How much did GRAND FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of GRAND FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath 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

2018

racinewaukegan

2019

epicmillburnyouthwaukegan

2020

indianapolisresourcefood bankkenoshachicago survivors

2021

shoeskids golfgolf outingkitchenblock hoodveteranslittle

2022

southeastchicago

2023

villa townshipyouthdistrictwaukeganlake villa

2024

chicago

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k42 grants · $76k
$10k–50k5 grants · $70k
$50k–250k1 grant · $52k

$1,030

Median grant

States reached

$263k

Total assets

Largest grants

WAUKEGAN TO COLLEGE$52,000
CARMEL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL$30,000
DOTTED LINE DIVAS$10,371
CRADLES TO CRAYONS$10,000
THE CIVIC THEATER OF GREATER LAYFAYETTE$10,000
GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE$10,000
MOTHERS TRUST FOUNDATION$5,833
SIENA RETREAT CENTER$5,170
ZACH JOHNSON FOUNDATION$5,166
ROOTED ANTIOCH$5,000
MADISON PARKS FOUNDATION$5,000
YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS$5,000
AWESOME YOUNG AUTHOR'S AWARD AND COMMUNITY$5,000
NORTH CHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION$3,000
RISE WISCONSIN INC$3,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 9%. 25% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$626k · 50 repeat orgs$313k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +79% since the first grant, against +66% for the ones you funded once.

50 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

145

Total granted

$626k

$250k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+79%

+66%

Still filing today

32%

30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther

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

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
3× · 2020–2022 · $140k · revenue +26%
ZJ
ZACH JOHNSON FOUNDATION
2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +26%
CH
COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION
2× · 2020–2021 · $14k · revenue +128%

Funded once

LC
LAKE COUNTY SPONSORSgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +29%
SP
SATURDAY PLACE
one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +7%
PF
PEARLS FOR TEENS
one grant, 2022 · $12k

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

04Your 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.

Pathways of Wisconsin Inc

Pathways of wisconsin provides day services and employment services including job development, training, and day-to-day support to consumers with developmental disabilities.

Human Services

Kishwaukee United Way

To improve lives by sharing community resources

Philanthropy

Goodwill Industries of Northern Il and

Create opportunities for people with barriers through training, employment, and supportive services

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Neighborhood Housing Services

Neighborhood housing services of southeast wisconsin is a private not-for-profit development corporation committed to revitalizing featured neighborhoods in the racine and kenosha areas.

Housing & Shelter

Innovative Services Inc

Innovative services, inc. (innovative care services) is made up of over 350 caring team members serving people with disabilities throughout wisconsin. innovative provides community supported living, residential care, and mental health care…

Human Services

Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.

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Variety - the Children's Charity of Wisconsin Inc

Enriching the lives of children with physical or developmental special needs and their families.

—

Feeding Wisconsin Inc

Our vision is a hunger-free wisconsin and our mission is to help our food banks and partners fight hunger, improve health and strengthen local communities so that everybody in wisconsin has access to the food and benefits they need to…

Food & Nutrition

Wisconsin Youth Company Inc

The development of social and life skills in children through recreational and informal education program opportunities.

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Lad Lake Inc

The youth in our care are some of our community's most vulnerable. nearly all have experienced child abuse and neglect, suffered addiction, aged out of foster care, been involved in the youth justice system or suffered commercial sexual…

—

Wausau Child Care Inc

Strengthen child development, families and the community by providing access to safe, high quality early learning for children.

Human Services

Giant Steps Illinois Inc

Giant Steps Illinois, Inc. provides services to individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Lake County Community and the most unlike its peers is Carthage College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/83

the rest of the field

12%

5,933/48,505

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.

05the grantee network

73 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

71/73

Grantees still filing

56/73

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$613,304Education$156,236Human Services$45,500Youth Development$37,297Health$33,678Philanthropy$30,966Religion$21,900

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.

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.

Green Bay Packers FoundationWI27.8× affinity13 shared granteesties to 5 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Green Bay Packers Foundation · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Lake County Community · Give N Kind · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Baxter International Foundation · Julian Grace Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Trustmark Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc

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 organisation GRAND FOUNDATION 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: LAKE COUNTY SPONSORS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 364448918 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on LAKE COUNTY SPONSORS, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 11% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Grand Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Grand Foundation 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.

GRAND FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

73 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Grand Foundation?

More from the funding graph

GRAND FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

73 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Grand Foundation?

More from the funding graph