How much did CHICAGO WOLVES CHARITIES grant in FY2024?

Health$594kHuman Services$131kRecreation & Sports$64kCommunity Improvement$64kFood & Nutrition$45kYouth Development$41kAnimals$26kArts & Culture$5kPhilanthropy$834Other$640k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

education advocacytrainingsportslivespediatric cancerconnectionprevention

2019

mental healthcampresearchchildrentrainingcancerissues

2020

mental healthcampresearchlivesissueseducation advocacycancer

2021

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2022

personsnursesdedicatedcampmental healthresearchlives

2023

animal-assistedvolunteerstherapy dogscampdedicatedawarenessmental health

2024

animal shelterdementiaalzheimer'scaremental healthcampresearch

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k20 grants · $161k
$10k–50k4 grants · $58k

$8,000

Median grant

States reached

$12k

Total assets

Largest grants

EASTER SEALS$23,500
A SILVER LINING FOUNDATION$14,500
WRIGHT WAY RESCUE$10,000
BORDER TAILS RESCUE$10,000
GIRLS IN THE GAME$9,000
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC$9,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS$9,000
SPINAL CORD ASSOCIATION OF IL$9,000
EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF GREATER CHICAGO$9,000
LEWY BODY DEMENTIA ASSOCIATION INC$9,000
WILLOW HOUSE$8,500
HELPING FROM HEAVEN ORG-THE LEXI KAZIAN FOUNDATION$8,000
ERIKA'S LIGHTHOUSE$8,000
BEAR NECESSITIES PEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION$8,000
KIDS FOR CAMPS$7,500

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $131k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.5M · 23 repeat orgs$131k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.5M

$87k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%

+95%

Still filing today

87%

64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthAnimalsHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther

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

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100 CLUB OF CHICAGO
7× · 2017–2024 · $81k · revenue +10%
FF
FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS
8× · 2017–2024 · $68k · revenue +61%
EF
EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF GREATER CHICAGO
7× · 2017–2024 · $66k · revenue +54%

Funded once

AA
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION
one grant, 2017 · $10k
LD
LOST DOG ILLINOIS NFP
one grant, 2017 · $9k
LT
LES TURNER ALS FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $9k · revenue +89%

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.

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Associatio

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.

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American Academy of Neurology

The American Academy of Neurology (AAN) is the leading voice in brain health. As the world's largest association of neurologists and neuroscience professionals with more than 40,000 members, the AAN offers access to continuing education,…

Community Improvement

The Als Association Inc Wisconsin

To discover treatments and a cure for als, and to serve, advocate for, and empower people affected by als to live their lives to the fullest.

Health

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

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.

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Hope Loves Company Inc

Hope Loves Company is the only nonprofit in the U.S. dedicated to providing both emotional and educational support to children and young adults who have or had a loved one battling ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) or Lou Gehrig's…

Human Services

Neurodegenerative Disease ResearchInc

Our goal is to facilitate research that will bring new treatments to those suffering from neurodegenerative diseases. We fund researchers that have projects intended to bring new hope to ALS patients.

Health

Als of Michigan Inc

Als of michigan is dedicated to helping (pals) people with als, their families, and caregivers live life as fully as possible.

Health

Nbia Disorders Association

In our drive to find a cure for NBIA we provide support to families educate the public and accelerate research with collaborators from around the world.

Health

Can Do Multiple Sclerosis

Can Do Multiple Sclerosis leads the way with comprehensive programs that empower people and their support partners living with MS to transform and improve their quality of life.

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Nami Illinois Inc

To advocate at the country, state, and national levels for non-discriminatory access to quality healthcare, housing, education, and employment for people with mental health disorders.

Health

Als Northwest

Leading the fight to treat and cure als through global research and nationwide advocacy while also empowering people with als (lou gehrigs disease) and their families to live fuller lives by providing them with compassionate care and…

Health

Als One Inc

The org partners with institues to further research and care for those suffering from als

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easter Seals Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nami National. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 18. 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.

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%0/42

the rest of the field

12%

6,954/60,040

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

35 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

34/35

Grantees still filing

22/35

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$672,034Health$593,500Human Services$130,500Recreation & Sports$64,000Community Improvement$63,500Food & Nutrition$45,000Youth Development$40,500

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.

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.

The Chicago Community TrustIL20.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · AbbVie Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · The Service Club of Chicago · Assurant Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Motorola Solutions Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc

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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: LITTLE HEROES PEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 364431739 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on LITTLE HEROES PEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 91% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Chicago Wolves Charities?

Find your warmest path to Chicago Wolves Charities through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

CHICAGO WOLVES CHARITIES

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

35 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Chicago Wolves Charities?

More from the funding graph

CHICAGO WOLVES CHARITIES

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

35 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Chicago Wolves Charities?

More from the funding graph