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Kiwanis Foundation of Lake Bluff & Lake Forest
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRAVO WAUKEGAN | $10,000 |
| KEEPING FAMILIES COVERED | $10,000 |
| COLLEGE OF LAKE COUNTY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MOTHERS' TRUST FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $2,500 |
| GIGIS PLAYHOUSE | $2,500 |
| GLASA | $2,500 |
| FILL A HEART 4 KIDS | $2,500 |
| LAKE FOREST HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| BERNIE'S BOOK BANK | $2,500 |
| SPIRIT OF 67 FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| READING POWER INC | $2,500 |
| JOSSELYN CENTER | $2,500 |
| CROYA | $2,500 |
| ZACHARIAS SEXUAL ABUSE CENTER | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against -13% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- COCollege of Lake County Foundation3× · 2023–2025 · $40k · revenue +180%
- NINORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK6× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +8%
- MTMothers Trust Foundation6× · 2020–2025 · $10k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF LAKE FOREST PARKS & REC FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue +511%
- LBLAKE BLUFF LIBRARYone grant, 2021 · $14k
- KEKIWANIS ELIMINATE PROJECTone grant, 2020 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.
To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.
Preservation and promotion of community history.
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.
Financially support the programs, not paid for by tax dollars, that enhance and enrich the educational opportunities of the students in Lake County Illinois.
The Foodbank's mission is to provide food, and develop awareness of and creative solutions for food insecurity. Annually, the Foodbank distributes approximately 9.5 million pounds of food to 130 food pantries, soup kitchens, children's…
Established in 2011 by retired Chicago Cubs pitcher Kerry Wood, and his wife Sarah, Pitch In (fka Wood Family Foundation) seeks to improve the lives of children in four high-need neighborhoods in Chicago: North Lawndale, Humboldt Park,…
The Lycee Francais de Chicago, driven by our core values of respect, responsibility and the joy of learning, empowers students to grow into active global citizens.
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…
Promote the health and independence of lake county, il, older adults
The lake county community foundation is a nonprofit corporation located in lake county, illinois that was established in 2003 to bring together philanthropists and donors, dollars and ideas to build permanent funds to benefit lake county,…
Improve the lives of children in illinois by bringing about significant changes in public policies and programs for children through research, policy analysis and advocacy, public education and community outreach.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gorton Community Center. 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.
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 29 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
23 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. 23 of the 42 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 College of Lake County Foundation ↗
- Who funds KEEPING FAMILIES COVERED ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LAKE FOREST PARKS & REC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRAVO WAUKEGAN ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Mothers Trust Foundation ↗
- Who funds LAKE FOREST HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Spirit of 67 Foundation ↗
- Who funds Lake County Childrens Advocacy Center ↗
- Who funds ZACHARIAS SEXUAL ABUSE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FILL A HEART 4 KIDS ↗
- Who funds READING POWER INC ↗
- Who funds Gorton Community Center ↗
- Who funds THE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP ↗
- Who funds COOL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds BERNIE'S BOOK BANK ↗
- Who funds KIWANIS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds BOUNCE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MCKINLOCK POST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lake Forest College ↗
- Who funds Lake Bluff History Museum ↗
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.
Open a dossier: AbbVie Foundation · Lee Family Foundation · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · The Chicago Community Trust · Butler Family Foundation · Trustmark Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Baxter International Foundation · Forest & Found NFP · Little Orchard Foundation · Sunshine Charitable Foundation · The Lake County Community 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 Kiwanis Foundation of Lake Bluff & Lake Forest 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.
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.
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