· Public charity
Frankfort Chamber of Commerce
Promote positive business and community growth
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 17 grants below total $13,790 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $22,790 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $9,000 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 |
|---|---|
| FRANKFORT BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL | $3,000 |
| LINOCLNWAY HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| SUBURBAN SERVICE LEAGUE | $2,175 |
| FRANKFORT PARK DISTRIC | $1,500 |
| FRANKFORT AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| FRANKFORT SCHOOL DISTRICT 157C | $500 |
| FRANKFORT ARTS ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| FRANKFORT ARTS ASSOCIATION | $420 |
| OPERATION PLAYGROUND INC | $400 |
| KIWANIS CLUB OF FRANKFORT | $305 |
| FRANKFORT SQ PARK DISTRICT | $300 |
| CANCER SUPPORT CENTER | $250 |
| CRISIS CENTER FOR SOUTH SUBURBIA | $250 |
| SOUTH SUBURBAN HUMANE SOCIETY | $250 |
| CAMP MANITOQUA AND RETREAT CTR | $250 |
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 (FY23–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% 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.
13 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 5 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- CCCrisis Center for South Suburbia2× · 2023–2024 · $3k · revenue +16%
- MMManitoqua Ministries Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $500 · revenue +7%
- SSSOUTH SUBURBAN HUMANE SOCIETY2× · 2023–2024 · $500 · revenue +9%
Funded once
- DFDOWNTOWN FRANKFORT BUSINESS ALLIANCone grant, 2022 · $5k
- TMTHE MADDOG STRONG FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -4%
- VOVILLAGE OF FRANKFORTone grant, 2023 · $2k
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.
HSCIs mission is to find loving, forever homes for abused and unwanted pets.
Our mission is to address the lack of an accessible, affordable and coordinated support network for lost, unwanted, abandoned, and injured animals in the southern illinois region by providing, making available, and maintaining temporary…
The humane society of southwest missouri is one of the largest open admission, no kill shelters in southwest missouri. it is dedicated to helping sick, injured and abandoned dogs and cats find their forever homes. for over 60 years the…
Our mission is focused on increasing colorectal cancer screening rates and providing support for survivors and caregivers in central illinois.
Mission: to protect animals and build connections between pets and people through advocacy and education. vision: leading and guiding a humane lake county core values: compassion for pets and people. engagement through innovative programs,…
The primary purpose of the Lawrence County Humane Society is to relieve pain and suffering among animals to prevent cruelty to animals and to extend humane education to the community
Mission: to create connections between people and animals that will inspire lifelong conservation of the natural world.vision: a world in which everyone has a meaningful connection to animals and nature.
Friends of The South Shore Hospital exists to engage individuals, former patients and family members, community leaders, and Hospital staff in philanthropic, volunteer, educational, and social activities to support and promote the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lincoln-Way High School Foundation for Educational Excellence and the most unlike its peers is Frankfort Bluegrass Festival. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 26 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 FRANKFORT BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN-WAY HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE ↗
- Who funds Crisis Center for South Suburbia ↗
- Who funds THE MADDOG STRONG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE KIDSWORK CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NEW LENOX NFP ↗
- Who funds SUBURBAN SERVICE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds JENNIFER S FALLICK CANCER SUPPORT CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRANKFORT SCHOOL DISTRICT 157-C FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Manitoqua Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SUBURBAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MOKENA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds PAWS CHICAGO ↗
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: Frankfort Chamber Nfp · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Frankfort Chamber of Commerce 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.