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Clune Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k15 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $24k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $73k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE IRISH AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP INC | $73,000 |
| OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP PARISH | $24,200 |
| ST CATHERINE LABOURE SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| THE AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| OBLATES OF ST FRANCIS DE SALES | $5,000 |
| THE WELL RESOURCE CENTER NFP | $5,000 |
| MERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT | $4,411 |
| LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| NORTHFIELD TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY | $3,000 |
| PACIFIC GARDEN MISSION | $2,500 |
| RIAM FOUNDATION INC | $2,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF COOK COUNTY NORTHERN ILLINOIS | $1,500 |
| ST LABRE INDIAN SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| SACRED HEART MONASTERY | $1,000 |
| SAINT MALACHY CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
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.
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
Our mission is to ensure that Chicago seniors and people with disabilities benefit from nutritious meal programs that improve their quality of life and maximize independence.
The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…
We prepare and deliver essential nutritious meals to our community, promoting health, wellness, and independence of all, with the support of a diverse and engaged community network.
With the support of our community, we provide over 90 million meals annually through our network of over 900 member food pantries and programs across thirteen counties, currently reaching over a half million individuals each month with…
The organization operates congregate and home delivered meal programs in suburban cook, grundy, will and kendall counties under contracts and grants with age option and ageguide (formerly northeastern illinois area agency on aging(neil)).…
New hope house northwest is a volunteer-driven food pantry dedicated to providing emergency food assistance to individuals and families in need. the pantry serves chicago's far northwest side, norridge, and harwood heights residents,…
The mission of gw homeless services of northern michigan, inc is to provide safe, supportive shelter to individuals experiencing homelessness.the 2023 990 was for 10/1-12/31/23 due to an accounting period change.
To provide food to various charitable organizations and needy individuals in northwest indiana.
The Foodbank's mission is to provide food, and develop awareness of and creative solutions for food insecurity. Annually, the Foodbank distributes approximately 9.5 million pounds of food to 130 food pantries, soup kitchens, children's…
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
Organization's mission is to provide nutritious food and access to other resources for anyone facing food insecurity in northern michigan.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy Housing Lakefront and the most unlike its peers is Good Samaritan Inn. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 17 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 THE IRISH AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds The Well Resource Center NFP ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NORTHFIELD TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN INN ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
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: The Chicago Community Trust · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Clune Family Charitable Foundation 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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