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Frankfort Chamber of Commerce at a glance

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Frankfort Chamber of Commerce

Promote positive business and community growth

$26k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$3k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$12kEducation$6kCommunity Improvement$5kRecreation & Sports$5kHealth$4kHuman Services$3kPhilanthropy$2kPublic Benefit$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 19 grants below total $15,310, the rows itemized in this filing. The $25,560 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $10,250 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$455
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRANKFORT BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL$3,000
LINOCLNWAY HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION$2,500
FRANKFORT PARK DISTRIC$1,500
NAVARRO FARM$1,480
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD PANTRY$1,000
FRANKFORT AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY$1,000
SUBURBAN SERVICE LEAGUE$850
FRANKFORT ARTS ASSOCIATION$500
EDUCATION FOUNDATION FSD 157C$500
KIWANIS CLUB OF FRANKFORT$455
OPERATION PLAYGROUND INC$400
SILVER CROSS FOUNDATION$400
FRANKFORT POLICE DEPARTMENT$275
LINCOLNWAY SPECIAL RECREATION FOUND$250
FRANKFORT PUBLIC LIBRARY DISTRICT$250
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CRISIS CENTER FOR SOUTH SUBURBIA: $3k → 14%CRISIS CENTER FOR SOUTH SUBURBIA: $250 → 14%CRISIS CENTER FOR SOUTH SUBURBIA: $250 → 14%CANCER SUPPORT CENTER: $250 → 7%CANCER SUPPORT CENTER: $250 → 7%CANCER SUPPORT CENTER: $250 → 7%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.
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$42k · 17 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
9

Total granted

$42k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+45%

Still filing today

53%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesAnimalsPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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

  • CC
    Crisis Center for South Suburbia
    3× · 2023–2025 · $3k · revenue +16%
  • FS
    FRANKFORT SCHOOL DISTRICT 157-C FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $1k · revenue +39%
  • MM
    Manitoqua Ministries Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $750 · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • DF
    DOWNTOWN FRANKFORT BUSINESS ALLIANC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • TM
    THE MADDOG STRONG FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -4%
  • FP
    FRANKFORT POLICE DEPART DARE PRO
    one grant, 2020 · $600
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
Community Animal Rescue & Education Inc Dba St Francis Care

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…

Animals
2
Community Shares of Illinois

Community shares of illinois represents a diverse group of charitites with a common mission, to make our world a better place. whether your passion is women's issues, protecting children, helping animals, promoting health care or curbing…

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3
Starved Rock Country Community Foundation

The Starved Rock Country Community Foundation (SRCCF) is a grant-making public charity dedicated to improving the lives of people in LaSalle, Bureau and Putnam Counties. Our goal is to bring together the financial resources of individuals,…

Philanthropy
4
Frankenmuth Farmers Market

To create the exchange of local products and information between growers, producers, and consumers by: supplying fresh local products and goods, educating growers, producers and consumers, keeping our rural heritage alive, inspiring…

Food & Nutrition
5
Community Foundation for the Land of Lincoln

Community foundation for the land of lincoln connects people who care with causes that matter.

Philanthropy
6
Lincoln Park Zoological Society

Lincoln park zoo is dedicated to connecting people with nature by providing a free, family-oriented wildlife experience in the heart of chicago and by advancing the highest quality of animal care, horticulture, education, science and…

Animals
7
Fondy Food Center Inc

He fondy food center connects greater milwaukee to local, fresh food- from farm to market to table - so that children learn better, adults live healthier, and communities celebrate cultural food traditions.

Food & Nutrition
8
Friends of the Franklin County Regional Dog Shelter Inc

Our mission is to provide financial support for the franklin county regional dog shelter so that it may protect and improve the lives of stray, lost and unwanted dogs by offering a safe, welcoming facility, and providing care and…

Animals
9
Food Share of Lincoln County

To alleviate hunger in lincoln county by soliciting, collecting, and distributing food through a network of agencies. to provide temporary services to individuals and families in time of need. to assist clients to become more…

Food & Nutrition
10
The Lincoln-Sudbury Scholarship Fund Dollars for Scholars Inc

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide scholarships to lincoln-sudbury high school students based on requirements as set by the board and the by-laws.

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11
Nebraska State Fair 1868 Foundation

The mission of the nebraska state fair 1868 foundation is to raise funds and resources for the overall improvement of the nebraska state fair.

Recreation & Sports
12
True Chicago
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lincoln-Way High School Foundation for Educational Excellence; 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.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 33 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
6/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DOWNTOWN FRANKFORT BUSINESS ALLIANC: $5,000 · OtherDOWNTOWN FRANKFORT BUSINESS ALLIANCFRANKFORT PARK DISTRIC: $4,500 · OtherFRANKFORT PARK DISTRICVILLAGE OF FRANKFORT: $2,045 · OtherVILLAGE OF FRANKFORTFRANKFORT AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $2,000 · OtherFRANKFORT AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETYFRANKFORT ARTS ASSOCIATION: $1,820 · OtherFRANKFORT ARTS ASSOCIATIONOPERATION PLAYGROUND INC: $1,600 · OtherOPERATION PLAYGROUND INCFRANKFORT AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $1,000 · Other+15 more: $5,280 · Other+15 moreFRANKFORT BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL: $9,000 · Arts & CultureFRANKFORT BLUEGRASS FES…FRIENDS OF THE KIDSWORK CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NEW LENOX NFP: $2,600 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE KIDSWORK…LINCOLN-WAY HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE: $7,500 · EducationLINCOLN-WAY HIGH …FRANKFORT SCHOOL DISTRICT 157-C FOUNDATION: $1,000 · EducationFRANKFORT SCHOOL …Crisis Center for South Suburbia: $3,250 · Human ServicesJENNIFER S FALLICK CANCER SUPPORT CENTER: $750 · Human ServicesSUBURBAN SERVICE LEAGUE: $3,025 · PhilanthropyLINCOLNWAY SPECIAL RECREATION FOUNDATION: $250 · PhilanthropyTHE MADDOG STRONG FOUNDATION: $3,000 · HealthNAVARRO FARM INC: $1,480 · Food & NutritionGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$23,245Arts & Culture$11,600Education$8,500Human Services$4,000Philanthropy$3,275Health$3,000Food & Nutrition$2,480

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 budgetFRANKFORT BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL: $9,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetLINCOLN-WAY HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE: $7,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCrisis Center for South Suburbia: $3,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSUBURBAN SERVICE LEAGUE: $3,025 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE MADDOG STRONG FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE KIDSWORK CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NEW LENOX NFP: $2,600 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNAVARRO FARM INC: $1,480 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRANKFORT SCHOOL DISTRICT 157-C FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetManitoqua Ministries Inc: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJENNIFER S FALLICK CANCER SUPPORT CENTER: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH SUBURBAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSilver Cross Foundation: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLNWAY SPECIAL RECREATION FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMOKENA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $140 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPAWS CHICAGO: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Frankfort Chamber NfpThe Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Frankfort Chamber NfpIL24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Frankfort Chamber Nfp · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 33 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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