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Green Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SANGAMON COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $2,000 |
| OPERATION HEALING FORCES INC | $2,000 |
| THE OUTLET | $2,000 |
| ONE IN A MILLION INC | $2,000 |
| BALL-CHATHAM EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $1,337 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $500 |
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 (FY17–22, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2022, 26 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SPRINGFIELD4× · 2017–2021 · $18k · revenue +48%
- SSPARC2× · 2017–2019 · $7k · revenue +102%
- PCPRAIRIE CENTER AGAINST SEXUAL ASSAULT3× · 2017–2021 · $6k · revenue +114%
Funded once
- ACAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCone grant, 2018 · $11k · revenue -82%
- NMNORTH MANSION Y BLOCK DEVELOPMENT Gone grant, 2017 · $7k
- LOLAND OF LINCOLN (SPRINGFIELD SANGAMON GROWTH ALLIANCE)one grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
Improve the lives of children in illinois by bringing about significant changes in public policies and programs for children through research, policy analysis and advocacy, public education and community outreach.
Children's advocates for change was organized to improve the lives of children in illinois by bringing about significant changes public policies and programs for children through research, policy analysis and advocacy, public education and…
The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…
To help children reach their full potential through life-changing, professionally supported, one-to-one mentoring relationships.
Our mission is to maximize independence for individuals with disabilities through choice, advocacy and service access.
Strive to improve the health and well being of migrant and seasonal farmworkers and other medically vulnerable populations by providing quality accessable, affordable, and culturally responsive health care within the community we serve.
To identify problems facing the poor and homeless in springfield, il and to implement and coordinate services to help address those problems.
To assist children who have been victims of abuse
Operate homes for the aged and to conduct charitable and benevolent enterprises
The One Aim Illinois Gun Violence Prevention Coalition stands firm in our commitment to advocating for measures that put survivors first, protect vulnerable communities, and create a future free from the threat of gun violence.
Casa central drives change by empowering individuals and families to thrive - delivering impactful services that transform lives and uplift communities.
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Central Illinois Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Conservancy of Southwest Florida. 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 30 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
45 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. 45 of the 120 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 YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SPRINGFIELD ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SPARC ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE CENTER AGAINST SEXUAL ASSAULT ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds Girls on the Run of Central Illinois ↗
- Who funds Prevent Child Abuse Illinois ↗
- Who funds Central Illinois Foodbank Inc ↗
- Who funds FAITH COALITION FOR THE COMMON GOOD INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Communities Inc ↗
- Who funds Gold Star Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS SHERIFFS' ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETH ANN SETON PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HEALING FORCES INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds BROTHER JAMES COURT ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Levi Ray & Shoup Foundation · Community Foundation for the Land of Lincoln Inc · M G Nelson Family Foundation · Horace Mann Educators Foundation · United Way of Central Illinois Inc · Memorial Health System · Aa Harvey Foundation · Carmax Foundation · James Orlandini Foundation · The Cellini Family Fund Trust Co William F Cellini Jr · Memorial Health System Group · United Way of Decatur and Mid Il
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 Green Family Charitable 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.
- Guadalupe Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Global Empowerment Mission Inc — 0% 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.
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