· Public charity
Faith in Place
FAITH IN PLACE is a multifaith, environmental nonprofit (501c3) organization.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $306,812 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $333,314 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $26,502 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $66k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $217k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STONE TEMPLE MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH | $97,200 |
| CUB CONSUMER EDUCATION & RESEARCH FUND | $60,000 |
| FAITH IN PLACE ACTION 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 |
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 (FY22–22, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +116% since the first grant, against +11% 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k 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
- FIFAITH IN PLACE ACTION FUND7× · 2017–2024 · $410k · revenue +503% · 100% of their budget
- CCCUB CONSUMER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FUND2× · 2023–2024 · $110k · revenue +116%
- SESOUTHEAST ENVIRONMENTAL TASK FORCE2× · 2023–2024 · $60k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- SCSIERRA CLUBone grant, 2023 · $65k · revenue -52%
- CVChicago Votesgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +48%
- PFPEOPLE FOR COMMUNITY RECOVERYone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +7%
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.
Plant Chicago's mission is to cultivate local circular economies. We envision a paradigm shift in production, consumption, and waste driven at the local level, generating equity and economic opportunity for all residents.
Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.
The Chicago Refugee Coalition is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated ot the alleviation of human suffering through innovative partnerships, advocacy and community empowerment.
In addition, the organization provided fiscal agency services to the Chicago Frontlines Funding Initiative and Chicago Asian Americans for Environmental Justice.
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…
Latino Union works to defend the rights and dignity of contingent workers, including the right to immigrate, work, live free of oppression and violence, and provide for oneself and one's family.
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…
Public education on current public policy issues
Serving recently arrived migrants and asylum seekers in the Chicagoland area and is committed to upholding the dignity and human rights of immigrants.
Green city market is securing the future of food by deepening support for sustainable farmers, educating our community, and expanding access to locally-grown food.
To educate and advocate for a pro-climate agenda that prioritizes policies in support of current and future illinois workers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Illinois Environmental Council Education and the most unlike its peers is Sierra Club. 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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
16 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. 16 of the 61 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 FAITH IN PLACE ACTION FUND ↗
- Who funds CUB CONSUMER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FUND ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST ENVIRONMENTAL TASK FORCE ↗
- Who funds A JUST HARVEST ↗
- Who funds Chicago Votes ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR COMMUNITY RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds CERES INC ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds SOLA GRATIA FARM ↗
- Who funds Greater St John Bible Church ↗
- Who funds HUNGRY WORLD FARM ↗
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: Forefront · Builders Vision Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · United States Energy Foundation · Community Foundation of East Central Illinois · The Chicago Community Trust · Movement Strategy Center · The Joyce Foundation · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Greater Chicago Food Depository · Indianapolis Center for Congregations Inc
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 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.
- Ceres Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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