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John H & Ann G Rhodes Foundation Inc

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.

$277k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0162% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.

Recreation & Sports$158kYouth Development$107kEducation$86kHealth$58kHuman Services$34kInternational$18kHousing & Shelter$10kArts & Culture$4kOther$288k
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $245k
$10,800
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIRST TEE GREATER NEW ORLEANS$18,000
YEMBA INC$18,000
STUART I RASKAS FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF ILLINOIS$18,000
ULTIMATE PEACE INC$18,000
CAMP ONE STEP$18,000
THE KIDS EQUIPMENT NETWORK$18,000
BOB-O-LINKS JUNIOR GOLF CLUB$18,000
FIRST TEE - COACHELLA VALLEY$18,000
THE HARBOUR$18,000
A SAFE PLACE$18,000
CATCH GLOBAL FOUNDATION$10,800
GENEVA LAKE ASTROPHYSICS AND STEAM$10,800
HAWAII STATE JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION$10,800
GREAT LAKES ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATION$10,800
GREATER LAKE COUNTY USBC$10,800
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FILL A HEART 4 KIDS: $11k → 8%THE HARBOUR: $18k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
WI
IN
CA
CO
NC
HI
LA
TX

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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 98% of John H & Ann G Rhodes Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 78% of the giving stays in IL; read by stated purpose it is 2% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

John H & Ann G Rhodes Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

25%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$191k · 6 repeat orgs$572k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +3% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
33

Total granted

$191k
$343k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
0%

Still filing today

83%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $229k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’20’21’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsEducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • K
    KESHET
    2× · 2020–2024 · $23k · revenue +53%
  • GL
    GREAT LAKES ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $22k · revenue +3%
  • KI
    KIDS IN NEED OF MCHENRY COUNTY INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $12k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $36k
  • D2
    District 200 Education Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $18k · revenue -39% · 26% of their budget
  • SV
    SKOKIE VALLEY SKATING CLUBgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $18k · revenue +50%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Illinois Hawks Baseball Association

Teaching the ideals of sports, including sportsmanship, teamwork, fair play,discipline, respect, honesty, loyalty and courage; developing healthier, happier and more confident youth; combating juvenile delinquency by keeping youths…

Recreation & Sports
2
Matteson Youth Athletic Association

Sports program for youth

Recreation & Sports
3
Students Run Chicago
Health
4
Illinois Junior Golf Association

The illinois junior golf association is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to providing playing opportunities for its members ages 8-18, conducting educational clinics and events, and serving as a junior golf informational…

Recreation & Sports
5
Illinois Professional Golfers Association Foundation Inc

To connect golf professionals with local youth organiations to promote youth development through golf, as well as offer scholarships to qualifed individuals to develop youth.

Recreation & Sports
6
Girls in the Game Nfp

At girls in the game nfp, every girl finds her voice, discovers her strength and leads with confidence through fun and active sports, health and leadership programs.

Unclassified
7
Lake Michigan Junior Golf Association

To impact the lives of young people by providing educational programs that build character, instill life-enhancing values and promote healthy choices through the game of golf.

Recreation & Sports
8
Kids Golf Foundation of Illinois

The kids golf foundation of illinois is dedicated to bringing the sport of golf into the lives of young children and providing them with an opportunity for personal growth and career enhancement.

Recreation & Sports
9
Chicago Run

To promote the health and wellness of Chicago children through innovative, engaging, and sustainable youth running programs.

Philanthropy
10
West Cook County Youth Club

Provide behavior guidance and to promote the health, social, educational, vocational and character development of boys and girls.

Youth Development
11
Chicagoland Zephyrs Athletic

Teaching social responsibility

Recreation & Sports
12
Intentional Sports

Intentional Sports is a nonprofit organization that stands committed to inspiring Chicago's youth through the power of sports. Our mission is to provide accessible opportunities in sports, wellness, and education through programming that…

Recreation & Sports

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pathway to Adventure Council Inc Boy Scouts of America and the most unlike its peers is Ultimate Peace Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr14%17%5–10yr18%25%10–20yr17%33%20–35yr14%19%35–55yr16%6%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%14%5–10yr18%18%10–20yr17%45%20–35yr14%17%35–55yr16%7%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/40
the rest of the field
15%
5,768/37,929

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.

05the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 58 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/38
Grantees still filing
14/38
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE KIDS EQUIPMENT NETWORK — $46,000 · OtherTHE KIDS EQUIPMENT NETWORKIndividual grant recipient — $36,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientKESHET — $23,000 · OtherKESHETBOB-O-LINKS JUNIOR GOLF CLUB — $18,000 · OtherBOB-O-LINKS JUNIOR GOLF CLUBSKOKIE VALLEY SKATING CLUB — $18,000 · OtherSKOKIE VALLEY SKATING CLUBPATHWAY TO ADVENTURE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $18,000 · OtherPATHWAY TO ADVENTURE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS …LAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER — $18,000 · OtherLAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTERDIVEHEART — $10,800 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $10,800 · Other+18 more — $102,815 · Other+18 moreTHE FIRST TEE OF CHICAGO FOUNDATION — $52,300 · Recreation & SportsTHE FIRST TEE OF CHICAG…COACHELLA VALLEY YOUTH GOLF FOUNDATION — $18,000 · Recreation & SportsCOACHELLA VALLEY YOUTH …YEMBA INC — $18,000 · Recreation & SportsYEMBA INCTHE FIRST TEE OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS — $18,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE FIRST TEE OF GREATE…United States Bowling Congress Inc — $10,800 · Recreation & SportsUnited States Bowling C…BEBER CAMP PROPERTY INC — $10,800 · Recreation & SportsBEBER CAMP PROPERTY INCHAWAII STATE JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION IN — $10,800 · Recreation & SportsHAWAII STATE JUNIOR GOL…LOST BOYZINC — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsLOST BOYZINCJackson Park Golf Association — $9,000 · Recreation & SportsJackson Park Golf Assoc…The Stuart I Raskas Friendship Circle Illinois NFP — $18,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Stuart I Ra…PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED — $18,000 · Youth DevelopmentPLAYWORKS EDUCA…INSCITE ILLINOIS — $18,000 · Youth DevelopmentINSCITE ILLINOI…KIDS IN NEED OF MCHENRY COUNTY INC — $11,800 · Youth DevelopmentKIDS IN NEED OF…Role Model Movement Inc (NFP) — $10,800 · Youth DevelopmentRole Model Move…BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MCHENRY COUNTY INC — $10,800 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BI…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CL…HEART OF THE CITY — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentHEART OF THE CI…District 200 Education Foundation — $18,000 · EducationDistrict 200…LEADERSHIP GREATER MCHENRY COUNTY — $18,000 · EducationLEADERSHIP G…GENEVA LAKE ASTROPHYSICS AND STEAM INC — $10,800 · EducationGENEVA LAKE …THE ZACHARY PLANTZ FOUNDATION — $10,800 · EducationTHE ZACHARY …CATCH Global Foundation — $10,800 · EducationCATCH Global…SHEILAH A DOYLE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationSHEILAH A DO…GIRLS ON THE RUN OF NORTHWEST ILLINOIS — $5,000 · EducationGIRLS ON THE…+1 more — $2,500 · EducationChildrens Oncology Services Inc — $36,000 · HealthGREAT LAKES ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATION — $21,600 · HealthTHE HARBOUR INC — $18,000 · Human ServicesFILL A HEART 4 KIDS — $10,800 · Human ServicesIGNITE ADAPTIVE SPORTS — $5,400 · Human ServicesULTIMATE PEACE INC — $18,000 · International
Other$301,415Recreation & Sports$157,700Youth Development$107,400Education$85,900Health$57,600Human Services$34,200International$18,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF CHICAGO FOUNDATION — $52,300 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetChildrens Oncology Services Inc — $36,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetKESHET — $23,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREAT LAKES ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATION — $21,600 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE HARBOUR INC — $18,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDistrict 200 Education Foundation — $18,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetSKOKIE VALLEY SKATING CLUB — $18,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetThe Stuart I Raskas Friendship Circle Illinois NFP — $18,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetCOACHELLA VALLEY YOUTH GOLF FOUNDATION — $18,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLEADERSHIP GREATER MCHENRY COUNTY — $18,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetPATHWAY TO ADVENTURE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $18,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER — $18,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED — $18,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINSCITE ILLINOIS — $18,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetYEMBA INC — $18,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetKIDS IN NEED OF MCHENRY COUNTY INC — $11,800 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetUnited States Bowling Congress Inc — $10,800 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetFILL A HEART 4 KIDS — $10,800 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE ZACHARY PLANTZ FOUNDATION — $10,800 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetBEBER CAMP PROPERTY INC — $10,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRole Model Movement Inc (NFP) — $10,800 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MCHENRY COUNTY INC — $10,800 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCATCH Global Foundation — $10,800 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSHEILAH A DOYLE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetLOST BOYZINC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHEART OF THE CITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHome of the Sparrow Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJackson Park Golf Association — $9,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetIGNITE ADAPTIVE SPORTS — $5,400 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN OF NORTHWEST ILLINOIS — $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetWONDER LAKE WATER SKI SHOW TEAM ORGANIZATION INC — $3,600 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHE CHERYL RABINE FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC — $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

AbbVie FoundationThe Chicago Community…The Community Foundat…Laureus Sport for Goo…Northwestern Memorial…Circle of Service Fou…Andrew and Alice Fisc…Pga Tour First Tee Fo…World Golf Foundation…Dick's Sporting Goods…Pga Tour IncThe Allstate Foundati…
AbbVie FoundationIL16.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Community Foundation for McHenry County · Laureus Sport for Good Foundation USA · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Circle of Service Foundation · Andrew and Alice Fischer Charitable Trust · Pga Tour First Tee Foundation Inc · World Golf Foundation Inc · Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · Pga Tour Inc · The Allstate Foundation

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 John H & Ann G Rhodes Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 58 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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