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Latinos Progresando

The mission of Latinos Progresando is to deliver high quality information and resources for people to build secure, healthy and productive lives.

$831k
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$129k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Housing & Shelter$1.2MArts & Culture$517kHuman Services$476kCommunity Improvement$402kHealth$187kYouth Development$126kCivil Rights$77kEducation$60kOther$0
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 31 grants below total $796,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $831,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $35,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $464k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $327k
$14,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Carole Robertson Center for Learning$129,000
Sinai Health System$127,500
One Lawndale Children's Discovery Center$70,000
New Covenant Community Develpment Corporation$45,000
North Lawndale Community Coordinating Council Inc$45,000
Sones de Mexico Ensemble$25,000
Teatro Vista Theatre with a View$25,000
Chicago Latinos Theater Alliance$25,000
Illinois Workers in Action$25,000
Centro de Informacion$20,000
Illinois Legislative Latino Caucus Foundation$20,000
Open Center for the Arts$19,500
The Resurrection Project (UNION Impact Center)$15,500
Ballet Folklorico de Chicago$15,000
Gage Park Latinx Council$14,500
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 (FY20–25, $564k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Illinois Workers in Action: $25k → 8%Taller de Jose: $30k → 14%Illinois Workers in Action: $10k → 8%Taller de Jose: $25k → 14%Taller de Jose: $25k → 14%Taller de Jose: $20k → 14%Telpochcalli Community Education Project: $18k → 14%Telpochcalli Community Education Project: $16k → 14%Taller de Jose: $15k → 14%Telpochcalli Community Education Project: $13k → 14%Centro de Trabajadores Unidos: $12k → 14%Illinois Workers in Action: $10k → 14%Carole Robertson Center for Learning: $10k → 14%Telpochcalli Community Education Project: $10k → 14%TALLER DE JOSE: $9k → 14%Carole Robertson Center for Learning: $129k → 14%CAROLE ROBERTSON CENTER FOR LEARNING: $8k → 14%Carole Robertson Center for Learning: $8k → 14%Carole Robertson Center for Learning: $6k → 14%Carole Robertson Center for Learning: $6k → 14%Erie Neighborhood House: $20k → 14%Alliance of the SouthEast: $10k → 14%Alliance of the SouthEast: $10k → 14%Alliance of the SouthEast: $10k → 14%Alianza Leadership Institute: $8k → 14%SARAH'S INN: $8k → 14%Mujeres Latinas en Accion: $25k → 14%And Rise Women Inc: $10k → 14%And Rise Women Inc: $10k → 14%And Rise Women Inc: $10k → 14%Port Ministries: $10k → 14%Port Ministries: $10k → 14%Port Ministries: $10k → 14%Port Ministries: $10k → 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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 7% of Latinos Progresando’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in IL; read by stated purpose it is 93% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Latinos Progresandolessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.8M · 33 repeat orgs$438k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +66% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
16

Total granted

$2.8M
$268k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+66%
+17%

Still filing today

94%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $170k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHealthHousing & ShelterCivil RightsOther

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

  • GA
    GREATER AUBURN GRESHAM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +5%
  • CR
    Carole Robertson Center for Learning
    6× · 2020–2025 · $167k · revenue +209%
  • SH
    SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM
    3× · 2021–2025 · $144k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • GS
    GREATER SOUTHWEST DEVELOPMENT CORP
    one grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue +20%
  • LC
    LA CASA NORTEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +56%
  • ML
    MUJERES LATINAS EN ACCIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +43%

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
Latino Union of Chicago

Latino Union works to defend the rights and dignity of contingent workers, including the right to immigrate, work, live free of oppression and violence, and provide for oneself and one's family.

Human Services
2
International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago

Develop, promote and increase awareness of latino cultures among latino communities through film and video events, education and other art forms

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3
Illinois Community for Displaced Immigrants

Serving recently arrived migrants and asylum seekers in the Chicagoland area and is committed to upholding the dignity and human rights of immigrants.

Human Services
4
Illinois Unidos

Champion equitable responses and recovery efforts for the Latinx community impacted by COVID-19

Community Improvement
5
Chicago United for Equity

Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.

Civil Rights
6
Latino Resource Institute of Illinois

The mission of the Latino Resource Institute of Illinois is to provide case management, parenting classes, workshops, anger management classes, counseling and other services to families and individuals who are experiencing financial and…

Human Services
7
Chicago Refugee Coalition

The Chicago Refugee Coalition is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated ot the alleviation of human suffering through innovative partnerships, advocacy and community empowerment.

Human Services
8
Chicago Workers' Collaborative Nfp

Chicago Workers' Collaborative's mission is to promote full employment and equality for the lowest wage-earners, primarily temporary staffing workers, in the Chicago region through leadership and skills training, critical assistance and…

Education
9
Chicago Community and Workers Rightsnfp

An Organization led by workers for workers, regardless of immigration status, dedicated to educating, building leadership, and gathering resources to develop organizing tools and collective strategies of resistance against labor rights…

Civil Rights
10
Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre

To use multiple artistic forms (primarily dance and music) and the combined talents of our diverse company to convey intense personal narratives. We are proudly and visibly multicultural, exploring the intersection of heritage, culture,…

Arts & Culture
11
Puerto Rican Agenda

To ensure the self-determination of Puerto Ricans in Chicago, throughout the diaspora, and in Puerto Rico through policy and advocacy.

Environment
12
Fuerza LaboralPower of Workers

Fuerza Laboral is a workers' rights center whose mission is to shift the balance of power in our economy in favor of workers by educating, training, and organizing workers to become community leaders; taking direct action to recover unpaid…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mujeres Latinas En Accion and the most unlike its peers is Equity Foods Foundation. 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 12 years old; the field is 17. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%16%<5yr14%24%5–10yr18%26%10–20yr17%12%20–35yr15%20%35–55yr16%4%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%11%<5yr14%15%5–10yr18%10%10–20yr17%44%20–35yr15%18%35–55yr16%1%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 16% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%2/53
the rest of the field
16%
4,999/31,457

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.

05the grantee network

48 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. 48 of the 53 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/48
Grantees still filing
31/48
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GREATER AUBURN GRESHAM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $1,092,500 · Community ImprovementGREATER AUBURN GRESHAM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONGREATER SOUTHWEST DEVELOPMENT CORP — $60,000 · Community Improvement+5 more — $204,500 · Community Improvement+5 moreCarole Robertson Center for Learning — $167,000 · Human ServicesCarole Robertson Ce…TALLER DE JOSE — $123,255 · Human ServicesTALLER DE JOSETELPOCHCALLI COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROJECT — $55,750 · Human ServicesTELPOCHCALLI COMMUN…ILLINIOS WORKERS IN ACTION — $45,000 · Human ServicesILLINIOS WORKERS IN…The Port Ministries — $40,000 · Human ServicesThe Port MinistriesAlianza Leadership Institute — $37,500 · Human ServicesAlianza Leadership …AND RISE WOMEN INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesMUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION — $25,000 · Human ServicesERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE — $20,000 · Human Services+2 more — $20,000 · Human ServicesSONES DE MEXICO ENSEMBLE — $105,000 · Arts & CultureSONES DE MEXICO EN…Open Center for the Arts — $95,750 · Arts & CultureOpen Center for th…Teatro Vista Theater With a View Inc — $95,000 · Arts & CultureTeatro Vista Theat…CHICAGO LATINO THEATER ALLIANCE — $75,000 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO LATINO THE…BALLET FOLKLORICO DE CHICAGO INCORPORATED — $55,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET FOLKLORICO …18TH STREET CASA DE CULTURA NFP — $41,500 · Arts & Culture18TH STREET CASA D…THE FIREHOUSE DREAM INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FIREHOUSE DREA…+3 more — $25,500 · Arts & CultureSINAI HEALTH SYSTEM — $143,500 · HealthCHICAGO VETERANS — $35,500 · HealthCENTRO SANAR — $30,000 · HealthESPERANZA HEALTH CENTERS — $27,000 · HealthUN NUEVO DESPERTAR A NEW AWAKENING NFP — $10,000 · HealthCENTER FOR INFORMATION OF ELGIN (CENTRO DE INFORMACION) — $60,000 · OtherCENTER FOR I…EIGHTEENTH STREET DEVELOPMENT CORP — $60,000 · OtherEIGHTEENTH S…ONWARD NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE — $20,000 · OtherONWARD NEIGH…UN NUEVO DESPERTAR — $20,000 · OtherUN NUEVO DES…UNION IMPACT CENTER — $15,000 · OtherGage Park Latinx Council — $15,000 · OtherOrganized Communities Against Deportations — $30,000 · OtherOrganized Co…FOREFRONT — $24,125 · OtherFOREFRONTBEYOND THE BALL NFP — $30,000 · OtherBEYOND THE B…CHICAGO RELIGIOUS LEADERSHIP NETWORK ON LATIN AMERICA — $20,000 · OtherCHICAGO RELI…LITTLE VILLAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $20,000 · OtherLITTLE VILLA…Working Bikes — $16,500 · Other+4 more — $32,000 · Other+4 moreOne Lawndale Childrens Discovery Center — $70,000 · EducationILLINOIS LEGISLATIVE LATINO CAUCUS FOUNDATION — $60,000 · EducationThe Resurrection Project — $42,500 · Housing & ShelterLA CASA NORTE — $35,000 · Housing & Shelter
Community Improvement$1,357,000Human Services$563,505Arts & Culture$522,750Health$246,000Other$362,625Education$130,000Housing & Shelter$77,500

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 budgetGREATER AUBURN GRESHAM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $1,092,500 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetCarole Robertson Center for Learning — $167,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSINAI HEALTH SYSTEM — $143,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTALLER DE JOSE — $123,255 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetSONES DE MEXICO ENSEMBLE — $105,000 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetOpen Center for the Arts — $95,750 over 4y, 9.5% of budgetTeatro Vista Theater With a View Inc — $95,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetCHICAGO LATINO THEATER ALLIANCE — $75,000 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetILLINOIS LEGISLATIVE LATINO CAUCUS FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetGREATER SOUTHWEST DEVELOPMENT CORP — $60,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCENTER FOR INFORMATION OF ELGIN (CENTRO DE INFORMACION) — $60,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetTELPOCHCALLI COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROJECT — $55,750 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetBALLET FOLKLORICO DE CHICAGO INCORPORATED — $55,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetILLINIOS WORKERS IN ACTION — $45,000 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetThe Resurrection Project — $42,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budget18TH STREET CASA DE CULTURA NFP — $41,500 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetThe Port Ministries — $40,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetResilience Partners NFP — $39,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetHUMAN SCALE — $39,500 over 3y, 12% of budgetAlianza Leadership Institute — $37,500 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetDuo Development — $35,500 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetCHICAGO VETERANS — $35,500 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetLA CASA NORTE — $35,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBEYOND THE BALL NFP — $30,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetOrganized Communities Against Deportations — $30,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetCENTRO SANAR — $30,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetAND RISE WOMEN INC — $30,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetTHE FIREHOUSE DREAM INC — $30,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetESPERANZA HEALTH CENTERS — $27,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFOREFRONT — $24,125 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetONWARD NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHICAGO RELIGIOUS LEADERSHIP NETWORK ON LATIN AMERICA — $20,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetLITTLE VILLAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWorking Bikes — $16,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS — $12,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMEXICAN FOLKLORIC DANCE COMPANY OF CHICAGO INC — $10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetPARAMOUNT ARTS CENTRE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUN NUEVO DESPERTAR A NEW AWAKENING NFP — $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetPitch In — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSARAH'S INN — $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMAZATECUTLI FOUNDATION — $6,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCuerdas Clasicas Inc — $5,500 over 1y, 4.9% 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.

United Way of Metropo…The Chicago Community…Healthy Communities F…ForefrontRobert R McCormick Fo…John D and Catherine …The Coleman Foundatio…Field Foundation of I…Illinois Coalition fo…Polk Bros Foundation …The Network Advocatin…Michael Reese Health …
United Way of Metropolitan Chicago IncIL51.9× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Healthy Communities Foundation · Forefront · Robert R McCormick Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Coleman Foundation Inc · Field Foundation of Illinois · Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Network Advocating Against Domestic Violence · Michael Reese Health Trust

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 Latinos Progresando 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%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Latinos Progresando?

    Find your warmest path to Latinos Progresando 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 53 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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