· Private foundation
Community Memorial Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k25 grants · $123k
- $10k–50k43 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.8M
- $250k+1 grant · $471k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Pillars Community Health | $470,856 |
| BEDS Plus | $245,775 |
| Healthcare Alternative Systems Inc | $230,020 |
| NAMI Metro Suburban | $207,495 |
| Mujeres Latinas En Accion | $185,970 |
| Aging Care Connections | $126,245 |
| Center for Creative Leadership | $125,000 |
| Alivio Medical Center | $118,248 |
| People's Resource Center | $91,005 |
| Metropolitan Family Services | $86,570 |
| Health and Medicine Policy Research Group | $81,755 |
| HCS Family Services | $80,500 |
| Helping Hand Center | $70,606 |
| Bridge Communities Inc | $60,480 |
| Youth Crossroads Inc | $58,975 |
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 (FY20–24, $3.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
82 repeat relationships — 73 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- PCPILLARS COMMUNITY HEALTH5× · 2020–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +13%
- NMNAMI METRO-SUBURBAN INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +152% · 44% of their budget
- BPBEDS PLUS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $835k · revenue +664%
Funded once
- MRMICHAEL REESE HEALTH TRUSTone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +4%
- UWUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INCone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -50%
- RURush University Medical Centergraduatedone grant, 2020 · $38k · revenue +30%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Infant welfare society of chicago (iws) (d/b/a iws family health) provides quality medical, dental and behavioral health services for the health, physical and mental development of children and their families in the chicagoland community.
Community care health plan's mission is to develop and demonstrate innovative, flexible, community-based approaches to care for at-risk adults, in order to optimize their quality of life and optimize the allocation of community resources.
Strive to improve the health and well being of migrant and seasonal farmworkers and other medically vulnerable populations by providing quality accessable, affordable, and culturally responsive health care within the community we serve.
To provide residential and rehabilitation services to clients with mental illnesses
It is the mission of sinnissippi centers, inc. to provide quality, coordinated and responsive behavioral healthcare services to individuals, families and the communities we serve.
Administering an array of critical, intensive therapeutic interventions and/or facilitation services to emotionally and behaviorally disturbed clients for whom DCFS is legally responsible in order to stabilize their traditional or home of…
Chh honors every person's right to a home and health care, by bridging the housing and health care systems, to improve the lives of chicagoans experiencing homelessness.
Illinois Partners for Human Service's primary activities are (1) strengthening human services in communities throughout Illinois by building a unified human services sector; (2) working with leaders, the public, and others engaged in the…
Provide affordable, high-quality health services and remove inequities to improve the lives of all.
Dayone pact is committed to assisting individuals with disabilities live engaged and meaningful lives through independent service coordination.
We strive to make aging easier through the development of a network of services for older persons designed to optimize the quality of their lives.
To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helping Hand Center and the most unlike its peers is Warehouse Project & Gallery. 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 43 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
87 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. 87 of the 103 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 PILLARS COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds NAMI METRO-SUBURBAN INC ↗
- Who funds BEDS PLUS INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHCARE ALTERNATIVE SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds MUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION ↗
- Who funds AGING CARE CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds ALIVIO MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CREATIVE LEADERSHIP ↗
- Who funds HEALTH AND MEDICINE POLICY RESEARCH GROUP ↗
- Who funds DUPAGE PADS INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds HCS FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Family Services ↗
- Who funds SUBURBAN PRIMARY HEALTH CARE COUNCIL D/B/A ACCESS TO CARE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds TEEN PARENT CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds SHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW ↗
- Who funds THE LEADERSHOP ↗
- Who funds Wellness House ↗
- Who funds Samaritan Interfaith Counseling Center ↗
- Who funds NAMI OF DUPAGE COUNTY ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds RAY GRAHAM ASSOCIATION FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds HOUSING FORWARD ↗
- Who funds LIFE-SPAN ↗
- Who funds HOPE'S FRONT DOOR ↗
- Who funds HELPING HAND CENTER ↗
- Who funds DUPAGE HEALTH COALITION ↗
- Who funds ALL OUR CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS DUPAGE & THE FOX VALLEY REGION ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Family Services DuPage ↗
- Who funds ASPIRE OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds HAMDARD HEALTH ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS IN SUBURBAN COOK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DUPAGE FEDERATION ON HUMAN SERVICES REFORM ↗
- Who funds Oak Park River Forest Infant Welfare S ↗
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: United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Dupage Community Foundation · Healthy Communities Foundation · Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundation · Naffah Family Charitable Foundation · Westlake Health Foundation · Michael Reese Health Trust · Circle of Service Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities
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 Community Memorial 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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