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Give N Kind

Givenkind sources and efficiently redistributes excess goods in the economy to local nonprofit organizations to fill needs in our community.

$22M
Granted FY2025still arriving
Grants FY2025still arriving
States reached
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2025

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: $22,194,486.

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Median grant
States reached
$8.4M
Total assets
02The need
02

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 — 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.

1
Chicago Hope Inc

Chicago Hope runs a food pantry twice a week that serves over 100 families. The organization is working toward the furtherance of wrap around services.

Human Services
2
New Hope House Northwest D/B/a New Hope Community Food Pantry

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
3
Northern Il Helping Hands Food Pantry Nfp

To provide at least 2 days of food to needy families and people.

Food & Nutrition
4
Ravenswood Community Services Inc

Ravenswood community services ("rcs") operates a food pantry and community kitchen for those in need of emergency food on chicago's north side.

Human Services
5
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
6
Alicia's House Inc

To alleviate hunger locally.

Human Services
7
Faith Feeds Food Pantry Inc

Faith Feeds Food Pantry, Inc. supports food-insecure populations of Chicagos northwest suburbs.Their mobile food pantry ensures access to essential resources by bringing food directly to those who cant reach the pantry.

Food & Nutrition
8
Geneseo-Atkinson Food Pantry

The Christian mission of the Geneseo-Atkinson food Pantry is to provide food, clothing, and short-term emergency assistance for families and individuals residing in Geneseo (61254) or Atkinson (61235) zip code areas.

9
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
10
Lakeside Community Committee

To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.

Human Services
11
Respond Now

Respond now connects those in need with health, hunger, and housing services in the chicago southland.

Human Services
12
Community Needs of Chillicothe Illinois Inc

Provide temporary assistance to needy individuals. Primary assistance with rent, utilities and food.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections for the Homeless Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Roberti Community House. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAnimal Rescue and Shelter S…Community Development Organ…Veterans Organizations and …Medical Professional Associ…Youth Recreation & SportsFamily Philanthropic Founda…
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
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 18 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%10%<5yr14%20%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr14%16%35–55yr16%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr16%0%20–35yr14%0%35–55yr16%0%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% 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 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%13/396
the rest of the field
15%
8,429/56,981

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 Community FoundationIL59.7× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Lake County Community Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · First Bank Chicago Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Northern Illinois Food Bank · United Way of Lake County Inc · Healthcare Foundation of Northern Lake County · Circle of Service Foundation · Trustmark Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Sbb Research Group Foundation · Dr Scholl 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 trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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