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Ingredion Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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.

$633k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

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’25

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

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$1.3MFood & Nutrition$725kInternational$546kHealth$315kEducation$190kEnvironment$84kYouth Development$70kEmployment$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $166k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $121k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$10,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$788k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Groundswell Charitable Foundation$300,000
THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND$120,517
American Heart Association Inc$25,000
NFTE Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship$20,000
ARGO Higher Education Foundation$20,000
PEGGY NOTEBAERT NATURE MUESUM$15,000
THE LEUKEMIA and LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$15,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$11,000
Careerspring Foundation$10,000
RISE AND SHINE INC$10,000
GIRLS INC OF CHICAGO$10,000
MANNY & PAT PULIDO SANCHEZ FOUNDATION$10,000
BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC$10,000
Chicago Urban League$10,000
One Tree Planted Inc$9,074
02The need
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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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $50 → 14%CHILDREN WITH HAIR LOSS: $200 → 10%GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY: $500 → 16%Mary Rigg Neighborhood Center: $100 → 16%FOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICES: $3k → 9%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $14k → 14%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $10k → 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

VT
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
KS
NC
SC
DC
OK
AL
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.

34%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$716k · 20 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
39

Total granted

$716k
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+7%

Still filing today

90%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthInternationalFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    3× · 2022–2025 · $150k · revenue +25%
  • Feeding America
    3× · 2022–2024 · $68k · revenue +17%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $54k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • V5
    VARIOUS 501(c)3 ORGANIZATIONS
    one grant, 2020 · $603k
  • V5
    VARIOUS 501c ORGANIZATIONS
    one grant, 2021 · $465k
  • AF
    Accounting for Sustainability Foundation US Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $40k
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
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
2
Furman University

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.

Education
3
Saint Xavier University

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…

Education
4
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
5
Lehigh University

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…

Education
6
University of New Haven

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…

Education
7
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
8
The George Washington University

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…

Education
9
The Common Application Inc

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…

Education
10
American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech
11
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
12
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope for Haiti Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

98 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.

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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
98/98
Grantees still filing
56/98
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND: $954,291 · PhilanthropyTHE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUNDGROUNDSWELL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $300,000 · PhilanthropyGROUNDSWELL CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $53,511 · Philanthropy+2 more: $49,074 · PhilanthropyVARIOUS 501(c)3 ORGANIZATIONS: $603,479 · OtherVARIOUS 501(c)3 ORGANIZATIONSVARIOUS 501c ORGANIZATIONS: $464,566 · OtherVARIOUS 501c ORGANIZATIONSAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $61,000 · Other+36 more: $342,029 · Other+36 moreAmerican Heart Association Inc: $150,200 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $40,000 · Health+2 more: $150 · HealthArgo Higher Education Foundation: $40,000 · EducationIDEAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationGIRLS 4 SCIENCE: $30,000 · EducationLewis University: $15,000 · EducationTHE CHICAGO SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $14,000 · EducationLADDER UP (F/K/A CITY-WIDE TAX ASSISTANCE PROGRAM): $10,000 · EducationMANNY AND PAT PULIDO SANCHEZ FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationCAREERSPRING FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationChicago State Foundation: $7,500 · Education+5 more: $10,550 · EducationFeeding America: $67,890 · Food & NutritionJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK: $3,443 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $288 · Food & NutritionNETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentASSOCIATION OF C5 YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $13,500 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INC OF CHICAGO: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Global FoodBanking Network: $20,000 · InternationalRISE AGAINST HUNGER INC: $19,394 · InternationalPARTNERS FOR CARE INC: $10,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 · International
Philanthropy$1,356,876Other$1,471,074Health$190,350Education$177,050Food & Nutrition$71,621Youth Development$63,500International$59,394

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 budgetTHE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND: $954,291 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $150,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $67,890 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $53,511 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAccounting for Sustainability Foundation US Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetNETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArgo Higher Education Foundation: $40,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetTHE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetIDEAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 4y, 63% of budgetGIRLS 4 SCIENCE: $30,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $24,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $23,518 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Global FoodBanking Network: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRise and Shine Bakery: $20,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetRISE AGAINST HUNGER INC: $19,394 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLewis University: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHICAGO SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $14,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetASSOCIATION OF C5 YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $13,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $13,341 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS): $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEADERSHIP GREATER CHICAGO: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLADDER UP (F/K/A CITY-WIDE TAX ASSISTANCE PROGRAM): $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSKILLS FOR CHICAGO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPARTNERS FOR CARE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMANNY AND PAT PULIDO SANCHEZ FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAREERSPRING FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHICAGO URBAN LEAGUE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS INC OF CHICAGO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $7,539 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChicago State Foundation: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNaturally Proud Network: $6,000 over 1y, 61% of budgetClaremore Museum of History Inc: $5,450 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetCHICAGO FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetJERSEYSTEM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK: $3,443 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOE COLLEGE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATAWBA COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $288 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN WITH HAIR LOSS INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE FUND INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARY RIGG NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $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.

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.

Robert R McCormick Fo…Polk Bros Foundation …John D and Catherine …Dr Scholl FoundationField Foundation of I…Fifth Third Chicagola…The Chicago Community…Arie and Ida Crown Me…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Circle of Service Fou…Charities Aid Foundat…United Way of Metropo…
Robert R McCormick FoundationIL21.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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 Ingredion Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ingredion 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 72 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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