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Chicago Chapter Charities Foundation Inc

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$122k
Granted FY2020
9
Itemized grants FY2020
9
Organizations funded FY2020
78%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Itemized, FY2020
$117k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2020
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 9
FY2018 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
3
Total assets, FY2020
$163k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 78% of the organizations Chicago Chapter Charities Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 71% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

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Human ServicesHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20209$117k78%
FY20195$46k60%
FY20188$69kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2020.

Youth Development$66kHuman Services$43kArts & Culture$40kHealth$30kCommunity Improvement$21kCrime & Legal$15kHousing & Shelter$15kReligion$3k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Chicago (IL) Chapter of The Links Incorporated$56,200316%
The Links Foundation Incorporated$30,00010%
Mission of Our Lady of Mercy$15,0002n/a
YWCA Metropolitan Chicago$12,50010%
Breakthrough Urban Ministries Inc$11,00010%
Firebird Community Arts$10,00012%
Trilogy Inc$10,00010%
Family Rescue Inc$10,0001n/a
Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago$10,00010%
Chicago Children's Advocacy Center$10,00010%
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All grantees of Chicago Chapter Charities Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Chicago (IL) Chapter of The Links Incorporated$56,200316%
The Links Foundation Incorporated$30,00010%
Mission of Our Lady of Mercy$15,0002n/a
YWCA Metropolitan Chicago$12,50010%
Breakthrough Urban Ministries Inc$11,00010%
Firebird Community Arts$10,00012%
Trilogy Inc$10,00010%
Family Rescue Inc$10,0001n/a
Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago$10,00010%
Chicago Children's Advocacy Center$10,00010%
The Night Ministry$10,00010%
The Thresholds$10,00010%
Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance$10,00010%
Resilience Partners NFP$10,0002n/a
Westside Association for Community Action$5,0001n/a
Mothers Against Senseless Killings Foundation$5,0001n/a
Earthheart Foundation$5,000118%
Alsas St Jude$2,5001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Chicago Chapter Charities Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChicago (IL) Chapter of The Links Incorporated: $56,200 over 3y, 16% of budgetThe Links Foundation Incorporated: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYWCA Metropolitan Chicago: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBreakthrough Urban Ministries Inc: $11,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFirebird Community Arts: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTrilogy Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Chicago: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChicago Children's Advocacy Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Night Ministry: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Thresholds: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDepression and Bipolar Support Alliance: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEarthheart Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 18% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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.

United Way of Metropolitan Chicago IncIL13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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Find your warmest path to Chicago Chapter Charities 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.

About Chicago Chapter Charities Foundation Inc

How much does Chicago Chapter Charities Foundation Inc give?
Chicago Chapter Charities Foundation Inc reported 9 itemized grants totaling $116,549, out of $121,549 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2020.
What does Chicago Chapter Charities Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2020, its largest causes are Youth Development (29%), Human Services (18%), Arts & Culture (17%).
Who are Chicago Chapter Charities Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2020: Chicago (IL) Chapter of The Links Incorporated ($56k), The Links Foundation Incorporated ($30k), Mission of Our Lady of Mercy ($15k).
Does Chicago Chapter Charities Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 78% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Chicago Chapter Charities Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust.
Where is Chicago Chapter Charities Foundation Inc based?
Chicago Chapter Charities Foundation Inc is based in IL.

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 18 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $30k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2020, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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