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Jccc Foundation

Contributions to various social, welfare and cultural organizations.

$123k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$27k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Public Safety & Disaster$153kArts & Culture$133kCommunity Improvement$118kEducation$81kInternational$80kEnvironment$15kYouth Development$15kScience & Tech$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $62,700, the rows itemized in this filing. The $122,899 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $60,199 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$16,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN RED CROSS$26,700
JAPANESE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY OF CHICAGO$16,000
CHICAGO JAPANESE AMERICAN COUNCIL (CJAC)$10,000
JAPANESE ARTS FOUNDATION$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $130k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $38k → 14%American Red Cross: $27k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $27k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $13k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $11k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $7k → 14%ASSOCIATION HOUSE HIGH SCHOOL ASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO: $7k → 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.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of Jccc Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 86%.

Jccc Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 8.9% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$454k · 8 repeat orgs$134k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
16

Total granted

$454k
$124k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-7%
+38%

Still filing today

63%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentInternationalCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    6× · 2017–2025 · $123k · revenue +46%
  • CJ
    CHICAGO JAPANESE AMERICAN COUNCIL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue -26% · 91% of their budget
  • JC
    JAPANESE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY OF CHICAGO
    5× · 2017–2025 · $83k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • CF
    Chicago Futabakai Japanese Schoolgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $29k · revenue +38%
  • CS
    Chicago Symphony Orchestragraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +75%
  • KC
    Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -1%
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
Junior Achievement of Chicago

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy

International
2
The Chicago High School for the Arts

The chicago high school for the arts (chiarts) develops the next generation of diverse, artistically promising scholar-artists through intensive pre-professional training in the arts, combined with a comprehensive college preparatory…

Education
3
The University of Chicago Charter School Corporation

To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.

Education
4
Columbia College Chicago

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

Education
5
True Chicago
Arts & Culture
6
Chicago Theatre Group Inc

The chicago theatre group is committed to producing both classic and contemporary works giving full voice to a wide range of artists and visions. by dedicating itself to three guiding principles - quality, equity, and community - the…

Arts & Culture
7
Music Institute of Chicago

The music institute of chicago ("music institute") leads people toward a lifelong engagement with music, by providing widely accessible resources for high quality music teaching, performing, and service activities.

Arts & Culture
8
Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce

The chicagoland chamber of commerce combines the power of people, with our legacy of leadership and business advocacy, to drive a dynamic economy. we focus on delivering value for our members, making chicagoland a world-class place to live…

—
9
Chicago Sun-Times Media Inc

Chicago sun-times serves the public interest by strengthening the well-being of our local communities and our democracy through independent local journalism.

—
10
Academy for Global Citizenship Charter School

Academy for global citizenship charter school (agc) develops mindful leaders who take action both now and in the future to positively impact their communities and the world beyond.

Education
11
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.

Education
12
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Horticultural Society; the most unlike its peers is Association House of Chicago. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 27 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
15/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHICAGO JAPANESE AMERICAN COUNCIL: $90,000 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO JAPANESE AMERICAN …JAPANESE ARTS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureJAPANESE ARTS FOUNDATIONChicago Symphony Orchestra: $10,000 · Arts & CultureChicago Symphony OrchestraKenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry: $10,000 · Arts & CultureKenneth C Griffin Museum o…SNOW CITY ARTS FOUNDATION: $6,000 · Arts & CultureVictory Gardens Theater: $6,000 · Arts & CultureTIMELINE THEATRE COMPANY: $6,000 · Arts & CultureOLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureJAPANESE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY OF CHICAGO: $83,255 · OtherJAPANESE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE…SCHOOL DISTRICT 54: $16,500 · OtherSCHOOL DISTRICT 54CHICAGO CONNECTED: $15,500 · OtherCHICAGO CONNECTEDGlenbrook South High School: $10,850 · OtherGlenbrook South High SchoolANDERSON GARDENS: $10,000 · OtherANDERSON GARDENS+4 more: $20,000 · Other+4 moreAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $123,023 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red C…ASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO: $7,000 · Human ServicesASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CH…JAPAN AMERICA SOCIETY OF CHICAGO INC: $80,000 · InternationalJAPAN AMERICA …Chicago Futabakai Japanese School: $28,597 · EducationCHICAGO TECH ACADEMY: $5,000 · EducationCHICAGO COLLEGIATE INC: $5,000 · EducationNEWROOT LEARNING INSTITUTE F/K/A UMOJA STUDENT DEVELOPMENT CORP: $5,000 · EducationWORLD BUSINESS CHICAGO: $35,000 · Community ImprovementHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $17,633 · PhilanthropyGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $12,482 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$143,000Other$156,105Human Services$130,023International$80,000Education$43,597Community Improvement$35,000Philanthropy$30,115

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 budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $123,023 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO JAPANESE AMERICAN COUNCIL: $90,000 over 9y, 91% of budgetJAPANESE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY OF CHICAGO: $83,255 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetJAPAN AMERICA SOCIETY OF CHICAGO INC: $80,000 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetWORLD BUSINESS CHICAGO: $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetChicago Futabakai Japanese School: $28,597 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $17,633 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $12,482 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAPANESE ARTS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetChicago Symphony Orchestra: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANDERSON GARDENS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSNOW CITY ARTS FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTIMELINE THEATRE COMPANY: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHICAGO TECH ACADEMY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO COLLEGIATE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGirl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEWROOT LEARNING INSTITUTE F/K/A UMOJA STUDENT DEVELOPMENT CORP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTHBUILD LAKE COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Polk Bros Foundation …The Chicago Community…Arie and Ida Crown Me…John D and Catherine …Lloyd a Fry FoundationFifth Third Chicagola…Circle of Service Fou…Ncrc Community Develo…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…The Ayco Charitable F…
Polk Bros Foundation IncIL19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%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
    9report 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 Jccc Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Jccc 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 27 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 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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