· Public charity
Giving Dupage
We serve the public as the dupage county volunteer center connecting people with local giving opportunities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $104,282 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $186,317 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $82,035 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.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k3 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ESSE ADULT DAY SERVICES | $25,625 |
| CHI-TOWN PITTIES INC | $25,035 |
| DUPAGE ANIMAL FRIENDS | $19,402 |
| EARTHPAINTORG | $15,078 |
| THE OUTREACH HOUSE | $7,389 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF JOLIET | $5,939 |
| DUPAGE HEALTH MATTERS | $5,814 |
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 (FY20–20, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2020, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k 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
- TGTHE GREENHOUSE WESTERN SUBURBS NFP2× · 2018–2019 · $45k · revenue +56%
- RCRIVERSIDE CLUB FOR ADVENTURE AND IMAGINATION2× · 2018–2019 · $41k · revenue +113%
- CPCHI-TOWN PITTIES INC2× · 2019–2020 · $31k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- WRWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALSgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $7k · revenue +214%
- SESOARING EAGLE ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +32%
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.
Founded in 1883, brightpoint (formerly known as children's home & aid) is a leading statewide organization supporting families so children can thrive.
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Illinois Action for Children uplifts children and all who care for them, advancing strong families and prosperous communities.
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Christopher house is a family of schools that helps children and families succeed in school, the workplace, and life. through our unique and innovative approach, we are effectively closing the opportunity gap through a continuum of…
To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.
The chicago children's advocacy center unites public, private, and community partners to ensure the safety, health, and well-being of abused children.
It is the mission of this corporation to provide quality care for children between the ages of six weeks and twelve years whose parents are employed or in training.
To increase access to quality, comprehensive child care and early learning experiences for children from birth to five and their families and to increase school readiness in children from low income backgrounds.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Joliet and the most unlike its peers is World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 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 THE GREENHOUSE WESTERN SUBURBS NFP ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE CLUB FOR ADVENTURE AND IMAGINATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF DUPAGE COUNTY ANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHI-TOWN PITTIES INC ↗
- Who funds ECUMENICAL SUPPORT SERVICES FOR THE ELDERLY INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF JOLIET ↗
- Who funds CANDOR HEALTH EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds THE OUTREACH HOUSE ↗
- Who funds WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS ↗
- Who funds DUPAGE HEALTH COALITION ↗
- Who funds SOARING EAGLE ACADEMY ↗
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 Dupage Community Foundation · The Bersted Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Giving Dupage 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.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
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.