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Cushman & Wakefield Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Cushman & Wakefield Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$72k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Youth Development$212kArts & Culture$90kHuman Services$62kHealth$57kEducation$40kFood & Nutrition$39kHousing & Shelter$35kPhilanthropy$32kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $34k
$5,915
Median grant
8
States reached
$146k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC$12,593
MATTHEW SHEPHARD FOUNDATION$10,991
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS$10,000
GIRLS INCORPORATED$6,565
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC$5,915
PATROL BASE ABBATE$5,350
SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC$5,225
THE MISSION CONTINUES$5,150
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$5,000
T200 FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
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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 (FY21–25, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 58% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BUDGET BUDDIES: $5k → 16%EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $13k → 11%ALMOST HOME KIDS: $25k → 7%STYLES HOUSE INC: $3k → 14%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $9k → 15%A BETTER CHICAGO: $5k → 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
MI
NY
MA
IN
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
NC
DC
GA
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.

41%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$250k · 9 repeat orgs$358k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
39

Total granted

$250k
$297k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+10%

Still filing today

89%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureHousing & ShelterInternationalCivil RightsOther
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

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA
    3× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue +8%
  • AA
    AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS
    2× · 2019–2021 · $20k · revenue +27%
  • BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC
    2× · 2019–2021 · $19k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • SP
    SAINT PETER'S UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -5%
  • AH
    Almost Home Kids
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +10%
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
Alternatives Inc

Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…

Health
2
Youthbuild Global Inc

With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…

Employment
3
Junior Achievement of Chicago

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy

International
4
Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana

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Youth Development
5
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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6
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…

Philanthropy
7
People Inc

People inc. provides health and human services that enrich lives and communities through innovation and supportive services. with a goal to help people achieve greater independence and quality of life, people inc. provides day,…

Human Services
8
Techbridge Inc

Techbridge breaks the cycle of generational poverty through the innovative use of technology to transform nonprofit and community impact. techbridge's work is focused on four pillars: hunger relief, homeless support, social justice and…

Philanthropy
9
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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10
Behavior Analyst Certification Board Inc

We protect consumers of behavior analysis services by systematically establishing, promoting, and disseminating professional standards.

Employment
11
United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee

Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.

Recreation & Sports
12
Abilitypath

Empower people with special needs to achieve their full potential through innovative, inclusive programs and community partnerships.

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago; the most unlike its peers is Styles House. 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

43 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. 43 of the 57 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
42/43
Grantees still filing
25/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICA: $50,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICAAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS: $20,000 · OtherAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARSMATTHEW SHEPHARD FOUNDATION: $10,991 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS: $10,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER WASHINGTON AND AFFILIATE: $10,000 · OtherCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY: $10,000 · OtherFeeding America: $18,175 · OtherFeeding AmericaRonald McDonald House Global: $15,915 · OtherRonald McDonald House GlobalORANGE COUNTY'S UNITED WAY: $10,000 · Other+22 more: $98,245 · Other+22 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS…GIRLS INC: $6,565 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARTFORD: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentMadison Square Boys & Girls Club: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentHUGH O'BRIAN YOUTH LEADERSHIP: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $75,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF CONTEM…Creative Arts Workshops for Kids Inc: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCreative Arts Wo…SAN JOSE CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSAN JOSE CHILDRE…+1 more: $2,500 · Arts & CultureAlmost Home Kids: $25,000 · Human ServicesAlmost Home …BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $18,734 · Human ServicesBLESSINGS IN…EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $12,593 · Human ServicesEMERGENCY AS…A Better Chicago: $5,000 · Human ServicesA Better Chi…WOMEN'S MONEY MATTERS INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S MONE…STYLES HOUSE: $3,209 · Human ServicesSAINT PETER'S UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · EducationT200 FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationUniversity of Chicago: $5,000 · EducationTREVOR PROJECT INC: $15,969 · Civil RightsTRUE COLORS UNITED INC: $10,000 · Civil RightsTHE DRU PROJECT INC: $5,470 · Civil RightsMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $11,650 · InternationalDRESS FOR SUCCESS WORLDWIDE: $8,042 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $5,225 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $5,000 · International
Other$253,326Youth Development$101,565Arts & Culture$92,500Human Services$69,536Education$40,000Civil Rights$31,439International$29,917

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT PETER'S UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlmost Home Kids: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $18,734 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America: $18,175 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $15,969 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global: $15,915 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $12,593 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $11,650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCreative Arts Workshops for Kids Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTRUE COLORS UNITED INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetORANGE COUNTY'S UNITED WAY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER WASHINGTON AND AFFILIATE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetT200 FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS WORLDWIDE: $8,042 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS INC: $6,565 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDowntown Streets Inc: $5,770 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $5,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DRU PROJECT INC: $5,470 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetTHE MISSION CONTINUES: $5,150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARTFORD: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAccess Living of Metropolitan Chicago: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUSA CARES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAN JOSE CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMadison Square Boys & Girls Club: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA Better Chicago: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S MONEY MATTERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION FINALLY HOME: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUE STAR FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEVLoves LLC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

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.

Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Goldman Sachs Cha…The Bank of America C…The Blackbaud Giving …The US Charitable Gif…The Chicago Community…Charities Aid Foundat…Verizon FoundationAmerican Online Givin…Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…
Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY14.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The US Charitable Gift Trust · The Chicago Community Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Verizon Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Cushman & Wakefield Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cushman & Wakefield Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • The Boys and Girls Clubs of Hartford: 20% of income from government
  • Family Promise Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Women's Money Matters Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Saint Peter's University: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
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How do I get to Cushman & Wakefield Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Cushman & Wakefield Charitable 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 57 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 2025, released 2025. 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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