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Kindness Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$35k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Health$398kHousing & Shelter$187kFood & Nutrition$15kHuman Services$2kCommunity Improvement$2kCivil Rights$507Animals$500
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$9k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Chicagoland Habitat for Humanity$20,000
Sunshine Kids$10,000
Home Services Foundation for Housing Equity$5,000
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 (FY20–20, $2k) 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%Beacon Place: $2k → 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$562k · 6 repeat orgs$44k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
16

Total granted

$562k
$44k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+25%

Still filing today

50%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
Food & NutritionHealthHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyAnimalsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • TS
    THE SUNSHINE KIDS FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $384k · revenue +18%
  • CH
    Chicagoland Habitat for Humanity
    8× · 2017–2025 · $137k
  • HF
    HOMESERVICES FOUNDATION FOR HOUSING EQUITY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $25k · revenue -96%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $21k
  • GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY
    one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +17%
  • LF
    Lakeview Food Pantry
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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
Nourishing Hope

Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.

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2
Ravenswood Community Services Inc

Ravenswood community services ("rcs") operates a food pantry and community kitchen for those in need of emergency food on chicago's north side.

Human Services
3
New Hope House Northwest D/B/a New Hope Community Food Pantry

New hope house northwest is a volunteer-driven food pantry dedicated to providing emergency food assistance to individuals and families in need. the pantry serves chicago's far northwest side, norridge, and harwood heights residents,…

Food & Nutrition
4
Northern Illinois Food Bank

With the support of our community, we provide over 90 million meals annually through our network of over 900 member food pantries and programs across thirteen counties, currently reaching over a half million individuals each month with…

Food & Nutrition
5
Care for Real

To foster a healthy and equitable community by helping vulnerable neighbors overcome food insecurity with dignity. with locations in edgewater and rogers park, cfr provides food, clothing, pet food, referral, and additional services with…

Human Services
6
Chicago's Green City Market Program

Green city market is securing the future of food by deepening support for sustainable farmers, educating our community, and expanding access to locally-grown food.

Food & Nutrition
7
Feeding Illinois

Feeding illinois is a coalition of eight feeding america food banks that provide food to over 2,400 food pantries, soup kitchens, and shelters that feed nearly 1.4 million residents across the entire state of illinois.

Food & Nutrition
8
The Affordable Housing Corporation of Lake County

To provide decent, safe and sanitary housing that is affordable to low and moderate-income persons and to stabilize and strengthen communities by improving the local housing stock. the corporation shall administer programs that revitalize…

Human Services
9
Coralville Community Food Pantry

We believe that food is a human right and that food has the power to bring people together. Our vision is to build a stronger, healthier, and hunger-free Coralville community. Powered by community support, the Coralville Community Food…

Food & Nutrition
10
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
11
Ageguide Northeastern Illinois Area On Aging

We strive to make aging easier through the development of a network of services for older persons designed to optimize the quality of their lives.

Food & Nutrition
12
Northeast Community Fund

Collect food and clothing for the needy in the community. also to help individuals in the community with utilities, medical expenses, rent, transportation and other.

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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 Respiratory Health Association. 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

10 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. 10 of the 22 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SUNSHINE KIDS FOUNDATION: $384,365 · HealthTHE SUNSHINE KIDS FOUNDATIONChicagoland Habitat for Humanity: $136,750 · OtherChicagoland Habitat for HumanityIndividual grant recipient: $21,049 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMisericordia: $9,000 · Other+12 more: $14,607 · Other+12 moreHOMESERVICES FOUNDATION FOR HOUSING EQUITY: $25,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $6,000 · Food & NutritionNORTHFIELD TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY: $2,000 · Food & NutritionCONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $3,900 · Housing & ShelterThe Beacon Place NFP: $2,000 · Human ServicesThe Anti-Cruelty Society: $500 · Animals
Health$384,365Other$181,406Philanthropy$25,000Food & Nutrition$8,000Housing & Shelter$3,900Human Services$2,000Animals$500

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 budgetTHE SUNSHINE KIDS FOUNDATION: $384,365 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetHOMESERVICES FOUNDATION FOR HOUSING EQUITY: $25,000 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $3,900 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHFIELD TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Beacon Place NFP: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGLEN ELLYN FOOD PANTRY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER: $507 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Anti-Cruelty Society: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRESPIRATORY HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $500 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.

  • Who funds THE SUNSHINE KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOMESERVICES FOUNDATION FOR HOUSING EQUITY ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHFIELD TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds The Beacon Place NFP ↗
  • Who funds GLEN ELLYN FOOD PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds The Anti-Cruelty Society ↗
  • Who funds RESPIRATORY HEALTH ASSOCIATION ↗

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.

AbbVie FoundationThe Chicago Community…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
AbbVie FoundationIL12.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Kindness Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kindness Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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
    4report 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.

    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 22 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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