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Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Xxxxx1008

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
50
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2020–2024.

Arts & Culture$4.7MPhilanthropy$1.2MHealth$1.0MEducation$885kYouth Development$664kCommunity Improvement$643kCrime & Legal$550kHuman Services$365kOther$0
02FY2024 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k32 grants · $708k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$30,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$44M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHICAGO OPERA THEATER$250,000
P33$150,000
ILLINOIS JUSTICE PROJECT$100,000
CHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC$100,000
CHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE$100,000
PUERTO RICAN ARTS ALLIANCE$100,000
READERS INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY JOURNALI$98,000
COALITION TO SAVE OUR MENTAL HEALTH$83,333
NAVY PIER$83,333
JOFFREY BALLET OF CHICAGO$75,000
THE HONEYCOMB PROJECT$50,000
OLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC$50,000
SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO$50,000
CHILDREN'S RESEARCH TRIANGLE$50,000
CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE$50,000
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 (FY20–24, $720k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 14%ENVISION UNLIMITED: $20k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS: $10k → 14%CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE: $50k → 14%CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE: $50k → 14%OPTIONS FOR YOUTH: $123k → 14%THE HONEYCOMB PROJECT: $50k → 14%GADS HILL CENTER: $50k → 14%OPTIONS FOR YOUTH: $55k → 14%THE HONEYCOMB PROJECT: $50k → 14%CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE: $50k → 14%GADS HILL CENTER: $25k → 14%OPTIONS FOR YOUTH: $48k → 14%THE HONEYCOMB PROJECT: $15k → 14%THE HONEYCOMB PROJECT: $15k → 14%BRIGHTPOINT: $20k → 14%CHILDREN'S ADVOCATES FOR CHANGE: $15k → 14%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $25k → 14%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $20k → 14%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $10k → 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.

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.1M · 60 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

60 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
56

Total granted

$8.1M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+27%

Still filing today

83%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $429k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • CT
    CHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $350k · revenue +122%
  • UV
    UNITING VOICES
    2× · 2022–2023 · $300k · revenue +12%
  • CA
    Chicago Architecture Foundation
    4× · 2020–2023 · $293k · revenue +163%

Funded once

  • NM
    NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $245k
  • CC
    CHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $150k
  • CR
    CHICAGO READER UNDER FISCAL SPONSOR
    one grant, 2022 · $98k

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
A Better Chicago

A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.

Human Services
2
Chicago United

To achieve parity in economic opportunity for people of color by advancing multiracial leadership in corporate governance, expanding the talent pipline for executive-level management, and growing minority businesses.

Philanthropy
3
Thrive Chicago Nfp

Thrive chicago's mission is to prepare chicago's youth for a vibrant future by aligning efforts and outcomes from cradle to career.

Human Services
4
The Chicago High School for the Arts

The chicago high school for the arts (chiarts) develops the next generation of diverse, artistically promising scholar-artists through intensive pre-professional training in the arts, combined with a comprehensive college preparatory…

Education
5
Chicago United for Equity

Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.

Civil Rights
6
Chicago Humanities Festival

To promote public appreciation, understanding and support of the humanities through festivals and educational programs.

Arts & Culture
7
Junior Achievement of Chicago

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

International
8
The Chicago Bar Foundation

The chicago bar foundation brings the legal community together through advocacy, funding, and innovation to improve access to justice for people in need and to make the legal system more fair, equitable, and effective.

Education
9
True Chicago
Arts & Culture
10
Chicago Media Project

To impact society through the powerful tools of media and film. we are a resource for uniting individuals interested in media and developing a core group of informed citizens.

Public Benefit
11
Chicago Votes

Chicago Votes is a non-partisan, non-profit organization building a more inclusive democracy by putting power in the hands of young Chicagoans. We're engaging and developing a new generation of leaders by opening the doors of government,…

Civil Rights
12
Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce

The chicagoland chamber of commerce combines the power of people, with our legacy of leadership and business advocacy, to drive a dynamic economy. we focus on delivering value for our members, making chicagoland a world-class place to live…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids First Chicago for Education and the most unlike its peers is Chicago Cred Inc. 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 33 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%1%<5yr14%8%5–10yr18%20%10–20yr17%26%20–35yr15%26%35–55yr16%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%5%<5yr14%6%5–10yr18%13%10–20yr17%21%20–35yr15%33%35–55yr16%23%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%1/107
the rest of the field
16%
4,999/31,403

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.

04the grantee network

105 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. 105 of the 133 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
103/105
Grantees still filing
72/105
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

P33 — $600,000 · OtherP33CHICAGO HISTORY MUSEUM — $441,667 · OtherCHICAGO HISTORY MUSEUMILLINOIS JUSTICE PROJECT — $415,000 · OtherILLINOIS JUSTICE PROJECTCHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN — $300,000 · OtherCHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMENCOALITION TO SAVE OUR MENTAL HEALTH — $249,999 · OtherNORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $245,000 · OtherTHE CIVIC FEDERATION — $200,000 · OtherJOFFREY BALLET OF CHICAGO — $175,000 · OtherTFK Chicago Voyagers — $188,750 · Other+61 more — $2,323,129 · Other+61 moreCHICAGO OPERA THEATER — $750,000 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO OPERA THEATERCHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC — $350,000 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INCUNITING VOICES — $300,000 · Arts & CultureUNITING VOICESChicago Architecture Foundation — $293,358 · Arts & CultureChicago Architecture FoundationSkyArt NFP — $175,000 · Arts & CultureOLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC — $175,000 · Arts & CultureILLINOIS RAILWAY MUSEUM INC — $170,400 · Arts & CulturePUERTO RICAN ARTS ALLIANCE — $170,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC PULLMAN FOUNDATION DBA FRIENDS OF PULLMAN — $145,000 · Arts & CultureGRANT PARK ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION — $125,000 · Arts & CultureLyric Opera of Chicago — $118,975 · Arts & Culture+12 more — $715,333 · Arts & Culture+12 moreOPTIONS FOR YOUTH — $225,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED — $150,000 · Human ServicesTHE HONEYCOMB PROJECT INC NFP — $130,000 · Human ServicesGADS HILL CENTER — $75,000 · Human ServicesCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC — $25,000 · Human Services+7 more — $115,000 · Human ServicesCHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE INC — $250,000 · Community ImprovementCHICAGO NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVES INC — $200,000 · Community ImprovementALLIES FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESS INC — $105,000 · Community ImprovementWORLD BUSINESS CHICAGO — $50,000 · Community Improvement+3 more — $42,500 · Community ImprovementThe Chicago Community Trust — $400,000 · PhilanthropyChicago Run — $70,000 · PhilanthropyFOREFRONT — $55,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC — $50,000 · PhilanthropyDOMINICAN UNIVERSITY — $125,000 · EducationLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO — $75,000 · EducationLuster Learning Institute NFP — $50,000 · EducationKIDS FIRST CHICAGO FOR EDUCATION — $50,000 · EducationTHE NEWBERRY LIBRARY — $30,000 · EducationCIVIC CONSULTING ALLIANCE — $25,000 · EducationHADLEY INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED — $20,000 · EducationREWORK TRAINING — $15,000 · Education+1 more — $10,000 · EducationOLD IRVING PARK COMMUNITY CLINIC — $83,000 · HealthRECOVERY ON WATER INC — $61,800 · HealthCANINE THERAPY CORPS INC — $50,000 · HealthBRAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $40,000 · HealthChildrens Oncology Services Inc — $25,000 · HealthAIDS Foundation of Chicago — $25,000 · HealthJULIE AND MICHAEL TRACY FAMILY FOUNDATION — $20,000 · HealthPCC COMMUNITY WELLNESS CENTER — $19,000 · Health
Other$5,138,545Arts & Culture$3,488,066Human Services$720,000Community Improvement$647,500Philanthropy$575,000Education$400,000Health$323,800

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 budgetCHICAGO OPERA THEATER — $750,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetThe Chicago Community Trust — $400,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC — $350,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN — $300,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetUNITING VOICES — $300,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetChicago Architecture Foundation — $293,358 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetCHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE INC — $250,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetOPTIONS FOR YOUTH — $225,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetCHICAGO NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVES INC — $200,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetTHE CIVIC FEDERATION — $200,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetTFK Chicago Voyagers — $188,750 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetSkyArt NFP — $175,000 over 3y, 9.0% of budgetOLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC — $175,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetILLINOIS RAILWAY MUSEUM INC — $170,400 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetPUERTO RICAN ARTS ALLIANCE — $170,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetTHE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED — $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHISTORIC PULLMAN FOUNDATION DBA FRIENDS OF PULLMAN — $145,000 over 3y, 84% of budgetTHE HONEYCOMB PROJECT INC NFP — $130,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetGRANT PARK ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION — $125,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetDOMINICAN UNIVERSITY — $125,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLyric Opera of Chicago — $118,975 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBEVERLY THEATER GUILD — $109,000 over 3y, 46% of budgetALLIES FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESS INC — $105,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S RESEARCH TRIANGLE — $100,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetREADER INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY JOURNALISM INC — $98,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetChicago Cred Inc — $90,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLUMINARTS CULTURAL FOUNDATION THE UNION LEAGUE CLUB OF CHICAGO — $88,530 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetCHICAGO PSYCHOANALYTIC INSTITUTE — $85,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetNAVY PIER INC — $83,333 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOLD IRVING PARK COMMUNITY CLINIC — $83,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetGilloury Institute — $75,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM — $75,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO — $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGADS HILL CENTER — $75,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCPS LIVES NFP — $70,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetChicago Run — $70,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetCOMMON THREADS — $65,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCHICAGO YOUTH PROGRAMS INC — $65,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetRECOVERY ON WATER INC — $61,800 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetFOREFRONT — $55,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD BUSINESS CHICAGO — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLuster Learning Institute NFP — $50,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetThe National Public Housing Museum — $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCenter for Disability & Elder Law Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEER CULTURE CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetPEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLEGAL AID CHICAGO — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

Polk Bros Foundation …The Chicago Community…John D and Catherine …Lloyd a Fry FoundationRobert R McCormick Fo…Arie and Ida Crown Me…Circle of Service Fou…United Way of Metropo…Fifth Third Chicagola…Dr Scholl FoundationField Foundation of I…The Robert Thomas Bob…
Polk Bros Foundation IncIL61.8× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Circle of Service Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · The Robert Thomas Bobins 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 Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Xxxxx1008 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%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
42report 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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Xxxxx1008?

Find your warmest path to Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Xxxxx1008 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 133 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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