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Chicago White Sox Charities Inc

Chicago white sox charities ("cwsc") provides financial and emotional support to chicago-based organizations, including those leading the fight against cancer, dedicated to improving the lives of youth through recreation and education, and those offering support to children and families in crisis.

$2.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$532k
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 FY2017–2024.

Health$4.4MPhilanthropy$4.1MRecreation & Sports$1.3MEducation$1.3MCommunity Improvement$300kFood & Nutrition$278kPublic Benefit$211kHuman Services$189kOther$0
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $54k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $252k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
  • $250k+4 grants · $2.0M
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WHITE SOX COMMUNITY FUND$532,000
RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER$500,000
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$500,000
NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$500,000
WHITE SOX COMMUNITY FUND-CHICAGO SPORTS ALLIANCE$200,000
LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$50,000
ROC SOLID FOUNDATION INC$30,000
PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION$25,000
SPECIAL CHILDREN'S CHARITIES$25,000
ROAD HOME PROGRAM RUSH$21,500
CASA OF COOK COUNTY$20,000
WORKING IN THE SCHOOLS (WITS)$20,000
JACKIE ROBINSON FOUNDATION$20,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF CHARITIES CNI$20,000
ST JAMES CATHOLIC CHURCH$15,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DALMATION DREAM FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $25k → 17%RONALD MCDONDALD HOUSE OF CHARITIES: $25k → 7%Ronald McDondald House of Charities: $11k → 7%MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%Misericordia Heart of Mercy: $15k → 14%Misericordia Home: $15k → 14%Misericordia Home: $13k → 14%MISERICORDIA HEART OF MERCY: $13k → 14%CONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN & THEIR CHILDREN: $8k → 14%Shore Community Services: $15k → 14%SHORE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $15k → 14%SHORE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $15k → 14%Shore Community Services: $15k → 14%Shore Community Services: $15k → 14%SHORE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $15k → 14%ON YOUR FEET FOUNDATION: $8k → 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

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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.

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Where the work is directed

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

About 19% of Chicago White Sox Charities Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Chicago White Sox Charities Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.3M · 25 repeat orgs$3.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against -14% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
37

Total granted

$4.3M
$3.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
-14%

Still filing today

96%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $649k 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
HealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureInternationalOther

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

  • University of Chicago
    3× · 2017–2024 · $749k · revenue +56%
  • RU
    Rush University Medical Center
    4× · 2018–2024 · $562k · revenue +39%
  • Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
    4× · 2021–2024 · $228k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • DD
    DALMATIAN DREAMS DBA DREAM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue -44% · 29% of their budget
  • SU
    STAND UP TO CANCER
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M
  • CE
    CITIZEN EDUCATION FUND INC
    one grant, 2023 · $205k · revenue -39%

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
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
2
Lurie Children's Surgical Foundation Inc

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

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3
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
4
The Chicago Bar Foundation

The chicago bar foundation brings the legal community together through advocacy, funding, and innovation to improve access to justice for people in need and to make the legal system more fair, equitable, and effective.

Education
5
Junior Achievement of Chicago

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

International
6
Aids Foundation of Chicago

The aids foundation of chicago mobilizes communities to create equity and justice for people living with and vulnerable to hiv and related chronic disease.

Health
7
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
8
The University of Chicago Charter School Corporation

To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.

Education
9
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
10
College of American Pathologists Foundation

Champion humanitarian & patient-centered roles for pathologists. connect those in need to the specialized, life savings skills of pathologists. confer training & awards to residents.

Education
11
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation

To optimize philanthropy in support of the mission and future of the children's hospital of chicago medical center.

Health
12
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easter Seals Metropolitan Chicago Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Notre Dame du Lac. 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 34 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%4%<5yr13%5%5–10yr18%18%10–20yr15%24%20–35yr14%23%35–55yr22%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%8%<5yr13%5%5–10yr18%7%10–20yr15%16%20–35yr14%47%35–55yr22%18%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/81
the rest of the field
12%
8,891/72,278

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.

05the grantee network

72 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. 72 of the 81 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/72
Grantees still filing
34/72
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ROBERT R MCCORMICK FOUNDATION — $4,522,000 · PhilanthropyROBERT R MCCORMICK FOUNDATIONSTAND UP TO CANCER — $1,000,000 · PhilanthropySTAND UP TO CANCERCHICAGO BASEBALL CANCER CHARITIES INC — $542,500 · PhilanthropyCHICAGO BASEBALL CANCER CHARITIES INC+7 more — $490,614 · Philanthropy+7 moreDALMATIAN DREAMS DBA DREAM FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 · Human ServicesDALMATIAN D…SHORE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $105,000 · Human ServicesSHORE COMMU…MISERICORDIA HOME — $70,000 · Human ServicesMISERICORDI…+6 more — $94,500 · Human Services+6 moreRush University Medical Center — $561,500 · HealthRush Unive…Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago — $227,500 · HealthAnn & Robe…LYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $138,699 · HealthLYMPHOMA R…GILDA'S CLUB CHICAGO — $75,000 · HealthGILDA'S CL…University of Chicago Medical Center — $55,000 · HealthADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Health+7 more — $113,500 · Health+7 moreNORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE — $500,000 · OtherNORTHWESTERN MEM…Special Children's Charities — $175,000 · OtherSpecial Children…JACKIE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC — $118,107 · OtherJACKIE ROBINSON …CITY YEAR INC — $73,200 · OtherGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $179,000 · OtherGREATER CHICAGO …Feeding Children Everywhere Inc — $71,850 · OtherKABOOM INC — $100,000 · OtherKABOOM INCCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF COOK COUNTY — $65,000 · Other+29 more — $567,234 · Other+29 moreUniversity of Chicago — $749,000 · EducationUniversit…WORKING IN THE SCHOOLS INC — $140,000 · EducationWORKING I…University of Illinois Foundation — $50,000 · Education+6 more — $106,532 · Education+6 morePUSH FOR EXCELLENCE INC — $600,000 · Community ImprovementCITIZEN EDUCATION FUND INC — $205,000 · Civil RightsHEARTLAND ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL INC — $50,000 · Civil Rights
Philanthropy$6,555,114Human Services$1,269,500Health$1,221,199Other$1,849,391Education$1,045,532Community Improvement$600,000Civil Rights$255,000

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 budgetROBERT R MCCORMICK FOUNDATION — $4,522,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetDALMATIAN DREAMS DBA DREAM FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetSTAND UP TO CANCER — $1,000,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $749,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPUSH FOR EXCELLENCE INC — $600,000 over 6y, 6.2% of budgetRush University Medical Center — $561,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago — $227,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCITIZEN EDUCATION FUND INC — $205,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $179,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Children's Charities — $175,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION — $162,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWORKING IN THE SCHOOLS INC — $140,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetLYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $138,699 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC — $128,614 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJACKIE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC — $118,107 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSHORE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $105,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetHighland Park Community Foundation — $75,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB CHICAGO — $75,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $73,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding Children Everywhere Inc — $71,850 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMISERICORDIA HOME — $70,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF COOK COUNTY — $65,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago Medical Center — $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEARTLAND ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetChicago Blackhawks Foundation — $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEGRO LEAGUES BASEBALL MUSEUM INC — $41,100 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC — $41,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHICAGOLAND & NW INDIANA — $36,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROC SOLID FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRATE FOUNDATION NFP — $26,532 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJESSE WHITE FOUNDATION LTD — $25,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTHE LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAlmost Home Chicago Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC — $24,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE ANIMAL RESCUES — $15,600 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetDIGS WITH DIGNITY CORPORATION — $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetEASTER SEALS INC — $10,084 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBroward Education Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Robert R McCormick Fo…AbbVie FoundationJohn D and Catherine …The Chicago Community…Circle of Service Fou…United Way of Metropo…The Coleman Foundatio…Chicago Bulls Chariti…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Major League Baseball…Arie and Ida Crown Me…The Ayco Charitable F…
Robert R McCormick FoundationIL27.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Robert R McCormick Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Circle of Service Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Coleman Foundation Inc · Chicago Bulls Charities · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Major League Baseball Charities Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · The Ayco Charitable 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 White Sox Charities 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 · 40%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

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How do I get to Chicago White Sox Charities Inc?

Find your warmest path to Chicago White Sox Charities 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 81 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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