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Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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.

$14M
Granted FY2020
279
Grants FY2020
29
States reached
$2.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

160
’19
247
’20
107
’21
61
’22
71
’23
89
’24
40
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Philanthropy$58MEducation$20MYouth Development$3.6MInternational$3.0MHuman Services$2.0MHealth$1.5MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.3MEnvironment$465kOther$0
02FY2020 · 279 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k180 grants · $338k
  • $10k–50k50 grants · $958k
  • $50k–250k37 grants · $3.7M
  • $250k+12 grants · $8.8M
$3,068
Median grant
29
States reached
$56M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
GIVEDIRECTLY INC$250,000
GLOBALGIVING$250,000
NEW LIFE CENTERS OF CHICAGOLAND NFP$220,100
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$200,000
INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS$200,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RELAY IOWA INC: $10k → 5%RELAY IOWA INC: $20k → 10%FMS WELFARE TRUST: $5k → 8%EQUINE DREAMS: $8k → 13%MARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES INC: $73k → 14%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $5k → 7%BAPS CHARITIES: $5k → 11%CAMP KESEM: $3k → 14%MARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES INC: $60k → 14%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $5k → 7%RELAY IOWA INC: $20k → 10%MULLIGANEERS: $6k → 7%MULLIGANEERS: $6k → 7%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $500k → 14%REALISTIC EDUCATION IN ACTION COALITION TO FOSTER HEALTH: $3k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $48k → 14%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $26k → 17%CONCORDIA PLACE: $72k → 14%CONCORDIA PLACE: $50k → 14%URBAN INITIATIVES INC: $474k → 14%URBAN INITIATIVES INC: $285k → 14%URBAN INITIATIVES: $51k → 14%URBAN INITIATIVES: $4k → 14%A BETTER CHICAGO: $3k → 14%A BETTER CHICAGO: $3k → 14%NEW MOMS INC: $96k → 14%NEW MOMS INC: $75k → 14%ASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO: $15k → 14%NEW MOMS INC: $8k → 14%ASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO: $3k → 14%OPEN ARMS MINISTRY: $3k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT: $424k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT: $350k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT: $5k → 14%THE BLOC: $48k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $60k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 14%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - CHICAGO: $5k → 14%ERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $70k → 14%ERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $50k → 14%THRIVE CHICAGO: $50k → 14%SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES ILLINOIS: $4k → 14%CHRISTOPHER HOUSE: $170k → 14%CHRISTOPHER HOUSE: $75k → 14%CHRISTOPHER HOUSE: $10k → 14%HOWARD AREA COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$32M · 182 repeat orgs$6.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

182
70

Total granted

$32M
$958k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+28%

Still filing today

87%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesInternationalYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • RT
    ROOM TO READ
    7× · 2019–2025 · $16M · revenue +24%
  • EI
    EMBARC INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $1.4M · revenue +15%
  • University of Chicago
    4× · 2020–2025 · $905k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • CP
    CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2019 · $480k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $125k · revenue +114%
  • GI
    GREENHEART INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -21%
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
Junior Achievement of Chicago

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy

International
2
Kipp Chicago Schools

The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…

Education
3
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

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…

Health
4
National Opinion Research Center

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…

Social Science
5
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

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.

Education
6
Alternatives Inc

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…

Health
7
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.

Social Science
8
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
9
The Chicago Bar Foundation

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.

Education
10
Chicago United

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.

Philanthropy
11
The University of Chicago Charter School Corporation

To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.

Education
12
Lurie Children's Surgical Foundation Inc

Provide pediatric and subspecialty surgical, research, and educational services.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids First Chicago for Education; 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.
04the grantee network

452 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. 452 of the 572 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
88
Early backer (in before they grew)
440/452
Grantees still filing
317/452
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $54,296,275 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC+8 more: $2,686,822 · PhilanthropyROOM TO READ: $15,606,884 · EducationROOM TO READUniversity of Chicago: $905,050 · Education+25 more: $1,905,082 · Education+25 moreCHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,501,200 · OtherCHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $480,000 · OtherDANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $350,000 · OtherRush University Medical Center: $300,530 · OtherTeachers Supporting Teachers: $304,856 · OtherHealthy Schools Campaign: $260,000 · Other+106 more: $4,099,149 · OtherURBAN INITIATIVES INC: $814,393 · Human ServicesNORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $779,915 · Human ServicesEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $500,000 · Human ServicesCHRISTOPHER HOUSE: $255,000 · Human ServicesGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $251,023 · Human ServicesNEW MOMS INC: $179,092 · Human ServicesMARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES INC: $132,500 · Human ServicesCONCORDIA PLACE: $122,050 · Human Services+14 more: $623,452 · Human ServicesEMBARC INC: $1,393,510 · Youth DevelopmentNew Life Centers of Chicagoland: $508,800 · Youth DevelopmentVocel Viewing our Children as Emerging Leaders: $262,720 · Youth DevelopmentTFK Chicago Voyagers: $102,220 · Youth DevelopmentPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED: $85,000 · Youth Development+7 more: $185,305 · Youth DevelopmentINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $500,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $404,275 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $306,000 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $250,000 · InternationalGIVE2ASIA: $105,000 · InternationalLELEKA FOUNDATION: $100,000 · InternationalRAZOM INC: $100,000 · InternationalBRAZIL FOUNDATION: $100,000 · International+7 more: $160,572 · InternationalCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC: $1,301,029 · Public Safety & DisasterNETWORK FOR GOOD: $83,524 · Public Safety & Disaster
Philanthropy$56,983,097Education$18,417,016Other$7,295,735Human Services$3,657,425Youth Development$2,537,555International$2,275,847Public Safety & Disaster$1,384,553

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $54,296,275 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetROOM TO READ: $15,606,884 over 7y, 7.1% of budgetEMBARC INC: $1,393,510 over 4y, 19% of budgetCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC: $1,301,029 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $1,295,449 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetThe Chicago Community Trust: $950,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $905,050 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN INITIATIVES INC: $814,393 over 4y, 12% of budgetNORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $779,915 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetNew Life Centers of Chicagoland: $508,800 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $500,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $404,275 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $350,000 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetYEAR UP INC: $321,473 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $306,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTeachers Supporting Teachers: $304,856 over 3y, 45% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $300,530 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVocel Viewing our Children as Emerging Leaders: $262,720 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetHealthy Schools Campaign: $260,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetCHRISTOPHER HOUSE: $255,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $251,023 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $250,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $250,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Run: $249,933 over 3y, 11% of budgetKIDS FIRST CHICAGO FOR EDUCATION: $220,030 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $179,777 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEW MOMS INC: $179,092 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetADVANCE ILLINOIS NFP: $160,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetCHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $150,818 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $147,896 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION: $137,600 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetMARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES INC: $132,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLAUREUS SPORT FOR GOOD FOUNDATION USA: $130,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetONWARD NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $127,555 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCONCORDIA PLACE: $122,050 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $120,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $116,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Family Services: $110,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGIVE2ASIA: $105,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTFK Chicago Voyagers: $102,220 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetESPERANZA HEALTH CENTERS: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHEARTLAND ALLIANCE HEALTH: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLELEKA FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetRAZOM INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMISSION EDGE SAN DIEGO: $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

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.

Polk Bros Foundation …United Way of Metropo…Robert R McCormick Fo…Circle of Service Fou…Arie and Ida Crown Me…John D and Catherine …Lloyd a Fry FoundationThe Joyce FoundationThe Chicago Community…Field Foundation of I…Cme Group FoundationCme Group Community F…
Polk Bros Foundation IncIL75.1× affinity43 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
45report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Imc Chicago Charitable 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 572 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home