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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $107,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $141,159 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $34,159 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
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
All Chicago Making Homelessness History$10,000
RENAISSANCE SOCIAL SERVICES$10,000
Chicago Association of Realtors$7,500
Sarah's Circle$7,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO INC$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +91% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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%
  • KC
    KIPP CHICAGO SCHOOLSgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +41%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.

—
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

—
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.

—
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is All Chicago Making Homelessness History; 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.
04the grantee network

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/26
Grantees still filing
15/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Realtor University: $55,000 · OtherRealtor UniversityKids Above All Illinois: $39,500 · OtherKids Above All IllinoisST SABINA CHURCH: $20,000 · OtherST SABINA CHURCHUPTOWN UNITED: $10,000 · OtherTHE 100 CLUB OF ILLINOIS: $10,000 · OtherCHICAGOLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY JAMES HARRIS TREASURER: $10,000 · OtherHEPHZIBAH CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · OtherLEGACY LAW SCHOOL CORPORATION: $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 LAKEFRONTCHICAGO REHAB NETWORK: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterCHICAGO REHAB NETWORKSPANISH COALITION FOR HOUSING: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterSPANISH COALITION FOR HOU…VOICE 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 DevelopmentKIPP CHICAGO SCHOOLS: $10,000 · EducationThe Asian Real Estate Aso of Am Edu Fndt: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetKIPP CHICAGO SCHOOLS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUPTOWN UNITED: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE 100 CLUB OF ILLINOIS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHICAGO REHAB NETWORK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCHICAGOLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY JAMES HARRIS TREASURER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHEPHZIBAH CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBACK ON MY FEET: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHWEST COLLECTIVE: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetSPANISH COALITION FOR HOUSING: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVOICE OF THE PEOPLE IN UPTOWN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetADA S MCKINLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEGACY LAW SCHOOL CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Asian Real Estate Aso of Am Edu Fndt: $10,000 over 1y, 18% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Chicago Association of REALTORS Educational Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chicago Association of REALTORS Educational Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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