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Glass Solutions Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$243k
Granted FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$485kEducation$177kHuman Services$150kPhilanthropy$124kCommunity Improvement$80kYouth Development$44kHousing & Shelter$31kScience & Tech$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k28 grants · $80k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $162k
$4,050
Median grant
8
States reached
$952k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$45,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY - LAS VEGAS$25,000
ST FRANCIS HIGH SCHOOL$18,286
TURNER CONSTRUCTION FOUNDATION$17,150
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION - BOONE IA$15,000
TURNER FOUNDATION - CINCINNATI$15,000
HESED HOUSE$15,000
WELL RESOURCE CENTER$12,000
ADVOCATE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$7,500
PATHWAY TO ADVENTURE COUNCIL$6,000
IVY TECH$5,000
NAPERVILLE RESPONDS FOR VETERANS$5,000
MIAMI UNIVERSITY$5,000
SCIENTEL SOLUTIONS LLC$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $132k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 61% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HESED HOUSE: $22k → 8%GOLDEN CORRIDOR FAMILY YMCA: $4k → 14%HESED HOUSE: $15k → 8%GOLDEN CORRIDOR FAMILY YMCA: $4k → 14%Hesed House: $10k → 8%HESED HOUSE: $5k → 8%PROJECT FIRE BUDDIES: $2k → 14%WELL RESOURCE CENTER: $25k → 14%Well Resource Center: $20k → 14%WELL RESOURCE CENTER: $15k → 14%WELL RESOURCE CENTER: $12k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
MA
NV
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
NE
MO
AZ
TN
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$927k · 37 repeat orgs$241k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

37 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
48

Total granted

$927k
$208k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+12%

Still filing today

43%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TW
    The Well Resource Center NFP
    4× · 2020–2025 · $72k · revenue +115%
  • EC
    EXECUTIVE CONSTRUCTION FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $70k · revenue +53%
  • PA
    PUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC D/B/A HESED HOUSE
    4× · 2021–2025 · $52k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • NB
    NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +12%
  • AC
    AMERICA CANCER SOCIETY - PHILADELPHIA
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • BH
    BUNKER HILL CHARITIESgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $16k · revenue +128%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation
Human Services
2
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.

Health
3
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Ann & robert h. lurie children's hospital of chicago is dedicated to the health and well-being of all children. as the pediatric teaching facility for northwestern university feinberg school of medicine, this commitment drives us to be a…

Health
4
The National Fragile X Foundation

The national fragile x foundation serves the entire fragile x community to live their best lives by providing the knowledge, resources, and tools until, and even after, more effective treatments and a cure are achieved.

Health
5
Harold E Eisenberg Foundation

The foundation's objective is to fund breakthrough gastrointestinal (gi) cancer research, including clinical trials and studies, at the robert h. lurie comprehensive cancer center of northwestern university.additionally, another objective…

Philanthropy
6
Stanley Manne Childrens Research Institute

Stanley manne children's research institute strives to generate new knowledge and advance the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of pediatric diseases.

Health
7
Hugo W Moser Research Institute At Kennedy Krieger Inc

The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…

Science & Tech
8
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
9
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
10
National Foundation for Cancer Research

To support cancer research and public education relating to prevention, earlier diagnosis, better treatments and ultimately, a cure for cancer.

Health
11
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
12
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pathway to Adventure Council Inc Boy Scouts of America; the most unlike its peers is Loving Luca Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 94 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
23/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $107,546 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETYAMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION - DES MOINES: $67,623 · OtherAMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION - DES MOINESST FRANCIS HIGH SCHOOL: $61,786 · OtherST FRANCIS HIGH SCHOOLADVOCATE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $52,500 · OtherADVOCATE CHILDREN'S HOSPITALAmerican Cancer Society - Wisconsin: $45,000 · OtherAmerican Cancer Society - WisconsinTURNER FOUNDATION - CINCINNATI: $30,203 · OtherTURNER CONSTRUCTION FOUNDATION: $27,150 · Other+66 more: $416,453 · Other+66 moreThe Well Resource Center NFP: $72,000 · Human ServicesThe Well Res…PUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC D/B/A HESED HOUSE: $51,500 · Human ServicesPUBLIC ACTIO…GOLDEN CORRIDOR FAMILY YMCA: $7,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,800 · Human ServicesAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $38,529 · HealthTEAM JACK FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $6,300 · Health+4 more: $4,615 · HealthEXECUTIVE CONSTRUCTION FOUNDATION: $70,000 · PhilanthropyNORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $19,500 · EducationREED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · EducationPurdue Research Foundation: $5,000 · EducationGREATER ITASCA FOOD PANTRY: $2,000 · EducationGRACE ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOLS INC: $2,000 · EducationMcKendree University: $2,000 · EducationNAPERVILLE RESPONDS FOR OUR VETERANS: $30,500 · Housing & ShelterFAIRFAX RENAISSANCE DEVELOPMENT: $2,500 · Housing & ShelterLEAN CONSTRUCTION INSTITUTE INC: $1,500 · Community Improvement
Other$808,261Human Services$132,300Health$84,444Philanthropy$70,000Education$38,000Housing & Shelter$33,000Community Improvement$1,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Well Resource Center NFP: $72,000 over 4y, 7.7% of budgetEXECUTIVE CONSTRUCTION FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetPUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC D/B/A HESED HOUSE: $51,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $38,529 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM JACK FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetNAPERVILLE RESPONDS FOR OUR VETERANS: $30,500 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRESPIRATORY HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $20,860 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $19,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBUNKER HILL CHARITIES: $16,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetPATHWAY TO ADVENTURE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $13,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTIMOTHY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS IN THE GAME NFP: $9,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHEAST ILLINOIS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC: $9,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTURNER CONSTRUCTION COMPANY FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGOLDEN CORRIDOR FAMILY YMCA: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $6,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPurdue Research Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEPPER FAMILY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLANDMARKS PRESERVATION COUNCIL OF ILLINOIS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Brain Tumor Association: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUPS FOR DOWNS NFP: $2,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFAIRFAX RENAISSANCE DEVELOPMENT: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER ITASCA FOOD PANTRY: $2,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetGRACE ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOLS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMcKendree University: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetITASCA LIONS CLUB INC: $1,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetLEAN CONSTRUCTION INSTITUTE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN-WAY PROSPECTS TRAVEL BASEBALL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLoving Luca Foundation: $515 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEARTLINK: $388 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetILLINOIS CONGRESS OF PARENTS TEACHERS: $200 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds The Well Resource Center NFP ↗
  • Who funds EXECUTIVE CONSTRUCTION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC D/B/A HESED HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds TEAM JACK FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NAPERVILLE RESPONDS FOR OUR VETERANS ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds RESPIRATORY HEALTH ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BUNKER HILL CHARITIES ↗
  • Who funds PATHWAY TO ADVENTURE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds TIMOTHY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS IN THE GAME NFP ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST ILLINOIS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds REED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TURNER CONSTRUCTION COMPANY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GOLDEN CORRIDOR FAMILY YMCA ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

AbbVie FoundationMotorola Solutions Fo…The Chicago Community…Arthur J Gallagher Fo…Charities Aid Foundat…Verizon FoundationThe Pfizer Foundation…Edward Jones Foundati…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Blackbaud Giving …Enterprise Holdings F…National Philanthropi…
AbbVie FoundationIL15.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: AbbVie Foundation · Motorola Solutions Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Verizon Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Edward Jones Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Glass Solutions Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Glass Solutions Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Glass Solutions Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Glass Solutions Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 94 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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