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Knight Impact Partners

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.

$5.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

International$4.8MCommunity Improvement$1.4MRecreation & Sports$1.3MEducation$911kHealth$910kPhilanthropy$825kHousing & Shelter$763kFood & Nutrition$669kOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $170k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.5M
  • $250k+6 grants · $3.4M
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK$1,000,000
ONE ACRE FUND$750,000
NORTHSHORE HOSPITALS FOUNDATION$560,499
CITY COLLEGES OF CHICAGO FOUNDATION$500,000
LA CASA NORTE$325,000
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$250,000
ONE MILLION DEGREES$200,000
THE CARA PROGRAM$200,000
MAAFA REDEMPTION PROJECT INC$200,000
HOPE CHICAGO$150,000
MICHAEL REESE HEALTH TRUST$150,000
NOURISHING HOPE$150,000
CONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS$150,000
GREENLIGHT FUND CHICAGO$100,000
AIDS FOUNDATION OF CHICAGO$50,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $298k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE FATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%MADONNA MISSION: $10k → 14%WOMEN IN NEED (WIN): $25k → 17%THE FATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%MADONNA MISSION: $10k → 14%WOMEN IN NEED (WIN): $8k → 17%THE FATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%MADONNA MISSION: $10k → 14%THE FATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%MADONNA MISSION: $10k → 14%THE FATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%MADONNA MISSION: $10k → 14%THE FATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%MADONNA MISSION: $10k → 14%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $100k → 14%THE LYTE COLLECTIVE: $50k → 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.

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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.2M · 20 repeat orgs$4.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against -7% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
12

Total granted

$8.2M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
-7%

Still filing today

80%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthCommunity ImprovementEducationInternationalOther

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

  • OA
    ONE ACRE FUND
    5× · 2019–2024 · $4.8M · revenue +52%
  • Northwestern University
    5× · 2019–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +34%
  • LC
    LA CASA NORTE
    3× · 2019–2024 · $450k · revenue +127%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC
    one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue -50%
  • NL
    New Life Centers of Chicagolandgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue +68%
  • BU
    BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +48%

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
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
Arise Chicago

Arise chicago builds partnerships between faith communities and workers to fight workplace injustice through education, organizing, and advocating for public policy changes.

Employment
3
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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4
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
5
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
6
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
7
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
8
The Chicago Bar Foundation

The chicago bar foundation brings the legal community together through advocacy, funding, and innovation to improve access to justice for people in need and to make the legal system more fair, equitable, and effective.

Education
9
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
10
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
11
True Chicago
Arts & Culture
12
Chicago Heightening Opportunity and Potential for

Providing academic support to children experiencing homelessness in Chicago and providing resources and services to families experiencing homelessness in Chicago.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections for the Homeless Inc and the most unlike its peers is Endeavor Health Clinical Operations. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%3%<5yr14%5%5–10yr18%10%10–20yr17%38%20–35yr15%43%35–55yr16%3%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%1%<5yr14%3%5–10yr18%1%10–20yr17%69%20–35yr15%15%35–55yr16%10%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/41
the rest of the field
16%
5,000/31,469

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

40 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. 40 of the 51 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
22/40
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ONE ACRE FUND — $4,750,000 · InternationalONE ACRE FUNDJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO — $210,000 · InternationalCity Colleges of Chicago Foundation — $500,000 · OtherCity Colleges of Chicago Fou…GREENLIGHT FUND CHICAGO — $300,000 · OtherGREENLIGHT FUND CHICAGOHOPE CHICAGO INC — $150,000 · OtherNOURISHING HOPE — $150,000 · OtherBy The Hand Club For Kids — $150,000 · OtherGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $417,800 · OtherGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSIT…ONE MILLION DEGREES — $200,000 · OtherONE MILLION DEGREESThe Cara Program — $200,000 · OtherThe Cara ProgramNew Life Centers of Chicagoland — $125,000 · Other+25 more — $1,026,256 · Other+25 moreINNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK — $1,000,000 · Community ImprovementINNER-CITY …MAAFA Redemption Project — $200,000 · Community ImprovementMAAFA Redem…CHICAGO CARES INC — $150,000 · Community ImprovementCHICAGO CAR…Northwestern University — $1,250,000 · Recreation & SportsNorthwester…Endeavor Health Clinical Operations — $560,499 · HealthMICHAEL REESE HEALTH TRUST — $150,000 · HealthAIDS Foundation of Chicago — $50,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $50,000 · HealthLA CASA NORTE — $450,000 · Housing & ShelterCONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $150,000 · Housing & ShelterALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY — $55,000 · Housing & ShelterSARAH'S CIRCLE — $25,000 · Housing & ShelterUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC — $500,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $12,036 · Philanthropy
International$4,960,000Other$3,219,056Community Improvement$1,350,000Recreation & Sports$1,250,000Health$810,499Housing & Shelter$680,000Philanthropy$512,036

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetONE ACRE FUND — $4,750,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetNorthwestern University — $1,250,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK — $1,000,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetEndeavor Health Clinical Operations — $560,499 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCity Colleges of Chicago Foundation — $500,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC — $500,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLA CASA NORTE — $450,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $417,800 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO — $210,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetONE MILLION DEGREES — $200,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetMAAFA Redemption Project — $200,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetThe Cara Program — $200,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHOPE CHICAGO INC — $150,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNOURISHING HOPE — $150,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMICHAEL REESE HEALTH TRUST — $150,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetCONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $150,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCHICAGO CARES INC — $150,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetBy The Hand Club For Kids — $150,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNew Life Centers of Chicagoland — $125,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE NIGHT MINISTRY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSOUTHSIDE CENTER OF HOPE — $70,000 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetMadonna Mission — $60,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetGOLDEN APPLE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING — $55,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFATHER FRED FOUNDATION — $55,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY — $55,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAIDS Foundation of Chicago — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LYTE COLLECTIVE — $50,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCIVIC CONSULTING ALLIANCE — $33,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWOMEN IN NEED INC — $32,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NORA PROJECT — $30,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSARAH'S CIRCLE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOREFRONT — $7,036 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIF Charities — $6,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetOAK PARK-RIVER FOREST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFREE SPIRIT MEDIA NFP — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPHILANTHROPY NEW YORK INC — $3,350 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

The Chicago Community…Robert R McCormick Fo…Arie and Ida Crown Me…John D and Catherine …Polk Bros Foundation …Circle of Service Fou…Lloyd a Fry FoundationThe Joyce FoundationFulk Family Foundatio…Pritzker Traubert Fou…The Pritzker Pucker F…Vivo Foundation
The Chicago Community TrustIL24.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · The Joyce Foundation · Fulk Family Foundation Inc · Pritzker Traubert Foundation · The Pritzker Pucker Family Foundation · Vivo 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 Knight Impact Partners 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%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.

    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 51 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.

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