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Faith in Place

FAITH IN PLACE's mission is cultivating a powerful multifaith movement working for environmental justice through connection, education, and advocacy.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
47
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$832kFood & Nutrition$411kReligion$98kCivil Rights$30k
02FY2025 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 47 grants below total $1,059,151, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,102,051 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $42,900 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $74k
  • $10k–50k35 grants · $925k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$26,175
Median grant
4
States reached
$5.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAITH IN PLACE ACTION FUND$60,000
CUB CONSUMER EDUCATION & RESEARCH FUND$40,000
A JUST HARVEST$36,000
SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION$36,000
ENGLEWOOD CHRISTIAN CHURCH$29,999
GROUNDWORK INDY$29,999
GREATER WABASH FOOD COUNCIL$29,998
LANDMARK COLUMBUS FOUNDATION$29,998
ANABAPTIST MENNONITE BIBLICAL SEMINARY$29,996
JACKSONVILLE PARK FOUNDATION$29,986
WOOD STREET COLLECTIVE$29,948
ELS NO LIMIT NFP$29,920
VERNON PARK CHURCH OF GOD$29,816
SHEATHED INC$29,722
RENEW CHRISTIAN CHURCH$29,635
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 (FY22–25, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%METCALF PARK COMMUNITY BRIDGES INC: $22k → 17%ARTHUR LOCKHART RESOURCE INSTITUTE: $7k → 14%NEW ECLIPSE COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $7k → 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.
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.

42%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 11 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 41 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
50

Total granted

$1.0M
$531k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+7%

Still filing today

45%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $867k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentCommunity ImprovementReligionFood & NutritionHuman ServicesEducationOther
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

  • FI
    FAITH IN PLACE ACTION FUND
    8× · 2017–2025 · $470k · revenue +56% · 100% of their budget
  • CC
    CUB CONSUMER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FUND
    3× · 2023–2025 · $150k · revenue +116%
  • AJ
    A JUST HARVEST
    4× · 2022–2025 · $89k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • SC
    SIERRA CLUB
    one grant, 2023 · $65k · revenue -52%
  • CV
    Chicago Votesgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +48%
  • PF
    PEOPLE FOR COMMUNITY RECOVERY
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +7%
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
Chicago's Environmental Fund
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2
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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3
Chicago United for Equity

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

Civil Rights
4
Plant Chicago Nfp

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.

Food & Nutrition
5
Chicago Gateway Green Committee

To beautify chicagoland's expressway system, its gateways andneighborhoods surrounding the expressways.

Environment
6
Chicago's Green City Market Program

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.

Food & Nutrition
7
Illinois Coalition for Jobs Growth and Prosperity

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

Community Improvement
8
Little Village Environmental Justice Org

In addition, the organization provided fiscal agency services to the Chicago Frontlines Funding Initiative and Chicago Asian Americans for Environmental Justice.

Recreation & Sports
9
Just Food Initiative of the Fox Valley
Food & Nutrition
10
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
11
True Chicago
Arts & Culture
12
Chicago Parks Foundation

The Chicago Parks Foundation is a separate 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization that also serves as the strategic partner for the coordination of fundraising and charitable resources for the Chicago Park District.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Side Community Development Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Ginnfarms Corp. 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

38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 102 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)
36/38
Grantees still filing
22/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STONE TEMPLE MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH: $109,200 · OtherSTONE TEMPLE MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCHSIERRA CLUB: $65,000 · OtherSIERRA CLUBVERNON PARK CHURCH OF GOD: $60,666 · Other+75 more: $963,153 · Other+75 moreFAITH IN PLACE ACTION FUND: $470,000 · EnvironmentFAITH IN PLACE ACTION FUNDCUB CONSUMER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FUND: $150,000 · EnvironmentCUB CONSUMER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FUNDSOUTHEAST ENVIRONMENTAL TASK FORCE: $60,000 · EnvironmentSOUTHEAST ENVIRONMENTAL TASK FORCESIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $36,000 · EnvironmentGINNFARMS CORPORATION: $29,998 · EnvironmentWood St Collective: $29,948 · EnvironmentHEARTWOOD INCORPORATED: $29,579 · Environment+3 more: $60,000 · Environment+3 moreGroundwork Indy Inc: $29,999 · Community ImprovementNORTHWEST SIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $28,848 · Community ImprovementFuller Park Community Development Corp: $24,915 · Community ImprovementECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF SHELBY COUNTY IL: $18,423 · Community ImprovementA JUST HARVEST: $89,112 · HealthRENEW CHRISTIAN CHURCH INC: $29,635 · ReligionGreater St John Bible Church: $12,925 · ReligionUNITED CONGREGATIONS OF METRO EAST: $12,700 · ReligionCenter for Interfaith Cooperation Inc: $7,300 · ReligionLandmark Columbus Foundation Inc: $29,998 · EducationMR DAD FATHERS CLUB: $29,559 · EducationJUST ROOTS JUST ROOTS CHICAGO: $29,406 · Food & NutritionSOLA GRATIA FARM: $14,000 · Food & NutritionHUNGRY WORLD FARM: $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,198,019Environment$865,525Community Improvement$102,185Health$89,112Religion$62,560Education$59,557Food & Nutrition$53,406

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFAITH IN PLACE ACTION FUND: $470,000 over 8y, 100% of budgetCUB CONSUMER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FUND: $150,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetA JUST HARVEST: $89,112 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetSIERRA CLUB: $65,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHEAST ENVIRONMENTAL TASK FORCE: $60,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $36,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChicago Votes: $30,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetLandmark Columbus Foundation Inc: $29,998 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetJACKSONVILLE PARK FOUNDATION: $29,986 over 1y, 26% of budgetHEARTWOOD INCORPORATED: $29,579 over 1y, 21% of budgetPEOPLE FOR COMMUNITY RECOVERY: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetURBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCASA ESPERANZA PROJECT: $22,488 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetMETCALFE PARK COMMUNITY BRIDGES INC: $22,162 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCERES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF SHELBY COUNTY IL: $18,423 over 1y, 22% of budgetILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL EDUCATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOLA GRATIA FARM: $14,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetGreater St John Bible Church: $12,925 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetHUNGRY WORLD FARM: $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS: $7,200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIMMIGRANT SOLIDARITY DUPAGE: $7,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNEW ECLIPSE COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $7,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRECIOUS BLOOD MINISTRY OF RECONCILIATION NFP: $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetARTHUR LOCKHART RESOURCE INSTITUTE: $6,800 over 1y, 2.7% 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.

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.

ForefrontBuilders Vision Found…United Way of Metropo…United States Energy …Community Foundation …The Chicago Community…Movement Strategy Cen…The Joyce FoundationGaylord and Dorothy D…John D and Catherine …Greater Chicago Food …Indianapolis Center f…
ForefrontIL17.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Faith in Place funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Faith in Place. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Ceres Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 Faith in Place?

Find your warmest path to Faith in Place 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 102 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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