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Chicago Cubs Charities

The mission of Cubs Charities is to mobilize the power of sport to champion youth, families, and communities.

$2.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
54
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$848k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Recreation & Sports$9.5MHealth$4.8MEducation$4.0MPhilanthropy$2.8MCommunity Improvement$2.7MHuman Services$1.1MYouth Development$680kPublic Safety & Disaster$420kOther$0
02FY2024 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 54 grants below total $2,762,544 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,868,853 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $106,309 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $66k
  • $10k–50k37 grants · $866k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $403k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.4M
$25,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MCCORMICK FOUNDATION$847,767
BRAINUP INC$579,714
STAND UP TO CANCER$210,143
SPORTSFIELD INC$82,883
GOOD SPORTS INC$60,000
CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS$50,000
PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION$35,024
THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY INC$35,024
ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$35,024
LYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION$35,024
ROLFE PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION$35,024
BEAR NECESSITIES PEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION$35,024
URBAN INITIATIVES$30,000
KABOOM INC$25,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF CHICAGO dba JCC CHICAGO$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HAZLETON INTEGRATION PROJECT: $10k → 15%EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $250k → 11%I LOVE VENEZUELA FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 15%ATI FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $11k → 15%YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $25k → 14%NATIONAL RUNAWAY SAFELINE: $9k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $30k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 14%MISERICORDIA HOME: $17k → 14%MISERICORDIA HOME: $15k → 14%MISERICORDIA HOME: $11k → 14%MISERICORDIA HOME: $10k → 14%MISERICORDIA HOME: $10k → 14%MISERICORDIA HOME: $10k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF CHICAGO dba JCC CHICAGO: $25k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF CHICAGO dba JCC CHICAGO: $25k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF CHICAGO dba JCC CHICAGO: $25k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF CHICAGO dba JCC CHICAGO: $25k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF CHICAGO dba JCC CHICAGO: $25k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF CHICAGO dba JCC CHICAGO: $25k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF CHICAGO dba JCC CHICAGO: $25k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF CHICAGO dba JCC CHICAGO: $25k → 14%URBAN INITIATIVES: $30k → 14%URBAN INITIATIVES: $10k → 14%URBAN INITIATIVES: $10k → 14%URBAN INITIATIVES: $10k → 14%THE YMCA OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $25k → 14%CHRISTOPHER HOUSE: $15k → 14%CHRISTOPHER HOUSE: $10k → 14%Uhlich Childrens Advantage Network: $25k → 14%HOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD: $60k → 14%CENTER ON HALSTED: $25k → 14%CENTER ON HALSTED: $14k → 14%HOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD: $11k → 14%HOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD: $10k → 14%HOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD: $10k → 14%HOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD: $10k → 14%HOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD: $10k → 14%HOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD: $10k → 14%HOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD: $10k → 14%FAMILY RESCUE: $10k → 14%CENTER ON HALSTED: $10k → 14%NATIONAL RUNAWAY SAFELINE: $13k → 14%NATIONAL RUNAWAY SAFELINE: $12k → 14%NATIONAL RUNAWAY SAFELINE: $10k → 14%NATIONAL RUNAWAY SAFELINE: $10k → 14%NATIONAL RUNAWAY SAFELINE: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
NY
MA
NV
IA
PA
CA
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
DC
LA
GA
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 9% of Chicago Cubs Charities’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Chicago Cubs Charitieslessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$17M · 81 repeat orgs$3.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

81 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 49 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

81
61

Total granted

$17M
$2.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+22%

Still filing today

77%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
Human ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $2.1M · revenue +135%
  • PC
    PEDIATRIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $1.6M · revenue +45%
  • PHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $217k · revenue +134%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC
    one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue -50%
  • EA
    EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue -55%
  • CC
    CHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $250k

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

04Your field

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.

1
A Better Chicago

A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.

Human Services
2
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
3
Kipp Chicago Schools

The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…

Education
4
Junior Achievement of Chicago

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy

International
5
Students Run Chicago
Health
6
Chicago United

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.

Philanthropy
7
Thrive Chicago Nfp

Thrive chicago's mission is to prepare chicago's youth for a vibrant future by aligning efforts and outcomes from cradle to career.

Human Services
8
Pediatric Faculty Foundation Inc

We value excellence and innovation in clinical and basic research, coordinated and comprehensive patient care, ongoing physician education, and evidence-based child advocacy. our goal is to provide leadership in endeavors that promote the…

Health
9
The University of Chicago Charter School Corporation

To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.

Education
10
Intentional Sports

Intentional Sports is a nonprofit organization that stands committed to inspiring Chicago's youth through the power of sports. Our mission is to provide accessible opportunities in sports, wellness, and education through programming that…

Recreation & Sports
11
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
12
Lurie Children's Surgical Foundation Inc

Provide pediatric and subspecialty surgical, research, and educational services.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Rescue Inc and the most unlike its peers is Warren Park Youth Baseball League. 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 27 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%4%<5yr13%5%5–10yr18%27%10–20yr15%22%20–35yr14%22%35–55yr22%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%2%<5yr13%2%5–10yr18%21%10–20yr15%13%20–35yr14%52%35–55yr22%11%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
6%
9/162
the rest of the field
12%
8,883/72,197

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.

05the grantee network

139 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. 139 of the 163 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
34
Early backer (in before they grew)
129/139
Grantees still filing
89/139
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHICAGO PARK DISTRICT — $2,870,369 · OtherCHICAGO PARK DISTRICTPEDIATRIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $1,620,929 · OtherPEDIATRIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATIONCHICAGO CONNECTED — $885,000 · OtherCHICAGO CONNECTEDRESPECT 90 FOUNDATION — $508,125 · OtherGOOD SPORTS INC — $652,500 · OtherGOOD SPORTS INC+70 more — $3,687,346 · Other+70 moreROBERT R MCCORMICK FOUNDATION — $5,587,653 · PhilanthropyROBERT R MCCORMICK FOUNDATIONANTHONY RIZZO FAMILY FOUNDATION — $1,476,244 · PhilanthropyANTHONY RIZZO FAMILY FOUNDATIONUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC — $500,400 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO …+10 more — $875,534 · Philanthropy+10 moreLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION — $2,121,488 · Community ImprovementLOCAL INITI…CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVES INC — $500,000 · Community ImprovementCHICAGO NEI…+4 more — $45,156 · Community ImprovementBERNARD ZELL ANSHE EMET DAY SCHOOL — $200,000 · EducationUniversity of Chicago — $200,000 · EducationHamilton Action Team — $200,000 · EducationFriends of Lane — $175,000 · EducationFriends of Blaine — $175,000 · EducationFriends of Tubman — $175,000 · EducationHAWTHORNE SCHOLASTIC ACADEMY PTA — $125,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF BURLEY — $125,000 · EducationLVHS PARTNERS NFP — $100,000 · EducationCHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $80,000 · Education+9 more — $293,015 · EducationEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $208,398 · Human ServicesJewish Community Centers of Chicago — $200,000 · Human ServicesHouse of the Good Shepherd — $131,000 · Human ServicesNational Runaway Switchboard — $79,500 · Human ServicesMISERICORDIA HOME — $72,500 · Human ServicesURBAN INITIATIVES INC — $65,800 · Human ServicesCenter on Halsted — $54,984 · Human ServicesWE LOVE FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · Human Services+12 more — $203,750 · Human ServicesBRAINUP INC — $579,714 · HealthADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $186,121 · HealthCHRONIC CARE INTERNATIONAL — $125,000 · HealthBear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation — $75,024 · HealthFUNDACION DE NINOS DE PUERTO RICO INC — $50,000 · Health+9 more — $194,024 · HealthTHE BASEBALL INC — $208,125 · Recreation & SportsEAST SIDE LITTLE LEAGUE — $162,000 · Recreation & SportsCHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION — $115,250 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC — $100,000 · Recreation & SportsCENTER FOR HEALING AND JUSTICE THROUGH SPORT — $100,000 · Recreation & SportsLAUREUS SPORT FOR GOOD FOUNDATION USA — $88,250 · Recreation & SportsBIG Academy — $52,250 · Recreation & SportsWelles Park Parents Association — $52,000 · Recreation & Sports+7 more — $95,396 · Recreation & Sports
Other$10,224,269Philanthropy$8,439,831Community Improvement$2,666,644Education$1,848,015Human Services$1,315,932Health$1,209,883Recreation & Sports$973,271

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetROBERT R MCCORMICK FOUNDATION — $5,587,653 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION — $2,121,488 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPEDIATRIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $1,620,929 over 3y, 19% of budgetANTHONY RIZZO FAMILY FOUNDATION — $1,476,244 over 5y, 26% of budgetGOOD SPORTS INC — $652,500 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetRESPECT 90 FOUNDATION — $508,125 over 3y, 98% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC — $500,400 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHICAGO NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVES INC — $500,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC — $217,256 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetSTAND UP TO CANCER — $210,143 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $208,398 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BASEBALL INC — $208,125 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetJewish Community Centers of Chicago — $200,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBERNARD ZELL ANSHE EMET DAY SCHOOL — $200,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHamilton Action Team — $200,000 over 7y, 28% of budgetADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $186,121 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNETTELHORST PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION — $180,000 over 7y, 13% of budgetFriends of Lane — $175,000 over 7y, 6.4% of budgetFriends of Blaine — $175,000 over 7y, 48% of budgetFriends of Tubman — $175,000 over 7y, 25% of budgetEAST SIDE LITTLE LEAGUE — $162,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC — $147,337 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetHouse of the Good Shepherd — $131,000 over 8y, 6.7% of budgetHAWTHORNE SCHOLASTIC ACADEMY PTA — $125,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetCHRONIC CARE INTERNATIONAL — $125,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetFRIENDS OF BURLEY — $125,000 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetBLACK ENSEMBLE THEATER CORPORATION — $117,300 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetCHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION — $115,250 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetGIRLS IN THE GAME NFP — $111,500 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetNOURISHING HOPE — $105,775 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetBUILD INC — $103,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLVHS PARTNERS NFP — $100,000 over 4y, 90% of budgetCENTER FOR HEALING AND JUSTICE THROUGH SPORT — $100,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetCHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $97,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetNew Life Centers of Chicagoland — $91,600 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetLAUREUS SPORT FOR GOOD FOUNDATION USA — $88,250 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetCHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $80,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNational Runaway Switchboard — $79,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetBear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation — $75,024 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetMISERICORDIA HOME — $72,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHeartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights — $69,897 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN INC — $66,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetURBAN INITIATIVES INC — $65,800 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CHICAGO SCHOLARS FOUNDATION — $61,525 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS OF ILLINOIS INC — $61,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budget
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 ROBERT R MCCORMICK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds PEDIATRIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ANTHONY RIZZO FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GOOD SPORTS INC ↗
  • Who funds BRAINUP INC ↗
  • Who funds RESPECT 90 FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVES INC ↗
  • Who funds EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
  • Who funds STAND UP TO CANCER ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds THE BASEBALL INC ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Community Centers of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds BERNARD ZELL ANSHE EMET DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds Hamilton Action Team ↗
  • Who funds ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NETTELHORST PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Lane ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Blaine ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Tubman ↗
  • Who funds EAST SIDE LITTLE LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds House of the Good Shepherd ↗
  • Who funds HAWTHORNE SCHOLASTIC ACADEMY PTA ↗
  • Who funds CHRONIC CARE INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF BURLEY ↗
  • Who funds BLACK ENSEMBLE THEATER CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS IN THE GAME NFP ↗

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.

Circle of Service Fou…United Way of Metropo…Arie and Ida Crown Me…The Chicago Community…John D and Catherine …Polk Bros Foundation …Robert R McCormick Fo…AbbVie FoundationImc Chicago Charitabl…Frederick Henry Princ…Jewish Federation of …Lloyd a Fry Foundation
Circle of Service FoundationIL40× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Circle of Service Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Robert R McCormick Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation · Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Lloyd a Fry 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 Cubs Charities 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
  • The Baseball Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
36report 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

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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Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Chicago Cubs Charities?

Find your warmest path to Chicago Cubs Charities 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 163 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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