How much did CME GROUP COMMUNITY FOUNDATION grant in FY2019?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 84% of CME GROUP COMMUNITY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

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

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2019

gifts-generalmovemberresearchheartjudechildren'scancer

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

03FY2019 · 754 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2019

Under $10k702 grants · $262k
$10k–50k51 grants · $654k
$50k–250k1 grant · $217k

$175

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

MOVEMBER FOUNDATION$216,800
GREENWICH HOUSE INC$25,000
CITY HARVEST INC$25,000
RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION$25,000
WORKING IN THE SCHOOLS$20,000
ONE GOAL$20,000
SEPTEMBER 11TH WIDOWS AND VICTIMS FAMILIES ASSOCIATION INC$20,000
CENTER ON HALSTEAD$15,000
JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION$15,000
THE COMMUNITY FOODBANK OF NEW JERSEY$15,000
HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT$15,000
BROOKLYN ARTS COUNCIL$15,000
COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC$15,000
ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC$15,000
AMERICA NEEDS YOU INC$15,000

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 (FY19–19, $156k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 10%. 86% 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 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.

The University of Chicago Charter School Corporation

To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.

Education

Kipp Chicago Schools

The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…

Education

University of Denver

A higher educational institution, providing both undergraduate and graduate degrees.

Education

Illinois College

Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher learning in the liberal arts.

Education

American Cancer Society Inc

Improve the lives of people with cancer and their families through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.

Health

Boston Architectural College

Founded 131 years ago, the boston architectural college is a recognized institution providing excellence in practice-integrated design education to members of diverse communities with students representing 35 countries. the bac offers…

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The Common Application Inc

The common application promotes access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process.

Education

UChicago Research International

To engage in scientific research and educational activities throughout the world on behalf of and in conjunction with the university of chicago.

Health

Global Fund for Children

To advance the rights and opportunities of children and youth worldwide.

Arts & Culture

Chicago Opera Theater

Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.

Arts & Culture

The Chicago School of Professional

The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.

Education

Children's Home & Aid Society of Ill

We advance the well-being of children by investing in families to disrupt the systemic and multi-generational cycle of racial, social, and economic inequity.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Freedom School and the most unlike its peers is The Morton Arboretum. 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 38 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% 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 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/323

the rest of the field

11%

7,683/72,036

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

300 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)

293/300

Grantees still filing

242/300

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$3,990,846Health$229,210Human Services$172,093Education$145,797Arts & Culture$94,609Philanthropy$33,361Food & Nutrition$28,765

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.

Polk Bros Foundation IncIL53.5× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur · Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Baxter International Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Motorola Solutions Foundation · Usg 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 CME GROUP COMMUNITY 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.

2025

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2get no government money at all

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. 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.

04Through 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: HINSDALE CENTRAL FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~60 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 6.9× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 363923384 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 HINSDALE CENTRAL 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

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 60 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 3% of their budget — diversified.
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 Cme Group Community Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Cme Group Community Foundation 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.

CME GROUP COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

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?

300 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Cme Group Community Foundation?

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CME GROUP COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

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?

300 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Cme Group Community Foundation?

More from the funding graph