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Grow Greater Englewood Inc

Create sustainable food economies

$44k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Community Improvement$155kFood & Nutrition$110kEnvironment$66kArts & Culture$35kYouth Development$15kEmployment$14kHuman Services$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Greater Englewood Community Development$50,000
Cedillos Fresh Produce$20,000
Greater Englewood Chamber of Commerce &$5,000
Live the Spirit Residency$5,000
Branding Englewood$5,000
Inner-City Muslim Action Network$5,000
Emerald South Economic Developmen$5,000
Think Outside Da Block$5,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Hustle Mommies: $5k → 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.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$183k · 4 repeat orgs$247k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +69% since the first grant, against +2% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
16

Total granted

$183k
$227k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
+2%

Still filing today

50%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Food & NutritionCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentEmploymentOther
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

  • GE
    GREATER ENGLEWOOD COMMUNITY DEV CORP
    3× · 2022–2024 · $100k · revenue -23%
  • JC
    JUAN CARLOS CEDILLO-PEREZ
    2× · 2022–2024 · $45k
  • BE
    BRANDING ENGLEWOOD
    3× · 2022–2024 · $28k

Funded once

  • EL
    EARTHSEED LANDSCAPING & GARDENS LWCA
    one grant, 2022 · $41k
  • RV
    ROOTS & VINE PRODUCE & CAFE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $35k
  • GG
    GETTING GROWN COLLECTIVE INCORPORATED NFP
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -65%
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
Greater Englewood Chamber of Commerce

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.

Employment
2
I Grow Chicago Nfp

The mission of I Grow Chicago is to grow Englewood from surviving to thriving through community connection, skill building, and opportunity.

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3
Workin Rootz

Our mission is to revitalize and re-engage the community by reconnecting to the Earth through land stewardship, food sovereignty, sustainability, and herbalism.

Environment
4
Black Seeds

prove asset to organic food

Food & Nutrition
5
Fierce Women of Faith Nfp

To decrease the voilence in englewood chicago while increasing the peace for the residents of the community in englewood

—
6
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
7
True Chicago
Arts & Culture
8
Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center

The center promotes and grows chicagos entrepreneurial community.

Community Improvement
9
Green Chicago Restaurant Coalition

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…

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10
Greater Chatham Initiative

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, avalon…

—
11
The Greenwood Plan

The Greenwood Plan was established in for the purpose of supporting the communal health of Black communities and to advance economic justice for Black Communities by bridging people and knowledge networks, redirecting resources, and…

Community Improvement
12
The Veterans Exchange

Employment support and exchange for veterans

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Growing Home Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
6/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREATER ENGLEWOOD COMMUNITY DEV CORP: $100,000 · OtherGREATER ENGLEWOOD COMMUNITY DEV CORPJUAN CARLOS CEDILLO-PEREZ: $45,000 · OtherJUAN CARLOS CEDILLO-PEREZEARTHSEED LANDSCAPING & GARDENS LWCA: $41,200 · OtherEARTHSEED LANDSCAPING & GARDENS LWCAROOTS & VINE PRODUCE & CAFE INC: $35,000 · OtherROOTS & VINE PRODUCE & CAFE INCBRANDING ENGLEWOOD: $28,000 · OtherBRANDING ENGLEWOODEat Drink Be Events LLC: $25,000 · OtherEat Drink Be Events LLC+10 more: $56,650 · Other+10 moreURBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC: $15,000 · Food & NutritionDIONS CHICAGO DREAM INC NFP: $15,000 · Food & NutritionGETTING GROWN COLLECTIVE INCORPORATED NFP: $25,000 · EnvironmentFOLDED MAP PROJECT: $15,000 · Civil RightsTeamwork Englewood Inc: $7,000 · Community ImprovementINNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK: $5,000 · Community ImprovementTHINK OUTSIDE DA BLOCK INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentGROWING HOME INC: $7,500 · Employment
Other$330,850Food & Nutrition$30,000Environment$25,000Civil Rights$15,000Community Improvement$12,000Youth Development$10,000Employment$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGREATER ENGLEWOOD COMMUNITY DEV CORP: $100,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetGETTING GROWN COLLECTIVE INCORPORATED NFP: $25,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetURBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDIONS CHICAGO DREAM INC NFP: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFOLDED MAP PROJECT: $15,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetTHINK OUTSIDE DA BLOCK INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGROWING HOME INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTeamwork Englewood Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIVE THE SPIRIT RESIDENCY: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHustle Mommies: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetINNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMERALD SOUTH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COLLOBORATIVE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGE CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

The Chicago Community…Robert R McCormick Fo…John D and Catherine …Role Model Movement I…Joseph & Bessie Feinb…Field Foundation of I…Local Initiatives Sup…Silicon Valley Commun…
The Chicago Community TrustIL21.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Grow Greater Englewood Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Grow Greater Englewood Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Grow Greater Englewood Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Grow Greater Englewood Inc 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 24 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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