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IFF strengthens nonprofits and the communities they serve by providing leadership, capital, and real estate solutions.- Leadership reflects our research, policy, sector work, and convening role- Capital includes a range of financial products: loans, New Markets Tax Credits, and equity - Real Estate Solutions includes a range of…

$19M
Granted FY2024still arriving
270
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$236k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2017–2024.

Education$46MHuman Services$30MArts & Culture$15MHousing & Shelter$14MHealth$13MCommunity Improvement$6.9MRecreation & Sports$3.5MReligion$911kOther$0
02FY2024 · 270 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 270 grants below total $16,988,432 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $18,813,493 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,825,061 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 $10k21 grants · $138k
  • $10k–50k98 grants · $2.6M
  • $50k–250k151 grants · $14M
$60,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$779M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Wolverine Building Group$235,638
Clubhouse Childcares LLC$180,801
FIT Investment Group$166,362
Creative Hearts Childcare LLC$150,934
Brilliant Criancas LLC$150,000
IXL New Hudson LLC$150,000
Growing Minds Learning Center$150,000
One Love 350 LLC$150,000
Kinderstar Academy of Dungytreei LLC$150,000
Ready Set Grow Child Development Center of Auburn Inc$150,000
King's Kid Christian Center$150,000
Countryside Montessori School LLC$150,000
Eastern Michigan University Children's Institute$150,000
Culture Childcare Center LLC$150,000
Little Blessings Learning House LLC$150,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $8.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Central Day Care Center: $148k → 7%Young Mens Christian Association of Lans: $81k → 16%Delta Economic Development Corporation: $62k → 16%Milwood Commons: $139k → 12%Uni-Pres Kindercottage: $52k → 16%Young Mens Christian Association of Monroe Mich: $150k → 10%Young Men's Christian Association of Lansing MI: $12k → 16%Voces: $70k → 14%Young Mens Christian Association of Kala: $75k → 12%Young Mens Christian Association of Kalamazoo: $75k → 12%Segundo Ruiz Belvis: $350k → 14%Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center: $75k → 14%Southwest Childcare Resources & Referral: $20k → 12%Apple Playschools: $149k → 14%Lawndale Community Day Care: $48k → 14%Marvelous Lifestyles Outreach: $75k → 11%Marvelous Lifestyles Outreach: $75k → 11%Trinity United Church of Christ Child Care: $70k → 14%The Village Learning Center: $150k → 11%Lifebuilders: $501k → 21%Lifebuilders: $200k → 21%YMCA of Greater Grand Rapids: $85k → 11%Rhemas Child Care Center: $66k → 21%YMCA of Greater Grand Rapids: $47k → 11%Rhemas Child Care Center: $66k → 21%Carol Roberston Center for Learning: $58k → 14%Carole Robertson Center for Learning: $42k → 14%Starfish Family Services: $109k → 21%Children's Home & Aid Society of Illinois: $29k → 14%Starfish Family Services: $53k → 21%Breaking Ground Inc: $2.5M → 14%Breaking Ground Inc: $1.4M → 14%Breaking Ground: $712k → 14%Breaking Ground: $605k → 14%Little Scholars: $65k → 21%Little Scholars of Detroit: $16k → 21%Little Scholars: $10k → 21%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.

Which US states your grants reach

MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
NV
IN
OH
PA
CA
MO
KS
AR
NC

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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$96M · 226 repeat orgs$36M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

226 repeat relationships — 182 still active in FY2024, 44 since wound down; 87 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

226
532

Total granted

$96M
$28M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+8%

Still filing today

27%
6%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.8M 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
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterReligionOther

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

  • MC
    MARYGROVE CONSERVANCY
    2× · 2019–2020 · $1.1M · revenue +190%
  • L
    LifeBUILDERS
    2× · 2017–2018 · $701k · revenue +22% · 40% of their budget
  • Deeply Rooted Productions Inc
    2× · 2021–2024 · $635k · revenue +16% · 61% of their budget

Funded once

  • HS
    Hope Starts Here
    one grant, 2020 · $1.9M
  • AI
    AMERICAN INDIAN CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $350k · revenue +135%
  • PC
    Phoenix Child Care & Academy
    one grant, 2023 · $300k

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
Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre

To use multiple artistic forms (primarily dance and music) and the combined talents of our diverse company to convey intense personal narratives. We are proudly and visibly multicultural, exploring the intersection of heritage, culture,…

Arts & Culture
2
Classical Music Chicago

Presenting free high-quality classical music performances and music education experiences in the Chicago metropolitan area for people of all ages and degrees of musical awareness so they can experience how music enriches life.

Arts & Culture
3
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
4
Theatre Y

Create connections between diverse artists seeking mutual growth through collaboration.

Arts & Culture
5
South Chicago Dance Theatre

South Chicago Dance Theatre (SCDT) is a multicultural organization seamlessly fusing classical and contemporary dance styles as well as preserving historic dance work. With Choreographic Diplomacy at the heart of the organization, the…

Arts & Culture
6
Everyday Blooms Montessori Inc

We believe that the first six years of a childs life are the most critical. We offer a high quality learning environment to a diverse community of children and families.

Education
7
Definition Theatre Company

Definition Theatre celebrates stories created with, inspired by, and intended for the people and communities of color. Through the act of making, Definition expands perspectives, stewards resources, and bridges the immense possibility…

Arts & Culture
8
Chicago Sinfonietta Inc

Chicago Sinfonietta is a professional orchestra dedicated to modeling and promoting diversity, inclusion, and both racial and cultural equity in the arts through the universal language of symphonic music. Our core values are built around…

Arts & Culture
9
Chicago Children's Museum

Chicago childrens museum is a place where families and caregivers with infants and children are encouraged to create, explore, and discover together through play. the museum features three vibrant floors of exhibits and activities that…

Arts & Culture
10
Danceworks Chicago Inc Nfp

To build a foundation for the individual artistic growth of dancers and choreographers, providing a laboratory from which early career artists propel themselves and the art form to a new level through training, collaboration, mentorship,…

Arts & Culture
11
Pegasus Theatre Chicago

Pegasus Theatre Chicago is a professional theater approaching 45 years of supporting Chicagos diverse community by producing accessible, socially relevant theatre and promoting the development of new artists for the stage. Our mission is…

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12
Lawndale Art & Performance Center

Lawndale is a multidisciplinary contemporary art center that engages Houston communities with exhibitions and programs that explore the aesthetic, critical, and social issues of our time.See Schedule O for continuation.For over 40 years,…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Black Ensemble Theater Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Connecting Through the Arts and Edu. 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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%7%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%31%20–35yr14%21%35–55yr16%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%3%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%44%20–35yr14%26%35–55yr16%8%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.6%5/845
the rest of the field
15%
10,696/72,148

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

103 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. 103 of the 845 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.

35
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
99/103
Grantees still filing
57/103
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

North Chicago School District 187 — $40,482,807 · OtherNorth Chicago School District 187North West Housing Partnership — $5,210,773 · OtherNorth West Housing Partnership+138 more — $31,712,591 · Other+138 moreDeeply Rooted Productions Inc — $635,000 · Arts & CultureDeeply Roote…BLACK ENSEMBLE THEATER CORPORATION — $635,000 · Arts & CultureBLACK ENSEMB…AFRICA INTERNATIONAL HOUSE USA INC — $635,000 · Arts & CultureAFRICA INTER…Jazz Institute of Chicago — $635,000 · Arts & CultureJazz Institu…PUERTO RICAN ARTS ALLIANCE — $635,000 · Arts & CulturePUERTO RICAN…NATIONAL MUSUEM OF PUERTO RICAN ARTS AND CULTURE — $635,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL MUS…THE DUSABLE BLACK HISTORY MUSEUM AND EDUCATION CENTER — $635,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DUSABLE …Natya Dance Theatre — $635,000 · Arts & CultureNatya Dance …Asian Improv Arts Midwest — $425,000 · Arts & CultureThe Musical Arts Institute — $425,000 · Arts & CultureMUNTU DANCE THEATRE — $425,000 · Arts & CultureChicago West Community Music Center — $425,000 · Arts & CultureCongo Square Theatre Company — $425,000 · Arts & CultureTeatro Vista Theater With a View Inc — $425,000 · Arts & CultureChicago City Theatre Company dba Joel Hall Dancers & Center — $425,000 · Arts & CultureThreewalls — $425,000 · Arts & CultureETA CREATIVE ARTS FOUNDATION — $425,000 · Arts & Culture+11 more — $2,650,000 · Arts & Culture+11 moreBREAKING GROUND INC — $5,184,494 · Human ServicesLifeBUILDERS — $700,870 · Human ServicesSegundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center — $425,000 · Human Services+10 more — $1,462,929 · Human ServicesMARYGROVE CONSERVANCY — $1,120,234 · EducationLITTLE BLACK PEARL WORKSHOP — $635,000 · EducationMEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $150,000 · EducationSpringtide Education Initiatives — $150,000 · EducationGRAND RAPIDS CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS — $150,000 · EducationKINDERHAUS MONTESSORI PRESCHOOL OF MARSHALL — $149,510 · EducationMICHIGAN MONTESSORI INTENATIONALE INC — $149,143 · EducationNORTHERN MICHIGAN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION — $149,039 · EducationLITTLE HANDS MONTESSORI INC — $135,555 · EducationROOTS MONTESSORI SCHOOL — $127,943 · EducationFSG INC — $691,165 · Community ImprovementINNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK — $635,000 · Community ImprovementAMPLIFY GR — $558,565 · Community ImprovementFOUNDATION FOR HOMAN SQUARE F/K/A HOMAN ARTHINGTON FOUNDATION — $396,334 · Community ImprovementALLIES FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESS INC — $225,000 · Community ImprovementOAK PARK REGIONAL HOUSING CENTER INC — $432,819 · Housing & ShelterALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS — $149,300 · Housing & ShelterCOTS — $147,160 · Housing & ShelterGilloury Institute — $635,000 · International
Other$77,406,171Arts & Culture$11,555,000Human Services$7,773,293Education$2,916,424Community Improvement$2,506,064Housing & Shelter$729,279International$635,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNorth West Housing Partnership — $5,210,773 over 4y, 98% of budgetBREAKING GROUND INC — $5,184,494 over 4y, 55% of budgetMARYGROVE CONSERVANCY — $1,120,234 over 2y, 12% of budgetLifeBUILDERS — $700,870 over 2y, 40% of budgetFSG INC — $691,165 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetDeeply Rooted Productions Inc — $635,000 over 2y, 61% of budgetLITTLE BLACK PEARL WORKSHOP — $635,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetBLACK ENSEMBLE THEATER CORPORATION — $635,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetINNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK — $635,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetChicago Jazz Philharmonic — $635,000 over 2y, 97% of budgetAFRICA INTERNATIONAL HOUSE USA INC — $635,000 over 2y, 60% of budgetGilloury Institute — $635,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetJazz Institute of Chicago — $635,000 over 2y, 60% of budgetINTERNATIONAL LATINO CULTURAL CENTER OF CHICAGO — $635,000 over 2y, 55% of budgetPUERTO RICAN ARTS ALLIANCE — $635,000 over 2y, 53% of budgetNATIONAL MUSUEM OF PUERTO RICAN ARTS AND CULTURE — $635,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetSOUTH SHORE DRILL TEAM & PERFORMING ARTS ENSEMBLE — $635,000 over 2y, 85% of budgetTHE DUSABLE BLACK HISTORY MUSEUM AND EDUCATION CENTER — $635,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetNatya Dance Theatre — $635,000 over 2y, 40% of budgetAMPLIFY GR — $558,565 over 2y, 20% of budgetOAK PARK REGIONAL HOUSING CENTER INC — $432,819 over 4y, 16% of budgetAsian Improv Arts Midwest — $425,000 over 2y, 52% of budgetThe Musical Arts Institute — $425,000 over 2y, 68% of budgetSegundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center — $425,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetRED CLAY DANCE COMPANY INC — $425,000 over 2y, 83% of budgetMUNTU DANCE THEATRE — $425,000 over 2y, 47% of budgetChicago West Community Music Center — $425,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetCongo Square Theatre Company — $425,000 over 2y, 68% of budgetTeatro Vista Theater With a View Inc — $425,000 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetChicago City Theatre Company dba Joel Hall Dancers & Center — $425,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetThreewalls — $425,000 over 2y, 50% of budgetSouth Side Community Art Center — $425,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetWEST POINT FELLOWSHIP INC DBA WEST POINT SCHOOL OF MUSIC — $425,000 over 2y, 54% of budgetETA CREATIVE ARTS FOUNDATION — $425,000 over 2y, 58% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR HOMAN SQUARE F/K/A HOMAN ARTHINGTON FOUNDATION — $396,334 over 5y, 15% of budgetODC NETWORK — $247,990 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetNATIONAL CAMBODIAN MUSEUM & KILLING FIELDS MEMORIAL — $230,000 over 2y, 47% of budgetCHICAGO BLUES MUSEUM — $230,000 over 2y, 97% of budgetURBAN THEATER CHICAGO NFP — $230,000 over 2y, 52% of budgetMEXICAN FOLKLORIC DANCE COMPANY OF CHICAGO INC — $230,000 over 2y, 52% of budgetCuerdas Clasicas Inc — $230,000 over 2y, 57% of budgetCAPOEIRA CHICAGO — $230,000 over 2y, 57% of budgetCommunity Film Workshop — $230,000 over 2y, 90% of budgetLIVE THE SPIRIT RESIDENCY — $230,000 over 2y, 50% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF CREATIVE MUSICIANS — $230,000 over 2y, 89% of budgetSONES DE MEXICO ENSEMBLE — $230,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetINDUSTRIAL COUNCIL OF NEARWEST CHGO — $225,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetALLIES FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESS INC — $225,000 over 2y, 4.3% 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.

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.

Field Foundation of I…Gaylord and Dorothy D…The Richard H Driehau…Lloyd a Fry FoundationThe Seabury FoundationWalder FoundationAlphawood FoundationPolk Bros Foundation …Prince FoundationIllinois Humanities C…The Joyce FoundationLeague of Chicago The…
Field Foundation of IllinoisIL42× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Field Foundation of Illinois · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · The Richard H Driehaus Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · The Seabury Foundation · Walder Foundation · Alphawood Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Prince Foundation · Illinois Humanities Council Inc · The Joyce Foundation · League of Chicago Theatres 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 Iff 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 · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.

    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 845 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.

    Source object · view filing

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