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Chicago Instructional Technology Foundation Inc

The corporation is organized and will be operated exclusively for "charitable, scientific and educational and "social welfare" purposes within the meaning of sections 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4), respectively of the internal revenue code.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$87k
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.

Civil Rights$3.5MPublic Benefit$2.6MArts & Culture$2.3MEducation$475kYouth Development$351kHuman Services$327kEnvironment$308kCommunity Improvement$265kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 28 grants below total $1,232,410, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,616,410 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $384,000 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k13 grants · $359k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $873k
$50,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ACTION NOW$86,660
CENTER FOR MEDIA JUSTICE$63,250
EQUITY & TRANSFORMATION$60,500
CHICAGO FREEDOM SCHOOL$60,500
BLACKROOTS ALLIANCE$60,500
SOUTHSIDERS ORGANIZED FOR UNITY AND LIBERATION$60,500
SPLINTER ART AND COMMUNITY FUND$60,500
CENTER FOR NULEADERSHIP ON URBAN SOLUTIONS$60,500
CHICAGO VOTES EDUCATION FUND$60,500
KENWOOD-OAKLAND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION$50,000
BALLOT INITIATIVE STRATEGY CENTER (BISC)$50,000
KUUMBA LYNX$50,000
CHICAGO FILMMAKERS$50,000
URBAN GATEWAYS$50,000
FREE PRESSMEDIA 2070$50,000
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 (FY22–24, $242k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JANE ADDAMS SENIORS IN ACTION: $46k → 14%JANE ADDAMS SENIORS IN ACTION: $25k → 14%EQUITY & TRANSFORMATION: $61k → 14%EQUITY & TRANSFORMATION: $60k → 14%EQUITY & TRANSFORMATION: $50k → 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

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
CA
CO
MD
AZ
NM
TN
SC
DC
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.3M · 44 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

44 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
38

Total granted

$8.3M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+28%

Still filing today

95%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k 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
Civil RightsEducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitPhilanthropyOther
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

  • UW
    UNITED WORKING FAMILIES
    6× · 2019–2024 · $479k · revenue +29% · 27% of their budget
  • II
    ILLINOIS IMMIGRANT ACTION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $349k · revenue +445% · 63% of their budget
  • CF
    Center For Racial and Gender E NFP
    7× · 2018–2024 · $303k · revenue +385% · 80% of their budget

Funded once

  • WF
    WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $133k · revenue +42%
  • PA
    PEOPLE'S ACTION
    one grant, 2020 · $133k · revenue -56%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND INC
    one grant, 2020 · $133k · revenue -78%
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 United for Equity

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

Civil Rights
2
Fund for Justice

Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…

Crime & Legal
3
Powerswitch Action

Powerswitch action is a national network forging collective democracy and economies in our cities and states, together with our 21 grassroots affiliates.

Community Improvement
4
The Network Advocating Against Domestic Violence

The Network is a group of 40+ member organizations dedicated to improving the lives of those impacted by gender-based violence through education, public policy and advocacy, and connecting community members with direct service providers.…

Human Services
5
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
6
Bold Impact

Bold Impact is a national nonprofit dedicated to supporting a democracy where all communities get to thrive.

Arts & Culture
7
Chicago Media Project

To impact society through the powerful tools of media and film. we are a resource for uniting individuals interested in media and developing a core group of informed citizens.

Public Benefit
8
Change Illinois Action Fund

Change illinois action fund is dedicated to advocating for solutions to the issues that undermine democracy and government efficiency in illinois, including restricted ballot access, uncompetitive elections, decreased citizen…

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9
Change Illinois

Change illinois is dedicated to activities that promote honest and effective government, open elections, and high levels of voter participation in illinois.

Civil Rights
10
Institute for Public Accuracy

To teach and disseminate educational materials to the public.

Arts & Culture
11
Black Researchers Collective

The mission of the Black Researchers Collective is to advance racial equity by training and equipping communities with research tools to be more civically engaged and policy informed.

Community Improvement
12
Justice Action Center

Justice Action Center JAC pilots an innovative model that advances the rights of immigrant communities by connecting cutting-edge impact litigation and compelling narrative and communications content. The purpose of JAC is to advance the…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Illinois Humanities Council Inc; the most unlike its peers is Competition & Innovation Institute. 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

83 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. 83 of the 87 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.

14
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
79/83
Grantees still filing
46/83
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WORKING FAMILIES: $479,445 · OtherUNITED WORKING FAMILIESChicago Votes Action Fund: $320,500 · OtherChicago Votes Action FundTHE PEOPLE'S LOBBY: $295,785 · OtherTHE PEOPLE'S LOBBYAction Now: $292,080 · OtherAction NowTIDES ADVOCACY: $279,148 · OtherTIDES ADVOCACYONE Peoples Campaign: $255,630 · OtherONE Peoples CampaignKARTEMQUIN EDUCATIONAL FILMS: $215,000 · OtherCOLOROFCHANGEORG: $195,846 · OtherNEW AMERICA FOUNDATION: $190,000 · OtherCOMMON CAUSE: $175,000 · OtherGrassroots Illinois Action: $238,780 · OtherEQUITY AND TRANSFORMATION: $170,500 · Other+27 more: $1,399,147 · Other+27 moreILLINOIS IMMIGRANT ACTION INC: $349,475 · Civil RightsILLINOIS IMMIGRANT ACTIO…Center For Racial and Gender E NFP: $303,150 · Civil RightsCenter For Racial and Ge…The Center for Media Justice DBA MediaJustice: $239,250 · Civil RightsThe Center for Media Jus…ASIAN AMERICAN MIDWEST PROGRESSIVES: $213,400 · Civil RightsASIAN AMERICAN MIDWEST P…Jane Addams Seniors in Action: $198,385 · Civil RightsJane Addams Seniors in A…BLACKROOTS ALLIANCE: $188,150 · Civil RightsBLACKROOTS ALLIANCEFREE PRESS ACTION FUND: $175,000 · Civil RightsFREE PRESS ACTION FUNDCitizen Action Illinois: $150,250 · Civil RightsCitizen Action IllinoisWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC: $132,500 · Civil RightsWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZ…YOUNG INVINCIBLES: $100,000 · Civil RightsChicago Votes: $80,500 · Civil Rights+4 more: $150,000 · Civil Rights+4 moreChicago Filmmakers: $1,002,000 · Arts & CultureChicago FilmmakersCITY BUREAU NFP: $195,000 · Arts & CultureCITY BUREAU NFPURBAN GATEWAYS: $191,000 · Arts & CultureURBAN GATEWAYSKUUMBA LYNX: $129,355 · Arts & CultureKUUMBA LYNXSplinter Art and Community Fund: $120,500 · Arts & CultureSplinter Art and Com…FREE PRESS: $115,000 · Arts & CultureFREE PRESSALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $80,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $80,000 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO FREEDOM SCHOOL: $160,500 · EducationCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND INC: $132,500 · EducationTALKINGPOINTS: $90,000 · EducationLENA FOUNDATION: $75,000 · EducationTHE HADANOU COLLECTIVE: $50,000 · EducationOUR TURN ACTION NETWORK INC: $30,000 · EducationNATIONAL CENTER FOR TEACHER RESIDENCIES: $25,000 · EducationSTEM TO THE FUTURE: $25,000 · EducationGrassroots Collaborative: $25,000 · Education+2 more: $22,250 · EducationEngine Advocacy: $150,000 · Community ImprovementPEOPLE'S ACTION: $132,500 · Community ImprovementTHE EXPERIMENTAL STATION: $100,000 · Community ImprovementKenwood Oakland Community Organization: $85,000 · Community ImprovementGLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP WEEK MINNESOTA: $50,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITIES UNITED: $40,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $12,500 · Community ImprovementSIXTEEN THIRTY FUND: $357,500 · EnvironmentCOMPETITION & INNOVATION INSTITUTE: $70,000 · Public BenefitBALLOT INITIATIVE STRATEGY CENTER FOUNDATION: $60,000 · Public BenefitDEMAND PROGRESS ACTION INC: $60,000 · Public BenefitBrave New Films Action Fund 501(c)4: $54,821 · Public BenefitPUBLIC KNOWLEDGE: $40,000 · Public Benefit
Other$4,506,861Civil Rights$2,280,060Arts & Culture$1,912,855Education$635,250Community Improvement$570,000Environment$357,500Public Benefit$284,821

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 budgetChicago Filmmakers: $1,002,000 over 8y, 21% of budgetUNITED WORKING FAMILIES: $479,445 over 6y, 27% of budgetSIXTEEN THIRTY FUND: $357,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetILLINOIS IMMIGRANT ACTION INC: $349,475 over 8y, 63% of budgetChicago Votes Action Fund: $320,500 over 7y, 34% of budgetCenter For Racial and Gender E NFP: $303,150 over 7y, 80% of budgetTHE PEOPLE'S LOBBY: $295,785 over 7y, 26% of budgetAction Now: $292,080 over 6y, 63% of budgetTIDES ADVOCACY: $279,148 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetONE Peoples Campaign: $255,630 over 6y, 70% of budgetThe Center for Media Justice DBA MediaJustice: $239,250 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetGrassroots Illinois Action: $238,780 over 6y, 38% of budgetKARTEMQUIN EDUCATIONAL FILMS: $215,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN MIDWEST PROGRESSIVES: $213,400 over 5y, 89% of budgetJane Addams Seniors in Action: $198,385 over 5y, 91% of budgetCOLOROFCHANGEORG: $195,846 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCITY BUREAU NFP: $195,000 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetURBAN GATEWAYS: $191,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetNEW AMERICA FOUNDATION: $190,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBLACKROOTS ALLIANCE: $188,150 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetFREE PRESS ACTION FUND: $175,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE: $175,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetEQUITY AND TRANSFORMATION: $170,500 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetCHICAGO FREEDOM SCHOOL: $160,500 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetCitizen Action Illinois: $150,250 over 4y, 11% of budgetEngine Advocacy: $150,000 over 5y, 8.6% of budgetWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC: $132,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPEOPLE'S ACTION: $132,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND INC: $132,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetKUUMBA LYNX: $129,355 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetFIGHT FOR THE FUTURE INC: $122,500 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetThe Center For Nuleadership On Urban Solutions Inc: $120,500 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetSplinter Art and Community Fund: $120,500 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetFREE PRESS: $115,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSOUTHSIDERS ORGANIZED FOR UNITY AND LIBERATION: $110,500 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetYOUNG INVINCIBLES: $100,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCROSSROADS FUND INC: $97,897 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTALKINGPOINTS: $90,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKenwood Oakland Community Organization: $85,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetChicago Votes: $80,500 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $80,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLENA FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJane Addams Senior Caucus: $71,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetAlianza Americas: $70,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBALLOT INITIATIVE STRATEGY CENTER FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDEMAND PROGRESS ACTION INC: $60,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetBrave New Films Action Fund 501(c)4: $54,821 over 4y, 31% of budgetBLACK IN APPALACHIA: $50,000 over 2y, 9.2% 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.

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.

Instructional Telecom…Twin Cities Schools' …Crossroads Fund IncField Foundation of I…Polk Bros Foundation …All Hands on Deck Net…Tides FoundationNew Venture FundWoods Fund of ChicagoGrand Victoria Founda…Lloyd a Fry FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…
Instructional Telecommunications Foundation IncCO71.2× affinity32 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Instructional Telecommunications Foundation Inc · Twin Cities Schools' Telecommunications Group · Crossroads Fund Inc · Field Foundation of Illinois · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Tides Foundation · New Venture Fund · Woods Fund of Chicago · Grand Victoria Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Instructional Technology Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chicago Instructional Technology Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Chainless Change Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
12report 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.
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Find your warmest path to Chicago Instructional Technology Foundation Inc 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 87 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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