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Irie Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $170k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $60,000 |
| AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION | $60,000 |
| UNICEF USA | $60,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $60,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $60,000 |
| MONARCH EFFECT FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $30,000 |
| EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| THE QUERENCIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (QUERENCIA CARES) | $20,000 |
| BAJA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $15,000 |
| MULTIPLYING GOOD | $15,000 |
| PARTNERS FOR PROGRESS | $10,000 |
| NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| MEGAN BUTZ LEGACY OF HOPE | $5,000 |
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 US giving — 53% of grant dollars ($1.2M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 47% that went abroad ($1.1M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $149k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% 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
Beyond the US — 47% of all-years giving ($1.1M)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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 +28% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k 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
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF3× · 2021–2024 · $140k · revenue +64%- TCTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY3× · 2018–2020 · $95k · revenue +70%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches2× · 2022–2024 · $80k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- SASCHOLARSHIP AMERICA - PETER J MCGRAIL SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2021 · $100k
- MBMUNDELEIN BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2018 · $50k
- MHMUNDELEIN HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPone grant, 2023 · $12k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Multiplying Good Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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 27 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) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 3% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 57 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 UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds George & Raymond Frank Foundation ↗
- Who funds BAJA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JELLYSTONE BARK'S RESCUE RANGERS NFP ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR PROGRESS NFP ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLYING GOOD INC ↗
- Who funds CMT Research Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds The Conscious Kid ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds CONFESS PROJECT OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds The Querencia Foundation ↗
- Who funds Youth Guidance ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds LET IT BE US ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds MEGAN BUTZ LEGACY OF HOPE ↗
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 · Charities Aid Foundation America · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Irie 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
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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