· Private foundation
Fdc Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k21 grants · $498k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TOGETHER WE COPE | $60,000 |
| IRVING PARK COMMUNITY PANTRY | $42,000 |
| MCCORMICK CENTER FOR EARLY CHILDHOO | $36,000 |
| HOME SWEET HOME MINISTRIES | $35,000 |
| INFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF EVANSTON | $35,000 |
| NEW MOMS | $35,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED MEDITATION ON | $32,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES | $30,000 |
| SIT STAY READ | $30,000 |
| OLD IRVING PARK COMMUNITY CENTER | $30,000 |
| AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOC | $30,000 |
| JOHN LOGAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDA | $29,000 |
| PEOPLES RESOURCE CENTER | $20,000 |
| NAVARRO FARMS | $18,000 |
| VOYCE | $18,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $945k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
29 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- TWTOGETHER WE COPE6× · 2019–2024 · $320k · revenue +5%
- MVMORAINE VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2023 · $284k · revenue +20%
- NMNEW MOMS INC6× · 2019–2024 · $225k · revenue +90%
Funded once
- HFHOUSING FORWARDgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +45%
- BHBRIGHT HORIZONSone grant, 2019 · $25k
- TPThe Port Ministriesone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -44%
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.
Transitions was founded in 1955 as the adams county mental health center and for many years was known as the community counseling center. in 1995 the agency changed its name to transitions of western illinois. for 65 years transitions has…
New hope of indiana, inc. is a leader in providing holistic services and resources to persons with disabilities and their families while advocating to advance the opportunities for those in need of support.
Association house's mission is to advance each person's full participation in the life of their families, communities, and society. since 1899, we have served a vibrant, multicultural community. we used a trauma informed, culturally…
Provides housing and support services to individuals and families impacted by hiv/aids
To strengthen communities through educational dialogue, leadership development, emotional resilience, and intercultural competence programs that help people bridge differences and build trust.
Advancing lives of connection, contribution and meaning for persons with developmental disabilities and the individuals that support them.
Provide services in response to individual need
For more than 45 years, primo center has empowered families experiencing homelessness to become productive, responsible, and independent members of their community.
Drueding center has become a tangible expression of holy redeemer health system's commitment to families and an embodiment of its mission: to care, comfort, and heal. drueding center partners with our families to build the skills to heal…
We empower people to overcome barriers and achieve lasting well-being through collaborative behavioral health care and comprehensive support.
Inspiration Corporation's mission is to help people who are affected by homelessness and poverty, to improve their lives and increase self-sufficiency through the provision of social services, employment training and placement, and…
To reduce inter-generational poverty by promoting strategies that encourage racial and economic diversity in the housing market, primarily in the chicago area and nationally as well.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Together We Cope and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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 35 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 9% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 34 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 TOGETHER WE COPE ↗
- Who funds MORAINE VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW MOMS INC ↗
- Who funds HOME SWEET HOME MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED MEDITATION INC ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds OLD IRVING PARK COMMUNITY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds INFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF EVANSTON INC ↗
- Who funds SIT STAY READ INC ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA PLACE ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds VOYCE ↗
- Who funds Tuesdays Child ↗
- Who funds TELLIN TALES THEATRE ↗
- Who funds CANINE THERAPY CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAVARRO FARM INC ↗
- Who funds RESCUING LEFTOVER CUISINE INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING FORWARD ↗
- Who funds The Port Ministries ↗
- Who funds New Life Warehouse Inc ↗
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: AbbVie Foundation · Helen V Brach Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pelino Charitable Foundation · The a Montgomery Ward Foundation · The Service Club of Chicago · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Circle of Service Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Fdc Foundation 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.
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.