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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $34k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +27% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA3× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue +8%
- AAAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS2× · 2019–2021 · $20k · revenue +27%
BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC2× · 2019–2021 · $19k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICAone grant, 2021 · $50k
- SPSAINT PETER'S UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -5%
- AHAlmost Home Kidsone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +10%
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.
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…
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…
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
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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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
We protect consumers of behavior analysis services by systematically establishing, promoting, and disseminating professional standards.
Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.
Empower people with special needs to achieve their full potential through innovative, inclusive programs and community partnerships.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 57 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds SAINT PETER'S UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Almost Home Kids ↗
- Who funds AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Creative Arts Workshops for Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds TRUE COLORS UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY'S UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER WASHINGTON AND AFFILIATE ↗
- Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds T200 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds Downtown Streets Inc ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE DRU PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PATROL BASE ABBATE ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds Branch Interfaith Hospitality Network ↗
- Who funds THE MISSION CONTINUES ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARTFORD ↗
- Who funds Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago ↗
- Who funds USA CARES INC ↗
- Who funds SAN JOSE CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE INC ↗
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: 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
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 Cushman & Wakefield Charitable 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- 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
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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