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At Properties-Friends & Neighbors Community Fund
The friends and neighbors community fund was created out of the desire to give back to chicago and to help support the city that has allowed our company to grow and prosper during even the most challenging of economic times.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $40,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $69,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $29,500 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 |
|---|---|
| COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF COOK COUNTY | $10,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| WORKING IN THE SCHOOLS | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHICAGO | $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 (FY19–20, $101k) 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +213% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2021, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- WIWORKING IN THE SCHOOLS INC4× · 2017–2021 · $40k · revenue +30%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHICAGO5× · 2019–2023 · $23k · revenue +324%
- AJA JUST HARVEST2× · 2019–2020 · $8k · revenue +213%
Funded once
- IAIMERMAN ANGELSgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $200k · revenue +72%
- CBChicago Blackhawks Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue +120%
- LSLYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +106%
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.
The Chicago Parks Foundation is a separate 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization that also serves as the strategic partner for the coordination of fundraising and charitable resources for the Chicago Park District.
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…
To ensure that all people impacted by cancer are empowered by knowledge, strengthened by action, and sustained by community.
Established in 2011 by retired Chicago Cubs pitcher Kerry Wood, and his wife Sarah, Pitch In (fka Wood Family Foundation) seeks to improve the lives of children in four high-need neighborhoods in Chicago: North Lawndale, Humboldt Park,…
Chicago Bulls charities is committed to community violence prevention through four focus areas; education, investment, health & wellness, and access to opportunities.
Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago and the most unlike its peers is The Chicago Academy of Sciences. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
22 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. 22 of the 23 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 IMERMAN ANGELS ↗
- Who funds Chicago Blackhawks Foundation ↗
- Who funds LYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOCIALWORKS ↗
- Who funds ANTHONY RIZZO FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUSTIN J WATT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORKING IN THE SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds THE ART CENTER OF HIGHLAND PARK ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF COOK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds A JUST HARVEST ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy ↗
- Who funds STRIDES FOR PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds THE MAGNIFICENT MILE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Big Shoulders Fund ↗
- Who funds ART OMI INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds KISSES FROM FRIENDS INC ↗
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 · Baird Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Chicago White Sox Charities Inc · Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · National Philanthropic Trust · Robert R McCormick Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 At Properties-Friends & Neighbors Community Fund 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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