· Public charity
Chicago Wolves Charities
Raising funds for distribution to tax exempt entities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 20 grants below total $179,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $183,550 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,050 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $142k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $38k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EASTER SEALS | $23,000 |
| A SILVER LINING FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| WRIGHT WAY RESCUE | $9,000 |
| BORDER TAILS RESCUE | $9,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $9,000 |
| GIRLS IN THE GAME | $8,500 |
| WILLOW HOUSE | $8,500 |
| BEAR NECESSITIES PEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION | $8,500 |
| EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF GREATER CHICAGO | $7,500 |
| LITTLE HEROES PEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| 100 CLUB OF CHICAGO | $7,500 |
| AMERICAN LIVER FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA | $7,500 |
| HELPING FROM HEAVEN ORG-THE LEXI KAZIAN FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| ERIKA'S LIGHTHOUSE | $7,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $146k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.
25 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- ASA SILVER LINING FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $134k · revenue +37%
- T1THE 100 CLUB OF ILLINOIS8× · 2017–2025 · $89k · revenue +10%
- GIGIRLS IN THE GAME NFP8× · 2017–2025 · $79k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- ADALZHEIMERS DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATIone grant, 2017 · $10k
- LDLOST DOGS ILLINOIS NFPone grant, 2017 · $9k
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2024 · $9k · revenue +3%
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.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
Leading the fight to treat and cure ALS through global research and nationwide advocacy while also empowering people with Lou Gehrig's disease and their families to live fuller lives by providing them with compassionate care and support.
The foundation is committed to supporting neuroscience research that leads to advances in understanding of brain function and treatment of brain-related disorders.
The mission of the Dravet Syndrome Foundation is to aggressively raise funds for Dravet syndrome & related epilepsies; support & fund research; increase awareness; & provide support to affected individuals & families. We understand the…
To lead the fight to cure and treat als through global, cutting-edge research, and to empower people living with als in wisconsin, and their families, to live fuller lives by providing them with compassionate care and support.
To improve the lives of peoples affected by epilepsy through education, advocacy, research, and connection.
The organization is a partnership of world leaders in als research and care focused on expediting breakthrough treatments and ultimately a cure for als while providing resources and equipment to those living with the disease now. the team…
Debbie's dream foundation:curing stomach cancer is dedicated to raising awareness about stomach cancer, providing education, advocacy, and support internationally to patients, families, and caregivers affected by the disease, and advancing…
Stanley manne children's research institute strives to generate new knowledge and advance the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of pediatric diseases.
National brain tumor society unrelentingly invests in, mobilizes, andunites our community to discover a cure, deliver effective treatments,and advocate for patients and care partners.
Alzheimers Greater Los Angeles mission is to improve the lives of local families affected by Alzheimers & other dementias by increasing awareness, delivering effective programs & services, providing compassionate support, advocating for…
Leading the fight to treat and cure als through global research and nationwide advocacy while also empowering people with lou gehrig's disease and their families to live fuller lives by providing them with compassionate care and support.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Little Heroes Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation. 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 32 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
36 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. 36 of the 43 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 EASTER SEALS INC ↗
- Who funds A SILVER LINING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE 100 CLUB OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds GIRLS IN THE GAME NFP ↗
- Who funds FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF GREATER CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds WILLOW HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation ↗
- Who funds American Liver Foundation ↗
- Who funds IMERMAN ANGELS ↗
- Who funds Tuesdays Child ↗
- Who funds LITTLE HEROES PEDIATRIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED SPINAL ASSOCIATION ILLINOIS CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Erikas Lighthouse A Beacon of Hope for Adolescent Depression ↗
- Who funds Kids for Camps Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WRIGHT-WAY RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds BORDER TAILS RESCUE ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Lewy Body Dementia Association Inc ↗
- Who funds LES TURNER AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION LTD ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BLACK NURSES ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI National ↗
- Who funds DEMENTIA SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE OF HOPE FOR SUICIDE LOSS SURVIVORS ↗
- Who funds CANINE THERAPY CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS FOR PATRICK ↗
- Who funds Animal Welfare League ↗
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.
Open a dossier: AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · The Service Club of Chicago · Motorola Solutions Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Assurant Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Tawani Charitable Distribution Fund · Alliant Credit Union Foundation · Helen V Brach 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 Wolves Charities 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.
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