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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 31 grants below total $796,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $831,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $35,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
Chicago Latinos Theater Alliance$25,000
Sones de Mexico Ensemble$25,000
Illinois Workers in Action$25,000
Teatro Vista Theatre with a View$25,000
Illinois Legislative Latino Caucus Foundation$20,000
Centro de Informacion$20,000
Open Center for the Arts$19,500
The Resurrection Project (UNION Impact Center)$15,500
Ballet Folklorico de Chicago$15,000
Taller de Jose$14,500
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 (FY20–25, $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 its 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%Telpochcalli Community Education Project: $10k → 14%Illinois Workers in Action: $10k → 14%Carole Robertson Center for Learning: $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
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 7% of Latinos Progresando’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 93%.

Latinos Progresandolessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +66% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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
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

  • 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%
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
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

—
3
Chicago United for Equity

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

Civil Rights
4
Illinois Unidos

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

Community Improvement
5
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
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 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
9
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
10
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
11
Latin Center

Programs developed to reduce illiteracy, joblessness, poverty, homelessness in the Chicago area through bilingual/bicultural exchange of individuals residing in inner city neighborhoods.

—
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mujeres Latinas En Accion; 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.
05the grantee network

48 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. 48 of the 53 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/48
Grantees still filing
30/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · HealthEIGHTEENTH STREET DEVELOPMENT CORP: $60,000 · OtherEIGHTEENTH S…CENTER FOR INFORMATION OF ELGIN (CENTRO DE INFORMACION): $60,000 · OtherCENTER FOR I…ONWARD NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $20,000 · OtherONWARD NEIGH…UN NUEVO DESPERTAR: $20,000 · OtherUN NUEVO DES…Gage Park Latinx Council: $15,000 · OtherUNION IMPACT CENTER: $15,000 · OtherOrganized Communities Against Deportations: $30,000 · OtherOrganized Co…FOREFRONT: $24,125 · OtherFOREFRONTBEYOND THE BALL NFP: $30,000 · OtherBEYOND THE B…LITTLE VILLAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherLITTLE VILLA…CHICAGO RELIGIOUS LEADERSHIP NETWORK ON LATIN AMERICA: $20,000 · OtherCHICAGO RELI…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 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 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 budgetCENTER FOR INFORMATION OF ELGIN (CENTRO DE INFORMACION): $60,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetGREATER SOUTHWEST DEVELOPMENT CORP: $60,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetILLINOIS LEGISLATIVE LATINO CAUCUS FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 3y, 1.9% 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 budgetNEW COVENANT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $45,000 over 1y, 4.3% 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 budgetHUMAN SCALE: $39,500 over 3y, 12% of budgetResilience Partners NFP: $39,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetAlianza Leadership Institute: $37,500 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetCHICAGO VETERANS: $35,500 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetDuo Development: $35,500 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetLA CASA NORTE: $35,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOrganized Communities Against Deportations: $30,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetAND RISE WOMEN INC: $30,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetCENTRO SANAR: $30,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetBEYOND THE BALL NFP: $30,000 over 3y, 1.6% 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 budgetERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLITTLE VILLAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCHICAGO RELIGIOUS LEADERSHIP NETWORK ON LATIN AMERICA: $20,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetWorking Bikes: $16,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS: $12,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPARAMOUNT ARTS CENTRE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPitch In: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetUN NUEVO DESPERTAR A NEW AWAKENING NFP: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetMEXICAN FOLKLORIC DANCE COMPANY OF CHICAGO INC: $10,000 over 1y, 10% 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
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.

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.

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

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 Latinos Progresando funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Latinos Progresando. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's 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
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 53 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 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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