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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
CITY COLLEGES OF CHICAGO FOUNDATION$200,000
THE BARACK OBAMA 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
CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION (CPLF)$100,000
LATINO POLICY FORUM$100,000
CATHOLIC BISHOP OF CHICAGO$100,000
DEMOISELLE 2 FEMME NFP$100,000
GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION$100,000
BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS$100,000
BUILD INCORPORATED$100,000
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.

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Its 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 its 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 JPA: $50k → 14%CHRISTOPHER HOUSE: $50k → 14%JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION JPA: $50k → 14%JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $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
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

MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
PA
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
DC
MS
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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

+29%
+12%

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
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

  • 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%
  • DL
    DEWITT LOGAN LIVINGSTON MCLEAN REGIONAL OFFICE OF EDUCATION
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Empower Illinois; 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.
04the grantee network

210 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. 210 of the 261 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
35
Early backer (in before they grew)
207/210
Grantees still filing
147/210
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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+54 more: $8,615,000 · Education+54 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+81 more: $6,608,750 · Other+81 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+13 more: $514,750 · Human Services+13 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 DevelopmentGIRLS INC OF CHICAGO: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentFOCUS FAIRIES MENTORING: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentChicago Learning Exchange: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentDemoiselle 2 Femme NFP: $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$17,717,000Other$10,199,250Human Services$3,257,000Youth Development$1,978,500Arts & Culture$1,850,000International$771,500Recreation & Sports$522,000

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%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetCAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA: $400,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetACADEMY FOR URBAN SCHOOL LEADERSHIP: $400,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetErikson Institute: $400,000 over 6y, 0.4% 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 budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $350,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetADVANCE ILLINOIS NFP: $350,000 over 6y, 3.3% 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 budgetChicago Children's Museum: $300,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetLATINO POLICY FORUM: $300,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetTEACH PLUS INC: $300,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetThe Partnership for College Completion: $300,000 over 6y, 4.4% 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 budgetAMERICA NEEDS YOU: $250,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetILLINOIS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE: $250,000 over 5y, 9.4% 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 budgetSOMETHING GOOD IN ENGLEWOOD INC: $225,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetHOPE CHICAGO INC: $225,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetONEGOAL: $225,000 over 5y, 0.2% 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 budgetWATERFORD INSTITUTE INC: $200,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S RESEARCH TRIANGLE: $200,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIllinois Action for Children: $200,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSAGA INNOVATIONS INC: $200,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetNETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP: $200,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCOMPUTER SCIENCE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION LLC: $200,000 over 6y, 1.5% 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.

  • 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 CAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds ACADEMY FOR URBAN SCHOOL LEADERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds Erikson Institute ↗
  • Who funds KOHL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTOPHER HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ADVANCE ILLINOIS NFP ↗
  • Who funds JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Carole Robertson Center for Learning ↗
  • Who funds START EARLY ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds Chicago Children's Museum ↗
  • Who funds LATINO POLICY FORUM ↗
  • Who funds TEACH PLUS INC ↗
  • Who funds The Partnership for College Completion ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT EXPLORATION ↗
  • Who funds SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
  • Who funds UNION LEAGUE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS ↗
  • Who funds AMERICA NEEDS YOU ↗
  • Who funds ILLINOIS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds ONE MILLION DEGREES ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗

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.

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

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 Cme Group Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cme Group Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%2%6%14%25%funder's 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
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.
05Through Plinth

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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 261 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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