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Ingredion 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
66% of Ingredion Charitable Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Groundswell Charitable Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 19 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $166k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $121k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Groundswell Charitable Foundation | $300,000 |
| THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND | $120,517 |
| American Heart Association Inc | $25,000 |
| ARGO Higher Education Foundation | $20,000 |
| NFTE Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship | $20,000 |
| PEGGY NOTEBAERT NATURE MUESUM | $15,000 |
| THE LEUKEMIA and LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $11,000 |
| GIRLS INC OF CHICAGO | $10,000 |
| Careerspring Foundation | $10,000 |
| MANNY & PAT PULIDO SANCHEZ FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Chicago Urban League | $10,000 |
| RISE AND SHINE INC | $10,000 |
| BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC | $10,000 |
| One Tree Planted Inc | $9,074 |
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 (FY22–25, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% 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 +20% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 9 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k 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
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc3× · 2022–2025 · $150k · revenue +25%
Feeding America3× · 2022–2024 · $68k · revenue +17%- UWUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC3× · 2022–2024 · $54k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- V5VARIOUS 501(c)3 ORGANIZATIONSone grant, 2020 · $603k
- V5VARIOUS 501c ORGANIZATIONSone grant, 2021 · $465k
- AFAccounting for Sustainability Foundation US Incone grant, 2024 · $40k
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.
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 primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Education and Research
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope for Haiti Inc and the most unlike its peers is Naturally Proud Network. 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 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
98 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.
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 THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ↗
- Who funds GROUNDSWELL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP ↗
- Who funds Argo Higher Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds Accounting for Sustainability Foundation US Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds IDEAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRLS 4 SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Rise and Shine Bakery ↗
- Who funds The Global FoodBanking Network ↗
- Who funds RISE AGAINST HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds Lewis University ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO SCHOLARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF C5 YOUTH PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS) ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO URBAN LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INC OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP GREATER CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds MANNY AND PAT PULIDO SANCHEZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SKILLS FOR CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds CAREERSPRING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR CARE INC ↗
- Who funds LADDER UP (F/K/A CITY-WIDE TAX ASSISTANCE PROGRAM) ↗
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: Robert R McCormick Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc
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 Ingredion 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.
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 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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