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Forest & Found NFP
Distribute to charitable organizations the net proceeds generated by thrift store operations.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $95,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $136,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $41,000 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Northern Illinois Food Pantry | $30,000 |
| Beacon Place | $25,000 |
| Independence Center | $15,000 |
| Lake County Haven | $15,000 |
| Shields Township Phoenix Rising Foundation | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $133k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- BWBRAVO WAUKEGAN3× · 2019–2024 · $53k · revenue +165%
- MTMothers Trust Foundation2× · 2021–2024 · $30k · revenue +14%
- ICINDEPENDENCE CENTER INC2× · 2024–2025 · $30k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- ASA Safe Placeone grant, 2023 · $20k
- TMTEEN MOTHER CHOICES INTERNATIONALone grant, 2023 · $18k · revenue +2%
- WTWaukegan To College NFPgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $12k · revenue +162%
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.
Serving recently arrived migrants and asylum seekers in the Chicagoland area and is committed to upholding the dignity and human rights of immigrants.
Administering an array of critical, intensive therapeutic interventions and/or facilitation services to emotionally and behaviorally disturbed clients for whom DCFS is legally responsible in order to stabilize their traditional or home of…
To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.
Chicago Workers' Collaborative's mission is to promote full employment and equality for the lowest wage-earners, primarily temporary staffing workers, in the Chicago region through leadership and skills training, critical assistance and…
Illinois Partners for Human Service's primary activities are (1) strengthening human services in communities throughout Illinois by building a unified human services sector; (2) working with leaders, the public, and others engaged in the…
We empower professionals to find meaningful employment.
To support not for profit organizations in innovation, excellence and leadership in their communities.
The mission of the Latino Resource Institute of Illinois is to provide case management, parenting classes, workshops, anger management classes, counseling and other services to families and individuals who are experiencing financial and…
CASA of Cook County's vision is to protect abused and neglected children by providing them in court, a safe and permanent home, and an opportunity to grow, learn and thrive.
Our mission is to provide community-centered mental health services that empower individuals and families to build resilience and lead lives filled with meaning, connection, and hope.
Confronting Domestic Violence in McHenry County
Chicago Dream Centers mission is to REACH our community ONE person at a time by connecting them to resources that lead toward overcoming poverty, addiction, homelessness, human trafficking and hunger.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northern Illinois Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Sports Shed Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 19 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 NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds The Beacon Place NFP ↗
- Who funds BRAVO WAUKEGAN ↗
- Who funds CAREER RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Mothers Trust Foundation ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TEEN MOTHER CHOICES INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THE LAKE COUNTY HAVEN ↗
- Who funds Waukegan To College NFP ↗
- Who funds SPORTS SHED INC ↗
- Who funds ZACHARIAS SEXUAL ABUSE CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Balance Project Inc ↗
- Who funds FARMWORKER AND LANDSCAPER ADVOCACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Oasis Productions ↗
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 · Baxter International Foundation · The Medline Foundation · The Lake County Community Foundation · United Way of Lake County Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Kiwanis Foundation of Lake Bluff & Lake Forest · Harold M & Adeline S Morrison Family Foundation · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · First Bank Chicago Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · Bertaud Family Foundation
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 Forest & Found NFP 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.
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