How much did FAITH IN PLACE grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of FAITH IN PLACE’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2020

food crisiscrisis relief

2021

subgrant paypay solarpanel installationinstallation worshipclimate solutionssolar panel

2022

innovation sustainablesustainable transformationtransformation foodenhancing resilienceresilience innovationfood systemthriving

2023

clean heatnature-climate solutionsheat subawardsolutions subgrantsolar panel

2024

clean heatsolar panel

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k3 grants · $24k
$10k–50k4 grants · $66k
$50k–250k3 grants · $217k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.6M

Total assets

Largest grants

STONE TEMPLE MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH$97,200
FAITH IN PLACE ACTION FUND$60,000
CUB CONSUMER EDUCATION & RESEARCH FUND$60,000
SOUTHEAST ENIVORMENTAL TASK FORCE$20,000
CERES INC$20,000
A JUST HARVEST$16,112
SINAI TEMPLE$10,000
URBANA-CHAMPAIGN FRIENDS MEETING$8,500
ST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$8,000
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF SPRINGFIELD$7,000

02The need

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 (FY22–22, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$831k · 10 repeat orgs$540k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +417% since the first grant, against +151% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$831k

$494k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+417%

+151%

Still filing today

50%

19%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentFood & NutritionCivil RightsHealthHuman ServicesInternationalOther

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

FI
FAITH IN PLACE ACTION FUND
7× · 2017–2024 · $410k · revenue +503% · 100% of their budget
CC
CUB CONSUMER EDUCATION & RESEARCH FUND
2× · 2023–2024 · $110k · revenue +78%
SE
SOUTHEAST ENIVORMENTAL TASK FORCE
2× · 2023–2024 · $60k · revenue +3227%

Funded once

PF
PEOPLE FOR COMMUNITY RECOVERY
one grant, 2023 · $65k · revenue +20%
CV
CHICAGO VOTES EDUCATION FUNDgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +746%
SC
SIERRA CLUB ILLINOIS CHAPTERgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +660%

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.

Chicago's Environmental Fund

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Green Chicago Restaurant Coalition

Green Chicago Restaurant Coalition's Guaranteed Green Sustainability Education Program educates foodservice operators about assessing the present state of their operation's environmental sustainability and helps them to develop a plan to…

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Plant Chicago Nfp

Plant Chicago's mission is to cultivate local circular economies.

Food & Nutrition

Chicago Fair Trade

Chicago Fair Trade cultivates a community dedicated to an economy that values the labor & dignity of all people. CFT is the largest grassroots fair trade coalition in the United States. We increase support for economic and environmental…

Education

Chicago United for Equity

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

Civil Rights

Just Food Initiative of the Fox Valley

Food & Nutrition

Citizen Action Illinois

CA/I organizes, advocates and builds coalitions to win support for progressive policies that improve the lives of all Illinoisans.

Civil Rights

Just Roots

Just roots chicago was incorporated as an illinois not-for-profit corporation and is located in chicago, illinois. the organization's mission is to work in collaboration with communities to develop and expand access to local, sustainably…

Food & Nutrition

Chicago Food Policy Action Council

The Organization facilitates and informs the development of and advocacy for responsible policies improving the food sovereignty of Chicago residents as they have power and control to determine culturally appropriate, nutritionally sound…

Food & Nutrition

Little Village Environmental Justice Org

To accomplish environmental justice and achieve self-determination in working-class families.

Recreation & Sports

Us Green Building Council-Illinois

To advance buildings and communities that are sustainable, prosperous and health through education, advocacy and collaboration

Environment

Illinois Coalition for Jobs Growth and Prosperity

To promote job growth and communicate important issues to the public through information campaigns.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cub Consumer Education and Research Fund and the most unlike its peers is Ceres 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 38 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/61

the rest of the field

12%

5,422/44,124

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

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

15/16

Grantees still filing

15/16

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$622,176Environment$615,000Health$53,112Civil Rights$30,000Food & Nutrition$24,000Religion$12,925Human Services$7,000International$7,000

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.

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.

Builders Initiative FoundationIL17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Builders Initiative Foundation · Forefront · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Movement Strategy Center · The Joyce Foundation · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · Greater Chicago Food Depository · John D and Catherine T Macarthur · United States Energy Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Indianapolis Center for Congregations Inc · The Minneapolis 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 organisation FAITH IN PLACE 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FAITH IN PLACE ACTION FUND.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~13 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 6.0× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 364837466 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on FAITH IN PLACE ACTION FUND, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 13 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Faith in Place?

Find your warmest path to Faith in Place through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

FAITH IN PLACE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Faith in Place?

More from the funding graph

FAITH IN PLACE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Faith in Place?

More from the funding graph