How much did ILLINOIS HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC grant in FY2023?

Arts & Culture$751kEducation$173kHuman Services$135kCivil Rights$135kCrime & Legal$80kYouth Development$61kCommunity Improvement$61kInternational$50kEnvironment$24kOther$729k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

festivallatine theatertheater artistccbfsupportssexualcriminal

2020

africanwritingnurturingstationstoriesaddressspaces

2021

covid emergencyplace-basedactionactivate historyhistory covidequity covidartist humanist

2022

cycleforeground ruralacademicjanuaryalumniprofessionalcontributions

2023

envisioning justiceforeground rural

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k20 grants · $137k
$10k–50k10 grants · $149k

$8,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.9M

Total assets

Largest grants

CARBONDALE COMMUNITY ARTS INC$20,000
THE HUB-ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER$20,000
KNOX COLLEGE$19,550
SAINT LEONARD'S MINISTRIES$18,000
RESILIENCE PARTNERS NFP$14,250
CHICAGO COMMUNITY BOND FUND$14,000
LEGACY TRAINING INC$13,250
RESTORE JUSTICE FOUNDATION$10,250
LEGACY TRAINING INC$10,000
PRISON AND NEIGHBORHOOD ARTS EDUCATION PROJECT$10,000
CHICAGO FREEDOM SCHOOL$8,000
NORTH PARK UNIVERSITY$8,000
FIRSTFOLLOWERS$8,000
CHICAGO TORTURE JUSTICE MEMORIAL$8,000
DARREN B EASTERLING CENTER OF RESTORATIVE PRACTICES$8,000

02The need

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 (FY19–23, $129k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

42%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$913k · 37 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.

37 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2023, 23 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

130

Total granted

$913k

$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%

+36%

Still filing today

89%

64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $118k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementOther

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

FW
FREE WRITE ARTS & LITERACY NFP
3× · 2018–2020 · $47k · revenue +125%
RJ
Restore Justice Foundation
4× · 2019–2023 · $46k · revenue +138%
CN
CONTEXTOS NFP
4× · 2018–2022 · $40k · revenue +163%

Funded once

MC
MCLEAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCI
one grant, 2020 · $25k
CA
CENTRAL AMERICAN MARTYRS CTR
one grant, 2020 · $18k · revenue +15%
M1
MARCH 13 FUND
one grant, 2021 · $17k · revenue -27%

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.

The Art Institute of Chicago

The Art Institute of Chicago, a not-for-profit corporation, is both a museum and an institution of higher education that exists to provide appreciation and education in visual fine arts and design.

Education

Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education

Chicago Filmmakers

To serve independent film and digital video artists by supporting the creation and dissemination of new media arts works, and to serve Chicago audiences by screening artistically innovative, socially relevant, and diverse films and videos.

Arts & Culture

Threewalls

Threewalls is dedicatated to fostering contemporary art practices that respond to lived experiences, encoraging connections beyond art through performance, live exhibits, publications, all while connecting segrated communities throoughout…

Arts & Culture

Chicago Cultural Mile Association

—

True Chicago

Arts & Culture

Illinois Theatre Association

We promote theatre in Illinois. Our members are students, educators, community & professional theaters, actors & producers all joined together to support the art of theatre.

Arts & Culture

Arts Illiana Inc

To promote the arts and provide an information system for and about the arts.

Arts & Culture

The Illinois State Historical Society

To provide funding and support services in relation to the research and development of historical information regarding the state of illinois history.

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Chicago Humanities Festival

To promote public appreciation, understanding and support of the humanities through festivals and educational programs.

Arts & Culture

Chicago Shakespeare Theater

To create vivid, entertaining theatrical experiences that invigorate and engage people of all ages and identities by illuminating the complexity, ambiguity, and wonder of our world.

Arts & Culture

Chicago Historical Society

Serve as the primary destination for learning, inspiration, and civic engagement to connect people to Chicago's history and each other.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Freedom School and the most unlike its peers is Knox College. 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 21 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

9/179

the rest of the field

13%

4,964/39,493

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.

05the grantee network

139 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

129/139

Grantees still filing

89/139

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Arts & Culture$750,594Other$863,866Education$173,150Human Services$134,900Civil Rights$134,550Crime & Legal$79,500Youth Development$61,200

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

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 IllinoisIL84× affinity41 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 · John D and Catherine T Macarthur · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Crossroads Fund Inc · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc · The Joyce Foundation · Builders Initiative Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Prince 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 organisation ILLINOIS HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC 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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Here and Again Inc.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +56% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 462313987 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Here and Again Inc, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 67% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Illinois Humanities Council Inc?

Find your warmest path to Illinois Humanities Council Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

ILLINOIS HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

139 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Illinois Humanities Council Inc?

More from the funding graph

ILLINOIS HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

139 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Illinois Humanities Council Inc?

More from the funding graph