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Illinois No 3 Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$821k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Food & Nutrition$1.0MHousing & Shelter$800kYouth Development$565kHealth$401kPhilanthropy$296kHuman Services$295kEducation$280kCommunity Improvement$273kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $143k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $670k
$50,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$100,000
AT THE CROSSROADS$75,000
SARANAM$75,000
EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NYC$60,000
YOUTH SHELTERS & FAMILY SERVICES$55,000
FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN'S CANCER$55,000
CROSSROADS FOR WOMEN$50,000
ACTA NON VERBA$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$50,000
GO PROJECT$50,000
ROADRUNNER FOOD BANK$50,000
CYPRESS HILLS LOCAL DEV CORP$35,000
BUILDING FUTURES$30,000
SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$30,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN NM$23,000
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 (FY18–24, $595k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%AT THE CROSSROADS: $75k → 10%AT THE CROSSROADS: $75k → 11%WRITTEN IN RED: $100k → 13%NEIGHBORS TOGETHER: $15k → 12%AT THE CROSSROADS: $75k → 10%AT THE CROSSROADS: $75k → 10%WRITTEN IN RED: $10k → 13%AT THE CROSSROADS: $50k → 10%AT THE CROSSROADS: $5k → 10%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS: $35k → 20%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS: $25k → 20%YOUTH SHELTERS & FAMILY SERVICES: $55k → 12%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

WA
IL
NY
CA
CO
NM
SC
DC
HI
TX
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% of Illinois No 3 Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Illinois No 3 Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.4M · 23 repeat orgs$961k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

23 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
28

Total granted

$3.4M
$858k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+13%

Still filing today

87%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Food & NutritionHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthCommunity 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

  • SL
    SARANAM LLC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $350k · revenue +326%
  • RF
    ROADRUNNER FOOD BANK INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $325k · revenue +37%
  • HG
    HIDDEN GENIUS PROJECT
    4× · 2019–2023 · $320k · revenue +551%

Funded once

  • TN
    THE NM LITERACY INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2023 · $95k
  • HO
    HAVEN OF HOPE
    one grant, 2023 · $75k
  • OF
    Oakland Fund for Public Innovation
    one grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue -6%

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
Nashville Food Project Inc

The nashville food project brings people together to grow, cook, and share nourishing food, with the goals of cultivating community and alleviating hunger in our city.

Food & Nutrition
2
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
3
Arcadia Food Inc

Cultivate local food systems prioritizing health, equity, and sustainability, from farm forward.

Food & Nutrition
4
Alchemist Cdc

Alchemist cdc connects sacramento area communities to land, food, and opportunity toward a vision in which all neighborhoods are vibrant, equitable, healthy, and diverse. we are best known for enhancing the quality of life in…

Community Improvement
5
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
6
Foodwise Community

Foodwise grows thriving communities through the power and joy of local food. We envision a world that nourishes all people, local economies, and the living earth.

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7
San Francisco Food Bank

To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…

—
8
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
9
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
10
Creighton Community Foundation

Creighton community foundation's (ccf) core program "community works" leverages neighborhood schools to support vibrant communities in the poorest parts of urban phoenix, where neighborhoods suffer from poverty- driven disadvantage and…

Philanthropy
11
Coastal Roots Farm

Coastal roots farm cultivates healthy, connected communities by integrating sustainable agriculture, food justice, and ancient jewish wisdom.

—
12
Reunity Resources

To provide education and promote the use of recycling, sustainable practices alternative energy and community resources for the betterment of the environment and public at large.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Valley Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Written in Red Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCancer Support ServicesCommunity FoundationsLocal Food System Organizat…Community Arts CentersAffordable Housing Developm…Youth Development ServicesFood Banks and Pantries
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

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 number22%3%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%32%10–20yr16%34%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%43%10–20yr16%32%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%3%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/46
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,519

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

44 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. 44 of the 61 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/44
Grantees still filing
26/44
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $140,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON — $100,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONCHANGING LIVES COALITION INC — $100,000 · OtherCHANGING LIVES COALITION INCTHE NM LITERACY INSTITUTE — $95,350 · OtherTHE NM LITERACY INSTITUTEHAVEN OF HOPE — $75,000 · OtherCity Slicker Farms — $60,000 · OtherNEW MEXICO APPLESEED — $122,500 · OtherNEW MEXICO APPLESEEDOakland Fund for Public Innovation — $75,000 · OtherACTA NON VERBA YOUTH URBAN FARM PROJECT — $125,000 · OtherACTA NON VERBA YOUTH URBAN FARM PROJECTBUILDING FUTURES INC — $95,000 · OtherBUILDING FUTURES INCCROSSROADS FOR WOMEN — $130,000 · OtherCROSSROADS FOR WOMENCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC — $55,000 · Other+22 more — $464,000 · Other+22 moreHIDDEN GENIUS PROJECT — $320,000 · EducationHIDDEN GENIUS PROJE…EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW YORK — $220,000 · EducationEDIBLE SCHOOLYARD N…THE GO PROJECT INC — $180,000 · EducationTHE GO PROJECT INCFARM TO TABLE INC — $63,000 · EducationFARM TO TABLE INC+1 more — $25,000 · EducationAT THE CROSSROADS — $355,000 · Human ServicesAT THE CROSSROADSYOUTH SHELTERS & FAMILY SERVICES INC — $210,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH SHELTERS & F…WRITTEN IN RED INC — $110,000 · Human ServicesWRITTEN IN RED INCUNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC — $60,000 · Human ServicesUNITED COMMUNITY C…+1 more — $15,000 · Human ServicesROADRUNNER FOOD BANK INC — $325,000 · Food & NutritionROADRUNNER F…NATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS COALITION INC — $60,000 · Food & NutritionNATIONAL YOU…THE NEW MEXICO FARMERS MARKETING ASSOCIATION — $60,000 · Food & NutritionTHE NEW MEXI…LA SEMILLA FOOD CENTER — $40,000 · Food & NutritionLA SEMILLA F…Seed2Need Inc — $36,500 · Food & NutritionSeed2Need In…+1 more — $5,000 · Food & NutritionSARANAM LLC — $350,000 · Housing & ShelterFOUNDATION FOR WOMEN'S CANCER — $220,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE NEW MEXICO — $50,000 · HealthCRISIS CONNECTIONS — $30,000 · Health+1 more — $1,300 · HealthSANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $165,000 · PhilanthropyBROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $75,000 · PhilanthropyASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $25,000 · PhilanthropyNORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $15,000 · PhilanthropySOUTHWEST FLORIDA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $11,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,636,850Education$808,000Human Services$750,000Food & Nutrition$526,500Housing & Shelter$350,000Health$301,300Philanthropy$296,000

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 budgetAT THE CROSSROADS — $355,000 over 6y, 7.2% of budgetSARANAM LLC — $350,000 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetROADRUNNER FOOD BANK INC — $325,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHIDDEN GENIUS PROJECT — $320,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetEDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW YORK — $220,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR WOMEN'S CANCER — $220,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetYOUTH SHELTERS & FAMILY SERVICES INC — $210,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetTHE GO PROJECT INC — $180,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetSANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $165,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCROSSROADS FOR WOMEN — $130,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetACTA NON VERBA YOUTH URBAN FARM PROJECT — $125,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetNEW MEXICO APPLESEED — $122,500 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetWRITTEN IN RED INC — $110,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCHANGING LIVES COALITION INC — $100,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetBROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFARM TO TABLE INC — $63,000 over 2y, 36% of budgetCity Slicker Farms — $60,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetNATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS COALITION INC — $60,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC — $60,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE NEW MEXICO FARMERS MARKETING ASSOCIATION — $60,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC — $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE NEW MEXICO — $50,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMOVING ARTS ESPANOLA INCORPORATED — $40,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetLA SEMILLA FOOD CENTER — $40,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetSeed2Need Inc — $36,500 over 5y, 15% of budgetCYPRESS HILLS LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCRISIS CONNECTIONS — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBORS TOGETHER CORPORATION — $30,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CRUCIBLE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetROSES IN CONCRETE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNeighbors Together Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSOUTHWEST FLORIDA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $11,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER OF SOUTHWEST CULTURE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRoswell Symphony Orchestra Inc — $7,500 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORATE ANGEL NETWORK INC — $1,300 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Thornburg FoundationAlbuquerque Community…Santa Fe Community Fo…Nusenda FoundationMarshall L and Perrin…Robin Hood FoundationWK Kellogg FoundationClif Family FoundationThe San Francisco Fou…Tides FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…Frank W Yates Jr Fami…
Thornburg FoundationNM19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Thornburg Foundation · Albuquerque Community Foundation · Santa Fe Community Foundation · Nusenda Foundation · Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation Inc · Robin Hood Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Clif Family Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Tides Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Frank W Yates Jr Family 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 Illinois No 3 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 69%
  • Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc — 69% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Illinois No 3 Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Illinois No 3 Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 61 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-PF 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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