· Private foundation
George & Frances Schwenkner Charttr
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIFESCAPE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC | $49,706 |
| BARBARA OLSON CENTER OF HOPE | $49,706 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS | $49,706 |
| N ILLINOIS HOSPICE ASSOCIATION | $49,706 |
| ROCK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $49,706 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $49,706 |
| AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION | $49,706 |
| EASTER SEALS CHLDRN DEVELOPMNT CNTR | $49,706 |
| THE ROSECRANCE FOUNDATION | $49,706 |
| CENTER FOR SIGHT & HEARING | $49,453 |
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 (FY19–23, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +33% since the first grant, against -79% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $99k 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
- LCLIFESCAPE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC5× · 2019–2023 · $59k · revenue +29%
- GSGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS5× · 2019–2023 · $59k · revenue +33%
- RVROCK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2023 · $59k · revenue +268%
Funded once
- ACAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -79%
- ESEASTER SEALS CHLDRN DEVELOPMNT CNTRone grant, 2023 · $50k
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.
To define and advance quality, effective, equitable, and accessible cancer care and prevention so all people can live better lives.
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
Rock river valley blood center, in partnership with our community, is dedicated to providing safe, high value blood products and services to people in need.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.
Rosecrance is an integrated network of behavioral health services that provides help, hope and lasting recovery to children, youth, adults, and families. its community of 1400 compassionate professionals service and supports over 50,000…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Provide affordable, high-quality health services and remove inequities to improve the lives of all.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
The mission of the foundation for health care continuums is to strengthen each community we serve by providing a wide spectrum of housing and health care services that honor the evolving, aging population.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rosecrance Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 12 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 LIFESCAPE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds ROCK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS HOSPICE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ROSECRANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BARBARA OLSON CENTER OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR SIGHT & HEARING ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY 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: Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008 · Community Foundation of Northern IL · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 George & Frances Schwenkner Charttr 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.