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Justinian Society of Lawyers Endowment

The mission of the organization is to assist and aid disadvantaged or disabled children without regard to ethnicity, race or religion

$50k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$27kCrime & Legal$11kHuman Services$11kRecreation & Sports$10kHousing & Shelter$6kScience & Tech$5kPhilanthropy$5kCivil Rights$3k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $15,600, the rows itemized in this filing. The $49,600 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $34,000 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.
$5,200
Median grant
1
States reached
$379k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOMEWOOD SCIENCE CENTER$5,200
KESHET$5,200
CHICAGO DISTRICT GOLF ASSOCIATION F$5,200
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $6k) 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%ALMOST HOME KIDS: $6k → 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.
03Its 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
Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation
Human Services
2
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Cook County

CASA of Cook County's vision is to protect abused and neglected children by providing them in court, a safe and permanent home, and an opportunity to grow, learn and thrive.

Crime & Legal
3
Chicago Sun Times Charity Trust
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4
Casa Central Social Services Corporation

Casa central drives change by empowering individuals and families to thrive - delivering impactful services that transform lives and uplift communities.

Human Services
5
Casa of Southwestern Illinois

To recruit, train, supervise and support volunteers who advocate for the best interest (reduction of physical, emotional, intellectual and social injuries) for abused and neglected children in the court system.

Civil Rights
6
United States Tennis Association Inc

Guided by the belief that lives can be transformed through the game of tennis USTA Chicago a District of the USTA Midwest Section creates sustains and grows enthusiasm for the game of tennis throughout Chicagoland. As the governing body…

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7
Palos Community Hospital

The primary objective of Palos is to provide high quality patient care that is responsive to the health care needs of the residents of southwestern Cook County and northeastern sections of Will County. Palos is committed to a continued…

Health
8
House of the Good Shepherd

House of Good Shepherd serves with love and compassion women and children affected by domestic violence by offering a safe place with opportunities for emotional, educational and spiritual growth, giving hope and continued support for a…

Human Services
9
Center for Housing and Health

Chh honors every person's right to a home and health care, by bridging the housing and health care systems, to improve the lives of chicagoans experiencing homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
10
Saint Anthony Hospital Foundation

Saint Anthony Hospital Foundation's mission is to foster the spirit of philanthropy for every donor and provide capital resources to support the mission of Saint Anthony Hospital.

Health
11
Chicago District Golf Association

The chicago district golf association is primarily engaged in fostering, promoting, and advancing the game of golf and its attendant civic, charitable, and athletic aspects and purposes throughout illinois and parts of indiana, wisconsin…

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12
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Ann & robert h. lurie children's hospital of chicago is dedicated to the health and well-being of all children. as the pediatric teaching facility for northwestern university feinberg school of medicine, this commitment drives us to be a…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is La Casa Norte; the most unlike its peers is Direct Effect Charities. 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

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 13 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
3/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDRENS HOS: $10,500 · OtherANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDRENS HOSST JUDES CHILDRENS RESEARCH: $8,000 · OtherST JUDES CHILDRENS RESEARCHKESHET: $5,200 · OtherKESHETDIRECT EFFECT CHARITIES: $5,000 · OtherDIRECT EFFECT CHARITIESSHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $3,350 · OtherSHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDRENCHILDS VOICE: $3,350 · OtherCHILDS VOICECASA KANE COUNTY: $10,500 · Civil RightsCASA KANE COUNT…LA CASA NORTE: $5,500 · Housing & ShelterAlmost Home Kids: $5,500 · Human ServicesHOMEWOOD SCIENCE CENTER: $5,200 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO DISTRICT GOLF ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $5,200 · PhilanthropyFOX VALLEY SPECIAL RECREATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsSaint Anthony Hospital: $5,000 · Health
Other$35,400Civil Rights$10,500Housing & Shelter$5,500Human Services$5,500Arts & Culture$5,200Philanthropy$5,200Recreation & Sports$5,000Health$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCASA KANE COUNTY: $10,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLA CASA NORTE: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlmost Home Kids: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOMEWOOD SCIENCE CENTER: $5,200 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetKESHET: $5,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECT EFFECT CHARITIES: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFOX VALLEY SPECIAL RECREATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetSaint Anthony Hospital: $5,000 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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Justinian Society of Lawyers Endowment funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Justinian Society of Lawyers Endowment. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report 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.
    04Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to Justinian Society of Lawyers Endowment 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 13 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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