· Public charity
Grow Greater Englewood Inc
Create sustainable food economies
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Greater Englewood Community Development | $50,000 |
| Cedillos Fresh Produce | $20,000 |
| Emerald South Economic Developmen | $5,000 |
| Greater Englewood Chamber of Commerce & | $5,000 |
| Live the Spirit Residency | $5,000 |
| Branding Englewood | $5,000 |
| Think Outside Da Block | $5,000 |
| Inner-City Muslim Action Network | $5,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $5k) 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.
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 +69% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- GEGREATER ENGLEWOOD COMMUNITY DEV CORP3× · 2022–2024 · $100k · revenue -1%
- JCJUAN CARLOS CEDILLO-PEREZ2× · 2022–2024 · $45k
- BEBRANDING ENGLEWOOD3× · 2022–2024 · $28k
Funded once
- ELEARTHSEED LANDSCAPING & GARDENS LWCAone grant, 2022 · $41k
- RVROOTS & VINE PRODUCE & CAFE INCone grant, 2022 · $35k
- GGGETTING GROWN COLLECTIVE INCORPORATED NFPone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -65%
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.
To transform Greater Englewood into a popular commercial and retail destination by advising, developing and showcasing its established businesses and acting as a comprehensive economic development partner.
The mission of I Grow Chicago is to grow Englewood from surviving to thriving through community connection, skill building, and opportunity.
prove asset to organic food
Our mission is to revitalize and re-engage the community by reconnecting to the Earth through land stewardship, food sovereignty, sustainability, and herbalism.
To advance economic justice for Black communities by bridging people and knowledge networks, redirecting resources, and supporting the unique needs of Black businesses.
Greater chatham initiative, inc. (gci) is a collaboration among local and regional stakeholders to develop a comprehensive set of activities and enterprises tailored to help set the chicago south side neighborhoods of auburn gresham,…
The center promotes and grows chicagos entrepreneurial community.
To decrease the voilence in englewood chicago while increasing the peace for the residents of the community in englewood
Green Chicago Restaurant Coalition's Guaranteed Green Sustainability Education Program educates foodservice operators about assessing the present state of their operation's environmental sustainability and helps them to develop a plan to…
Green city market is securing the future of food by deepening support for sustainable farmers, educating our community, and expanding access to locally-grown food.
Provide resources and tools to help african american youth from underserved communities aged 14-24 achieve economic sustainability through education, career, and workforce development.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emerald South Economic Development Colloborative and the most unlike its peers is Hustle Mommies. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 24 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 GREATER ENGLEWOOD COMMUNITY DEV CORP ↗
- Who funds GETTING GROWN COLLECTIVE INCORPORATED NFP ↗
- Who funds URBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds DIONS CHICAGO DREAM INC NFP ↗
- Who funds FOLDED MAP PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THINK OUTSIDE DA BLOCK INC ↗
- Who funds GROWING HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Teamwork Englewood Inc ↗
- Who funds LIVE THE SPIRIT RESIDENCY ↗
- Who funds Hustle Mommies ↗
- Who funds INNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds EMERALD SOUTH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COLLOBORATIVE ↗
- Who funds GE CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Chicago Community Trust · Robert R McCormick Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Role Model Movement Inc (NFP) · Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · Local Initiatives Support Corporation · Silicon Valley Community 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 Grow Greater Englewood Inc 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.
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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