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Indiana Illinois & Iowa Foundation for Fair Contracting
The indiana, illinois and iowa foundation for fair contracting monitors and tracks construction projects for possible violations of the davis-bacon act.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 23 grants below total $292,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $845,120 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $552,620 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $278k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| ILLINOIS GOVERNOR'S MANSION ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| NAVY PIER | $25,000 |
| IL LEGISLATIVE BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| CHICAGO URBAN LEAGUE | $15,000 |
| EDGAR FELLOWS | $12,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| PAT QUINN CENTER FOR DEMOCRACY | $10,000 |
| THE JESSE WHITE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES | $10,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF ILLINOIS | $10,000 |
| MARIST CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| CHICAGO WORKING FAMILIES ARCHER AVE | $10,000 |
| THE DUPAGE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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 +1% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $163k 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
- SCSWEENEY CLASSIC9× · 2017–2025 · $153k · revenue +318%
University of Illinois Foundation4× · 2021–2025 · $90k · revenue +57%- CFChicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative6× · 2017–2023 · $86k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- HHIRE360graduatedone grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +74%
- IEILLINOIS ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +130%
CANDIDone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -5%
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.
Latino Union works to defend the rights and dignity of contingent workers, including the right to immigrate, work, live free of oppression and violence, and provide for oneself and one's family.
Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.
Chicago Jobs Council (CJC) pursues its mission through advocacy, applied research, public education and capacity-building initiatives focused on influencing the development or reform of public policies and programs. From 18 original…
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.
Chicago Workers' Collaborative's mission is to promote full employment and equality for the lowest wage-earners, primarily temporary staffing workers, in the Chicago region through leadership and skills training, critical assistance and…
Secure racial equity and economic opportunity for all
Champion equitable responses and recovery efforts for the Latinx community impacted by COVID-19
Chicago Votes is a non-partisan, non-profit organization building a more inclusive democracy by putting power in the hands of young Chicagoans. We're engaging and developing a new generation of leaders by opening the doors of government,…
A union painting, glazing, and drywall taping contractors association dedicated to improving the industry through negotiating and implementing a collective bargaining agreement, promoting safety, education, and training to its members,…
Public education on current public policy issues
The chicago committee seeks racial and ethnic diversity in the legal profession by collaborating with its law firm and corporate membership to: drive sustainable institutional change at law firms and corporate legal departments; provide…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Equality Illinois and the most unlike its peers is Coalition for United Community Action co Carl Latimer. 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 18 years old; the field is 20. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 54 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
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 SWEENEY CLASSIC ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds Chicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative ↗
- Who funds HIRE360 ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO URBAN LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds CANDID ↗
- Who funds Untapped Potential Project ↗
- Who funds Illinois Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds EDGAR FELLOWS ↗
- Who funds LAWNDALE CHRISTIAN LEGAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO CITY COUNCIL LATINO CAUCUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Illinois Executive Mansion Association ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS LEGISLATIVE LATINO CAUCUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EQUALITY ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds ST AMBROSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO ALDERMANIC BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE JOBS ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds Special Children's Charities ↗
- Who funds OPERATING ENGINEERS NATIONAL CHARITY FUND ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LABORERS' DISTRICT COUNCIL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO WOMEN IN TRADES ↗
- Who funds WARD 365 NFP ↗
- Who funds Fowler-Bonan Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNITED WORKING FAMILIES ↗
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: The Chicago Community Trust · Service Employees International Illinois Council · International Union of Operating Engineers 150 · Chicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · United Union of Roofers Waterproofers and Allied Workers Local No 11 · Laborers' Int'L Union of North America District Council of Chicago · International Union of Operating Engineers Local No 399 · Labor Management Union Carpentry Cooperation Promotion Fund · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Indiana Illinois & Iowa Foundation for Fair Contracting 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.
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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