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Clune Cares Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$859k
Granted FY2025still arriving
136
Grants FY2025still arriving
20
States reached
$33k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Health$588kHuman Services$218kEducation$175kPublic Safety & Disaster$118kPhilanthropy$100kFood & Nutrition$99kYouth Development$89kEmployment$87kOther$0
02FY2025 · 136 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k111 grants · $443k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $417k
$5,000
Median grant
20
States reached
$483k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REVOLUTION WORKSHOP$33,050
FOLDS OF HONOR$27,800
LORENZO'S HOUSE$25,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$25,000
CHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC$25,000
COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT (CORE)$25,000
ANN & ROBERT LURIE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO FOUNDATION$23,500
IRISH AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP$22,700
LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK$20,000
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC$17,900
SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS$17,000
HARRINGTON CANCER & HEALTH FOUNDATION$15,000
PROJECT RENEWAL INC$12,804
GATEWAY FOR CANCER RESEARCH$12,470
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NY$12,460
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 (FY23–25, $175k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $2k → 8%THE TORCH FOUNDATION: $6k → 7%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $2k → 14%LOCKTON CARES INC: $4k → 15%ILLINOIS S O FOUNDATION: $6k → 11%BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION: $9k → 7%THE UP CENTER: $10k → 19%HOPE THROUGH HOUSING FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%THE TORCH FOUNDATION: $6k → 7%ONE SANDWICH AT A TIME: $5k → 9%CENTER FOR THE WOMEN OF NEW YORK: $11k → 13%DOOR OF HOPE: $4k → 17%SHE BELIEVES IN ME: $1k → 6%BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%OAKWOOD CREATIVE CARE: $3k → 11%MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER BAY AREA: $2k → 10%ONE SANDWICH AT A TIME: $5k → 9%PROVIDENCE TRINITY HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $3k → 6%MAIN STREET CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $5k → 6%SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $3k → 6%PARTNERS FOR PROGRESS: $2k → 8%ALMOST HOME KIDS: $750 → 7%PROJECT FIRE BUDDIES INC: $3k → 14%JAMES LENNOX HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC: $6k → 17%LORENZO'S HOUSE: $25k → 14%JAMES LENNOX HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC: $3k → 17%FORGOTTEN CHILDREN INC: $5k → 14%LITTLE GIRAFFE FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%KETCHUM DOWNTOWN YMCA: $5k → 14%LITTLE GIRAFFE FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%URBAN INITIATIVES INC: $5k → 14%ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%THE COMMITTEE FOR HISPANIC CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC: $7k → 17%CIRCLE URBAN MINISTRIES: $5k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
MT
IL
WI
NY
MA
IA
IN
PA
NJ
CA
MO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
HI
OK
GA
TX
FL
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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 66 repeat orgs$847k to everyone else

66 repeat relationships: 62 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 74 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

66
84

Total granted

$1.0M
$399k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

86%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $448k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • RW
    REVOLUTION WORKSHOP
    3× · 2023–2025 · $82k · revenue +21%
  • HC
    HFS CHICAGO SCHOLARS
    3× · 2023–2025 · $48k · revenue +39%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $41k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • IC
    INTERNATIONAL CANCER ADVOCACY NETWORKgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +88%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
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
Curesearch for Children's Cancer

Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…

Health
2
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
3
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Greater Washongton Dc Inc

Ronald mcdonald house charities of greater washington, dc (rmhcdc) provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.

Health
4
The Children's Cancer Cause Inc

The mission of children's cancer cause is to champion policies and programs that improve the lives of children with cancer and survivors.

Health
5
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
6
Oncology and Kids Inc

To help kids and families heal the emotional scars of childhood cancer and learn to thrive.

Human Services
7
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health
8
Make-a-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc

Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.

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9
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
10
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
11
Children's Hospital

Organization's mission to improve health outcomes for children; be a leader in creating innovative solutions to pediatric healthcare problems; and excel in care, advocacy, research. as the nation's children's hospital, the mission of…

Health
12
Lurie Children's Surgical Foundation Inc

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

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Help Usa Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is Usmc Old Breed Rugby Inc. 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

178 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. 178 of the 226 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
177/178
Grantees still filing
74/178
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $35,000 · OtherHARRINGTON CANCER AND HEALTH FOUNDATION: $30,000 · OtherIRISH AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP: $28,700 · Other+115 more: $728,754 · Other+115 moreGATEWAY FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $125,970 · HealthGATEWAY FOR CANCER RESEA…Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation: $43,500 · HealthAnn & Robert H Lurie Chi…American Heart Association Inc: $41,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Associati…CHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED H…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC: $20,460 · HealthPROJECT RENEWAL INC: $16,804 · HealthFRIENDS OF ST DOMINIC'S INC: $16,280 · HealthAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $14,495 · Health+12 more: $83,100 · Health+12 moreLORENZO'S HOUSE: $25,000 · Human ServicesLORENZO'S HO…Pacific Northwest CWOA Chapter: $15,000 · Human ServicesPacific Nort…BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION: $13,562 · Human ServicesBOULDER CRES…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $12,500 · Human ServicesAmerican Nat…THE TORCH FOUNDATION LTD: $11,000 · Human ServicesTHE TORCH FO…CENTER FOR THE WOMEN OF NEW YORK: $11,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR T…ONE SANDWICH AT A TIME: $10,000 · Human ServicesCHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF EASTERN VA INC D/B/A THE UP CENTER: $10,000 · Human ServicesJAMES LENOX HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC: $8,700 · Human ServicesTHE COMMITTEE FOR HISPANIC CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $7,280 · Human Services+19 more: $77,508 · Human Services+19 moreHFS CHICAGO SCHOLARS: $47,500 · EducationHFS CHICA…FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $27,800 · EducationFOLDS OF …SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC: $17,900 · EducationSUCCESS A…ACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF ILLINOIS INC: $17,500 · EducationACE MENTO…FRIENDS OF DOLORES MISSION SCHOOL: $8,526 · EducationFRIENDS O…+10 more: $33,910 · Education+10 moreHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyINTERNATIONAL CANCER ADVOCACY NETWORK: $25,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY: $24,000 · PhilanthropyINLAND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA UNITED WAY: $5,000 · Philanthropy22KILL: $5,000 · Philanthropy+4 more: $10,905 · PhilanthropyWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $25,000 · InternationalTHE IRISH AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP INC: $22,700 · InternationalTHE SHALOM CENTRE OF AFRICA CO NUCOR CONSTRUCTION: $10,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $10,000 · InternationalBest Buddies International Inc: $6,720 · InternationalKIDSAVE INTERNATIONAL INC: $5,900 · InternationalFREEDOM ALLIANCE: $5,000 · InternationalGIRLS GARAGE: $4,000 · InternationalREVOLUTION WORKSHOP: $81,850 · Employment
Other$822,454Health$401,609Human Services$201,550Education$153,136Philanthropy$119,905International$89,320Employment$81,850

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetGATEWAY FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $125,970 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetREVOLUTION WORKSHOP: $81,850 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHFS CHICAGO SCHOLARS: $47,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation: $43,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $41,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHARRINGTON CANCER AND HEALTH FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $27,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CANCER ADVOCACY NETWORK: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY: $24,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBETTERALIFE INC: $22,350 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetA WISH WITH WINGS INC: $22,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC: $20,460 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProvidence St Mel School: $18,510 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC: $17,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF ILLINOIS INC: $17,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTUESDAY'S CHILDREN: $17,186 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPROJECT RENEWAL INC: $16,804 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ST DOMINIC'S INC: $16,280 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPacific Northwest CWOA Chapter: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHealthy Schools Campaign: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $14,495 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOULDER CREST FOUNDATION: $13,562 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND: $13,350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVISUAL ARTS CENTER OF NEW JERSEY: $12,800 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $11,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HELP USA FUND INC: $11,102 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE TORCH FOUNDATION LTD: $11,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetCENTER FOR THE WOMEN OF NEW YORK: $11,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetAMERICAN LEGION POST 177: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE SHALOM CENTRE OF AFRICA CO NUCOR CONSTRUCTION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LILABEAN FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetARIZONA BURN FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BRAIN FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetONE SANDWICH AT A TIME: $10,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetCHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF EASTERN VA INC D/B/A THE UP CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACTIVE TRANSPORTATION ALLIANCE: $9,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWEST SUBURBAN COMMUNITY PANTRY INC: $9,425 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS IN THE GAME NFP: $9,100 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHICAGO: $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC: $8,952 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

Executive Constructio…Katten Muchin Rosenma…The Chicago Community…United Way of Metropo…Leopardo Charitable F…Circle of Service Fou…May and Samuel Rudin …Cme Group Community F…Dr Scholl FoundationPolk Bros Foundation …United Way of the Nat…The Witz Family Found…
Executive Construction FoundationIL19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Executive Construction Foundation · Katten Muchin Rosenman Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Leopardo Charitable Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Inc · Cme Group Community Foundation F/K/A Nymex Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · United Way of the National Capital Area · The Witz Family 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 Clune Cares Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Clune Cares Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Latham Centers Inc: 39% of income from government
  • National Fallen Firefighters Foundation: 24% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
52report 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
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.
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Find your warmest path to Clune Cares Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 226 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-PF 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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