· Public charity
Chicago Fire Foundation
The foundation is dedicated to promoting the sport of soccer and providing educational and recreational opportunities to improve the lives of youth throughout the chicago area.
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
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTH AUSTIN COMMUNITY CENTER | $500,000 |
| CHICAGO PARK DISTRICT | $100,000 |
| ALL KIDS PLAY | $30,000 |
| GOOD SPORTS INC | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of your 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.
3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k 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
- NANORTH AUSTIN COMMUNITY CENTER4× · 2021–2024 · $2.0M · revenue ×19
- USUNITED STATES SOCCER FOUNDATION INC5× · 2018–2022 · $351k · revenue -25%
- GSGOOD SPORTS INC2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue -22%
Funded once
- UEUNITED ELITE SCone grant, 2022 · $140k · 56% of their budget
- WYWESTFIELD YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $45k · revenue +45%
- RURush University Medical Centergraduatedone grant, 2020 · $27k · revenue +30%
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 city soccer club is committed to providing opportunities for young people in the city of chicago, illinois to learn and play soccer in a healthy and positive environment, and to guiding chicago youth soccer players in the…
To bring Olympic sport and the ideals of the Olympic movement to the youth of Chicago through sports training programs, international competitions and exchanges, and integration with Olympic athletes and coaches.
Guided by the belief that lives can be transformed through the game of tennis USTA Chicago a District of the USTA Midwest Section creates sustains and grows enthusiasm for the game of tennis throughout Chicagoland. As the governing body…
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.
With the goal of ensuring athletes within the u.s. olympic and paralympic movement of are safe, supported, and strengthened. the center: delivers comprehensive abuse prevention education within and outside of the u.s. olympic and…
The Chicago Parks Foundation is a separate 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization that also serves as the strategic partner for the coordination of fundraising and charitable resources for the Chicago Park District.
To educate coaches, players, referees, parents, administrators; develop and administer soccer programs and activities for youth players; provide opportunities for participants; promote and stimulate interest in the game of soccer.
The organization develops, promotes, and administers the game of soccer among players, men and women, within the u.s. the association fosters national and international amateur competition and develops amateur athletes for national and…
The chicago sports summit foundation was created to support the physical and educational development of chicago area youth through partnerships with local charities sharing the same vision.
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…
Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United States Soccer Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rush University Medical Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 14 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 NORTH AUSTIN COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES SOCCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED ELITE SC ↗
- Who funds WESTFIELD YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ALL KIDS PLAY ↗
- Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO GATEWAY GREEN COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON GOAL USA INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds ONECHICAGOFUND ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HEALING AND JUSTICE THROUGH SPORT ↗
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.
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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 Fire Foundation 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.