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Healthcare Foundation of Northern Lake County

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
43
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$139k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN LAKE COUNTY’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $4k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $618k
  • $50k–250k21 grants · $1.7M
$45,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$67M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLLEGE OF LAKE COUNTY$139,000
NICASA BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICE$110,000
COMMUNITY YOUTH NETWORK$110,000
ARDEN SHORE CHILD AND FAMILY$110,000
LAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER$102,500
YOUTH & FAMILY COUNSELING$100,000
MANO A MANO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER$100,000
ERIE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER$97,500
HEART OF THE CITY$76,768
MOBILE CARE FOUNDATION$75,000
YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO$75,000
TASC INC$65,000
LAKE COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT$65,000
ANTIOCH AREA HEALTH ACCESSIBILITY$65,000
JOSSELYN CENTER$60,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 25% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Hispanic American Community Education & Services Inc: $60k → 8%YWCA Metropolitan Chicago: $144k → 14%YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $75k → 14%Hispanic American Community Education & Services Inc: $45k → 8%YWCA Metropolitan Chicago: $43k → 14%YWCA Metropolitan Chicago: $35k → 14%Hispanic American Community Education & Services Inc: $15k → 8%SGA Youth & Family Services: $25k → 14%Youth & Family Counseling: $170k → 8%FAMILY FOCUS: $45k → 14%YOUTH & FAMILY COUNSELING: $100k → 8%Family Focus Inc: $40k → 14%Youth & Family Counseling: $53k → 8%Youth & Family Counseling: $10k → 8%Community Youth Network Inc: $128k → 8%COMMUNITY YOUTH NETWORK: $110k → 8%Uhlich Children's Advantage Network: $60k → 14%Community Youth Network Inc: $95k → 8%Community Youth Network Inc: $65k → 8%Mano a Mano Family Resource Center: $120k → 8%Mano a Mano Family Resource Center: $110k → 8%MANO A MANO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $100k → 8%Mano a Mano Family Resource Center: $55k → 8%ElderCARE Lake County: $58k → 8%ElderCARE Lake County: $46k → 8%ELDERCARE LAKE COUNTY: $39k → 8%ElderCARE Lake County: $38k → 8%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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.2M · 45 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

45 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
10

Total granted

$8.2M
$440k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+17%

Still filing today

84%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $610k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentEmploymentEnvironmentOther

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

  • PL
    PADS Lake County Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $577k · revenue +94%
  • NN
    NICASA NFP
    3× · 2021–2023 · $503k · revenue +32%
  • AS
    ARDEN SHORE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES
    4× · 2021–2024 · $487k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • YL
    YWCA LAKE COUNTY
    one grant, 2021 · $66k · revenue 0%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $64k
  • U
    UCANgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $60k · revenue +66%

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
Lakeside Community Committee

To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.

Human Services
2
Chicago Children's Advocacy Center

The chicago children's advocacy center unites public, private, and community partners to ensure the safety, health, and well-being of abused children.

Crime & Legal
3
Infant Welfare Society of Chicago

Infant welfare society of chicago (iws) (d/b/a iws family health) provides quality medical, dental and behavioral health services for the health, physical and mental development of children and their families in the chicagoland community.

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4
Center for Family Services

Administering an array of critical, intensive therapeutic interventions and/or facilitation services to emotionally and behaviorally disturbed clients for whom DCFS is legally responsible in order to stabilize their traditional or home of…

Human Services
5
Thrive Counseling Center

Our mission is to provide community-centered mental health services that empower individuals and families to build resilience and lead lives filled with meaning, connection, and hope.

Health
6
Chicago Family Health Center Inc

Chicago family health center will promote health, work to prevent disease and provide treatment through the delivery of quality, accessible primary healtcare that is culturally sensitive, affordable, and responsive to community and…

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7
Child Link Inc

Child Link provides foster care, family counseling, and therapy services to Chicago area adolescents who are at risk of homelessness. Child Link also refers adolescents to other agencies that are able to provide additional resources and…

Human Services
8
Family Counseling Services of No Il

To foster stronger communities by providing individuals with accessible, professional counseling and mental health care that empowers them to thrive

Human Services
9
Community Counseling Centers of Chicago Inc

To Provide counseling, crisis intervention, case management, psychosocial rehabilitative and vocational services to mentally ill and substance abuse clients in outpatient and community based settings.

Health
10
Chicago Women's Health Center

The organization is committed to the mission of facilitating the empowerment of women, trans people, and young people by providing access to health care and health education in a respectful environment where people pay what they can afford.

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11
Alternatives Inc

Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…

Health
12
The Family Institute

Our mission is to strengthen and heal families and individuals from all walks of life through clinical service, education and research.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sga Youth & Family Services Nfp and the most unlike its peers is Zion Benton Children's Service. 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 39 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%4%<5yr14%6%5–10yr18%10%10–20yr17%24%20–35yr14%26%35–55yr16%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%3%<5yr14%4%5–10yr18%7%10–20yr17%19%20–35yr14%34%35–55yr16%34%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/54
the rest of the field
16%
5,391/34,596

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

52 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. 52 of the 67 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/52
Grantees still filing
32/52
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NICASA NFP — $502,500 · OtherNICASA NFPCollege of Lake County — $493,500 · OtherCollege of Lake CountyARDEN SHORE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES — $487,173 · OtherARDEN SHORE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICESRosalind Franklin University Health System — $310,000 · OtherRosalind Franklin University Health SystemLAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER — $307,500 · OtherLAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTERWAUKEGAN PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $219,451 · OtherLake County Health Department & Community Health Center — $207,250 · OtherZion Benton Children's Service — $153,000 · OtherKids Above All fka Childserv — $150,000 · Other+28 more — $1,619,250 · Other+28 morePADS Lake County Inc — $576,918 · HealthPADS Lake County IncErie Family Health Center Inc — $445,000 · HealthErie Family Health Cente…THE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP — $265,000 · HealthTHE JOSSELYN CENTER NFPANTIOCH AREA HEALTHCARE ACCESSIBILITY ALLIANCE INC — $200,000 · HealthANTIOCH AREA HEALTHCARE …Equal Hope — $140,000 · HealthEqual HopeADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $107,500 · HealthTREATMENT ALTERNATIVES FOR STRONGER COMMUNITIES — $105,000 · HealthMOBILE CARE FOUNDATION — $75,000 · Health+3 more — $101,250 · HealthCOMMUNITY YOUTH NETWORK INC — $397,567 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY YOUTH NETWOR…MANO A MANO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER — $385,000 · Human ServicesMANO A MANO FAMILY RES…YOUTH AND FAMILY COUNSELING — $332,500 · Human ServicesYOUTH AND FAMILY COUNS…YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $296,250 · Human ServicesYWCA METROPOLITAN CHIC…ELDERCARE LAKE COUNTY — $180,181 · Human ServicesELDERCARE LAKE COUNTYHispanic American Community Education & Services — $120,000 · Human ServicesHispanic American Comm…FAMILY FOCUS LEGACY — $85,000 · Human Services+2 more — $85,000 · Human ServicesCristo Rey St Martin College Prep — $175,000 · EducationChicago Workers' Collaborative NFP — $60,000 · EducationWaukegan To College NFP — $37,500 · EducationBoys & Girls Club of Lake County — $110,000 · Youth DevelopmentHEART OF THE CITY — $93,435 · Youth DevelopmentKIDS RANK — $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTHBUILD LAKE COUNTY INC — $190,514 · EmploymentThe Community Works Inc NFP — $37,500 · EmploymentYOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS — $142,836 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE HIGHWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY — $45,000 · Environment
Other$4,449,624Health$2,015,668Human Services$1,881,498Education$272,500Youth Development$243,435Employment$228,014Environment$187,836

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPADS Lake County Inc — $576,918 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetNICASA NFP — $502,500 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetARDEN SHORE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES — $487,173 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetErie Family Health Center Inc — $445,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY YOUTH NETWORK INC — $397,567 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetMANO A MANO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER — $385,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetYOUTH AND FAMILY COUNSELING — $332,500 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetLAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER — $307,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetYWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $296,250 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP — $265,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetWAUKEGAN PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $219,451 over 3y, 65% of budgetANTIOCH AREA HEALTHCARE ACCESSIBILITY ALLIANCE INC — $200,000 over 3y, 39% of budgetYOUTHBUILD LAKE COUNTY INC — $190,514 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetELDERCARE LAKE COUNTY — $180,181 over 4y, 16% of budgetZion Benton Children's Service — $153,000 over 4y, 43% of budgetYOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS — $142,836 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetEqual Hope — $140,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF LAKE COUNTY — $135,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetHispanic American Community Education & Services — $120,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF LAKE COUNTY INC — $112,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Lake County — $110,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $107,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTREATMENT ALTERNATIVES FOR STRONGER COMMUNITIES — $105,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHEART OF THE CITY — $93,435 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetFAMILY FOCUS LEGACY — $85,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago — $80,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOBILE CARE FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE THRESHOLDS — $72,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA LAKE COUNTY — $66,250 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetWILLOW HOUSE — $63,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetUCAN — $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChicago Workers' Collaborative NFP — $60,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT — $55,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetRosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMcDermott Center — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetZACHARIAS SEXUAL ABUSE CENTER — $50,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Illinois — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINDEPENDENCE CENTER INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HIGHWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY — $45,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetASCEND JUSTICE — $40,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetKIDS RANK — $40,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetKids Above All Illinois — $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Community Works Inc NFP — $37,500 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetWaukegan To College NFP — $37,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTHE LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetALLENDALE ASSOCIATION — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSGA YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES NFP — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation) — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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 Lake County Commu…John and Kathleen Sch…United Way of Lake Co…Circle of Service Fou…The Chicago Community…Northwestern Memorial…Give N KindThe Gorter Family Fou…United Way of Metropo…AbbVie FoundationVisiting Nurse Associ…Trustmark Foundation
The Lake County Community FoundationIL64× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Lake County Community Foundation · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · United Way of Lake County Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Give N Kind · The Gorter Family Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundation · Trustmark 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 Healthcare Foundation of Northern Lake County 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%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 Healthcare Foundation of Northern Lake County?

    Find your warmest path to Healthcare Foundation of Northern Lake County 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 67 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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