· Public charity
Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership
The partnerships mission is to create, promote, and effectively manage a network of workforce development organizations that designs innovative solutions to address business needs and prepares individuals for, and connects them to, career opportunities.
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
- $10k–50k18 grants · $450k
- $50k–250k23 grants · $3.5M
- $250k+57 grants · $63M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ISTS | $9,614,828 |
| EdAssist | $7,067,642 |
| Employment & Employer Services | $5,498,967 |
| National Able Network | $4,219,724 |
| Central State Ser | $2,857,894 |
| Business and Career Services | $2,411,615 |
| Equus | $2,056,727 |
| Calumet Area Industrial Commission | $1,833,749 |
| Greater West Town Project | $1,551,105 |
| YWCA Metropolitan Chicago | $1,203,670 |
| OAI | $1,199,388 |
| KRA Corporation | $1,112,797 |
| Pyramid partnership | $1,061,001 |
| Phalanx | $1,051,737 |
| Chicago Federation of Labor Workers | $1,011,010 |
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, $56.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +51% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
122 repeat relationships — 69 still active in FY2025, 53 since wound down; 27 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13M 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
- GWGREATER WEST TOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT9× · 2017–2025 · $12M · revenue +5% · 55% of their budget
- CACALUMET AREA INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION9× · 2017–2025 · $10M · revenue +216% · 41% of their budget
- CSCENTRAL STATES SER JOBS FOR PROGRESS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $9.6M · revenue +53% · 69% of their budget
Funded once
- SFSAFER FOUNDATION - AFFILIATE CENTERone grant, 2021 · $836k
- MCMcDermott Centerone grant, 2021 · $367k · revenue -4%
- NPNEW PISGAH COMMUNITY SERVICE ORGANIZATIONone grant, 2021 · $330k
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.
Chicago Workers' Collaborative's mission is to promote full employment and equality for the lowest wage-earners, primarily temporary staffing workers, in the Chicago region through leadership and skills training, critical assistance and…
Chicago Jobs Council (CJC) pursues its mission through advocacy, applied research, public education and capacity-building initiatives focused on influencing the development or reform of public policies and programs. From 18 original…
North Branch Works is a membership-supported nonprofit neighborhood organization that for more than three decades has promoted balanced, job-creating economic development along the North Branch of the Chicago River.
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
The chicagoland chamber of commerce combines the power of people, with our legacy of leadership and business advocacy, to drive a dynamic economy. we focus on delivering value for our members, making chicagoland a world-class place to live…
The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…
The mission of the workforce connection board is to create a competitive, skilled and educated workforce by providing a system for individuals to gain meaningful employment responsive to the needs of business.
Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
The mission of employ milwaukee, inc. is to build a strong workforce development system by planning, coordinating, collaborating and monitoring workforce initiatives with businesses, partners and community stakeholders at the local,…
Employment support and exchange for veterans
Infant welfare society of chicago (iws) (d/b/a iws family health) provides quality medical, dental and behavioral health services for the health, physical and mental development of children and their families in the chicagoland community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Moms Inc and the most unlike its peers is Melanated Midwives Nfp. 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 36 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 — 0.8% 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.
110 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. 110 of the 245 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 NATIONAL ABLE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds BUSINESS AND CAREER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WEST TOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CALUMET AREA INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL STATES SER JOBS FOR PROGRESS INC ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Family Services ↗
- Who funds PHALANX FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Chicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative ↗
- Who funds YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Safer Foundation ↗
- Who funds JANE ADDAMS RESOURCE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SGA YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES NFP ↗
- Who funds Inspiration Corporation ↗
- Who funds Bridges from School to Work Inc ↗
- Who funds OAI Inc ↗
- Who funds Lawrence Hall ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds KLEO Community Family Life Center ↗
- Who funds SCALELIT FKA CHICAGO CITYWIDE LITERACY COALITION ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR LATINO PROGRESS ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds Habilitative Systems Inc ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UCAN ↗
- Who funds The Resurrection Project ↗
- Who funds PUERTO RICAN CULTURAL CENTER ↗
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 · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Greater Chicago Food Depository · Forefront · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation · Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
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 Cook Workforce Partnership 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.
- The Workplace Inc — 100% of income from government
- Bridges from School to Work Inc — 33% of income from government
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.