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Heart of Chicago Association Robert Martin at a glance

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Heart of Chicago Association Robert Martin

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$11k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$39kCrime & Legal$12kHealth$11kYouth Development$8kEducation$5kRecreation & Sports$749Human Services$500Food & Nutrition$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $725
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$525
Median grant
2
States reached
$98k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST PAUL CATHOLIC CHURCH$10,000
BRIGHTON CENTER$525
UCP SEGUIN$200
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1k) 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%UCP SEGUIN: $200 → 14%UCP SEGUIN: $200 → 14%UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY: $250 → 14%UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY: $250 → 14%UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY: $150 → 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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$64k · 8 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
16

Total granted

$64k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+6%

Still filing today

63%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $525 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthYouth DevelopmentEducationCrime & LegalHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther
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

  • BF
    BROTHERHOOD FOR THE FALLEN
    5× · 2017–2023 · $12k · revenue +123%
  • TH
    THE H FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2024 · $9k · revenue +58%
  • A
    ABC-PILSEN
    4× · 2018–2024 · $5k · revenue +149%

Funded once

  • SP
    ST PAUL CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $6k
  • AN
    ALAS NFP
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • ZT
    ZETA TAU ALPHA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +6%
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
Ucp Seguin of Greater Chicago Foundation

The Foundation's mission is to raise, grow, steward, and distribute funds to programs and services, particularly those provides by UCP Seguin, that help children and adults with disabilities achieve their potential, advance their…

Philanthropy
2
United Cerebral Palsy Center for Disability Services

The mission of united cerebral palsy - center for disability services, inc. is to improve the quality of life for persons with cerebral palsy and other disabilities.

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3
United Cerebral Palsy Association of Niagara County Inc

Empowering the people we serve to live their best lives.

Health
4
United Cerebral Palsy Association of the North Country Inc

Providing services to developmentally disabled individuals and their families including residential and clinical services.

Health
5
United Cerebral Palsy Association of Central California

To advance the independence, productivity, and full citizenship of individuals with disabilities

Health
6
United Cerebral Palsy of Central Pennsylvania

Ucp of central pennsylvania empowers people of diverse abilities to live meaningful life through innovative support and services.

—
7
United Cerebral Palsy of Ne Inc

Promote research of cerebral palsy, support programs for medical treatment, rehabilitation, education, and social needs of people with cerebral palsy.

—
8
United Cerebral Palsy Association Inc

Dedicated to advancing the independence, productivity, and full citizenship of persons with cerebral palsy and other disabilities.

Health
9
United Cerebral Palsy Association of Greater Suffolk Inc

The primary exempt purpose of the organization is to provide education, day treatment, day habilitation, residential, respite, community habilitation programs and employment services for persons with disabilities.

Health
10
Ut Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists Inc

Ulps exists to support the missions of university of tennessee health science center and le bonheur children's hospital to provide high quality patient care, education, research and advocacy. ulps will collaborate with patients and their…

Health
11
Hazelden Chicago

Harnessing science, love and the wisdom of lived experience, we are a force of healing and hope for individuals, families and communities affected by substance use and mental health conditions.

Health
12
United Cerebral Palsy Association of Greater Sacramento Inc

The mission of ucp of sacramento and northern california is to provide programs and services that improve the independence, productivity, and quality of life for people with developmental disabilities and their families.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Union League Boys and Girls Clubs; the most unlike its peers is Berna Foundation. 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

11 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. 11 of the 25 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST PAUL CATHOLIC CHURCH: $31,550 · OtherST PAUL CATHOLIC CHURCHST PAUL CHURCH: $5,600 · OtherST PAUL CHURCHALAS NFP: $2,500 · OtherALAS NFPMISERICORDIA: $2,300 · Other+10 more: $4,599 · Other+10 moreBROTHERHOOD FOR THE FALLEN: $12,000 · Crime & LegalBROTHERHOOD FOR T…THE H FOUNDATION: $9,000 · HealthTHE H FOUNDAT…+2 more: $450 · HealthABC-PILSEN: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentABC-PILSENGIRLFORWARD: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLFORWARDUNION LEAGUE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS: $500 · Youth DevelopmentUNION LEAGU…ZETA TAU ALPHA FOUNDATION: $1,000 · EducationBRIGHTON CENTER: $525 · EducationUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY SEGUIN OF GREATER CHICAGO: $1,050 · Human ServicesBERNA FOUNDATION: $500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$46,549Crime & Legal$12,000Health$9,450Youth Development$8,000Education$1,525Human Services$1,050Food & Nutrition$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 budgetBROTHERHOOD FOR THE FALLEN: $12,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE H FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetABC-PILSEN: $5,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetGIRLFORWARD: $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY SEGUIN OF GREATER CHICAGO: $1,050 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetZETA TAU ALPHA FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHTON CENTER: $525 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNION LEAGUE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPILLARS COMMUNITY HEALTH: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY INC: $200 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.

  • Who funds BROTHERHOOD FOR THE FALLEN ↗
  • Who funds THE H FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ABC-PILSEN ↗
  • Who funds GIRLFORWARD ↗
  • Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY SEGUIN OF GREATER CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds ZETA TAU ALPHA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BRIGHTON CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BERNA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNION LEAGUE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS ↗
  • Who funds PILLARS COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY INC ↗

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…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Chicago Community TrustIL13.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Heart of Chicago Association Robert Martin funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Heart of Chicago Association Robert Martin. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Heart of Chicago Association Robert Martin?

    Find your warmest path to Heart of Chicago Association Robert Martin 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 25 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-PF 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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