· Private foundation
Foundation for Health Enhancement
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EXPERIENCES THAT MATTER FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| SISTA AFYA COMMUNITY CARE NFP | $15,000 |
| GLASA - GREAT LAKES ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSN | $12,000 |
| FDN FOR HEARING AND SPEECH RESOURCES | $10,000 |
| LORENZO'S HOUSE | $10,000 |
| MOBILE CARE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| DENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK | $10,000 |
| SECOND SENSE | $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 (FY20–25, $30k) 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.
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.
11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- GLGREAT LAKES ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATION4× · 2021–2025 · $42k · revenue +92%
- SSSECOND SENSE4× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +1%
- CFCONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC3× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +124%
Funded once
- ONOFFSHOOTZ NFPone grant, 2023 · $15k
- SASaint Anthony Hospitalone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +23%
- IWINFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF CHICAGOgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +50%
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.
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…
House of Good Shepherd serves with love and compassion women and children affected by domestic violence by offering a safe place with opportunities for emotional, educational and spiritual growth, giving hope and continued support for a…
Care for Friends provides fundamental food, clothing and healthcare programs for individuals in Chicago experiencing or at risk of homelessness. Our "no questions asked" policy removes the most common barriers to assistance and allows us…
Renaissance Social Services (RSSI) is a unique organization that connects those in need with housing that is safe, quality and affordable. After helping clients attain housing RSSI provides them with comprehensive, flexible, client focused…
Respond now connects those in need with health, hunger, and housing services in the chicago southland.
To provide residential and rehabilitation services to clients with mental illnesses
Serving recently arrived migrants and asylum seekers in the Chicagoland area and is committed to upholding the dignity and human rights of immigrants.
Chi-Care is an organization that provides food, water and shelter help for Chicagolands homeless and extremely needy. What makes Chi-Care a unique organization is the fact that they go directly to the needy and the areas in need. They…
To provide low or no cost medical care to low income and uninsured people.
To provide additional supportive housing, social, health, and other human services to the indigent and special needs individuals of chicago's inner city population and transitioning the homeless to a life of self- sufficiency and stability.
Chh honors every person's right to a home and health care, by bridging the housing and health care systems, to improve the lives of chicagoans experiencing homelessness.
For seniors who are unable to live alone, Catholic Charities provided fully licensed nursing home with a round-the-clock nursing staff. The Home offered physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, social services, pastoral…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections for the Homeless Inc and the most unlike its peers is Offshootz Nfp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 21 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 GREAT LAKES ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND SENSE ↗
- Who funds CONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGEEONE ↗
- Who funds SISTA AFYA COMMUNITY CARE NFP ↗
- Who funds COMPASS TO CARE ↗
- Who funds LA CASA NORTE ↗
- Who funds NORTH SIDE HOUSING AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR HEARING AND SPEECH RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds LORENZO'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds EXPERIENCES THAT MATTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OFFSHOOTZ NFP ↗
- Who funds Saint Anthony Hospital ↗
- Who funds INFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds L'ARCHE CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds SISTERHOUSE ↗
- Who funds MOBILE CARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Family Health Partnership Clinic ↗
- Who funds ST COLETTA'S OF ILLINOIS ↗
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: The Chicago Community Trust · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Washington Square Health Foundation · Helen V Brach Foundation · Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Grant Hospital of Chicago D/B/A Grant Healthcare Foundation · Chicago Board of Trade Foundation · Goldenberg Max Tw M G Foundation · WP & HB White Foundation · The Coleman 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 Foundation for Health Enhancement 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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