How much did FIRST LOOK FOR CHARITY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

FIRST LOOK FOR CHARITY FOUNDATION reported 18 grants totaling $2,400,458 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is FIRST LOOK FOR CHARITY FOUNDATION based?

FIRST LOOK FOR CHARITY FOUNDATION is based in IL.

FIRST LOOK FOR CHARITY FOUNDATION

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· Community foundation

FIRST LOOK FOR CHARITY FOUNDATION

The organization conducts the first look for charity event held prior to the annual chicago auto show.

$2.4M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$516k

Largest

01What you fund

0166% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.

Health$3.3MHuman Services$3.3MYouth Development$1.0MReligion$977kRecreation & Sports$727kEmployment$500kPhilanthropy$350kEducation$319kOther$5.3M

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

2019

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2020

als

2022

pediatricresearchalseducation

2023

bloomington-normalsocialhealthypediatricresearchabilitiesals

2024

bloomington-normalsocialhealthypediatricresearchcancerabilities

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

03FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k1 grant · $41k
$50k–250k16 grants · $1.8M
$250k+1 grant · $516k

$107,569

Median grant

States reached

$94k

Total assets

Largest grants

MISERICORDIA$515,813
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$175,208
ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO$158,539
FRANCISCAN COMMUNITY BENEFIT SERVICES$153,660
TURNING POINTE AUTISM FOUNDATION$140,667
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO$124,578
ADVOCATE HEALTH CARE$120,292
SERTOMA STAR SERVICES$117,219
SPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS$107,569
ALS ASSOCIATION$101,206
CAL'S ANGELS$98,529
100 CLUB OF CHICAGO$97,880
GLENWOOD ACADEMY$97,840
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF JOLIET$97,306
LYDIA HOME ASSOCIATION$97,118

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 (FY18–24, $3.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 9%. 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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$16M · 26 repeat orgs$234k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$16M

$135k

Still filing today

88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $99k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentReligionRecreation & SportsOther

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

M
Misericordia
6× · 2018–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +22%
BG
Boys & Girls Clubs of Chicago
6× · 2018–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +17%
FC
Franciscan Community Benefit Services
6× · 2018–2024 · $977k · revenue +199% · 83% of their budget

Funded once

FH
Franciscan Health Foundation
one grant, 2018 · $135k

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.

Lurie Children's Surgical Foundation Inc

Lurie children's surgical foundation, inc. provides pediatric and subspecialty surgical, research, and educational services.

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Children's Home & Aid Society of Ill

We advance the well-being of children by investing in families to disrupt the systemic and multi-generational cycle of racial, social, and economic inequity.

Human Services

Cunningham Childrens Home of Urbana Il

Provide therapeutic services to youth in educational, community, & residential care settings.

Human Services

Children's Hospital of Chicago Faculty Practice Plan Inc

Children's hospital of chicago faculty practice plan, inc. ("fpp") engages in charitable activities to support the clinical, research and educational programs of ann & robert h. lurie's children's hospital of chicago and its affiliate…

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University of Chicago

The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.

Education

Chicago Children's Advocacy Center

Partnering to ensure the safety, health and well-being of abused children.

Crime & Legal

Kids Above All Illinois Fka Childserv

Helping chicagoland's at-risk children and their families build, achieve and sustain better lives.

—

Gilda's Club Chicago

To ensure that people impacted by cancer are empowered by knowledge, strengthened by action, and sustained by community.

Health

Children's Home and Aid Society Foundati

To provide financial and other support to the children's home and aid society of illinois, doing business as (dba): brightpoint.

Human Services

Mercy Hospital and Medical Center

To provide health care and hospital services

Health

The Chicago Bar Foundation

The chicago bar foundation mobilizes chicago's legal community to improve access to justice.

Education

Junior Achievement of Chicago

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Misericordia Home. 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 59 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 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/28

the rest of the field

13%

4,794/36,731

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

24 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)

24/24

Grantees still filing

21/24

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$5,982,059Health$3,347,309Human Services$3,251,680Youth Development$1,005,926Religion$976,727Recreation & Sports$727,339Employment$499,628

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.

The Chicago Community TrustIL18.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · AbbVie Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 FIRST LOOK FOR CHARITY 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.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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: Franciscan Community Benefit Services.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.0× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 364454351 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 Franciscan Community Benefit Services, 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

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 83% 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.

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Find your warmest path to First Look for Charity Foundation 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.

FIRST LOOK FOR CHARITY FOUNDATION

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

24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to First Look for Charity Foundation?

More from the funding graph

FIRST LOOK FOR CHARITY FOUNDATION

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

24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to First Look for Charity Foundation?

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