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Greater Auburn Gresham Development Corporation

To foster and promote the revitalization of the community by designing and implementing programs that improve the community's economic viability; increase availability of quality housing to people of different income levels while maintaining and improving existing affordable housing, and enhance delivery of social services, particularly…

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$24k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.

Youth Development$335kHuman Services$175kHealth$141kCommunity Improvement$109kRecreation & Sports$64kEducation$63kHousing & Shelter$49kArts & Culture$45kOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 34 grants below total $566,686 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,478,742 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $912,056 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.

$18,549
Median grant
1
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ADVOCATES FOR COMMUNITY WELLNESS$24,250
THE LYTE COLLECTIVE$24,250
TRUE BELIEVERS COMMUNITY CONNECTION$24,250
BURST INTO BOOKS$24,250
BA NIA INCORPORATED$20,000
FREE LUNCH ACADEMY$20,000
GRANT A WISH INC$20,000
THE CHRYSALIS PROGRAM$18,549
SOMETHING GOOD IN ENGLEWOOD INC$18,549
TOTALLY POSITIVE PRODUCTIONS$18,549
TRUE STAR FOUNDATION INC$18,549
STEP UP FOR MENTAL HEALTH$18,549
WORK FOUNDATION$18,549
TGI MOVEMENT$18,549
HOPE CENTER FOUNDATION$18,549
02The need
03

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 (FY23–24, $179k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BURST INTO BOOKS: $24k → 14%HOPE CENTER FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%HOPE CENTER FOUNDATION: $19k → 14%BURST INTO BOOKS: $10k → 14%HUSTLE MOMMIES: $19k → 14%HUSTLE MOMMIES: $15k → 14%THE LYTE COLLECTIVE: $24k → 14%CHICAGO VOLUNTEER DOULAS INC: $20k → 14%THE LYTE COLLECTIVE: $10k → 14%CHICAGO VOLUNTEER DOULAS INC: $19k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$867k · 28 repeat orgs$187k to everyone else

28 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
8

Total granted

$867k
$85k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+13%

Still filing today

79%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
EducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • CE
    CASA ESPERANZA PROJECT
    2× · 2023–2024 · $39k · revenue +243%
  • TS
    TRUE STAR FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $39k · revenue +49%
  • WF
    WORK FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $39k · revenue +206%

Funded once

  • MD
    MR DAD FATHERS CLUBgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +175%
  • SC
    SUTTON CENTER NFP
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • RM
    Real Men Charities
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue 0%

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.

1
Igniting Minds Inc

Igniting Minds works to close the educational and nutritional gaps that contribute to generational poverty in Chicago through academic enrichment, workforce development, food insecurity programming, and cultural exchange.

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2
Equality Dream Team

Provide resources and tools to help african american youth from underserved communities aged 14-24 achieve economic sustainability through education, career, and workforce development.

Education
3
Made Wright Inc

community and workplace development

Community Improvement
4
Urban Male Network

Urban Male Network is a nationally recognized organization dedicated to uplifting young men from urban communities through mentorship, education, and service. By redefining the image of the urban male, the network fosters leadership,…

Youth Development
5
Chicago Chapter National Black Mba Association

The mission of this organization is to create partnerships that produce intellectual and economic wealth in the African-American community.

Education
6
Focus Fairies Mentoring

Focus Fairies Mentoring is a community-based nonprofit that empowers and uplifts Black girls and young women of color, ages 7 to 21, on Chicago's West and South sides who have experienced vicarious trauma, violence, and systemic inequities.

Youth Development
7
Jbs Lunch and Literacy Outreach Center for Kids

Safe Place for Inner City Youth

Human Services
8
Urban Youth Ministry of Greater Indianapolis Inc

Youth

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9
Parenting for Non Violence

decreasing violence by promoting, supporting, and conducting parenting education and family life skills programs and activities that strengthen relationships between youths and their families in chicago's at-risk/underserved communities

Human Services
10
I Am My Brothers Keeper Unity Day

Violence Prevention in Chicago

Human Services
11
Sexpectations Chicago Nfp

Education to the public

Education
12
Babie Girl Productions Non-Profit Inc

Provide training to under privilege children

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is True Star Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Talented Tenth College Prepatoroy Career Mentoring. 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 9 years old; the field is 17. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%15%<5yr14%36%5–10yr18%31%10–20yr17%13%20–35yr15%5%35–55yr16%0%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%11%<5yr14%35%5–10yr18%37%10–20yr17%14%20–35yr15%4%35–55yr16%0%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 15% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
5%
2/42
the rest of the field
16%
4,998/31,468

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.

04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 42 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/32
Grantees still filing
13/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Grant a Wish Inc — $30,000 · OtherGrant a Wish IncCHRISTMAS EVERYDAY NFP — $30,000 · OtherCHRISTMAS EVERYDAY NFPTHAT HARPER KID NFP — $28,049 · OtherTHAT HARPER KID NFPHOOPS FOR PEACE — $25,000 · OtherHOOPS FOR PEACELINGO SANITATION COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP — $23,750 · OtherLINGO SANITATION COMMUNITY DEVEL…WOMEN IN NEED OF DISCOVERING OWN WORTH - W I N D O W — $20,000 · OtherWOMEN IN NEED OF DISCOVERING OWN…LIVE YOUR DREAMS FOUNDATION — $20,000 · OtherLIVE YOUR DREAMS FOUNDATIONCollective Initiatives Inc — $20,000 · OtherCollective Initiatives IncWORK FOUNDATION — $38,549 · OtherWORK FOUNDATIONNEIGHBORSPACE — $20,000 · OtherNEIGHBORSPACE+5 more — $49,500 · Other+5 moreTHE CHRYSALIS PROGRAM — $38,549 · Youth DevelopmentTHE CHRYSALIS PROGRAMBETTER BOYS FOUNDATION — $38,549 · Youth DevelopmentBETTER BOYS FOUNDATIONTOTALLY POSITIVE PRODUCTIONS — $33,549 · Youth DevelopmentTOTALLY POSITIVE PRODUC…TGI MOVEMENT — $33,549 · Youth DevelopmentTGI MOVEMENTGresham Community Center — $28,750 · Youth DevelopmentGresham Community Cente…BOUNCE FOR JOY PROJECT — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOUNCE FOR JOY PROJECTInvisible Book Bag Inc — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentInvisible Book Bag IncChicago Volunteer Doulas Inc — $38,549 · Human ServicesChicago Volunteer D…Hope Center Foundation — $38,549 · Human ServicesHope Center Foundat…BURST INTO BOOKS — $34,250 · Human ServicesBURST INTO BOOKSTHE LYTE COLLECTIVE — $34,250 · Human ServicesTHE LYTE COLLECTIVEHustle Mommies — $33,549 · Human ServicesHustle MommiesTHE GRAY MATTER EXPERIENCE INC — $38,549 · EducationTHE GRAY MATT…TRUE BELIEVERS COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS — $24,250 · EducationTRUE BELIEVER…SOMETHING GOOD IN ENGLEWOOD INC — $18,549 · EducationSOMETHING GOO…MR DAD FATHERS CLUB — $15,000 · EducationMR DAD FATHER…The Black Star Project — $10,000 · EducationThe Black Sta…PROJECT SIMEON 2000 — $10,000 · EducationPROJECT SIMEO…TALENTED TENTH COLLEGE PREPATOROY CAREER MENTORING — $10,000 · EducationTALENTED TENT…TRUE STAR FOUNDATION INC — $38,549 · Arts & CultureTRUE STAR …FREE LUNCH ACADEMY — $30,000 · Arts & CultureFREE LUNCH…MUSIC BOX FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Arts & CultureMUSIC BOX …Real Men Charities — $10,000 · Arts & CultureReal Men C…BA NIA Inc — $35,000 · HealthBA NIA In…Step Up For Mental Health — $33,549 · HealthStep Up F…ADVOCATES FOR COMMUNITY WELLNESS — $24,250 · HealthADVOCATES…CASA ESPERANZA PROJECT — $38,549 · Housing & Shelter
Other$304,848Youth Development$217,946Human Services$179,147Education$126,348Arts & Culture$93,549Health$92,799Housing & Shelter$38,549

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCASA ESPERANZA PROJECT — $38,549 over 2y, 16% of budgetTRUE STAR FOUNDATION INC — $38,549 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHE GRAY MATTER EXPERIENCE INC — $38,549 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetWORK FOUNDATION — $38,549 over 2y, 10% of budgetChicago Volunteer Doulas Inc — $38,549 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetHope Center Foundation — $38,549 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE CHRYSALIS PROGRAM — $38,549 over 2y, 33% of budgetBETTER BOYS FOUNDATION — $38,549 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetBA NIA Inc — $35,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetBURST INTO BOOKS — $34,250 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetTHE LYTE COLLECTIVE — $34,250 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetTOTALLY POSITIVE PRODUCTIONS — $33,549 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetTGI MOVEMENT — $33,549 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetStep Up For Mental Health — $33,549 over 2y, 42% of budgetHustle Mommies — $33,549 over 2y, 13% of budgetGrant a Wish Inc — $30,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetFREE LUNCH ACADEMY — $30,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetBOUNCE FOR JOY PROJECT — $25,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetTRUE BELIEVERS COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS — $24,250 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetADVOCATES FOR COMMUNITY WELLNESS — $24,250 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetInvisible Book Bag Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetNEIGHBORSPACE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCollective Initiatives Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 34% of budgetSOMETHING GOOD IN ENGLEWOOD INC — $18,549 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMUSIC BOX FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetMR DAD FATHERS CLUB — $15,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetReal Men Charities — $10,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetThe Black Star Project — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetPROJECT SIMEON 2000 — $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budget
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.

The Chicago Community…United Way of Metropo…University of Chicago…John D and Catherine …Field Foundation of I…Julian Grace Foundati…Chicago Beyond IncImc Chicago Charitabl…Chicago Foundation fo…Frederick Henry Princ…Builders Vision Found…Robert R McCormick Fo…
The Chicago Community TrustIL32× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · University of Chicago Medical Center · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · Julian Grace Foundation · Chicago Beyond Inc · Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation · Chicago Foundation for Women · Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust · Builders Vision Foundation · Robert R McCormick 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 Greater Auburn Gresham Development Corporation 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Greater Auburn Gresham Development Corporation?

    Find your warmest path to Greater Auburn Gresham Development Corporation 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 and the multi-year returns of the 42 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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