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Infrastructure Engineering Inc Foundation

The mission of the organization is to provide programs and experiences to improve the quality of life for underserved children and families.

$71k
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Human Services$114kEducation$66kYouth Development$17kCivil Rights$13kCommunity Improvement$11kHousing & Shelter$11kRecreation & Sports$11kPublic Safety & Disaster$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k30 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$1,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$9k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
I TRAIN NOW$10,000
AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS$10,000
YWCA EVANSTON CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION$5,000
SHELLA ANN FOREMAN SPONSORSHIP$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$4,230
SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGE ILLINOIS$3,000
SPONSOR$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
MENY - MUNICIPAL ENGINEESRS OF THE CITY OF$2,500
US DREAM ACADEMY CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION$2,500
TAYLOR WHERRY RICE SPOSNORSHIP$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,000
JDRF$1,500
AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS EVENT$1,275
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%FIREFLY CHILDREN & FAMILY ALLIANCE: $300 → 16%SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES ILLINOIS: $3k → 14%SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGE ILLINOIS: $3k → 14%SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES ILLINOIS: $3k → 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

IL
MI
NY
IN
CA
CO
MO
MD
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

36%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$94k · 15 repeat orgs$167k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
44

Total granted

$94k
$110k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+9%

Still filing today

53%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyHealthRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesPublic BenefitOther
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

  • AS
    AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +26%
  • OF
    ONE FAMILY ILLINOIS
    3× · 2022–2024 · $9k · revenue +23%
  • DP
    DETROIT PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $8k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • II
    ITRAINNOW INC
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • CC
    City Colleges of Chicago Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +16%
  • GH
    GREATER HARLEM CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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
University of Illinois Foundation

The Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, is an independent and separate nonprofit entity from the University of Illinois. Our mission is to encourage and administer private gifts and serve the UI System by working closely with…

Education
2
American Society of Civil Engineers Inc

To provide essential value to our members, their careers, our partners, and the public, asce will: facilitate the advancement of technology; encourage and provide the tools for lifelong learning; promote professionalism and the profession;…

Science & Tech
3
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
4
National Association for College Admission Counseling

Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.

Education
5
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
6
American Society of Civil Engineers Illinois Section

To advance the knowledge and practice of engineering in the public interest. To provide member societies with reliable information that affects the engineering profession. To provide a forum for engineering societies to exchange views on…

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7
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education
8
American Council of Engineering Companies

The business association and voice of america's engineering industry, representing thousands of independent u.s. engineering companies engaged in the development of transportation, water, and other public and commercial facilities.

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9
Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges

The association of governing boards of universities and colleges advances higher education as a public good by preparing college, university, and foundation governing boards to fulfill their fiduciary duties and exemplify the highest…

Education
10
Acec Research Institute

Acec research institute serve as the leading source of knowledge and thought leadership for creating a more sustainable, safe, secure, and technically advanced built environment. identify, fund, and provide industry wide research forecasts…

Unclassified
11
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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12
American Council On Education

Ace leads higher education with a united vision for the future, galvanizing our members to make change. the council collaborates across the sector to design solutions for today's challenges, serves the needs of a diverse student…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is College of Dupage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Intrigue Performance Dance Company. 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

28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 84 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/28
Grantees still filing
15/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ITRAINNOW INC: $20,000 · OtherITRAINNOW INCILBCC: $15,000 · OtherILBCCCity Colleges of Chicago Foundation: $15,000 · OtherCity Colleges of Chicago FoundationGREATER HARLEM CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $10,000 · OtherTHE EMG FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherDOVE RECOVERY HOUSE: $10,000 · OtherI TRAIN NOW: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $6,730 · Other+62 more: $102,199 · Other+62 moreAFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC: $15,000 · EducationAFTER SCHOOL MA…WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationWAYNE STATE UNI…DETROIT PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION: $7,500 · EducationDETROIT PUBLIC …WESTERN SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS: $2,000 · EducationWESTERN SOCIETY…+3 more: $1,540 · EducationIllinois Legislative Black Caucus Foundation: $10,000 · Civil RightsONE FAMILY ILLINOIS: $9,000 · Human Services+1 more: $300 · Human ServicesNINE 13 INC: $4,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $100 · Recreation & SportsBRONZEVILLE TRAIL TASK FORCE INC: $1,500 · EnvironmentMDRC: $1,500 · Employment
Other$198,929Education$36,040Civil Rights$10,000Human Services$9,300Recreation & Sports$4,100Environment$1,500Employment$1,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCity Colleges of Chicago Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIllinois Legislative Black Caucus Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetONE FAMILY ILLINOIS: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNINE 13 INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWESTERN SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS: $2,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetBRONZEVILLE TRAIL TASK FORCE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMDRC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Engineers' Foundation of the Union League Club: $1,200 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSOUTH ASIAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION INC: $1,040 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCENTER FOR LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFriends In Deed: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALPHA PHI INTERNATIONAL FRATERNITY: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER INDIANAPOLIS: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetACECMICHIGAN: $400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMarian University: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNOBLESVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $300 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S BUREAU INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF HIGHWAY ENGINEERS STATE BOARD OF DIRECTORS: $285 over 1y, 25% of budgetGOFUNDMEORG: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE OF DUPAGE FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds City Colleges of Chicago Foundation ↗
  • Who funds GREATER HARLEM CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
  • Who funds WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Illinois Legislative Black Caucus Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ONE FAMILY ILLINOIS ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NINE 13 INC ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS ↗
  • Who funds BRONZEVILLE TRAIL TASK FORCE INC ↗

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.

Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable TrustIN13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · The Chicago Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Infrastructure Engineering Inc Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Infrastructure Engineering Inc Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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

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    How do I get to Infrastructure Engineering Inc Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Infrastructure Engineering Inc 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 84 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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