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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.

$650k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$500k
Largest
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 FY20182024.

Recreation & Sports$2.7MHealth$27kEnvironment$25kPhilanthropy$25kFood & Nutrition$17kCivil Rights$10k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

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
$100,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTH AUSTIN COMMUNITY CENTER$500,000
CHICAGO PARK DISTRICT$100,000
ALL KIDS PLAY$30,000
GOOD SPORTS INC$10,000
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:

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.

area typical 11%GOOD SPORTS INC: $10k → 7%COMMON GOAL USA: $18k → 20%US SOCCER FOUNDATION: $151k → 14%INDIANA FIRE JUNIORS: $45k → 5%UNITED ELITE S C NFP: $140k → 7%RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $27k → 14%GOOD SPORTS INC: $10k → 7%US SOCCER FEDERATION FOUNDATION: $75k → 14%ALL KIDS PLAY: $30k → 14%US SOCCER FEDERATION FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%ONE CHICAGO FUND: $10k → 14%US SOCCER FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%CENTER FOR HEALING AND JUSTICE THROUGH SPORT: $5k → 14%US SOCCER FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%CHICAGO GATEWAY GREEN COMMITTEE: $25k → 14%NORTH AUSTIN COMMUNITY CENTER: $500k → 14%NORTH AUSTIN COMMUNITY CENTER: $500k → 14%NORTH AUSTIN COMMUNITY CENTER: $500k → 14%NORTH AUSTIN COMMUNITY CENTER: $500k → 14%CHICAGO PARK DISTRICT: $100k → 14%UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $25k → 14%GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $17k → 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.

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.

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.4M · 3 repeat orgs$441k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
9

Total granted

$2.4M
$311k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-22%
+30%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Recreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionHealthEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther

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

  • NA
    NORTH AUSTIN COMMUNITY CENTER
    4× · 2021–2024 · $2.0M · revenue ×19
  • US
    UNITED STATES SOCCER FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2018–2022 · $351k · revenue -25%
  • GS
    GOOD SPORTS INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue -22%

Funded once

  • UE
    UNITED ELITE SC
    one grant, 2022 · $140k · 56% of their budget
  • WY
    WESTFIELD YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $45k · revenue +45%
  • RU
    Rush University Medical Centergraduated
    one 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.

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
Chicago City Soccer Club

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…

Recreation & Sports
2
World Sport Chicago

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.

3
United States Tennis Association Inc

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…

4
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
5
United States Center for Safesport

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…

Recreation & Sports
6
Chicago Parks Foundation

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.

Recreation & Sports
7
Illinois Youth Soccer Association

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.

Recreation & Sports
8
United States Adult Soccer Association

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…

9
Chicago Sports Summit Foundation

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.

Recreation & Sports
10
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
11
Chicago United for Equity

Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.

Civil Rights
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

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
6/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NORTH AUSTIN COMMUNITY CENTER — $2,000,000 · Community ImprovementNORTH AUSTIN COMMUNITY CENTERUNITED STATES SOCCER FOUNDATION INC — $350,500 · Recreation & SportsUNITED STATES SOCCER F…UNITED ELITE SC — $140,000 · Recreation & SportsUNITED ELITE SCWESTFIELD YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION — $45,000 · Recreation & SportsWESTFIELD YOUTH SOCCER…+2 more — $22,750 · Recreation & SportsCHICAGO PARK DISTRICT — $100,000 · OtherALL KIDS PLAY — $30,000 · OtherONECHICAGOFUND — $10,000 · OtherRush University Medical Center — $26,652 · HealthCHICAGO GATEWAY GREEN COMMITTEE — $25,000 · EnvironmentUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC — $25,000 · PhilanthropyGOOD SPORTS INC — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $17,000 · Food & Nutrition
Community Improvement$2,000,000Recreation & Sports$558,250Other$140,000Health$26,652Environment$25,000Philanthropy$25,000Youth Development$20,000Food & Nutrition$17,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNORTH AUSTIN COMMUNITY CENTER — $2,000,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetUNITED STATES SOCCER FOUNDATION INC — $350,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetUNITED ELITE SC — $140,000 over 1y, 56% of budgetWESTFIELD YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION — $45,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetALL KIDS PLAY — $30,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetRush University Medical Center — $26,652 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO GATEWAY GREEN COMMITTEE — $25,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD SPORTS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMON GOAL USA INC — $17,750 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $17,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONECHICAGOFUND — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCENTER FOR HEALING AND JUSTICE THROUGH SPORT — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE7.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    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 14 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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