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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.

$3.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
53
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$816k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Recreation & Sports$9.5MHealth$4.8MEducation$4.0MPhilanthropy$2.8MCommunity Improvement$2.7MHuman Services$1.1MYouth Development$680kPublic Safety & Disaster$420kOther$0
02FY2025 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 53 grants below total $2,993,330, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,241,058 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $247,728 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k35 grants · $756k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $667k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.5M
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MCCORMICK FOUNDATION$815,837
BRAINUP INC$717,500
ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$117,000
ROLFE PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION$62,550
THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY INC$62,550
PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION$62,550
LYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION$62,550
CHILDREN'S ONCOLOGY SERVICES$62,550
BEAR NECESSITIES PEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION$62,550
THE V FOUNDATION$62,550
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC$62,550
FRIENDS OF AMUNDSEN$50,000
STAND UP TO CANCER$45,500
NEW LIFE CENTERS OF CHICAGOLANDS NFP$38,000
ANTHONY RIZZO FAMILY FOUNDATION$35,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.2M) 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 its 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%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%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF CHICAGO dba JCC CHICAGO: $25k → 14%URBAN INITIATIVES: $30k → 14%URBAN INITIATIVES: $20k → 14%URBAN INITIATIVES: $10k → 14%URBAN INITIATIVES: $10k → 14%URBAN INITIATIVES: $10k → 14%THE YMCA OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $25k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 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%CENTER ON HALSTED: $10k → 14%HOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD: $10k → 14%HOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD: $10k → 14%FAMILY RESCUE: $10k → 14%HOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD: $10k → 14%NATIONAL RUNAWAY SAFELINE: $13k → 14%NATIONAL RUNAWAY SAFELINE: $12k → 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
NV
IA
PA
CA
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
DC
LA
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 9% of Chicago Cubs Charities’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Chicago Cubs Charitieslessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19M · 92 repeat orgs$3.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

92 repeat relationships: 39 still active in FY2025, 53 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

92
68

Total granted

$19M
$2.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+15%

Still filing today

78%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $263k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

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%
  • BI
    BRAINUP INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +107%

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
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Chicago Cubs Charities

The mission of cubs charities is to mobilize the power of sport to champion youth, families, and communities. cubs charities achieves this through sports-based youth development and academic programming, investments in safe places to play,…

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2
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
3
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
4
Junior Achievement of Chicago

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

International
5
Students Run Chicago
Health
6
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
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
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
9
Lurie Children's Surgical Foundation Inc

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

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10
The University of Chicago Charter School Corporation

To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.

Education
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Rescue Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

149 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 149 of the 174 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
36
Early backer (in before they grew)
139/149
Grantees still filing
92/149
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROBERT R MCCORMICK FOUNDATION: $6,403,490 · PhilanthropyROBERT R MCCORMICK FOUNDATIONANTHONY RIZZO FAMILY FOUNDATION: $1,511,244 · PhilanthropyANTHONY RIZZO FAMILY FOUNDATIONUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $500,400 · Philanthropy+11 more: $1,081,134 · Philanthropy+11 moreCHICAGO PARK DISTRICT: $2,870,369 · OtherCHICAGO PARK DISTRICTPEDIATRIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,620,929 · OtherPEDIATRIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATIONCHICAGO CONNECTED: $965,000 · OtherCHICAGO CONNECTEDRESPECT 90 FOUNDATION: $508,125 · OtherGOOD SPORTS INC: $662,500 · OtherGOOD SPORTS INC+71 more: $4,014,989 · Other+71 moreLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $2,121,488 · Community ImprovementLOCAL INIT…CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVES INC: $500,000 · Community ImprovementCHICAGO NE…+5 more: $51,156 · Community ImprovementBRAINUP INC: $1,297,214 · HealthBRAINUP I…ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $303,121 · HealthADVOCATE …Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation: $137,574 · HealthBear Nece…CHRONIC CARE INTERNATIONAL: $125,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $97,574 · Health+12 more: $406,650 · Health+12 moreHamilton Action Team: $225,000 · EducationBERNARD ZELL ANSHE EMET DAY SCHOOL: $225,000 · EducationFriends of Tubman: $200,000 · EducationFriends of Lane: $200,000 · EducationUniversity of Chicago: $200,000 · EducationFriends of Blaine: $200,000 · EducationHAWTHORNE SCHOLASTIC ACADEMY PTA: $150,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF BURLEY: $150,000 · EducationFriends of Amundsen: $100,000 · EducationLVHS PARTNERS NFP: $100,000 · EducationCHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $80,000 · Education+10 more: $263,015 · EducationEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · Human ServicesJewish Community Centers of Chicago: $225,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $208,398 · Human ServicesHouse of the Good Shepherd: $131,000 · Human ServicesURBAN INITIATIVES INC: $85,800 · Human ServicesNational Runaway Switchboard: $79,500 · Human ServicesMISERICORDIA HOME: $72,500 · Human ServicesCenter on Halsted: $54,984 · Human ServicesWE LOVE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Human Services+14 more: $226,250 · Human ServicesTHE BASEBALL INC: $208,125 · Recreation & SportsEAST SIDE LITTLE LEAGUE: $168,000 · Recreation & SportsCHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION: $115,250 · Recreation & SportsCENTER FOR HEALING AND JUSTICE THROUGH SPORT: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsLAUREUS SPORT FOR GOOD FOUNDATION USA: $88,250 · Recreation & SportsBIG Academy: $58,750 · Recreation & SportsWelles Park Parents Association: $52,000 · Recreation & Sports+8 more: $126,396 · Recreation & Sports
Philanthropy$9,496,268Other$10,641,912Community Improvement$2,672,644Health$2,367,133Education$2,093,015Human Services$1,383,432Recreation & Sports$1,016,771

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROBERT R MCCORMICK FOUNDATION: $6,403,490 over 9y, 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: $1,511,244 over 6y, 26% of budgetGOOD SPORTS INC: $662,500 over 9y, 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 budgetADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $303,121 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSTAND UP TO CANCER: $255,643 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJewish Community Centers of Chicago: $225,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetHamilton Action Team: $225,000 over 8y, 28% of budgetBERNARD ZELL ANSHE EMET DAY SCHOOL: $225,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC: $217,256 over 2y, 2.0% 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 budgetNETTELHORST PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION: $205,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetFriends of Tubman: $200,000 over 8y, 25% of budgetFriends of Lane: $200,000 over 8y, 6.4% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Blaine: $200,000 over 8y, 48% of budgetEAST SIDE LITTLE LEAGUE: $168,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetHAWTHORNE SCHOLASTIC ACADEMY PTA: $150,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetFRIENDS OF BURLEY: $150,000 over 6y, 7.3% of budgetPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $147,337 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetBear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation: $137,574 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetHouse of the Good Shepherd: $131,000 over 8y, 6.7% of budgetNew Life Centers of Chicagoland: $129,600 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetNOURISHING HOPE: $128,868 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCHRONIC CARE INTERNATIONAL: $125,000 over 5y, 15% 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 budgetBUILD INC: $103,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFriends of Amundsen: $100,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetCENTER FOR HEALING AND JUSTICE THROUGH SPORT: $100,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLVHS PARTNERS NFP: $100,000 over 4y, 90% of budgetLYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $97,574 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $97,574 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMichael Rolfe Pancreatic Cancer Foundation: $97,574 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $97,574 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $97,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetLAUREUS SPORT FOR GOOD FOUNDATION USA: $88,250 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetURBAN INITIATIVES INC: $85,800 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCHICAGO BASEBALL AND EDUCATIONAL ACADEMY INC: $85,400 over 5y, 11% of budgetCHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 BRAINUP INC ↗
  • Who funds GOOD SPORTS INC ↗
  • Who funds RESPECT 90 FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVES INC ↗
  • Who funds ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds STAND UP TO CANCER ↗
  • Who funds EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Community Centers of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds Hamilton Action Team ↗
  • Who funds BERNARD ZELL ANSHE EMET DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds PHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds THE BASEBALL INC ↗
  • Who funds NETTELHORST PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Tubman ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Lane ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Blaine ↗
  • Who funds EAST SIDE LITTLE LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds HAWTHORNE SCHOLASTIC ACADEMY PTA ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF BURLEY ↗
  • Who funds PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation ↗
  • Who funds House of the Good Shepherd ↗
  • Who funds New Life Centers of Chicagoland ↗
  • Who funds NOURISHING HOPE ↗
  • Who funds CHRONIC CARE INTERNATIONAL ↗

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.

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Chicago Cubs Charities funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chicago Cubs Charities. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 174 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home