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Chicago Board of Trade Foundation
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $106k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $158k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MISERICORDIA | $35,000 |
| SANTA'S VOLUNTEERS | $30,000 |
| WELLNESS HOUSE | $17,500 |
| PACIFIC GARDEN MISSION | $15,000 |
| CHICAGO JESUIT ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| THE CHICAGO SOUTHWEST SUBURBAN PARISH AND | $10,000 |
| CANAVAN RESEARCH ILLINOIS | $10,000 |
| AID FOR WOMEN INC | $10,000 |
| CRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| IMD GUEST HOUSE | $10,000 |
| CHRIST THE KING JSUIT COLLEGE PREP | $7,500 |
| NEW MOMS INC | $7,500 |
| Open Heart Magic | $7,500 |
| GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE | $7,250 |
| PATHLIGHTS | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $410k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% 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.
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 +35% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 25 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
- AFAID FOR WOMEN INC7× · 2018–2025 · $70k · revenue +126%
- OHOPEN HEART MAGIC8× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +51%
- WHWellness House8× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- GFGreater Food Depositoryone grant, 2020 · $10k
- RTREBUILDING TOGETHERone grant, 2021 · $8k
- OVORCHARD VILLAGEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +64%
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.
Child Link provides foster care, family counseling, and therapy services to Chicago area adolescents who are at risk of homelessness. Child Link also refers adolescents to other agencies that are able to provide additional resources and…
To provide for individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities.
Providing academic support to children experiencing homelessness in Chicago and providing resources and services to families experiencing homelessness in Chicago.
Administering an array of critical, intensive therapeutic interventions and/or facilitation services to emotionally and behaviorally disturbed clients for whom DCFS is legally responsible in order to stabilize their traditional or home of…
To provide residential and rehabilitation services to clients with mental illnesses
To help people with developmental disabilities meet life's challenges and reach their highest potential.
To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.
The chicago children's advocacy center unites public, private, and community partners to ensure the safety, health, and well-being of abused children.
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.
Chicago family health center will promote health, work to prevent disease and provide treatment through the delivery of quality, accessible primary healtcare that is culturally sensitive, affordable, and responsive to community and…
Brian's House specializes in the care and treatment of people with disabilities. Brian's House provides a broad range of human services to people with special needs and challenges. The primary goal is to maximize each individual's…
House of Good Shepherd serves with love and compassion women and children affected by domestic violence by offering a safe place with opportunities for emotional, educational and spiritual growth, giving hope and continued support for a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Moms Inc and the most unlike its peers is Whats Your Forte 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 35 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
57 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. 57 of the 85 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 CANAVAN RESEARCH ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds AID FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds SANTAS VOLUNTEERS ↗
- Who funds OPEN HEART MAGIC ↗
- Who funds Wellness House ↗
- Who funds NEW MOMS INC ↗
- Who funds TUTORING CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Horizons for Youth ↗
- Who funds SARAH'S INN ↗
- Who funds LOAVES & FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds RESTORING THE PATH ↗
- Who funds Providence St Mel School ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
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- Who funds MAINE-NILES ASSOCIATION OF SPECIAL RECREATION ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYMOM NFP ↗
- Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY SEGUIN OF GREATER CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds SISTERHOUSE ↗
- Who funds Maryville Academy ↗
- Who funds ST COLETTA'S OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds GUILDHAUS ↗
- Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds PACTT Learning Center ↗
- Who funds DANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
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.
Open a dossier: United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Coleman Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Helen V Brach Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Robert R McCormick Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Rice Foundation · Andrew and Alice Fischer Charitable Trust · The Service Club of Chicago · WP & HB White 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 Board of Trade Foundation 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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