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Executive Construction Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$397k
Granted FY2024still arriving
78
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$557kEducation$207kHuman Services$205kPhilanthropy$123kFood & Nutrition$112kYouth Development$90kCommunity Improvement$66kArts & Culture$56kOther$0
02FY2024 · 78 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k63 grants · $189k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $208k
$3,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GATEWAY FOUNDATION$25,000
THE REAUMOND FOUNDATION$23,440
ELIM CHRISTIAN SERVICES$20,000
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY$15,236
HUMBLE DESIGN$15,000
TIMOTHY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS$15,000
AUTISM SPEAKS$12,600
NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK$11,500
THE ANDREW WEISHAR FOUNDATION$10,400
LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$10,000
PUI TAK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$10,000
CHICAGO CHAPTER OF PROFESSIONAL WOMEN IN CONSTRUCTION$10,000
NOTEBAERT NATURE MUSEUM$10,000
HAROLD E EISENBERG FOUNDATION$10,000
CARE FOR REAL$10,000
02The need
03

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 (FY19–24, $166k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION: $2k → 8%HOSPICE OF THE CALUMET AREA: $1k → 15%WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION: $250 → 8%MIDWEST SHELTER FOR HOMELESS VETERANS: $3k → 7%MIMI'S HOUSE FAMILY ADOVCACY CENTER: $3k → 8%PARTNERS FOR PROGRESS NFP: $1k → 8%ALMOST HOME KIDS: $5k → 7%ALMOST HOME KIDS: $5k → 7%SPRINGBOARD TO SUCCESS: $3k → 14%ALMOST HOME KIDS: $2k → 7%SPRINGBOARD TO SUCCESS: $1k → 14%ALMOST HOME KIDS: $2k → 7%ALMOST HOME KIDS: $1k → 7%SPRINGBOARD TO SUCCESS: $1k → 14%ALMOST HOME KIDS: $1k → 7%SPRINGBOARD TO SUCCESS: $1k → 14%OPEN HEART MAGIC: $10k → 14%OPEN HEART MAGIC: $5k → 14%OPEN HEART MAGIC: $5k → 14%ENVISION UNLIMITED: $2k → 14%OPEN HEART MAGIC: $500 → 14%ASPIRE: $3k → 14%ASPIRE: $3k → 14%OUTREACH: $3k → 14%CARE FOR REAL: $10k → 14%MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%CHICAGO WHITE SOX CHARITIES: $15k → 14%CHICAGO WHITE SOX CHARITIES: $15k → 14%CHRISTOPHER HOUSE: $1k → 14%HELPING HAND CENTER: $3k → 14%HELPING HAND CENTER: $3k → 14%HELPING HAND CENTER: $3k → 14%HELPING HAND CENTER: $2k → 14%HELPING HAND CENTER: $2k → 14%HELPING HAND CENTER: $800 → 14%SHARE OUR SPARE: $15k → 14%SHARE OUR SPARE: $6k → 14%SHARE OUR SPARE: $5k → 14%SHARE OUR SPARE: $5k → 14%SHARE OUR SPARE: $5k → 14%SHARE OUR SPARE: $5k → 14%THE WELL RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 14%THE WELL RESOURCE CENTER: $3k → 14%THE WELL RESOURCE CENTER: $1k → 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

MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
TN
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 83 repeat orgs$285k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

83 repeat relationships: 53 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

83
72

Total granted

$1.4M
$203k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+28%

Still filing today

59%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyEducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther
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

  • GF
    Gateway Foundation Inc
    6× · 2019–2024 · $82k · revenue +39%
  • GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $81k · revenue +78%
  • TC
    TIMOTHY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
    6× · 2019–2024 · $61k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • MO
    MORGAN'S ON FULTON LLC
    one grant, 2023 · $32k
  • C
    CBRE
    one grant, 2019 · $22k
  • EC
    EXECUTIVE CONSTRUCTION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $11k
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
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
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
3
Junior Achievement of Chicago

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

International
4
Pediatric Faculty Foundation Inc

We value excellence and innovation in clinical and basic research, coordinated and comprehensive patient care, ongoing physician education, and evidence-based child advocacy. our goal is to provide leadership in endeavors that promote the…

Health
5
Lurie Children's Surgical Foundation Inc

Provide pediatric and subspecialty surgical, research, and educational services.

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6
Kipp Chicago Schools

The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…

Education
7
Gastro Intestinal Research Foundation Inc

The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…

Health
8
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.

Education
9
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
10
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
11
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.

Social Science
12
Make-a-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc

Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helping Hand Center; the most unlike its peers is Delivering Hope Corporation. 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

100 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. 100 of the 180 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
97/100
Grantees still filing
63/100
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AUTISM SPEAKS: $105,600 · OtherAUTISM SPEAKSTIMOTHY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $61,000 · OtherTIMOTHY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLSLURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $55,000 · OtherLURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONEDWARD-ELMHUST HEALTH EDWARD FOUNDATION: $32,640 · OtherMORGAN'S ON FULTON LLC: $32,017 · OtherHUMBLE DESIGN: $31,000 · Other+110 more: $569,056 · Other+110 moreGateway Foundation Inc: $82,465 · HealthGateway Founda…American Heart Association Inc: $37,000 · HealthAmerican Heart…MOVEMBER FOUNDATION: $26,531 · HealthMOVEMBER FOUND…Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $16,350 · HealthRehabilitation…GILDA'S CLUB CHICAGO: $15,000 · HealthGILDA'S CLUB C…Ronald McDonald House Global: $14,985 · HealthRonald McDonal…+8 more: $22,053 · Health+8 moreROBERT A REAUMOND FOUNDATION: $66,240 · PhilanthropyROBERT A RE…THE JOHN BUCK COMPANY FOUNDATION: $38,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JOHN BU…DESIGNS FOR DIGNITY: $25,715 · PhilanthropyDESIGNS FOR…THE ANDREW WEISHAR FOUNDATION: $15,400 · PhilanthropyTHE ANDREW …HAROLD E EISENBERG FOUNDATION: $10,256 · PhilanthropyHAROLD E EI…F3 NAPERVILLE FOUNDATION: $6,940 · PhilanthropyBOX IT FOUNDATION: $6,619 · Philanthropy+4 more: $4,500 · PhilanthropyShare our Spare: $41,236 · Human ServicesShare our S…Chicago White Sox Charities Inc: $30,000 · Human ServicesChicago Whi…OPEN HEART MAGIC: $20,500 · Human ServicesOPEN HEART …Almost Home Kids: $15,150 · Human ServicesAlmost Home…HELPING HAND CENTER: $13,050 · Human ServicesHELPING HAN…CARE FOR REAL: $10,000 · Human ServicesCARE FOR RE…The Well Resource Center NFP: $8,500 · Human Services+11 more: $27,850 · Human Services+11 moreGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $80,800 · Food & NutritionNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $21,682 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $2,000 · Food & NutritionELIM CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $52,280 · EducationGoldie B Wolfe Miller Women Leaders in Real Estate Initiative: $10,150 · EducationPUI TAK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationTHE CHICAGO SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationMidtown-Metro Achievement Centers: $5,000 · Education+5 more: $8,000 · EducationTUTORING CHICAGO: $25,742 · Arts & CultureChicago Architecture Foundation: $9,500 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE CHICAGO RIVER: $6,065 · Arts & CultureTHE JOFFREY BALLET: $5,175 · Arts & CultureMarwen Foundation Inc: $2,591 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $2,159 · Arts & Culture
Other$886,313Health$214,384Philanthropy$173,670Human Services$166,286Food & Nutrition$104,482Education$90,430Arts & Culture$51,232

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 budgetGateway Foundation Inc: $82,465 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $80,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetROBERT A REAUMOND FOUNDATION: $66,240 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetTIMOTHY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $61,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetELIM CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $52,280 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetShare our Spare: $41,236 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE JOHN BUCK COMPANY FOUNDATION: $38,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $37,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChicago White Sox Charities Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBERNIE'S BOOK BANK: $27,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBy The Hand Club For Kids: $27,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMOVEMBER FOUNDATION: $26,531 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTUTORING CHICAGO: $25,742 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetDESIGNS FOR DIGNITY: $25,715 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $21,682 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN HEART MAGIC: $20,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF GREATER CHICAGO: $20,225 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $16,350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ANDREW WEISHAR FOUNDATION: $15,400 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLESTER AND ROSALIE ANIXTER CENTER: $15,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAlmost Home Kids: $15,150 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetONEGOAL: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB CHICAGO: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global: $14,985 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASSIONATE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN: $14,179 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHELPING HAND CENTER: $13,050 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHAROLD E EISENBERG FOUNDATION: $10,256 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetGoldie B Wolfe Miller Women Leaders in Real Estate Initiative: $10,150 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCHICAGO CHAPTER OF PROFESSIONAL WOMEN IN CONSTRUCTION: $10,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetPUI TAK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCARE FOR REAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChicago Architecture Foundation: $9,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Well Resource Center NFP: $8,500 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetGIRLS IN THE GAME NFP: $8,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS: $7,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetF3 NAPERVILLE FOUNDATION: $6,940 over 3y, 9.0% of budgetBOX IT FOUNDATION: $6,619 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHICAGO RIVER: $6,065 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNorthwestern University: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHope Family Services Inc: $5,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSPRINGBOARD TO SUCCESS INC: $5,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JOFFREY BALLET: $5,175 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASPIRE OF ILLINOIS: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHICAGO SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MARFAN FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMidtown-Metro Achievement Centers: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF CHICAGO FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

  • Who funds Gateway Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
  • Who funds ROBERT A REAUMOND FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TIMOTHY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds ELIM CHRISTIAN SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds Share our Spare ↗
  • Who funds THE JOHN BUCK COMPANY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds Chicago White Sox Charities Inc ↗
  • Who funds BERNIE'S BOOK BANK ↗
  • Who funds By The Hand Club For Kids ↗
  • Who funds MOVEMBER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TUTORING CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds DESIGNS FOR DIGNITY ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds OPEN HEART MAGIC ↗
  • Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF GREATER CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds THE ANDREW WEISHAR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LESTER AND ROSALIE ANIXTER CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Almost Home Kids ↗
  • Who funds ONEGOAL ↗
  • Who funds GILDA'S CLUB CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
  • Who funds COMPASSIONATE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds HELPING HAND CENTER ↗

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.

The Chicago Community…Polk Bros Foundation …Dr Scholl FoundationAbbVie FoundationUnited Way of Metropo…Cme Group Community F…Imc Chicago Charitabl…Circle of Service Fou…The Coleman Foundatio…John D and Catherine …The Dupage Community …Robert R McCormick Fo…
The Chicago Community TrustIL34.6× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Dr Scholl Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Cme Group Community Foundation F/K/A Nymex Foundation · Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · The Coleman Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Dupage Community Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation

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 Executive Construction Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Executive Construction Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 40%
  • Christopher Reeve Foundation: 49% of income from government
  • Hope Family Services Inc: 40% of income from government
  • Warrior Canine Connection Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 Executive Construction Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Executive Construction 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 180 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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