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Fdc Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$558k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$1.1MEducation$814kHealth$553kHousing & Shelter$445kReligion$402kFood & Nutrition$311kYouth Development$145kCivil Rights$125kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k21 grants · $498k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$30,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$8.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NEW LIFE WAREHOUSE: $10k → 13%INFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF EVANSTON: $35k → 14%INFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF EVANSTON: $30k → 14%INFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF EVANSTON: $30k → 14%INFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF EVANSTON: $30k → 14%INFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF EVANSTON: $30k → 14%INFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF EVANSTON: $15k → 14%TOGETHER WE COPE: $70k → 14%TOGETHER WE COPE: $60k → 14%TOGETHER WE COPE: $50k → 14%TOGETHER WE COPE: $50k → 14%TOGETHER WE COPE: $50k → 14%TOGETHER WE COPE: $40k → 14%CONCORDIA PLACE TEEN LEADERSHIP: $30k → 14%CONCORDIA PLACE TEEN LEADERSHIP: $30k → 14%CONCORDIA PLACE TEEN LEADERSHIP: $30k → 14%CONCORDIA PLACE TEEN LEADERSHIP: $25k → 14%CONCORDIA PLACE TEEN LEADERSHIP: $25k → 14%TUESDAY'S CHILD: $15k → 14%TUESDAY'S CHILD: $15k → 14%TUESDAY'S CHILD: $15k → 14%TUESDAY'S CHILD: $15k → 14%TUESDAY'S CHILD: $10k → 14%NEW MOMS: $50k → 14%NEW MOMS: $35k → 14%NEW MOMS: $35k → 14%NEW MOMS: $35k → 14%NEW MOMS: $35k → 14%NEW MOMS: $35k → 14%PORT MINISTRIES: $10k → 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

MN
IL
NY
MA
CA
MO
AZ
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.9M · 29 repeat orgs$80k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
4

Total granted

$3.9M
$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+45%

Still filing today

59%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther
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

  • TW
    TOGETHER WE COPE
    6× · 2019–2024 · $320k · revenue +5%
  • MV
    MORAINE VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2023 · $284k · revenue +20%
  • NM
    NEW MOMS INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $225k · revenue +90%

Funded once

  • HF
    HOUSING FORWARDgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +45%
  • BH
    BRIGHT HORIZONS
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • TP
    The Port Ministries
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -44%
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
Transitions of Western Illinois Inc

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…

Health
2
New Hope of Indiana Inc

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.

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3
Association House of Chicago

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…

Human Services
4
Chicago House & Social Service Agency

Provides housing and support services to individuals and families impacted by hiv/aids

Health
5
Heal Chicago

To strengthen communities through educational dialogue, leadership development, emotional resilience, and intercultural competence programs that help people bridge differences and build trust.

Public Benefit
6
Garden Center Services

Advancing lives of connection, contribution and meaning for persons with developmental disabilities and the individuals that support them.

—
7
New Hope Services Inc

Provide services in response to individual need

Human Services
8
Primo Center for Women & Children

For more than 45 years, primo center has empowered families experiencing homelessness to become productive, responsible, and independent members of their community.

Education
9
Drueding Center

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…

Human Services
10
Mental Health Center of Denver

We empower people to overcome barriers and achieve lasting well-being through collaborative behavioral health care and comprehensive support.

Health
11
Inspiration Corporation

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…

Human Services
12
Hcp of Illinois Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Together We Cope; 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.
04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 34 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/22
Grantees still filing
13/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES: $260,000 · OtherGOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIESIRVING PARK COMMUNITY PANTRY: $231,000 · OtherIRVING PARK COMMUNITY PANTRYHOME SWEET HOME MINISTRIES INC: $210,000 · OtherHOME SWEET HOME MINISTRIES INCINSTITUTE FOR APPLIED MEDITATION INC: $192,000 · OtherINSTITUTE FOR APPLIED MEDITATION INCJOHN LOGAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDA: $174,000 · OtherJOHN LOGAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDAMCCORMICK CENTER FOR EARLY CHILDHOO: $171,000 · OtherMCCORMICK CENTER FOR EARLY CHILDHOOBETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $125,000 · OtherBETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICESPEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER: $125,000 · OtherPEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTERBLUES FOUNDATION-HART FUND: $90,000 · OtherVOYCE: $88,000 · Other+6 more: $180,200 · Other+6 moreTOGETHER WE COPE: $320,000 · Human ServicesTOGETHER WE COPENEW MOMS INC: $225,000 · Human ServicesNEW MOMS INCINFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF EVANSTON INC: $170,000 · Human ServicesINFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF …CONCORDIA PLACE: $140,000 · Human ServicesCONCORDIA PLACETuesdays Child: $70,000 · Human ServicesTuesdays Child+2 more: $20,000 · Human ServicesMORAINE VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $284,000 · EducationMORAINE VALL…SIT STAY READ INC: $155,000 · EducationSIT STAY REA…American Diabetes Association: $185,000 · HealthAmerican Dia…OLD IRVING PARK COMMUNITY CLINIC: $180,000 · HealthOLD IRVING P…CANINE THERAPY CORPS INC: $57,500 · HealthCANINE THERA…NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF CHICAGO INC: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING FORWARD: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterNAVARRO FARM INC: $48,000 · Food & NutritionRESCUING LEFTOVER CUISINE INC: $32,000 · Food & NutritionTELLIN TALES THEATRE: $60,000 · Arts & CultureGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,846,200Human Services$945,000Education$439,000Health$422,500Housing & Shelter$130,000Food & Nutrition$80,000Arts & Culture$60,000Philanthropy$50,000

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 budgetTOGETHER WE COPE: $320,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetMORAINE VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $284,000 over 5y, 25% of budgetNEW MOMS INC: $225,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetHOME SWEET HOME MINISTRIES INC: $210,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $185,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOLD IRVING PARK COMMUNITY CLINIC: $180,000 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetINFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF EVANSTON INC: $170,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetSIT STAY READ INC: $155,000 over 6y, 7.0% of budgetCONCORDIA PLACE: $140,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER: $125,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF CHICAGO INC: $100,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetVOYCE: $88,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetTuesdays Child: $70,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetTELLIN TALES THEATRE: $60,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetCANINE THERAPY CORPS INC: $57,500 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNAVARRO FARM INC: $48,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetRESCUING LEFTOVER CUISINE INC: $32,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSING FORWARD: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Port Ministries: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNew Life Warehouse Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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 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 ↗

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.

AbbVie FoundationHelen V Brach Foundat…The Chicago Community…United Way of Metropo…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pelino Charitable…The a Montgomery Ward…The Service Club of C…Northwestern Memorial…Circle of Service Fou…Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…
AbbVie FoundationIL22.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.

    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 34 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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