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Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
83% of Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to American Online Giving Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 40 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 247 organizations, $14M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k180 grants · $338k
- $10k–50k50 grants · $958k
- $50k–250k37 grants · $3.7M
- $250k+12 grants · $8.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROOM TO READ | $2,331,651 |
| THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,500,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO | $1,040,650 |
| CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY | $1,001,029 |
| EMBARC INC | $513,110 |
| URBAN INITIATIVES INC | $474,000 |
| THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST | $450,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT | $424,104 |
| RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | $300,530 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA | $300,000 |
| GLOBALGIVING | $250,000 |
| GIVEDIRECTLY INC | $250,000 |
| NEW LIFE CENTERS OF CHICAGOLAND NFP | $220,100 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $200,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS | $200,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $3.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
182 repeat relationships — 132 still active in FY2020, 50 since wound down; 307 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- RTROOM TO READ7× · 2019–2025 · $16M · revenue +11%
- EIEMBARC INC4× · 2019–2022 · $1.4M · revenue +15%
University of Chicago4× · 2020–2025 · $905k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- CPCHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLSone grant, 2019 · $480k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $125k · revenue +114%
- GIGREENHEART INTERNATIONALone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -21%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
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Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.
Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The chicago bar foundation brings the legal community together through advocacy, funding, and innovation to improve access to justice for people in need and to make the legal system more fair, equitable, and effective.
To achieve parity in economic opportunity for people of color by advancing multiracial leadership in corporate governance, expanding the talent pipline for executive-level management, and growing minority businesses.
To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.
Provide pediatric and subspecialty surgical, research, and educational services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids First Chicago for Education and the most unlike its peers is Small Moves Foundation. 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.
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 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 33% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
452 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. 452 of the 572 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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
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 AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROOM TO READ ↗
- Who funds EMBARC INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds The Chicago Community Trust ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds URBAN INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds New Life Centers of Chicagoland ↗
- Who funds EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds DANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Teachers Supporting Teachers ↗
- Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds Vocel Viewing our Children as Emerging Leaders ↗
- Who funds Healthy Schools Campaign ↗
- Who funds CHRISTOPHER HOUSE ↗
- Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds Chicago Run ↗
- Who funds KIDS FIRST CHICAGO FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds NEW MOMS INC ↗
- Who funds ADVANCE ILLINOIS NFP ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LAUREUS SPORT FOR GOOD FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds ONWARD NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Polk Bros Foundation Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · The Joyce Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Field Foundation of Illinois · Cme Group Foundation · Cme Group Community Foundation F/K/A Nymex 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 Imc Chicago Charitable 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.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Guitars Over Guns Organization Inc — 1% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
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.
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