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Chicago Beyond Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$9.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$12MCrime & Legal$8.4MYouth Development$6.8MCivil Rights$4.8MHealth$4.4MPhilanthropy$4.0MCommunity Improvement$3.7MEmployment$2.1MOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $71k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+16 grants · $8.6M
$250,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$880k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHICAGO SOUTH SIDE BIRTH CENTER$1,500,000
RESIST INC$1,400,000
LIFE AFTER JUSTICE CENTER$1,000,000
ELEPHANT CIRCLE$969,333
SOUTHERN BIRTH JUSTICE NETWORK$475,000
CENTRO SANAR$380,000
BREATH OF MY HEART BIRTH PLACE$300,000
DREAMTREE ACADEMY 573$300,000
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION$300,000
LIVE FREE CHICAGO$300,000
ORGANIZATION OF EXONEREES$300,000
CULTURAL BROKERS INC$300,000
EXONERATED NATION INC$300,000
YOUTH SENTENCING & REENTRY PROJECT INC$250,000
WE GOT US NOW INC$250,000
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 (FY20–24, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CULTURAL BROKERS INC: $300k → 19%SOUTHERN BIRTH JUSTICE NETWORK: $475k → 15%QSS BALTIMORE: $200k → 19%THE DREAMCATCHER FOUNDATION: $101k → 14%CHRIS WILSON FOUNDATION: $300k → 19%LIBERATION FOUNDATION: $500k → 22%LEAP INNOVATIONS: $100k → 14%The Night Ministry: $1k → 14%GIVING OTHERS DREAMS GOD INC: $26k → 14%Center on Halsted: $10k → 14%PEER PLUS EDUCATION & TRAINING ADVOCATES: $100k → 14%EQUITY AND TRANSFORMATION: $31k → 14%THE BLOC: $100k → 14%Healthy Hood Chicago: $10k → 14%ROOT2FRUIT YOUTH FOUNDATION: $176k → 14%YOUTH NETWORK COUNCIL: $150k → 14%BURST INTO BOOKS: $26k → 14%Fathers Who Care: $5k → 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
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
PA
CA
CO
MO
MD
NM
GA
FL

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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$31M · 31 repeat orgs$14M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

31 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
100

Total granted

$31M
$7.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+25%

Still filing today

81%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.2M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’21’23’24
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther

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

  • O
    ONEGOAL
    2× · 2017–2018 · $3.1M · revenue +44%
  • SI
    SAGA INNOVATIONS INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $2.8M · revenue +74%
  • University of Chicago
    4× · 2017–2021 · $2.2M · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • AS
    AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $621k · revenue +90%
  • BME NETWORKS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue -22%
  • ALAMEDA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +25%

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
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
3
The Network Advocating Against Domestic Violence

The Network is a group of 40+ member organizations dedicated to improving the lives of those impacted by gender-based violence through education, public policy and advocacy, and connecting community members with direct service providers.…

Human Services
4
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
5
Chicago Torture Justice Center

Seeks to address the traumas of police violence and institutionalized racism through access to healing and wellness services, trauma-informed resources, and community connection. The Center is a part of and supports a movement to end all…

Crime & Legal
6
Students Run Chicago
Health
7
Heal Chicago

To strengthen communities through educational dialogue, leadership development, emotional resilience, and intercultural competence programs that help people bridge differences and build trust.

Public Benefit
8
Alternatives Inc

Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…

Health
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 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
11
Alianza Leadership Institute

The Alliance of the SouthEast (ASE) builds the capacity of leaders, organizers, and associations that carry out community and social change. We envision a powerful grassroots base that impacts decision makers and wins real improvements in…

Human Services
12
True Chicago
Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Evolved Network Nfp and the most unlike its peers is Chicago Cred Inc. 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 11 years old; the field is 20. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%14%<5yr13%30%5–10yr18%26%10–20yr15%18%20–35yr14%9%35–55yr22%4%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%11%<5yr13%19%5–10yr18%27%10–20yr15%18%20–35yr14%19%35–55yr22%7%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/117
the rest of the field
12%
8,890/72,242

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

111 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. 111 of the 152 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.

26
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
36
Early backer (in before they grew)
105/111
Grantees still filing
58/111
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Youth Advocate Programs — $3,574,719 · OtherYouth Advocate ProgramsRESIST INC — $3,200,000 · OtherRESIST INCGENESYS WORKS CHICAGO — $678,108 · OtherStorycatchers — $654,797 · OtherChicago Cred Inc — $2,074,499 · OtherChicago Cred IncBLACKROOTS ALLIANCE — $721,000 · Other+88 more — $6,982,350 · Other+88 moreSAGA INNOVATIONS INC — $2,797,908 · EducationSAGA INNOVATIONS INCUniversity of Chicago — $2,153,047 · EducationUniversity of Chicag…CHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $1,880,000 · EducationCHILDREN FIRST FUND …AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC — $620,900 · EducationAFTER SCHOOL MATTERS…Vocal Justice — $300,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $300,000 · EducationUniversity of Illinois Foundation — $300,000 · Education+6 more — $386,972 · EducationLIFE AFTER JUSTICE — $2,351,000 · Crime & LegalLIFE AFTER JUS…LAWNDALE CHRISTIAN LEGAL CENTER — $1,326,223 · Crime & LegalLAWNDALE CHRIS…ELEPHANT CIRCLE — $969,333 · Crime & LegalELEPHANT CIRCL…The Decarceration Collective — $328,000 · Crime & LegalCHALLENGE II CHANGE — $300,000 · Crime & LegalOrganization of Exonerees — $300,000 · Crime & LegalWE GOT US NOW INC — $250,000 · Crime & LegalYOUTH SENTENCING & REENTRY PROJECT INC — $250,000 · Crime & Legal+3 more — $395,000 · Crime & Legal+3 moreONEGOAL — $3,150,000 · Youth DevelopmentONEGOALInternational Neighborhood Collaborative — $725,310 · Youth DevelopmentInternatio…+11 more — $500,763 · Youth Development+11 moreChicago South Side Birth Center — $1,500,000 · HealthChicago S…CENTRO SANAR — $1,030,000 · HealthCENTRO SA…ALAMEDA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION — $500,000 · HealthALAMEDA H…Solutions and Resources Inc — $365,000 · HealthSolutions…EXONERATED NATION INC — $300,000 · HealthEXONERATE…BREATH OF MY HEART BIRTH PLACE — $300,000 · HealthBREATH OF…THE HEKTOEN INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE — $280,000 · HealthTHE HEKTO…+1 more — $1,000 · HealthROBERT R MCCORMICK FOUNDATION — $4,000,000 · PhilanthropyROBERT R …+1 more — $20,000 · PhilanthropyINNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK — $1,483,063 · Community ImprovementResilience Partners NFP — $836,000 · Community ImprovementBME NETWORKS INC — $500,000 · Community ImprovementBlack Researchers Collective — $350,000 · Community ImprovementRESIDENT ASSOCIATION OF GREATER ENGLEWOOD — $291,668 · Community Improvement+6 more — $123,704 · Community Improvement
Other$17,885,473Education$8,738,827Crime & Legal$6,469,556Youth Development$4,376,073Health$4,276,000Philanthropy$4,020,000Community Improvement$3,584,435

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRESIST INC — $3,200,000 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetONEGOAL — $3,150,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetSAGA INNOVATIONS INC — $2,797,908 over 2y, 19% of budgetLIFE AFTER JUSTICE — $2,351,000 over 3y, 54% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $2,153,047 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Cred Inc — $2,074,499 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetCHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $1,880,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetINNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK — $1,483,063 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetLAWNDALE CHRISTIAN LEGAL CENTER — $1,326,223 over 3y, 21% of budgetCENTRO SANAR — $1,030,000 over 2y, 84% of budgetELEPHANT CIRCLE — $969,333 over 1y, 15% of budgetResilience Partners NFP — $836,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetInternational Neighborhood Collaborative — $725,310 over 2y, 52% of budgetBLACKROOTS ALLIANCE — $721,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetStorycatchers — $654,797 over 4y, 48% of budgetAFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC — $620,900 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetBME NETWORKS INC — $500,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetALAMEDA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION — $500,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetLIBERATION FOUNDATION — $500,000 over 1y, 87% of budgetSOUTHERN BIRTH JUSTICE NETWORK — $475,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetSolutions and Resources Inc — $365,000 over 3y, 77% of budgetBlack Researchers Collective — $350,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetThe Decarceration Collective — $328,000 over 1y, 51% of budgetLIVE FREE CHICAGO — $326,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetVocal Justice — $300,000 over 1y, 60% of budgetEXONERATED NATION INC — $300,000 over 1y, 60% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $300,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHALLENGE II CHANGE — $300,000 over 1y, 66% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation — $300,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRIS WILSON FOUNDATION — $300,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetBREATH OF MY HEART BIRTH PLACE — $300,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCULTURAL BROKERS INCORPORATED — $300,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetRESIDENT ASSOCIATION OF GREATER ENGLEWOOD — $291,668 over 2y, 12% of budgetTHE HEKTOEN INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE — $280,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFIREHOUSE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER OF CHICAGO — $253,495 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetRESTOREHER USAMERICA INC — $250,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetWE GOT US NOW INC — $250,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetYOUTH SENTENCING & REENTRY PROJECT INC — $250,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetSweet Water Foundation Inc — $225,000 over 2y, 36% of budgetJUSTLEADERSHIPUSA INC — $200,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetLEGACY DISCIPLE — $182,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetFearless Dialogues Inc — $175,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetYOUTH NETWORK COUNCIL DBA ILLINOIS COLLABORATION ON YOUTH — $150,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetOne Voice United Inc — $150,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetMY VOTE MATTERS — $144,000 over 1y, 91% of budgetALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC — $137,355 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDIONS CHICAGO DREAM INC NFP — $126,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY — $114,972 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Field Foundation of I…United Way of Metropo…John D and Catherine …Polk Bros Foundation …The Chicago Community…The Joyce FoundationCrossroads Fund IncForefrontArie and Ida Crown Me…Chicago Foundation fo…Robert R McCormick Fo…Woods Fund of Chicago
Field Foundation of IllinoisIL59.3× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Field Foundation of Illinois · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · The Joyce Foundation · Crossroads Fund Inc · Forefront · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Chicago Foundation for Women · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Woods Fund of Chicago

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 Beyond 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 · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 28%
  • Saga Innovations Inc — 28% of income from government
  • Resist Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
40report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 152 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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