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Greater Organization for Less Fortunate

To raise funds for less fortunate youth

$67k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$56k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Education$409kHealth$128kYouth Development$92kRecreation & Sports$83k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $56k
$56,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$515k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Fr Smyth Standing Tall Foundation$56,000
Loyola Academy$10,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%St Francis High School: $10k → 7%Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Fdn: $64k → 14%OSF Healthcare Fdn: $6k → 14%St Francis High School: $10k → 7%Cristo Rey: $58k → 14%Ronald McDonald House Charities: $6k → 14%Ronald McDonald House Charities: $64k → 7%Cristo Rey: $20k → 14%River Forest CC Educational Fund: $16k → 7%Loyola Academy: $10k → 14%Cristo Rey: $20k → 14%Loyola Academy: $10k → 14%NorthShore CC Foundation Inc: $15k → 14%NorthShore CC Foundation Inc: $15k → 14%Christ The King Jesuit College Prep: $10k → 14%Illinois PGA Fdn: $83k → 14%Christ The King Jesuit College Prep: $10k → 14%JDRF Illinois: $64k → 14%Fr Smyth Standing Tall Foundation: $56k → 14%Fr Smyth Standing Tall Fdn: $55k → 14%Fr Smyth Standing Tall Fdn: $55k → 14%Fr Smyth Standing Tall Fdn: $55k → 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.
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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$409k · 6 repeat orgs$303k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
7

Total granted

$409k
$303k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
0%

Still filing today

33%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • TR
    THE REV JOHN P SMYTH STANDING TALL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $221k · revenue +34% · 33% of their budget
  • CR
    CRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL
    3× · 2022–2024 · $98k
  • NS
    NORTH SHORE COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue -2%

Funded once

  • IP
    ILLINOIS PROFESSIONAL GOLFERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $83k · revenue +97%
  • Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation
    one grant, 2024 · $64k · revenue 0%
  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1D
    one grant, 2024 · $64k · revenue +17%
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
Childrens Hospital of Illinois Medical Group

To support the mission of osf healthcare system, a catholic integrated health care delivery system, through the provision of quality health care services related to comprehensive inpatient and outpatient care for children.

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3
Pediatric Faculty Foundation Inc

We value excellence and innovation in clinical and basic research, coordinated and comprehensive patient care, ongoing physician education, and evidence-based child advocacy. our goal is to provide leadership in endeavors that promote the…

Health
4
Lurie Children's Surgical Foundation Inc

Provide pediatric and subspecialty surgical, research, and educational services.

—
5
Rush Copley Foundation

To inspire philanthropic support for rush copley medical center and other related/controlled exempt entities to advance healthcare and health to the community we serve.

Health
6
Children's Hospital of Chicago Medical Center

We are dedicated to the health and well-being of all children. as the pediatric teaching facility for the northwestern university feinberg school of medicine, this commitment drives us to be a leader in: -pediatric health care delivery…

Health
7
Rush Copley Medical Center

To improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
8
Illinois Community Health Foundation Inc
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9
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
10
Rush University Medical Center

The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
11
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
12
The Richard H Driehaus Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ronald McDonald House Global; the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. 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

9 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. 9 of the 13 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE REV JOHN P SMYTH STANDING TALL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $221,000 · EducationTHE REV JOHN P SMYTH STANDING TALL CHARITA…NORTH SHORE COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · EducationNORTH SHORE COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INCRIVER FOREST COUNTY CLUB EDUCATIONAL FUND: $15,731 · EducationRIVER FOREST COUNTY CLUB EDUCATIONAL FUNDAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation: $63,751 · HealthAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's…BREAKTHROUGH T1D: $63,751 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1DRonald McDonald House Global: $63,751 · HealthRonald McDonald House Global+1 more: $6,398 · HealthCRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL: $98,000 · OtherCRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCH…LOYOLA ACADEMY: $20,000 · OtherLOYOLA ACADEMYChrist The King Jesuit College Prep: $20,000 · OtherChrist The King Jesuit Col…ST FRANCIS HIGH SCHOOL: $20,000 · OtherST FRANCIS HIGH SCHOOLRonald McDonald House Charities of Central Illinois: $6,398 · OtherILLINOIS PROFESSIONAL GOLFERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC: $83,121 · Recreation & SportsILLINOIS PROF…
Education$266,731Health$197,651Other$164,398Recreation & Sports$83,121

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE REV JOHN P SMYTH STANDING TALL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $221,000 over 4y, 33% of budgetILLINOIS PROFESSIONAL GOLFERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC: $83,121 over 1y, 12% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation: $63,751 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $63,751 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global: $63,751 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH SHORE COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetRIVER FOREST COUNTY CLUB EDUCATIONAL FUND: $15,731 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Central Illinois: $6,398 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOSF Healthcare Foundation: $6,398 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.

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.

American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Endowment FoundationOH8.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Greater Organization for Less Fortunate funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Greater Organization for Less Fortunate. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's 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
    1report 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
    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.
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    How do I get to Greater Organization for Less Fortunate?

    Find your warmest path to Greater Organization for Less Fortunate 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 13 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 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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