· Private foundation
Chicago Cred Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $282k
- $50k–250k23 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+10 grants · $10M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Chicago Community Foundation | $3,800,000 |
| Youth Peace Center | $1,523,877 |
| Metropolitan Family Services | $1,436,008 |
| New Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church | $813,091 |
| Target Area Devcorp | $583,765 |
| Inner City Muslim Action Network | $500,000 |
| Institute For Non-Violence Chicago | $483,000 |
| Alliance Of Local Service Organizations | $376,688 |
| Black Men United | $347,549 |
| Together Chicago | $250,482 |
| Project HOOD Communities | $178,736 |
| Acclivus Inc | $157,500 |
| Think Outside Da Block | $75,000 |
| The Faith Community Of Saint Sabina | $75,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $71,912 |
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 (FY18–24, $4.3M) 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.
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 +83% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $878k 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
- IMINNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK7× · 2018–2024 · $6.6M · revenue +40%
- ASAFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC5× · 2018–2022 · $3.9M · revenue +24%
- MFMetropolitan Family Services4× · 2019–2024 · $3.8M · revenue +196%
Funded once
- SStorycatchersone grant, 2018 · $200k · revenue -69%
- FCFIREHOUSE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER OF CHICAGOgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue +46%
University of Chicagograduatedone grant, 2021 · $175k · revenue +34%
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.
Live Free Illinois is a statewide organization partnering with over 120 congregations and directly impacted individuals to build safer more equitable communities across Illinois. Operating at the intersection of criminal justice reform and…
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.
Chicago Votes is a non-partisan, non-profit organization building a more inclusive democracy by putting power in the hands of young Chicagoans. We're engaging and developing a new generation of leaders by opening the doors of government,…
Seeks to address the traumas of police violence and institutionalized racism through access to healing and wellness services, trauma-informed resources, and community connection. The Center is a part of and supports a movement to end all…
Thrive chicago's mission is to prepare chicago's youth for a vibrant future by aligning efforts and outcomes from cradle to career.
To promote the health and wellness of Chicago children through innovative, engaging, and sustainable youth running programs.
To achieve parity in economic opportunity for people of color by advancing multiracial leadership in corporate governance, expanding the talent pipline for executive-level management, and growing minority businesses.
The Chicago Refugee Coalition is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated ot the alleviation of human suffering through innovative partnerships, advocacy and community empowerment.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Together Chicago Inc and the most unlike its peers is Firehouse Community Arts Center of Chicago. 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 17 years old; the field is 17. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 82 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 INNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Family Services ↗
- Who funds Institute for Nonviolence Chicago ↗
- Who funds I AM ABLE CENTER FOR FAMILY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds Alliance of Local Service Organizations ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds ACCLIVUS INC ↗
- Who funds CIVIC CONSULTING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UCAN ↗
- Who funds Englewood First Responders ↗
- Who funds Chicago Youth Boxing Club ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds Storycatchers ↗
- Who funds FIREHOUSE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds NORTH LAWNDALE COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THINK OUTSIDE DA BLOCK INC ↗
- Who funds KABOOM INC ↗
- Who funds UNSTACKED INC ↗
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: The Chicago Community Trust · Robert R McCormick Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Chicago Beyond Inc · The Joyce Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · University of Chicago Medical Center · Forefront · Field Foundation of Illinois · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Fulk Family Foundation Inc
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 Cred 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.
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.