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Cy Miller Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE GROWING PLACE | $6,500 |
| CHILDRENS LEARNING CENTER | $6,500 |
| ADVENTURE WORKS Of DEKALB | $5,000 |
| KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA | $5,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $3,500 |
| ELLWOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION | $3,100 |
| TAILS HUMANE SOCIETY | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $86k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TGTHE GROWING PLACE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +26%
- CLCHILDRENS LEARNING CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $51k · revenue +6%
- KFKISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA9× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +0%
Funded once
- KSKISHHEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $1k
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.
Providing Social Services to Families including Child Care
At dcel, we believe in the uniqueness of each child. our childcare experience promotes the social, physical, emotional and spiritual growth of each child in a safe and developmentally appropriate environment. children are given…
To help people with developmental disabilities meet life's challenges and reach their highest potential.
DEDC was created to assist in the development of programs & projects that address specific needs and contribute to improving East St. Louis.
The Co-Op Preschool provides early childhood educational programs in Lombard, IL. We serve local families with high-quality programming for children from 15 months to 5 years old. The Co-Op Preschool helps children build the skills they…
To provide a variety of programs in the chicago area to help children, parents, and adults achieve greater inner well-being, sustain closer relationships, and have more pleasurable family, school, and work lives.
Our mission is to build strong kids, strong families, and strong communities. The YMCA of the Chippewa Valley is a community centered association dedicated to building a healthy spirit, mind and body for all people, while maintaining an…
Our mission is to prepare the children of our community for the road ahead. We take a whole-child approach that blends personalized care plans with physical play, social development, and academic readiness.
Children's corner is a full day child care center that gives each child a warm environment that encourages the development of socialization skills, independence, and a positive self-image.
To help families and schools to develop healthy, well-rounded young people by providing enriching activities, leadership models, a place of pride and sense of commmunity.
Helping individuals and families with life's changing needs by providing programs and services which will improve their quality of life.
Empowering individuals to build stronger families and communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adventure Works of Dekalb County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kishwaukee Family Ymca. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 13 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 THE GROWING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds THREE FIRES COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #127 ↗
- Who funds ELLWOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ADVENTURE WORKS OF DEKALB COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds TAILS HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF DEKALB COUNTY 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: Dekalb County Community Foundation · Ideal Industries Foundation · Kishwaukee United Way · Horizons Unlimited Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Charities Aid Foundation America · Amazonsmile 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 Cy Miller 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.