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Highland Park Community Foundation

Grants to charitable organizations

$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
42
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$105k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Human Services$1.6MEducation$940kHealth$673kCrime & Legal$672kArts & Culture$590kPhilanthropy$241kYouth Development$223kHousing & Shelter$180kOther$0
02FY2024 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 42 grants below total $958,525 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,025,075 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $66,550 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $69k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $435k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $455k
$14,925
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Josselyn$105,000
Highwood Library & Community Center$74,000
North Suburban Legal Aid Clinic$64,500
Family Focus HP$56,000
Highland Park Community Early Learning Center$52,500
Tri-Con Child Care Center$52,500
The Art Center Highland Park$50,000
College Bound Opportunities$40,000
Southeast Lake County Faith in Action Volunteers$31,000
Zacharias Sexual Abuse Center$30,000
Highland Park Strings$23,000
Community Partners for Affordable Housing$22,500
Northern Illinois Food Bank$22,000
Highland Park High School$19,550
Pilgrim Chamber Players$18,000
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 (FY17–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Keeping Families Covered: $10k → 8%Southeast Lake County Faith in Action Volunteers: $31k → 8%Rainbows for All Children: $10k → 14%Family Service of Glencoe: $35k → 14%Family Service of Glencoe: $30k → 14%Family Service of Glencoe: $13k → 14%Glenkirk: $12k → 14%Glenkirk: $11k → 14%JCC Chicago: $10k → 14%JCC Chicago: $10k → 14%Glenkirk: $9k → 14%Glenkirk: $9k → 14%Community Partners for Affordable Housing: $23k → 8%Community Partners for Affordable Housing: $20k → 8%Glenkirk: $9k → 14%Community Partners for Affordable Housing: $15k → 8%Roberti Community House: $13k → 8%Roberti Community House: $13k → 8%Roberti Community House: $10k → 8%JCFS Chicago Response for Teens: $88k → 14%Jewish Child and Family Services: $16k → 14%Mothers Trust Foundation: $10k → 8%Youth Services: $25k → 14%Youth Services: $12k → 14%Family Focus HP: $90k → 8%Family Focus Highland Park: $85k → 8%Family Focus HP: $56k → 8%Tri-Con Child Care Center: $53k → 8%Tri-Con Child Care Center: $52k → 8%Tri-Con Child Care Center: $51k → 8%Tri-Con Child Care Center: $50k → 8%Tri-Con Child Care Center: $50k → 8%Tri-Con Child Care Center: $49k → 8%Family Focus Highland Park: $48k → 8%Family Focus (formerly known as Family Network): $45k → 8%Family Focus (formerly known as Family Network): $36k → 8%Southeast Lake County Faith in Action Volunteers: $34k → 8%Southeast Lake County Faith in Action Volunteers: $29k → 8%Southeast Lake County Faith in Action: $20k → 8%Southeast Lake County Faith in Action Volunteers: $20k → 8%Southeast Lake County Faith in Action: $19k → 8%Communiity Partners for Affordable Housing: $17k → 8%Tri-Con Child Care Center: $16k → 8%Tri-Con Child Care Center: $15k → 8%Community Partners for Affordable Housing: $15k → 8%Collaborative Community Housing Initiative: $15k → 8%Collaborative Community Housing Initiative: $14k → 8%Family Network: $9k → 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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.4M · 51 repeat orgs$171k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

51 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
4

Total granted

$5.4M
$144k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+27%

Still filing today

84%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHealthEducationPhilanthropyOther

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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE HIGHWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $371k · revenue +140%
  • HP
    HIGHLAND PARK COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $358k · revenue +47%
  • TJ
    THE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP
    6× · 2019–2024 · $344k · revenue +776%

Funded once

  • JC
    JCFS Chicago
    one grant, 2023 · $75k
  • FF
    Fenix Family Health Centergraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +89%
  • RC
    ROTARY CLUB OF HIGHLAND PARK- HIGHWOOD
    one grant, 2021 · $12k · revenue -24%

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
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
2
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
3
Oak Leyden Developmental Services Inc

To help people with developmental disabilities meet life's challenges and reach their highest potential.

4
Illinois Institute for Children

Providing Social Services to Families including Child Care

Human Services
5
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
6
The Chicago High School for the Arts

The chicago high school for the arts (chiarts) develops the next generation of diverse, artistically promising scholar-artists through intensive pre-professional training in the arts, combined with a comprehensive college preparatory…

Education
7
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
8
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
9
Northwest Community Center

To enrich the quality of life within the diverse population of northwest rockford.

10
Chicago Youth Centers

To provide high-quality early learning and out-of-school time enrichment in under-resourced neighborhoods to holistically support children of all ages, their families, and their communities.

Youth Development
11
Highsight

To provide academic & social support to inner-city chicago high school students. program provides scholarships, mentors & tutors to enable students to succeed in the high school of their choice.

Community Improvement
12
Chicago Heights Drama Group

To provide affordable community theater.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Focus and the most unlike its peers is The Roberti Community House. 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 27 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%2%<5yr14%20%5–10yr18%26%10–20yr17%8%20–35yr14%22%35–55yr16%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%1%<5yr14%16%5–10yr18%18%10–20yr17%6%20–35yr14%20%35–55yr16%40%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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%1/56
the rest of the field
16%
5,391/34,594

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

51 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 58 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/51
Grantees still filing
40/51
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TRI-CON CHILD CARE CENTER INC — $335,475 · Human ServicesTRI-CON CHILD CARE CENTER INCFAMILY FOCUS LEGACY — $231,090 · Human ServicesFAMILY FOCUS LEGACYLake County Partners In Aging — $163,750 · Human ServicesLake County Partners In AgingFamily Focus — $146,000 · Human ServicesFamily FocusJewish Child and Family Services — $140,000 · Human ServicesJewish Child and Family Servi…COMMUNITY PARTNERS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING — $94,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY PARTNERS FOR AFFORD…FAMILY SERVICE OF GLENCOE — $77,500 · Human ServicesGlenkirk — $56,500 · Human Services+7 more — $214,525 · Human Services+7 moreFAMILY SERVICE OF LAKE COUNTY — $342,145 · OtherFAMILY SERVICE OF LAKE COUNTYVarious Other Charitable Organizations — $199,356 · OtherVarious Other Charitable Organiz…LAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER — $113,000 · OtherLAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTERJCFS Chicago — $75,000 · OtherKESHET — $68,300 · OtherBIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $65,500 · OtherHighland Park Public Library — $61,000 · OtherUNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCE — $60,500 · OtherNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK — $115,500 · OtherNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK+18 more — $474,337 · Other+18 moreHIGHLAND PARK COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL — $358,310 · EducationHIGHLAND PAR…COLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES — $174,500 · EducationCOLLEGE BOUN…Highland Park High School Parent Teacher Organization — $81,750 · EducationHighland Par…THE ART CENTER OF HIGHLAND PARK — $243,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ART CEN…HIGHLAND PARK STRINGS NFP — $122,500 · Arts & CultureHIGHLAND PA…Focus on the Arts Inc — $76,000 · Arts & CultureFocus on th…THE PILGRIM CHAMBER PLAYERS — $69,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PILGRIM…Midwest Young Artists — $35,000 · Arts & CultureMidwest You…+1 more — $15,000 · Arts & CultureNORTH SUBURBAN LEGAL AID CLINIC — $290,025 · Crime & LegalNORTH SUB…ZACHARIAS SEXUAL ABUSE CENTER — $193,900 · Crime & LegalZACHARIAS…THE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP — $344,000 · HealthTHE JOSSE…Fenix Family Health Center — $50,000 · HealthFenix Fam…CANCER WELLNESS CENTER — $35,500 · HealthCANCER WE…The Balance Project Inc — $28,000 · HealthThe Balan…FRIENDS OF THE HIGHWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY — $371,000 · Environment
Human Services$1,458,840Other$1,574,638Education$614,560Arts & Culture$560,500Crime & Legal$483,925Health$457,500Environment$371,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFRIENDS OF THE HIGHWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY — $371,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetHIGHLAND PARK COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL — $358,310 over 8y, 4.9% of budgetTHE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP — $344,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF LAKE COUNTY — $342,145 over 6y, 11% of budgetTRI-CON CHILD CARE CENTER INC — $335,475 over 8y, 16% of budgetNORTH SUBURBAN LEGAL AID CLINIC — $290,025 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetTHE ART CENTER OF HIGHLAND PARK — $243,000 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetFAMILY FOCUS LEGACY — $231,090 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetZACHARIAS SEXUAL ABUSE CENTER — $193,900 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetCOLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES — $174,500 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetLake County Partners In Aging — $163,750 over 8y, 31% of budgetFamily Focus — $146,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJewish Child and Family Services — $140,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHIGHLAND PARK STRINGS NFP — $122,500 over 6y, 37% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK — $115,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER — $113,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING — $94,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHighland Park High School Parent Teacher Organization — $81,750 over 5y, 72% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF GLENCOE — $77,500 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetFocus on the Arts Inc — $76,000 over 4y, 46% of budgetTHE PILGRIM CHAMBER PLAYERS — $69,000 over 4y, 37% of budgetKESHET — $68,300 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $65,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetGlenkirk — $56,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFenix Family Health Center — $50,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetKIDS RANK — $49,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetCOLLABORATIVE COMMUNITY HOUSING INITIATIVE — $44,525 over 4y, 13% of budgetGratitude Generation Inc — $42,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetThe Roberti Community House — $41,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING INC — $39,780 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCURT'S CAFE — $39,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetYOUTH SERVICES OF GLENVIEWNORTHBROOK — $37,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCANCER WELLNESS CENTER — $35,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMidwest Young Artists — $35,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetLESTER AND ROSALIE ANIXTER CENTER — $34,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COUNCIL FOR YOUTH SERVICES — $33,655 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDIRECT GIVING LAB — $32,400 over 4y, 18% of budgetThe Stuart I Raskas Friendship Circle Illinois NFP — $32,000 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetJewish Community Centers of Chicago — $28,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Balance Project Inc — $28,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetRAINBOWS FOR ALL CHILDREN INC — $23,500 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetMothers Trust Foundation — $22,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPARKS FOUNDATION OF HIGHLAND PARK — $20,499 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetKEEPING FAMILIES COVERED — $18,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetART IMPACT PROJECT NOT FOR PROFIT — $17,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetUptown Music Theater of Highland Park — $15,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetBEST FUTURES INC — $10,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetHEART OF THE CITY — $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HIGHWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY
  • Who funds HIGHLAND PARK COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL
  • Who funds THE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP
  • Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF LAKE COUNTY
  • Who funds TRI-CON CHILD CARE CENTER INC
  • Who funds NORTH SUBURBAN LEGAL AID CLINIC
  • Who funds THE ART CENTER OF HIGHLAND PARK
  • Who funds FAMILY FOCUS LEGACY
  • Who funds ZACHARIAS SEXUAL ABUSE CENTER
  • Who funds COLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES
  • Who funds Lake County Partners In Aging
  • Who funds Family Focus
  • Who funds Jewish Child and Family Services
  • Who funds HIGHLAND PARK STRINGS NFP
  • Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK
  • Who funds LAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER
  • Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING
  • Who funds Highland Park High School Parent Teacher Organization
  • Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF GLENCOE
  • Who funds Focus on the Arts Inc
  • Who funds THE PILGRIM CHAMBER PLAYERS
  • Who funds KESHET
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
  • Who funds Glenkirk
  • Who funds Fenix Family Health Center
  • Who funds KIDS RANK
  • Who funds COLLABORATIVE COMMUNITY HOUSING INITIATIVE
  • Who funds Gratitude Generation Inc
  • Who funds The Roberti Community House
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING INC
  • Who funds CURT'S CAFE
  • Who funds YOUTH SERVICES OF GLENVIEWNORTHBROOK
  • Who funds CANCER WELLNESS CENTER
  • Who funds Midwest Young Artists
  • Who funds LESTER AND ROSALIE ANIXTER CENTER

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.

First Bank Chicago FoundationIL53.1× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: First Bank Chicago Foundation · Healthcare Foundation of Highland Park · The Lake County Community Foundation · YEA Highland Park Inc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Leva Family Foundation · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · AbbVie Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Give N Kind · United Way of Lake County Inc · Vivo 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 Highland Park Community 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    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 58 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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