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· Public charity
GIVE N KIND
Givenkind sources and efficiently redistributes excess goods in the economy to local nonprofit organizations to fill needs in our community.
$17M
Granted FY2024
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Grants
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Communities
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Largest
01What you fund
01beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2020
connectionafcachildrenliveshomelessfoodeducation
2021
dedicatedlehigh valleyneighborspantryapaseoaccessanimals
2024
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
02FY2024
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
Grant detail is referenced in an attached schedule not included in the e-file. Total reported in the filing: $16,791,250.
$0
Median grant
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States reached
$5.4M
Total assets
02The need
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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.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
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.
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Southwest Chicago Homeless Services
To provide food, clothing, case management and placement in housing, as well as referrals for additional supportive services. a commitment to helping homeless and housing-insecure persons and strive to end homelessness in our communities…
Human Services
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New Hope House Northwest
New hope house northwest is a volunteer-driven food pantry dedicated to providing emergency food assistance to individuals and families in need. the pantry serves chicago's far northwest side, norridge, and harwood heights residents,…
Food & Nutrition
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Care for Friends
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…
Human Services
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Feeding Illinois
To educate the public about the role of food banks in addressing hunger.
Food & Nutrition
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Central Illinois Foodbank Inc
Charitable food distribution.
Food & Nutrition
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Northern Il Helping Hands Food Pantry Nfp
To provide food to low income families.
Food & Nutrition
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Illinois Community for Displaced
Serving recently arrived migrants and asylum seekers in the Chicagoland area and is committed to upholding the dignity and human rights of immigrants.
Human Services
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Chi-Care
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…
Human Services
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Beyond Hunger
Beyond Hunger was founded in 1978 to provide direct hunger relief services and harness the power of communities to end hunger through collective impact. The Organization serves the Oak Park area and neighboring communities.
Food & Nutrition
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Ravenswood Community Services Inc
Operation of a food pantry/community kitchen for those in need of emergency food.
Human Services
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North Chicago Community Partners
Education
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Hcp of Illinois Inc
To reduce inter-generational poverty by promoting strategies that encourage racial and economic diversity in the housing market, primarily in the chicago area and nationally as well.
Housing & Shelter
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections for the Homeless Inc and the most unlike its peers is Start Early. 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.
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
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 19 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
3%10/331
the rest of the field
11%
206,154/1,819,234
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.
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.
The Lake County CommunityIL57.6× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The Lake County Community · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · United Way of Lake County Inc · First Bank Chicago Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · Healthcare Foundation of Northern Lake · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation · Chicago Foundation for Women · Northern Illinois Food Bank · Circle of Service Foundation · George M Eisenberg 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.
04Through Plinth
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How do I get to Give N Kind?
Find your warmest path to Give N Kind through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines