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Ea Foundation

TO ARRANGE THE PROVISIONS FOR MEDICAL AND OTHER CARE-GIVING SERVICES TO THE FRAIL ELDERLY WHO, WITHOUT THE PROVISION OF SUCH SERVICES WOLD BE ELIGIBLE FOR ADMISSION TO SKILLED CARE NURSING FACILITIES.

$580k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$85k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.

Health$1.2MHuman Services$1.1MHousing & Shelter$534kYouth Development$245kCrime & Legal$28k
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $200k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $380k
$35,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ONE FAMILY ILLINOIS$85,000
CHILDREN'S RESEARCH TRIANGLE$80,000
IGNITE$75,000
LAWRENCE HALL$75,000
JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION$65,000
RINCON FAMILY SERVICES$40,000
HEPHZIBAH$35,000
FOSTER PROGRESS$25,000
OMNI YOUTH SERVICES$25,000
TURNING POINT$20,000
ONE HOPE UNITED$20,000
LYTE COLLECTIVE$15,000
ERIKA'S LIGHTHOUSE$10,000
CHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OMNI YOUTH SERVICES: $25k → 8%JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $100k → 14%OMNI YOUTH SERVICES: $25k → 8%JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $65k → 14%OMNI YOUTH SERVICES: $10k → 8%FOSTER PROGRESS: $25k → 14%FOSTER PROGRESS: $20k → 14%YOUTH OUTREACH SERVICES: $20k → 14%FOSTER PROGRESS: $10k → 14%NIGHT MINISTRY: $75k → 14%FAMILY RESCUE: $70k → 14%JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $125k → 14%LYTE COLLECTIVE: $15k → 14%JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $75k → 14%LYTE COLLECTIVE: $10k → 14%LYTE COLLECTIVE: $10k → 14%TURNING POINT: $25k → 14%TURNING POINT: $20k → 14%MUJERES LATINAS: $10k → 14%TURNING POINT: $15k → 14%ONE FAMILY ILLINOIS: $85k → 14%SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES ILLINOIS: $75k → 14%SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES ILLINOIS: $70k → 14%LET IT BE US: $25k → 14%IGNITE: $120k → 14%IGNITE: $100k → 14%IGNITE: $80k → 14%IGNITE: $75k → 14%IGNITE: $75k → 14%UCAN: $75k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 18% of Ea Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in IL; read by stated purpose it is 82% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Ea Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.5M · 15 repeat orgs$581k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
14

Total granted

$2.5M
$561k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+35%

Still filing today

87%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterEducationOther

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

  • I
    IGNITE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $450k · revenue +55%
  • JP
    JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $365k · revenue +16%
  • CR
    CHILDREN'S RESEARCH TRIANGLE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $360k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • PC
    PRIMO CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDRENgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $84k · revenue +59%
  • THE NIGHT MINISTRY
    one grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue -6%
  • UP
    UNITY PARENTING & COUNSELING INC
    one grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue +12%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Child Link Inc

Child Link provides foster care, family counseling, and therapy services to Chicago area adolescents who are at risk of homelessness. Child Link also refers adolescents to other agencies that are able to provide additional resources and…

Human Services
2
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
3
Children's Home & Aid Society of Ill

Founded in 1883, brightpoint (formerly known as children's home & aid) is a leading statewide organization supporting families so children can thrive.

Human Services
4
Christian Social Services of Illinois

Caritas family solutions strengthens the social and emotional well-being of individuals and families in order to create healthy relationships, loving homes and strong communities.

Human Services
5
Center for Family Services

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…

Human Services
6
Youth Service Bureau of Illinois Valley

The mission of youth service bureau of illinois valley (ysb) is to help young people and families succeed by serving them in their home, school and community. ysb provides foster care, counseling and crisis intervention services to clients…

Human Services
7
Illinois Institute for Children

Providing Social Services to Families including Child Care

Human Services
8
Childrens Advocacy Center of East Central Illinois

To assist children who have been victims of abuse

Crime & Legal
9
Thrive Counseling Center

Our mission is to provide community-centered mental health services that empower individuals and families to build resilience and lead lives filled with meaning, connection, and hope.

Health
10
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Cook County

CASA of Cook County's vision is to protect abused and neglected children by providing them in court, a safe and permanent home, and an opportunity to grow, learn and thrive.

Crime & Legal
11
Lake County Crisis Center

A safe place is the leading advocate for eliminating domestic violence & human trafficking in northern illinois.

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12
Family Counseling Services of No Il

To foster stronger communities by providing individuals with accessible, professional counseling and mental health care that empowers them to thrive

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Rescue Inc and the most unlike its peers is Elyssas Mission Nfp. 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 44 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr18%19%10–20yr17%12%20–35yr15%50%35–55yr16%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr18%5%10–20yr17%14%20–35yr15%53%35–55yr16%28%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%1/27
the rest of the field
16%
4,999/31,483

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.

05the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 30 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
22/27
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

IGNITE — $450,000 · Human ServicesIGNITEJUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION — $365,000 · Human ServicesJUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATIONONE FAMILY ILLINOIS — $230,000 · Human ServicesONE FAMILY ILLINOISTHE NIGHT MINISTRY — $75,000 · Human ServicesUCAN — $75,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY RESCUE INC — $70,000 · Human ServicesOMNI YOUTH SERVICES INCORPORATED — $60,000 · Human ServicesTurning Point Inc — $60,000 · Human ServicesFoster Progress — $55,000 · Human Services+4 more — $90,000 · Human Services+4 moreCHILDREN'S RESEARCH TRIANGLE — $360,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S RESEARCH TRIANGLELawrence Hall — $275,000 · OtherLawrence HallSOS CHILDRENS VILLAGES — $125,000 · OtherSOS CHILDRENS VILLAGESKALEIDOSCOPE INC — $105,000 · OtherKALEIDOSCOPE INCUNITY PARENTING & COUNSELING INC — $75,000 · OtherUNITY PARENTING & COUNSELING INCKids Above All Illinois — $75,000 · OtherKids Above All IllinoisHEPHZIBAH — $60,000 · OtherHEPHZIBAH+4 more — $49,500 · OtherRINCON FAMILY SERVICES — $315,000 · HealthRINCON FAMIL…Erikas Lighthouse A Beacon of Hope for Adolescent Depression — $20,000 · HealthErikas Light…PRIMO CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN — $84,000 · EducationCHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER — $17,500 · Crime & LegalElyssas Mission NFP — $10,000 · Crime & LegalSHELTER INC — $12,000 · Housing & Shelter
Human Services$1,530,000Other$1,124,500Health$335,000Education$84,000Crime & Legal$27,500Housing & Shelter$12,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetIGNITE — $450,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetJUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION — $365,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S RESEARCH TRIANGLE — $360,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetRINCON FAMILY SERVICES — $315,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetLawrence Hall — $275,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetONE FAMILY ILLINOIS — $230,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetKALEIDOSCOPE INC — $105,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPRIMO CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN — $84,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE NIGHT MINISTRY — $75,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNITY PARENTING & COUNSELING INC — $75,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetKids Above All Illinois — $75,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUCAN — $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY RESCUE INC — $70,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetOMNI YOUTH SERVICES INCORPORATED — $60,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTurning Point Inc — $60,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFoster Progress — $55,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetTHE LYTE COLLECTIVE — $35,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetLET IT BE US — $25,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetErikas Lighthouse A Beacon of Hope for Adolescent Depression — $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetYOUTH OUTREACH SERVICES INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER — $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHELTER INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAccess Living of Metropolitan Chicago — $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE THRESHOLDS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetElyssas Mission NFP — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNAMI COOK COUNTY NORTH SUBURBAN — $7,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budget
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.

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.

Robert R McCormick Fo…United Way of Metropo…The Chicago Community…AbbVie FoundationGeorge M Eisenberg Fo…Polk Bros Foundation …Blowitz-Ridgeway Foun…Arie and Ida Crown Me…Visiting Nurse Associ…WP & HB White Foundat…Cuore e Mani Foundati…All Chicago Making Ho…
Robert R McCormick FoundationIL34.2× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Robert R McCormick Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · AbbVie Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundation · WP & HB White Foundation · Cuore e Mani Foundation · All Chicago Making Homelessness History

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 Ea 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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