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Cme Group Foundation

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.

$6.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
148
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$600k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$24MPhilanthropy$11MYouth Development$3.2MPublic Benefit$1.5MHuman Services$1.5MArts & Culture$1.2MReligion$948kHealth$907kOther$0
02FY2024 · 148 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k23 grants · $109k
  • $10k–50k59 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k64 grants · $4.6M
  • $250k+2 grants · $850k
$25,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$64M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC$600,000
YOUTH GUIDANCE$250,000
SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM$200,000
THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION$200,000
CITY COLLEGES OF CHICAGO FOUNDATION$200,000
CHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND$150,000
CAROLE ROBERTSON CENTER FOR LEARNING$150,000
CHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$125,000
LATINO POLICY FORUM$100,000
CHILDREN'S RESEARCH TRIANGLE$100,000
CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION (CPLF)$100,000
DEMOISELLE 2 FEMME NFP$100,000
CATHOLIC BISHOP OF CHICAGO$100,000
BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS$100,000
GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION$100,000
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 (FY19–24, $3.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FRIENDS OF DEKALB REGIONAL OFFICE OF EDUCATION: $50k → 13%CHRISTOPHER HOUSE: $100k → 14%TIDES CENTER: $50k → 10%ILLINOIS NETWORK OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL: $25k → 11%FRIENDS OF DEKALB REGIONAL OFFICE OF EDUCATION: $50k → 13%JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION JPA: $75k → 14%TIDES CENTER: $50k → 10%FRIENDS OF DEKALB REGIONAL OFFICE OF EDUCATION: $50k → 13%JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION JPA: $75k → 14%TIDES CENTER: $25k → 10%FRIENDS OF DEKALB REGIONAL OFFICE OF EDUCATION: $50k → 13%CHRISTOPHER HOUSE: $70k → 14%TIDES CENTER: $25k → 10%CHRISTOPHER HOUSE: $70k → 14%TIDES CENTER: $25k → 10%CHRISTOPHER HOUSE: $50k → 14%TIDES CENTER: $25k → 10%JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $50k → 14%JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION JPA: $50k → 14%JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION JPA: $50k → 14%CHRISTOPHER HOUSE: $50k → 14%JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $50k → 14%CHRISTOPHER HOUSE: $25k → 14%YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $50k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 14%MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $30k → 14%MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $30k → 14%GREENWOOD PROJECT: $25k → 14%GREENWOOD PROJECT: $25k → 14%GREENWOOD PROJECT: $25k → 14%CAROLE ROBERTSON CENTER FOR LEARNING: $150k → 14%CAROLE ROBERTSON CENTER FOR LEARNING: $50k → 14%CAROLE ROBERTSON CENTER FOR LEARNING: $50k → 14%CAROLE ROBERTSON CENTER FOR LEARNING: $50k → 14%CAROLE ROBERTSON CENTER FOR LEARNING: $50k → 14%SHARE OUR SPARE: $40k → 14%ILLINOIS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE: $50k → 14%ILLINOIS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE: $50k → 14%ILLINOIS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE: $50k → 14%THRIVE CHICAGO NFP: $50k → 14%LEAP INNOVATIONS: $250k → 14%LEAP INNOVATIONS: $250k → 14%LEAP INNOVATIONS: $250k → 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

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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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$33M · 155 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

155 repeat relationships — 104 still active in FY2024, 51 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

155
80

Total granted

$33M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+18%

Still filing today

81%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $789k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther

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

  • SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $3.7M · revenue +26%
  • CF
    CHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +66%
  • University of Chicago
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • CR
    CENTER RESOURCES FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING
    one grant, 2023 · $175k · revenue +22%
  • AF
    ACADEMY FOR GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -53%
  • AO
    ARCHDIOCESE OF CHICAGO
    one grant, 2022 · $100k

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
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
2
The Chicago Scholars Foundation

Chicago scholars is transforming the leadership landscape of our city by resolving the fundamental barriers to success for academically driven, first generation college students from under-resourced communities.

Education
3
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.

Social Science
4
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
5
The University of Chicago Charter School Corporation

To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.

Education
6
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

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
7
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
8
Chicago Collegiate Inc

To equip all students in grades six through twelve with the academic skills, intellectual habits and character traits to succeed in the college of their choice, strenghten their communities and change the world.

Education
9
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management

Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.

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10
Chicago Education Partnership

To create a school that dramatically transforms the lives of k-8 students and prepares them for success in college and in life through: the delivery of a rigorous and personalized academic program, a focus on holistic education, and the…

Education
11
Tutoring Chicago

Tutoring chicago delivers the power of education through one-to-one tutoring.

Arts & Culture
12
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Empower Illinois and the most unlike its peers is The Matthew Harris Ornstein Memorial Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Development ServicesIndependent K-12 SchoolsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Immigrant Worker SupportHealth Access Advocacy and …Community College Foundatio…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Elementary Literacy TutoringEquine Therapy ProgramsYouth Sports ProgramsYouth Development CentersJewish Community Organizati…Developmental Disabilities …Cancer Support ServicesPregnancy Support ServicesYmca Youth DevelopmentAffordable Housing Developm…Food Banks and PantriesAnimal Rescue and ShelterPolicy Research and AdvocacyDomestic Violence ServicesLocal History MuseumsYouth Mentoring ProgramsPublic Library OperationsSchool District FoundationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%3%<5yr13%8%5–10yr18%26%10–20yr15%25%20–35yr14%16%35–55yr22%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%2%<5yr13%4%5–10yr18%16%10–20yr15%29%20–35yr14%14%35–55yr22%35%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.4%1/227
the rest of the field
12%
8,890/72,132

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

210 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. 210 of the 261 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
34
Early backer (in before they grew)
207/210
Grantees still filing
148/210
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC — $3,705,000 · EducationSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INCCHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $2,291,000 · EducationCHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATI…CHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND — $1,300,000 · EducationCHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FUNDUniversity of Chicago — $1,206,000 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION — $600,000 · Education+55 more — $8,625,000 · Education+55 moreCity Colleges of Chicago Foundation — $800,000 · OtherCity Colleges of Chicago Founda…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS — $775,000 · OtherTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UN…CATHOLIC BISHOP OF CHICAGO — $700,000 · OtherCATHOLIC BISHOP OF CHICAGOCHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $490,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO — $425,000 · OtherCHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION (CPLF) — $400,000 · Other+79 more — $6,588,750 · Other+79 moreLEAP Innovations — $750,000 · Human ServicesLEAP Innov…CHRISTOPHER HOUSE — $365,000 · Human ServicesCHRISTOPHE…JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION — $350,000 · Human ServicesJUVENILE P…Carole Robertson Center for Learning — $350,000 · Human ServicesCarole Rob…ILLINOIS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE — $250,000 · Human ServicesILLINOIS S…TIDES CENTER — $202,250 · Human ServicesTIDES CENT…Friends of Dekalb Regional Office of Education — $200,000 · Human ServicesFriends of…Metropolitan Family Services — $150,000 · Human ServicesGREENWOOD PROJECT — $125,000 · Human Services+14 more — $524,750 · Human Services+14 moreUNION LEAGUE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS — $265,000 · Youth DevelopmentBRAVEN INC — $250,000 · Youth DevelopmentONEGOAL — $225,000 · Youth DevelopmentNETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP — $200,000 · Youth DevelopmentIMENTOR INC — $155,000 · Youth DevelopmentLADIES OF VIRTUE — $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentVocel Viewing our Children as Emerging Leaders — $125,000 · Youth DevelopmentDemoiselle 2 Femme NFP — $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentFOCUS FAIRIES MENTORING — $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INC OF CHICAGO — $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentChicago Learning Exchange — $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentChicago Youth Centers — $80,000 · Youth Development+4 more — $128,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION — $600,000 · Arts & CultureKOHL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC — $380,000 · Arts & CultureChicago Children's Museum — $300,000 · Arts & CulturePROJECT EXPLORATION — $275,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FRED ROGERS COMPANY — $175,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $120,000 · Arts & CultureCAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA — $400,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO — $305,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $30,000 · International+2 more — $36,500 · InternationalNorthwestern University — $460,000 · Recreation & SportsMETROSQUASH NFP — $32,000 · Recreation & SportsRESTORING THE PATH — $30,000 · Recreation & Sports
Education$17,727,000Other$10,179,250Human Services$3,267,000Youth Development$1,978,500Arts & Culture$1,850,000International$771,500Recreation & Sports$522,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC — $3,705,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $2,291,000 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND — $1,300,000 over 6y, 8.8% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $1,206,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCity Colleges of Chicago Foundation — $800,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetLEAP Innovations — $750,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION — $600,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION — $600,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetYouth Guidance — $540,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetDEPAUL UNIVERSITY — $540,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBig Shoulders Fund — $495,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetNorthwestern University — $460,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetACADEMY FOR URBAN SCHOOL LEADERSHIP — $400,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetErikson Institute — $400,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA — $400,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetKOHL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC — $380,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetCHRISTOPHER HOUSE — $365,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetADVANCE ILLINOIS NFP — $350,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation — $350,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION — $350,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetCarole Robertson Center for Learning — $350,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSTART EARLY — $335,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO — $305,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetTEACH PLUS INC — $300,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetChicago Children's Museum — $300,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetThe Partnership for College Completion — $300,000 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetLATINO POLICY FORUM — $300,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetPROJECT EXPLORATION — $275,000 over 6y, 8.2% of budgetSINAI HEALTH SYSTEM — $270,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNION LEAGUE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS — $265,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetONE MILLION DEGREES — $250,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC — $250,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBRAVEN INC — $250,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICA NEEDS YOU — $250,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetILLINOIS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE — $250,000 over 5y, 9.4% of budgetONEGOAL — $225,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE CHICAGO INC — $225,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSOMETHING GOOD IN ENGLEWOOD INC — $225,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $220,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $202,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Dekalb Regional Office of Education — $200,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetCHILDREN'S RESEARCH TRIANGLE — $200,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP — $200,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetWATERFORD INSTITUTE INC — $200,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSAGA INNOVATIONS INC — $200,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCOMPUTER SCIENCE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION LLC — $200,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetIllinois Action for Children — $200,000 over 4y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds City Colleges of Chicago Foundation ↗
  • Who funds LEAP Innovations ↗
  • Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Youth Guidance ↗
  • Who funds DEPAUL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Big Shoulders Fund ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds ACADEMY FOR URBAN SCHOOL LEADERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds Erikson Institute ↗
  • Who funds CAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds KOHL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTOPHER HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds ADVANCE ILLINOIS NFP ↗
  • Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
  • Who funds JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Carole Robertson Center for Learning ↗
  • Who funds START EARLY ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds TEACH PLUS INC ↗
  • Who funds Chicago Children's Museum ↗
  • Who funds The Partnership for College Completion ↗
  • Who funds LATINO POLICY FORUM ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT EXPLORATION ↗
  • Who funds SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
  • Who funds UNION LEAGUE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS ↗
  • Who funds ONE MILLION DEGREES ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
  • Who funds BRAVEN INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICA NEEDS YOU ↗

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.

Robert R McCormick Fo…Circle of Service Fou…Arie and Ida Crown Me…United Way of Metropo…Polk Bros Foundation …The Chicago Community…Finnegan Family Found…Lloyd a Fry FoundationFulk Family Foundatio…John D and Catherine …Imc Chicago Charitabl…Vivo Foundation
Robert R McCormick FoundationIL92.2× affinity47 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Robert R McCormick Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Finnegan Family Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Fulk Family Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation · Vivo 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 Cme Group 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Saga Innovations Inc — 28% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
  • The Bottom Line Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
55report 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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Cme Group Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Cme Group Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 261 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.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home