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Julian Grace 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.

$8.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
105
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$310k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Human Services$7.8MEducation$4.2MCrime & Legal$4.0MArts & Culture$3.8MCivil Rights$3.7MCommunity Improvement$3.5MYouth Development$3.5MPhilanthropy$2.9MOther$0
02FY2024 · 105 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k31 grants · $916k
  • $50k–250k65 grants · $5.6M
  • $250k+5 grants · $1.5M
$60,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$87M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FUNDACION ASISTENCIAL MARIA ROSA$310,000
SOCIEDAD AMIGOS DE LOS NIOS$306,000
THE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER$302,000
NICAT$300,000
MANO A MANO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER$300,000
DEPAUL UNIVERSITY$226,243
MOREHOUSE COLLEGE$206,500
BEYOND LEGAL AID$205,000
CHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE$205,000
VIETNAMESE ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS$151,500
SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION$125,000
FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$125,000
AMERICAN HEADACHE ASSOCIATION$120,000
APNA GHAR$115,000
YMCA OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO$110,000
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 (FY20–24, $8.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AL OTRO LADO INC: $150k → 11%ILLINOIS MIGRANT COUNCIL: $97k → 6%BEYOND LEGAL AID: $325k → 14%AL OTRO LADO INC: $75k → 11%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $100k → 17%BEYOND LEGAL AID: $258k → 14%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $58k → 17%BEYOND LEGAL AID: $217k → 14%YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $215k → 14%BEYOND LEGAL AID: $205k → 14%BEYOND LEGAL AID: $200k → 14%YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $153k → 14%YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $125k → 14%COMMUNITY YOUTH NETWORK INC: $91k → 8%FIRST STAR: $135k → 14%COMMUNITY YOUTH NETWORK INC: $55k → 8%FIRST STAR: $126k → 14%YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $100k → 14%FIRST STAR: $116k → 14%FIRST STAR: $113k → 14%YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $100k → 14%FIRST STAR INC: $100k → 14%MANO A MANO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $531k → 8%MANO A MANO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $475k → 8%MANO A MANO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $400k → 8%MANO A MANO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $378k → 8%MANO A MANO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $300k → 8%THE VIETNAMESE ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS: $193k → 14%THE VIETNAMESE ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS: $185k → 14%CHINESE MUTUAL AID ASSOCIATION: $173k → 14%THE VIETNAMESE ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS: $166k → 14%VIETNAMESE ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS: $152k → 14%THE VIETNAMESE ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS: $150k → 14%CHINESE MUTUAL AID ASSOCIATION: $70k → 14%CHINESE MUTUAL AID ASSOCIATION: $67k → 14%CHINESE MUTUAL AID ASSOCIATION: $59k → 14%THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $109k → 14%THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $75k → 14%INDO-AMERICAN CENTER INC: $70k → 14%BURST INTO BOOKS: $85k → 14%BURST INTO BOOKS: $81k → 14%BURST INTO BOOKS: $70k → 14%BURST INTO BOOKS: $56k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $110k → 14%GREENWOOD PROJECT: $65k → 14%LYTE COLLECTIVE: $65k → 14%LYTE COLLECTIVE: $60k → 14%LYTE COLLECTIVE: $54k → 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

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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.

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$40M · 114 repeat orgs$2.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

114 repeat relationships — 70 still active in FY2024, 44 since wound down; 35 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

114
47

Total granted

$40M
$753k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+12%

Still filing today

77%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • MA
    MANO A MANO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +120% · 28% of their budget
  • DU
    DEPAUL UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +7%
  • TT
    THE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • SI
    SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +123%
  • IV
    International Visitors Center of Chicago
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -32%
  • WC
    WAUKEGAN COMMUNITY BROADBAND TASKFORCE
    one grant, 2021 · $50k

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
Latino Union of Chicago

Latino Union works to defend the rights and dignity of contingent workers, including the right to immigrate, work, live free of oppression and violence, and provide for oneself and one's family.

Human Services
2
A Better Chicago

A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.

Human Services
3
Chicago Refugee Coalition

The Chicago Refugee Coalition is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated ot the alleviation of human suffering through innovative partnerships, advocacy and community empowerment.

Human Services
4
Chicago United

To achieve parity in economic opportunity for people of color by advancing multiracial leadership in corporate governance, expanding the talent pipline for executive-level management, and growing minority businesses.

Philanthropy
5
Live Free Chicago

Live Free Illinois is a statewide organization partnering with over 120 congregations and directly impacted individuals to build safer more equitable communities across Illinois. Operating at the intersection of criminal justice reform and…

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6
Chicago Votes

Chicago Votes is a non-partisan, non-profit organization building a more inclusive democracy by putting power in the hands of young Chicagoans. We're engaging and developing a new generation of leaders by opening the doors of government,…

Civil Rights
7
Illinois Community for Displaced Immigrants

Serving recently arrived migrants and asylum seekers in the Chicagoland area and is committed to upholding the dignity and human rights of immigrants.

Human Services
8
Chicago Torture Justice Center

Seeks to address the traumas of police violence and institutionalized racism through access to healing and wellness services, trauma-informed resources, and community connection. The Center is a part of and supports a movement to end all…

Crime & Legal
9
Legal Aid Chicago

At legal aid chicago, we work together to provide high quality civil legal aid to people living in poverty and other vulnerable groups.through advocacy, education, collaboration, and litigation we empower individuals, protect fundamental…

Crime & Legal
10
The Network Advocating Against Domestic Violence

The Network is a group of 40+ member organizations dedicated to improving the lives of those impacted by gender-based violence through education, public policy and advocacy, and connecting community members with direct service providers.…

Human Services
11
Alternatives Inc

Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…

Health
12
Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Inc

Secure racial equity and economic opportunity for all

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United African Organization and the most unlike its peers is Focus for Our Childrens Undistracted Success. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Development & Adv…Immigrant Community ServicesCommunity Theatre and Perfo…Family Philanthropic Founda…Local Business & Tourism Pr…Supportive Housing ServicesAdvocacy and Systems Change…Jewish Heritage EducationChild Protection & Family S…Youth Development & Empower…Early Childhood and K-12 Ed…Hospital Support Organizati…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 22 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%8%<5yr15%12%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr17%26%20–35yr12%17%35–55yr14%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%6%<5yr15%9%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr17%33%20–35yr12%13%35–55yr14%17%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.6%1/159
the rest of the field
16%
13,258/84,307

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.

04the grantee network

152 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. 152 of the 198 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.

8
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
47
Early backer (in before they grew)
146/152
Grantees still filing
98/152
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FUNDACION ASISTENCIAL MARIA ROSA — $1,894,850 · OtherFUNDACION ASISTENCIAL MARIA ROSASOCIEDAD AMIGOS DE LOS NINOS — $1,616,562 · OtherSOCIEDAD AMIGOS DE LOS NINOSNICAT - THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH — $1,277,500 · OtherNICAT - THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH+115 more — $15,280,946 · Other+115 moreMANO A MANO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER — $2,083,700 · Human ServicesMANO A MANO FAMILY RES…BEYOND LEGAL AID — $1,204,700 · Human ServicesBEYOND LEGAL AIDVIETNAMESE ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS — $845,000 · Human ServicesVIETNAMESE ASSOCIATION…YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $692,500 · Human ServicesYWCA METROPOLITAN CHIC…FIRST STAR INC — $590,195 · Human ServicesFIRST STAR INCCHINESE MUTUAL AID ASSOCIATION — $373,750 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS — $333,500 · Human ServicesBURST INTO BOOKS — $295,750 · Human Services+20 more — $2,179,500 · Human Services+20 moreDEPAUL UNIVERSITY — $1,705,265 · EducationDEPAUL UNIV…CHICAGO FREEDOM SCHOOL — $536,505 · EducationCHICAGO FRE…MOREHOUSE COLLEGE — $481,500 · EducationMOREHOUSE C…NEWROOT LEARNING INSTITUTE F/K/A UMOJA STUDENT DEVELOPMENT CORP — $448,520 · EducationNEWROOT LEA…Chicago Workers' Collaborative NFP — $390,500 · EducationChicago Wor…INSTITUTE OF POSITIVE EDUCATION — $346,750 · EducationINSTITUTE O…The Partnership for College Completion — $208,500 · Education+7 more — $380,000 · Education+7 moreTHE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER — $1,489,500 · Civil RightsTHE TAHIR…ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS — $497,500 · Civil RightsILLINOIS …Workers Center For Racial Just NFP — $452,775 · Civil RightsWorkers C…UNITED AFRICAN ORGANIZATION — $394,000 · Civil RightsUNITED AF…Organized Communities Against Deportations — $349,850 · Civil RightsOrganized…Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media — $226,395 · Civil RightsGeena Dav…Chicago United for Equity — $194,000 · Civil RightsInnovation Law Lab — $176,000 · Civil RightsCHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE INC — $758,500 · Community ImprovementKenwood Oakland Community Organization — $503,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND FAMILY ISSUES — $388,000 · Community ImprovementRESIDENT ASSOCIATION OF GREATER ENGLEWOOD — $380,500 · Community ImprovementSOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT — $371,000 · Community ImprovementINNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK — $174,500 · Community Improvement+6 more — $149,000 · Community ImprovementFREE SPIRIT MEDIA NFP — $447,000 · Youth DevelopmentCircles and Ciphers — $423,250 · Youth DevelopmentBoys & Girls Club of Lake County — $365,250 · Youth DevelopmentHEART OF THE CITY — $337,139 · Youth DevelopmentPROJECT VISION INC — $271,300 · Youth Development+4 more — $65,000 · Youth DevelopmentFenix Family Health Center — $705,000 · HealthAMERICAN HEADACHE ASSOCIATION — $440,750 · HealthANGIOMA ALLIANCE DBA ALLIANCE TO CURE CAVERNOUS MALFORMATIONS — $285,000 · HealthTHE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP — $215,000 · HealthLORETTO HOSPITAL — $125,000 · Health+4 more — $135,730 · Health
Other$20,069,858Human Services$8,598,595Education$4,497,540Civil Rights$3,780,020Community Improvement$2,724,500Youth Development$1,908,939Health$1,906,480

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$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMANO A MANO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER — $2,083,700 over 5y, 28% of budgetDEPAUL UNIVERSITY — $1,705,265 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER — $1,489,500 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetBEYOND LEGAL AID — $1,204,700 over 5y, 17% of budgetVIETNAMESE ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS — $845,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetCHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE INC — $758,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetFenix Family Health Center — $705,000 over 5y, 23% of budgetYWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $692,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCROSSROADS FUND INC — $603,750 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetFIRST STAR INC — $590,195 over 5y, 9.2% of budgetLATINO POLICY FORUM — $574,200 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetCHICAGO FREEDOM SCHOOL — $536,505 over 5y, 13% of budgetFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $525,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $515,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLittle Village Environmental Justice Org — $512,000 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetKenwood Oakland Community Organization — $503,000 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS — $497,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMOREHOUSE COLLEGE — $481,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetA LONG WALK HOME INC — $467,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetWorkers Center For Racial Just NFP — $452,775 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetNEWROOT LEARNING INSTITUTE F/K/A UMOJA STUDENT DEVELOPMENT CORP — $448,520 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetFREE SPIRIT MEDIA NFP — $447,000 over 5y, 9.6% of budgetAMERICAN HEADACHE ASSOCIATION — $440,750 over 5y, 80% of budgetCHICAGO CENTER FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY INC — $432,728 over 5y, 11% of budgetPRECIOUS BLOOD MINISTRY OF RECONCILIATION NFP — $426,750 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetCircles and Ciphers — $423,250 over 5y, 25% of budgetINTERFAITH AMERICA — $415,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetLugenia Burns Hope Center — $414,000 over 5y, 22% of budgetTHE LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $412,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetUNITED AFRICAN ORGANIZATION — $394,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetChicago Workers' Collaborative NFP — $390,500 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND FAMILY ISSUES — $388,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetRESIDENT ASSOCIATION OF GREATER ENGLEWOOD — $380,500 over 4y, 14% of budgetCOALITION FOR A BETTER CHINESE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CBCAC — $378,000 over 5y, 29% of budgetCHINESE MUTUAL AID ASSOCIATION — $373,750 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT — $371,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetFARMWORKER AND LANDSCAPER ADVOCACY PROJECT — $366,000 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Lake County — $365,250 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetOrganized Communities Against Deportations — $349,850 over 4y, 25% of budgetINSTITUTE OF POSITIVE EDUCATION — $346,750 over 5y, 13% of budgetHEART OF THE CITY — $337,139 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetTHE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS — $333,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetBURST INTO BOOKS — $295,750 over 5y, 27% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FONDWA USA INC — $285,840 over 5y, 8.6% of budgetANGIOMA ALLIANCE DBA ALLIANCE TO CURE CAVERNOUS MALFORMATIONS — $285,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetCURT'S CAFE — $279,000 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetPROJECT VISION INC — $271,300 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetBIG NFP DBA Blacks in Green — $268,500 over 4y, 9.8% 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.

  • Who funds MANO A MANO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds DEPAUL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BEYOND LEGAL AID ↗
  • Who funds VIETNAMESE ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS ↗
  • Who funds CHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds Fenix Family Health Center ↗
  • Who funds YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds CROSSROADS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds FIRST STAR INC ↗
  • Who funds LATINO POLICY FORUM ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO FREEDOM SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Little Village Environmental Justice Org ↗
  • Who funds Kenwood Oakland Community Organization ↗
  • Who funds ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS ↗
  • Who funds MOREHOUSE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds A LONG WALK HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds Workers Center For Racial Just NFP ↗
  • Who funds NEWROOT LEARNING INSTITUTE F/K/A UMOJA STUDENT DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
  • Who funds FREE SPIRIT MEDIA NFP ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN HEADACHE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO CENTER FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
  • Who funds PRECIOUS BLOOD MINISTRY OF RECONCILIATION NFP ↗
  • Who funds Circles and Ciphers ↗
  • Who funds INTERFAITH AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds Lugenia Burns Hope Center ↗
  • Who funds THE LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED AFRICAN ORGANIZATION ↗
  • Who funds Chicago Workers' Collaborative NFP ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND FAMILY ISSUES ↗
  • Who funds RESIDENT ASSOCIATION OF GREATER ENGLEWOOD ↗
  • Who funds COALITION FOR A BETTER CHINESE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CBCAC ↗

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.

Field Foundation of I…Polk Bros Foundation …Woods Fund of ChicagoUnited Way of Metropo…The Chicago Community…John D and Catherine …Chicago Foundation fo…Circle of Service Fou…ForefrontLloyd a Fry FoundationCrossroads Fund IncConant Family Foundat…
Field Foundation of IllinoisIL79.2× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Field Foundation of Illinois · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Woods Fund of Chicago · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Chicago Foundation for Women · Circle of Service Foundation · Forefront · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Crossroads Fund Inc · Conant Family 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 Julian Grace 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    65report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Julian Grace Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Julian Grace 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 198 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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