Suburbs Habitat for Humanity

Chicago south suburbs habitat is an affiliate of habitat for humanity international, inc., a nondenominational christian-based not-for-profit organization whose mission is to serve all persons of all race classes and faiths, and work in…

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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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr14%8%5–10yr18%21%10–20yr17%21%20–35yr15%21%35–55yr16%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr18%9%10–20yr17%51%20–35yr15%10%35–55yr16%24%55yr+

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 — 7% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
7%
2/28
the rest of the field
16%
4,998/31,482

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

26 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. 26 of the 28 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/26
Grantees still filing
17/26
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Realtor University — $55,000 · OtherRealtor UniversityKids Above All Illinois — $39,500 · OtherKids Above All IllinoisST SABINA CHURCH — $20,000 · OtherST SABINA CHURCHHEPHZIBAH CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION — $10,000 · OtherCHICAGOLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY JAMES HARRIS TREASURER — $10,000 · OtherUPTOWN UNITED — $10,000 · OtherLEGACY LAW SCHOOL CORPORATION — $10,000 · OtherTHE 100 CLUB OF ILLINOIS — $10,000 · OtherChicago Association of REALTORS — $7,500 · OtherSOUTHWEST COLLECTIVE — $10,000 · OtherThe National Public Housing Museum — $7,000 · Other+1 more — $6,000 · OtherALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY — $74,004 · Housing & ShelterALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELE…MERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT — $18,500 · Housing & ShelterMERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONTSPANISH COALITION FOR HOUSING — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterSPANISH COALITION FOR HOU…CHICAGO REHAB NETWORK — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterCHICAGO REHAB NETWORKVOICE OF THE PEOPLE IN UPTOWN INC — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterVOICE OF THE PEOPLE IN UP…HOMES FOR HEROES FOUNDATION — $7,222 · Housing & ShelterSARAH'S CIRCLE — $7,000 · Housing & ShelterRealtors Relief Foundation — $132,500 · Public Safety & DisasterRealtors Relief Foundati…Renaissance Social Services Inc — $47,500 · Human ServicesRenaissance Soc…COVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE …BACK ON MY FEET — $10,000 · Human ServicesBACK ON MY FEETADA S MCKINLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesADA S MCKINLEY …BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO — $31,954 · Youth DevelopmentThe Asian Real Estate Aso of Am Edu Fndt — $10,000 · EducationKIPP CHICAGO SCHOOLS — $10,000 · EducationEVANSTON REBUILDING WAREHOUSE — $15,000 · Environment
Other$195,000Housing & Shelter$136,726Public Safety & Disaster$132,500Human Services$82,500Youth Development$31,954Education$20,000Environment$15,000

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 budgetRealtors Relief Foundation — $132,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY — $74,004 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetRealtor University — $55,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetRenaissance Social Services Inc — $47,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetKids Above All Illinois — $39,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO — $31,954 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT — $18,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEVANSTON REBUILDING WAREHOUSE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Asian Real Estate Aso of Am Edu Fndt — $10,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetSPANISH COALITION FOR HOUSING — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHEPHZIBAH CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGOLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY JAMES HARRIS TREASURER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHICAGO REHAB NETWORK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetKIPP CHICAGO SCHOOLS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVOICE OF THE PEOPLE IN UPTOWN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSOUTHWEST COLLECTIVE — $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetUPTOWN UNITED — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBACK ON MY FEET — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLEGACY LAW SCHOOL CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE 100 CLUB OF ILLINOIS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetADA S MCKINLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Association of REALTORS — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOMES FOR HEROES FOUNDATION — $7,222 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetSARAH'S CIRCLE — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe National Public Housing Museum — $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 Chicago Community…Polk Bros Foundation …Helen V Brach Foundat…Cuore e Mani Foundati…The Pierce Family Cha…Arie and Ida Crown Me…United Way of Metropo…John D and Catherine …Robert R McCormick Fo…Circle of Service Fou…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The a Montgomery Ward…
The Chicago Community TrustIL29.2× 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 · Helen V Brach Foundation · Cuore e Mani Foundation · The Pierce Family Charitable Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The a Montgomery Ward 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 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    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: 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 Chicago Association of REALTORS Educational Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Chicago Association of REALTORS Educational Foundation Inc 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 28 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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