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Chicago Teachers Union Foundation Inc

The chicago teachers union foundation, inc.

$9k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$7k
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 FY2017–2025.

Education$917kCommunity Improvement$753kArts & Culture$450kEmployment$337kYouth Development$292kCivil Rights$244kInternational$219kHuman Services$210kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1 grants below total $7,300 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $8,540 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,240 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.

$7,300
Median grant
1
States reached
$42M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHICAGO FOOTBALL CLASSIC$7,300
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 (FY17–20, $314k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%OPERATION WARM: $10k → 6%OPERATION WARM: $5k → 6%OPERATION WARM: $5k → 6%TELPOCHCALLI COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROJECT: $25k → 14%NIGHT MINISTRY: $25k → 14%NIGHT MINISTRY: $20k → 14%INSTITUTE FOR POSITIVE LIVING: $5k → 14%CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS: $15k → 14%WELL OF MERCY: $15k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $40k → 14%NEW MOMS INC: $25k → 14%NEW MOMS INC: $20k → 14%NEW MOMS INC: $10k → 14%RAINBOW FOR ALL CHILDREN INC: $20k → 14%ILLINOIS COLLABORATION ON YOUTH: $59k → 14%ILLINOIS COLLABORATION ON YOUTH: $15k → 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
PA
MO
AZ
NC
DC

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.1M · 47 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +100% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.

47 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 47 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
34

Total granted

$3.1M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+100%
+39%

Still filing today

83%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
EducationCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesArts & CultureHousing & ShelterYouth 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

  • KO
    Kenwood Oakland Community Organization
    3× · 2017–2019 · $205k · revenue +263%
  • BP
    BRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL
    5× · 2017–2021 · $153k · revenue +189%
  • GC
    Grassroots Collaborative
    6× · 2017–2022 · $145k · revenue +115%

Funded once

  • CF
    CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE ACTION
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
  • TB
    THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
    one grant, 2019 · $75k
  • LN
    LEAVE NO VETERAN BEHINDgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +56%

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 United for Equity

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

Civil Rights
2
Chicago Votes

Chicago Votes is a non-partisan, non-profit organization building a more inclusive democracy by putting power in the hands of young Chicagoans. We're engaging and developing a new generation of leaders by opening the doors of government,…

Civil Rights
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
Live Free Chicago

Live Free Illinois is a statewide organization partnering with over 120 congregations and directly impacted individuals to build safer more equitable communities across Illinois. Operating at the intersection of criminal justice reform and…

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5
Latino Union of Chicago

Latino Union works to defend the rights and dignity of contingent workers, including the right to immigrate, work, live free of oppression and violence, and provide for oneself and one's family.

Human Services
6
Chicago Workers' Collaborative Nfp

Chicago Workers' Collaborative's mission is to promote full employment and equality for the lowest wage-earners, primarily temporary staffing workers, in the Chicago region through leadership and skills training, critical assistance and…

Education
7
Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Inc

Secure racial equity and economic opportunity for all

Crime & Legal
8
Chicago Urban League

The Chicago Urban League works to foster economic empowerment, cultivate leadership, and dismantle systemic barriers in the effort to drive lasting equity and prosperity for Black Chicago.

Employment
9
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
10
Chicago Refugee Coalition

The Chicago Refugee Coalition is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated ot the alleviation of human suffering through innovative partnerships, advocacy and community empowerment.

Human Services
11
Chicago Jobs Council

Chicago Jobs Council (CJC) pursues its mission through advocacy, applied research, public education and capacity-building initiatives focused on influencing the development or reform of public policies and programs. From 18 original…

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12
Students Run Chicago
Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago and the most unlike its peers is Lugenia Burns Hope Center. 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 29 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%3%<5yr14%10%5–10yr18%23%10–20yr17%25%20–35yr15%29%35–55yr16%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%2%<5yr14%10%5–10yr18%17%10–20yr17%27%20–35yr15%30%35–55yr16%14%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
5%
4/82
the rest of the field
16%
4,996/31,428

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.

04the grantee network

75 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. 75 of the 82 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
37
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/75
Grantees still filing
53/75
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MANUFACTURING RENAISSANCE FKA CENTER FOR LABOR AND COMMUN — $219,000 · OtherMANUFACTURING RENAISSANCE FKA CENTER FOR LA…Action Now Institute — $135,000 · OtherAction Now InstituteCROSSROADS FUND INC — $85,000 · OtherCROSSROADS FUND INCTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS — $75,000 · OtherPROJECT FIERCE CHICAGO — $55,000 · OtherARISE CHICAGO — $82,000 · OtherChicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative — $60,000 · OtherCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE ACTION — $100,000 · OtherCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE ACTIONALTERNATIVES INC — $76,000 · OtherTHE CAMPAIGN FOR THE FAIR SENTENCING OF YOUTH — $67,500 · OtherLEAVE NO VETERAN BEHIND — $75,000 · Other+24 more — $552,089 · Other+24 moreKenwood Oakland Community Organization — $205,000 · Community ImprovementKenwood Oakland Commun…BRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL — $152,500 · Community ImprovementBRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBOR…Logan Square Neighborhood Association — $140,000 · Community ImprovementLogan Square Neighborh…COMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND FAMILY ISSUES — $82,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY ORGANIZING A…Enlace Chicago — $75,000 · Community ImprovementEnlace ChicagoPILSEN ALLIANCE — $73,000 · Community ImprovementPILSEN ALLIANCESOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT — $35,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITIES UNITED — $30,000 · Community Improvement+2 more — $27,500 · Community ImprovementGrassroots Collaborative — $145,000 · EducationGrassroots Collabora…GROW YOUR OWN ILLINOIS — $130,000 · EducationGROW YOUR OWN ILLINO…CREATIVE CHICAGO REUSE EXCHANGE — $75,000 · EducationCREATIVE CHICAGO REU…THE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE — $70,000 · EducationTHE ROOSEVELT INSTIT…Infinite Scholars Program of Missouri — $50,000 · EducationInfinite Scholars Pr…NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAIR & OPEN TESTING INC — $50,000 · EducationNATIONAL CENTER FOR …CHICAGO FREEDOM SCHOOL — $50,000 · EducationCHICAGO FREEDOM SCHO…CHILDREN AND TEACHERS FOUNDATION OF THE CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION — $46,969 · EducationCHILDREN AND TEACHER…University of Illinois Foundation — $40,000 · EducationUniversity of Illino…RAISE YOUR HAND FOR ILLINOIS PUBLIC EDUCATION — $30,000 · EducationNETWORK FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION INC — $25,000 · EducationMIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION — $25,000 · EducationYOUTH NETWORK COUNCIL DBA ILLINOIS COLLABORATION ON YOUTH — $74,165 · Human ServicesNEW MOMS INC — $55,000 · Human ServicesTHE NIGHT MINISTRY — $45,000 · Human ServicesThe YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago — $40,000 · Human ServicesTELPOCHCALLI COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROJECT — $25,000 · Human ServicesOperation Warm Inc — $20,040 · Human ServicesRAINBOWS FOR ALL CHILDREN INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesCENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS — $15,000 · Human ServicesWELL OF MERCY INC — $15,000 · Human Services+1 more — $5,000 · Human ServicesETA CREATIVE ARTS FOUNDATION — $85,000 · Arts & CultureYOUNG CHICAGO AUTHORS — $60,000 · Arts & CultureETHNO PICTURES NFP — $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DUSABLE BLACK HISTORY MUSEUM AND EDUCATION CENTER — $45,000 · Arts & CultureILLINOIS HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC — $35,000 · Arts & CultureART HELPS HEAL NFP — $15,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $15,000 · Arts & CultureSt Paul Church of God In Chris Community Development Ministrie — $145,000 · Housing & ShelterLA CASA NORTE — $35,000 · Housing & ShelterCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS — $32,500 · Housing & ShelterROGERS PARK COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterPROFOUND GENTLEMEN INC — $77,000 · Youth DevelopmentAlbany Park Theater Project — $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentKIDS ENJOY EXERCISE NOW — $30,000 · Youth Development
Other$1,581,589Community Improvement$820,000Education$736,969Human Services$314,205Arts & Culture$305,000Housing & Shelter$227,500Youth Development$167,000

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 budgetMANUFACTURING RENAISSANCE FKA CENTER FOR LABOR AND COMMUN — $219,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetKenwood Oakland Community Organization — $205,000 over 3y, 9.8% of budgetBRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL — $152,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetGrassroots Collaborative — $145,000 over 6y, 7.8% of budgetSt Paul Church of God In Chris Community Development Ministrie — $145,000 over 2y, 78% of budgetLogan Square Neighborhood Association — $140,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetAction Now Institute — $135,000 over 6y, 9.8% of budgetGROW YOUR OWN ILLINOIS — $130,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE ACTION — $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCROSSROADS FUND INC — $85,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetETA CREATIVE ARTS FOUNDATION — $85,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetCOMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND FAMILY ISSUES — $82,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetARISE CHICAGO — $82,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetPROFOUND GENTLEMEN INC — $77,000 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetALTERNATIVES INC — $76,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCREATIVE CHICAGO REUSE EXCHANGE — $75,000 over 5y, 41% of budgetEnlace Chicago — $75,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetYOUTH NETWORK COUNCIL DBA ILLINOIS COLLABORATION ON YOUTH — $74,165 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetPILSEN ALLIANCE — $73,000 over 4y, 28% of budgetTHE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE — $70,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CAMPAIGN FOR THE FAIR SENTENCING OF YOUTH — $67,500 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetAlbany Park Theater Project — $60,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetYOUNG CHICAGO AUTHORS — $60,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetNEW MOMS INC — $55,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetPROJECT FIERCE CHICAGO — $55,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetLugenia Burns Hope Center — $52,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetETHNO PICTURES NFP — $50,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAIR & OPEN TESTING INC — $50,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCHILDREN AND TEACHERS FOUNDATION OF THE CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION — $46,969 over 2y, 79% of budgetTHE DUSABLE BLACK HISTORY MUSEUM AND EDUCATION CENTER — $45,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE NIGHT MINISTRY — $45,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAccess Living of Metropolitan Chicago — $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetILLINOIS HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetEmpowerment Through Education and Exposure — $35,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetLA CASA NORTE — $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS — $32,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUnited States Hispanic Leadership Institute Inc — $31,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetRAISE YOUR HAND FOR ILLINOIS PUBLIC EDUCATION — $30,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetCOMMUNITIES UNITED — $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAction Center on Race & the Economy Institute — $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNETWORK FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetMIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetStorycatchers — $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetOperation Warm Inc — $20,040 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLegal Council for Health Justice — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRAINBOWS FOR ALL CHILDREN INC — $20,000 over 1y, 5.4% 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.

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.

Polk Bros Foundation …Field Foundation of I…The Chicago Community…Woods Fund of ChicagoUnited Way of Metropo…Crossroads Fund IncForefrontGrand Victoria Founda…Conant Family Foundat…John D and Catherine …The Albert Pick Jr Fu…Chicago Foundation fo…
Polk Bros Foundation IncIL56.3× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Field Foundation of Illinois · The Chicago Community Trust · Woods Fund of Chicago · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Crossroads Fund Inc · Forefront · Grand Victoria Foundation · Conant Family Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Albert Pick Jr Fund · Chicago Foundation for Women

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 Teachers Union Foundation Inc 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 · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Chicago Teachers Union Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Chicago Teachers Union 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 82 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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