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Chicago Wolves Charities

Raising funds for distribution to tax exempt entities.

$184k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$23k
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 2025.

Health$814kHuman Services$368kYouth Development$127kPublic Safety & Disaster$89kHousing & Shelter$76kRecreation & Sports$73kCommunity Improvement$72kAnimals$60kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 20 grants below total $179,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $183,550 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $4,050 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $142k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $38k
$7,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$55k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EASTER SEALS$23,000
A SILVER LINING FOUNDATION$15,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS$9,000
WRIGHT WAY RESCUE$9,000
BORDER TAILS RESCUE$9,000
WILLOW HOUSE$8,500
GIRLS IN THE GAME$8,500
BEAR NECESSITIES PEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION$8,500
HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA$7,500
AMERICAN LIVER FOUNDATION$7,500
IMERMAN ANGELS$7,500
FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS$7,500
100 CLUB OF CHICAGO$7,500
TUESDAY'S CHILD$7,500
HELPING FROM HEAVEN ORG-THE LEXI KAZIAN FOUNDATION$7,500
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS: $10k → 14%FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS: $10k → 14%FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS: $10k → 14%FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS: $9k → 14%FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS: $9k → 14%FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS: $8k → 14%FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS: $8k → 14%FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS: $7k → 14%FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS: $6k → 14%TUESDAYS CHILD: $10k → 14%TUESDAYS CHILD: $10k → 14%TUESDAYS CHILD: $10k → 14%TUESDAYS CHILD: $9k → 14%TUESDAYS CHILD: $9k → 14%TUESDAY'S CHILD: $8k → 14%TUESDAYS CHILD: $8k → 14%TUESDAYS CHILD: $7k → 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.
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 25 repeat orgs$118k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
17

Total granted

$1.7M
$111k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+16%

Still filing today

88%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthAnimalsHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther
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

  • AS
    A SILVER LINING FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $134k · revenue +37%
  • T1
    THE 100 CLUB OF ILLINOIS
    8× · 2017–2025 · $89k · revenue +10%
  • GI
    GIRLS IN THE GAME NFP
    8× · 2017–2025 · $79k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • AD
    ALZHEIMERS DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATI
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • LT
    LES TURNER AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION LTDgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $9k · revenue +69%
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $9k · revenue +3%
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
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
2
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Associatio Evergreen Chapter

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.

—
3
Brain Research Foundation

The foundation is committed to supporting neuroscience research that leads to advances in understanding of brain function and treatment of brain-related disorders.

Health
4
Dravet Syndrome Foundation Inc

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…

Philanthropy
5
The Als Association Inc Wisconsin Chapter

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.

Health
6
Epilepsy Foundation of America

To improve the lives of peoples affected by epilepsy through education, advocacy, research, and connection.

Health
7
Als One Inc

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…

Health
8
Debbie's Dream Foundation

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…

Human Services
9
Stanley Manne Childrens Research Institute

Stanley manne children's research institute strives to generate new knowledge and advance the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of pediatric diseases.

Health
10
National Brain Tumor Society Inc

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.

—
11
Alzheimers Greater Los Angeles

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…

Health
12
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Associationiowa Chapter

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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 43 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/36
Grantees still filing
22/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EASTER SEALS INC: $180,500 · OtherEASTER SEALS INCTHE 100 CLUB OF ILLINOIS: $88,500 · OtherTHE 100 CLUB OF ILLINOISGIRLS IN THE GAME NFP: $79,200 · OtherGIRLS IN THE GAME NFPEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF GREATER CHICAGO: $73,500 · OtherEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF GREATER CHICAGOLEXI KAZIAN FOUNDATION - HELPING FROM HEAVEN: $70,500 · OtherLEXI KAZIAN FOUNDATION - HELPING FROM HEAVENHUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC: $59,500 · OtherHUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INCLAURUS FOUNDATION: $55,000 · OtherLAURUS FOUNDATIONSUE DUNCAN CHILDREN'S CENTER FOUNDATION: $46,000 · OtherSUE DUNCAN CHILDREN'S CENTER FOUNDATIONFOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC: $45,000 · OtherFOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC+8 more: $54,834 · Other+8 moreA SILVER LINING FOUNDATION: $133,900 · HealthA SILVER LINING FOUNDATIONBear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation: $71,500 · HealthBear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Founda…LITTLE HEROES PEDIATRIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $70,000 · HealthLITTLE HEROES PEDIATRIC CANCER RESEARCH …IMERMAN ANGELS: $70,000 · HealthIMERMAN ANGELSAmerican Liver Foundation: $70,000 · HealthAmerican Liver FoundationUNITED SPINAL ASSOCIATION ILLINOIS CHAPTER: $63,000 · HealthUNITED SPINAL ASSOCIATION ILLINOIS CHAPT…Erikas Lighthouse A Beacon of Hope for Adolescent Depression: $57,000 · HealthErikas Lighthouse A Beacon of Hope for A…CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $44,500 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC+9 more: $67,100 · Health+9 moreFACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS: $75,500 · Human ServicesFACING FO…Tuesdays Child: $70,000 · Human ServicesTuesdays …SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $73,000 · Recreation & SportsWILLOW HOUSE: $72,000 · Community ImprovementBORDER TAILS RESCUE: $19,000 · AnimalsWRIGHT-WAY RESCUE INC: $19,000 · AnimalsANDERSON ANIMAL SHELTER: $6,500 · AnimalsAnimal Welfare League: $6,000 · AnimalsKids for Camps Inc: $48,000 · Youth Development
Other$752,534Health$647,000Human Services$145,500Recreation & Sports$73,000Community Improvement$72,000Animals$50,500Youth Development$48,000

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 budgetEASTER SEALS INC: $180,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetA SILVER LINING FOUNDATION: $133,900 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetTHE 100 CLUB OF ILLINOIS: $88,500 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetGIRLS IN THE GAME NFP: $79,200 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetFACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS: $75,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF GREATER CHICAGO: $73,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $73,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWILLOW HOUSE: $72,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetBear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation: $71,500 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetTuesdays Child: $70,000 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetLITTLE HEROES PEDIATRIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 8y, 91% of budgetIMERMAN ANGELS: $70,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetAmerican Liver Foundation: $70,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED SPINAL ASSOCIATION ILLINOIS CHAPTER: $63,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetHUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC: $59,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetErikas Lighthouse A Beacon of Hope for Adolescent Depression: $57,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetKids for Camps Inc: $48,000 over 6y, 6.7% of budgetFOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC: $45,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $44,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBORDER TAILS RESCUE: $19,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWRIGHT-WAY RESCUE INC: $19,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $16,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLES TURNER AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION LTD: $9,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLewy Body Dementia Association Inc: $9,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNAMI National: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BLACK NURSES ASSOCIATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDEMENTIA SOCIETY INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetANDERSON ANIMAL SHELTER: $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE OF HOPE FOR SUICIDE LOSS SURVIVORS: $6,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCANINE THERAPY CORPS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPAWS FOR PATRICK: $6,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAnimal Welfare League: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC: $834 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 Tuesdays Child ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE HEROES PEDIATRIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds IMERMAN ANGELS ↗
  • Who funds American Liver 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 BORDER TAILS RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds WRIGHT-WAY RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LES TURNER AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION LTD ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Lewy Body Dementia Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds NAMI National ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL BLACK NURSES ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

AbbVie FoundationThe Chicago Community…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Arthur J Gallagher Fo…The Service Club of C…Motorola Solutions Fo…John D and Catherine …Assurant FoundationBaird Foundation IncTawani Charitable Dis…Alliant Credit Union …Helen V Brach Foundat…
AbbVie FoundationIL23.3× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Wolves Charities funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chicago Wolves Charities. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report 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
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Chicago Wolves Charities?

    Find your warmest path to Chicago Wolves Charities 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 43 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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