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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 42 grants below total $958,525, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,025,075 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $66,550 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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

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 (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. Its 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%Community Partners for Affordable Housing: $23k → 8%Community Partners for Affordable Housing: $20k → 8%Glenkirk: $9k → 14%Community Partners for Affordable Housing: $15k → 8%Glenkirk: $9k → 14%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%Community Partners for Affordable Housing: $15k → 8%Tri-Con Child Care Center: $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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +27% for those 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

+36%
+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
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

  • 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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    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%
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
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
Lakes Center for Youth & Families

The mission of lakes center for youth and families (lc4yf) is to ensure the success of youth, adults and families through programming to meet the ever changing needs of our community.

Crime & Legal
5
Illinois Institute for Children

Providing Social Services to Families including Child Care

Human Services
6
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
7
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
8
Youth and Family Counseling

Youth & Family Counseling is a nonprofit organization dedicated to opening doors to mental healthcare so people can cope, heal and thrive. Their work addresses the root causes and systemic barriers that limit access to behavioral…

Human Services
9
Northwest Community Center

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

—
10
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
11
Hyde Park Neighborhood Club

To help families and schools to develop healthy, well-rounded young people by providing enriching activities, leadership models, a place of pride and sense of commmunity.

Human Services
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Focus; 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.
04the grantee network

51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/51
Grantees still filing
40/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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 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 ↗

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.

First Bank Chicago Fo…Healthcare Foundation…The Lake County Commu…YEA Highland Park IncJewish Federation of …Leva Family FoundationJohn and Kathleen Sch…AbbVie FoundationNorthwestern Memorial…Give N KindUnited Way of Lake Co…Vivo Foundation
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

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 Highland Park Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Highland Park Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's 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, 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.

    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 58 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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