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Kemper Educational and Charitable Fund at a glance

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Kemper Educational and Charitable Fund

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.

$662k
Granted FY2024still arriving
50
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.7MYouth Development$731kEmployment$425kHuman Services$387kArts & Culture$292kHealth$204kEnvironment$83kReligion$66kOther$0
02FY2024 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k32 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $253k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $377k
$1,500
Median grant
13
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHICAGO YOUTH CENTERS$100,000
CRISTO REY ST MARTIN COLLEGE PREP$75,000
REVOLUTION WORKSHOP$51,000
CHICAGO JESUIT ACADEMY$50,500
CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$50,000
HOLY FAMILY MINISTRIES$50,000
NOBLE NETWORK'S SUMMER OF A LIFETIME$40,000
BERNIE'S BOOK BANK$33,000
WINNETKA COMMUNITY HOUSE$27,500
MOTHERS TRUST FOUNDATION$26,500
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS CHICAGO$25,000
JOSSELYN CENTER$25,000
WSIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION$15,400
GAMMA LOTA SIGMA$15,000
BUILDING PEACEFUL BRIDGES$15,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $285k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 61% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LINUS PROJECT: $500 → 8%GIO'S GARDEN: $1k → 10%COMFORT CASES: $2k → 8%INTEGRATED LIVING OPPORTUNITIES: $500 → 14%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $70k → 14%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $50k → 14%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $50k → 14%MOTHERS TRUST FOUNDATION: $27k → 8%MOTHERS TRUST FOUNDATION: $27k → 8%MOTHERS TRUST FOUNDATION: $23k → 8%MOTHERS TRUST FOUNDATION: $22k → 8%MOTHERS TRUST FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%MOTHERS TRUST FOUNDATION: $4k → 8%MOTHERS TRUST FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%EQUESTRIAN CONNECTION: $500 → 8%LET IT BE US: $1k → 14%COMMUNITY HOUSE: $500 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IA
PA
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
GA
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.8M · 63 repeat orgs$173k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

63 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
73

Total granted

$3.8M
$141k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+34%

Still filing today

76%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
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

  • CY
    Chicago Youth Centers
    7× · 2017–2024 · $412k · revenue +59%
  • CI
    COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO
    7× · 2017–2024 · $400k · revenue +146%
  • HF
    HOLY FAMILY MINISTRIES
    7× · 2017–2024 · $327k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • NS
    NORTHWESTERN SETTLEMENT
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • NE
    NAPSLO EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
  • NI
    NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -8%
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
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
2
Goodwill Industries of Northern Il and Wi Stateline Area Inc

The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…

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3
Junior Achievement of Chicago

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

International
4
Illinois College

Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…

Education
5
Chicago Waldorf School

Providing and promoting waldorf education from early childhood through the twelfth grade and promoting waldorf education through community outreach.

Education
6
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.

Social Science
7
Illinois Network of Charter Schools

The illinois network of charter schools (incs) advocates for the improvement of public education by leveraging the charter school model as a catalyst to transform lives and communities.

Education
8
The University of Chicago Charter School Corporation

To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.

Education
9
Chicago Parks Foundation

The Chicago Parks Foundation is a separate 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization that also serves as the strategic partner for the coordination of fundraising and charitable resources for the Chicago Park District.

Recreation & Sports
10
Thrive Chicago Nfp

Thrive chicago's mission is to prepare chicago's youth for a vibrant future by aligning efforts and outcomes from cradle to career.

Human Services
11
Children's Advocates for Change

Children's advocates for change was organized to improve the lives of children in illinois by bringing about significant changes public policies and programs for children through research, policy analysis and advocacy, public education and…

Human Services
12
Tutoring Chicago

Tutoring chicago delivers the power of education through one-to-one tutoring.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections for the Homeless Inc; the most unlike its peers is Beef 4 Hunger. 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

100 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. 100 of the 153 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)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
97/100
Grantees still filing
77/100
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO: $400,000 · OtherCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGOCHICAGO JESUIT ACADEMY: $220,500 · OtherCHICAGO JESUIT ACADEMYNOBLE NETWORK'S SUMMER OF A LIFETIME: $186,000 · OtherNOBLE NETWORK'S SUMMER OF A LIFETIMENUFEINBERG SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $100,000 · OtherNUFEINBERG SCHOOL OF MEDICINEWSIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $91,800 · OtherWSIA EDUCATION FOUNDATIONGAMMA IOTA SIGMA: $85,000 · OtherEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $75,000 · OtherWINNETKA CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $64,775 · OtherTHE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP: $56,200 · Other+106 more: $357,041 · Other+106 moreHOLY FAMILY MINISTRIES: $327,000 · EducationHOLY FAMILY MINISTRIESCristo Rey St Martin College Prep: $245,000 · EducationCristo Rey St Martin Colle…CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $170,000 · EducationCHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOU…GLENWOOD ACADEMY: $100,000 · EducationGLENWOOD ACADEMYNOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS: $61,500 · EducationNOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER S…+10 more: $50,480 · EducationChicago Youth Centers: $411,515 · Youth DevelopmentChicago Youth …BERNIE'S BOOK BANK: $106,500 · Youth DevelopmentBERNIE'S BOOK …THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $170,000 · Human ServicesTHE NIGHT…Mothers Trust Foundation: $109,530 · Human ServicesMothers T…Operation Warm Inc: $65,650 · Human ServicesOperation…+8 more: $6,500 · Human ServicesREVOLUTION WORKSHOP: $247,635 · Employment+1 more: $1,000 · EmploymentWINNETKA COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $221,015 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $5,700 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $80,500 · Environment+3 more: $1,700 · Environment
Other$1,636,316Education$953,980Youth Development$518,015Human Services$351,680Employment$248,635Arts & Culture$226,715Environment$82,200

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 budgetChicago Youth Centers: $411,515 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO: $400,000 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetHOLY FAMILY MINISTRIES: $327,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetREVOLUTION WORKSHOP: $247,635 over 7y, 8.4% of budgetWINNETKA COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $221,015 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetTHE NIGHT MINISTRY: $170,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $170,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetMothers Trust Foundation: $109,530 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetBERNIE'S BOOK BANK: $106,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetGLENWOOD ACADEMY: $100,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetWSIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $91,800 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetGAMMA IOTA SIGMA: $85,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $80,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOperation Warm Inc: $65,650 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS: $61,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP: $56,200 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetIOTA COURT PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION INC: $34,200 over 3y, 9.8% of budgetWINNETKANORTHFIELD ROTARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $18,311 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetIndian Hill Club Scholarship Foundation: $18,000 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetWINNETKA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $17,550 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetBUILDING PEACEFUL BRIDGES: $15,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCRYSTAL COMMUNITY SKI CLUB: $10,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYouth Guidance: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGENEVA FOUNDATION: $6,558 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTHE NEW HAMPTON SCHOOL: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $5,027 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHI PSI EDUCATIONAL TRUST INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEE ONE FOUNDATION INC: $4,800 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetNEW TRIER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $4,730 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUnity Preschool: $4,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGIRLS IN THE GAME NFP: $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetW O L F: $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO HOPE ACADEMY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJunior League of Evanston-North Shore Inc: $2,150 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTRIAD GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLAKE FOREST FOUNDATION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWINNETKA PARKS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetJORDAN THOMAS FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Illinois Action: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOUNSELING CENTER OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $1,775 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WINNETKA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $1,750 over 7y, 0.3% 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.

  • Who funds Chicago Youth Centers ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds HOLY FAMILY MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds REVOLUTION WORKSHOP ↗
  • Who funds Cristo Rey St Martin College Prep ↗
  • Who funds WINNETKA COMMUNITY HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Mothers Trust Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BERNIE'S BOOK BANK ↗
  • Who funds GLENWOOD ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds WSIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GAMMA IOTA SIGMA ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Operation Warm Inc ↗
  • Who funds NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds THE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP ↗
  • Who funds IOTA COURT PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WINNETKANORTHFIELD ROTARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Indian Hill Club Scholarship Foundation ↗
  • Who funds WINNETKA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds BUILDING PEACEFUL BRIDGES ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CRYSTAL COMMUNITY SKI CLUB ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds Youth Guidance ↗
  • Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF WINNETKANORTHFIELD ↗
  • Who funds GENEVA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE NEW HAMPTON SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗

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.

The Chicago Community…AbbVie FoundationDr Scholl FoundationCircle of Service Fou…Tinberg FoundationFrank Family Foundati…Sheila Reynolds Berne…Jewish Federation of …Helen V Brach Foundat…Robert R McCormick Fo…Polk Bros Foundation …Berlin Family Fund
The Chicago Community TrustIL34.1× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · AbbVie Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Tinberg Foundation · Frank Family Foundation · Sheila Reynolds Berner Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Helen V Brach Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Berlin Family Fund

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 Kemper Educational and Charitable Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kemper Educational and Charitable Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Comfort Cases Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
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How do I get to Kemper Educational and Charitable Fund?

Find your warmest path to Kemper Educational and Charitable Fund 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 153 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home